CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: W.S. DICKEY CLAY MFG. CO.
Company: W.S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co. Plant 18
Location: Decoto/Niles, Alameda County, CA
Years: 1927-1937
Type: Face brick
Description: Company name impressed into one of the sides.
Equipment: Drag scraper, 3 dry pans, 2 stiff mud machines, 1 dry press, 4 repress machines, waste heat driers,
2 oil-fired Haigh continuous kilns, each 600 ft. long with 42 chambers.
Production rate: 40,000 per day
Deposit: Surficial 20 ft. thick clay on property at Niles and Decoto.
Comments: The Leal Theatre Bldg., Fremont, CA, is an example of this brick. For further details about this company,
see W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company.
Source: 1914 San Francisco Directory; California State Mining Bureau Report 17, 1920.
Plant of the California Brick Co., Decoto, CA.
From Oakland Tribune Annual Year Book, 1922.
Haigh continuous kiln 1,500 feet long, California Brick Co., Decoto, CA.
From Oakland Tribune Annual Year Book, 1922.
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