CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: C. P. B. CO./CORONA, CAL.
Company: Corona Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Co.
Location: One-half mile west of Corona, Riverside County, California
Years: 1903 - before 1912
Type: Fire brick
Description: Company name and beneath it CORONA, CAL., impressed into the face, .
Equipment: 1 dry pan, 2 wet pan, stiff-mud machine, 80-hp electric motors, 5 kilns.
Comments: Formerly known as the Riverside Pressed Brick Company.
Prior to 1915, was purchased by the Pacific Sewer Pipe Company, Los Angeles, and the plant was dismantled.
Source: Brick and Clay Record 29 July 1903, p. 33; 16 January 1905, p. 45; California State Mining Bureau Report 15, p. 570.
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