CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: CRAYCROFT
Company: C.J. Craycroft and Sons Brick Company (Craycroft-Herrold Brick Co.)
Location: 3 miles west of Fresno, Fresno County, CA
Years: 1914-1981+
Type: Pressed brick
Description: Brand name impressed within a shallow rectangular frog.
Equipment: Grinder, stiff-mud machine, wire cutting brick machine, drying sheds, soft mud machines, sun dried, 7 oil-fired field kilns, 1 circular kiln for repressed brick
Capacity: 700,000 per kiln
Production Rate: 50,000 per day
Deposit: 5 ft. thick superficial clay deposit on property
Comments: Company also made common brick.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Report 14, 1915; California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 38, 1906.
Comments or questions are welcomed.
Please send email to Dan Mosier at danmosier@earthlink.net.