CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: EUREKA
Company: Eureka Brick and Tile Company (1906), Thompson Brick Company (1926)
Location: Eureka Slough, near Eureka, Humboldt County, CA
Years: before 1906-1941
Type: Common duty brick
Description: Brand name impressed within a rectangular frog.
Equipment: Pug-mill, Brevan auger machine, wire-cutter, air-dried under sheds, 30-ft. round down-draft kiln
Capacity: 75,000 per day
Production Rate: 1 million per year
Comments: Also produced drain tile and hollow building tile
Source: California Division of Mines and Geology, v. 21, no. 3, 1925.
Plant of the Eureka Brick Co., Eureka, CA.
From Cal. Div. Mines Geol., v. 21, no. 3, 1925.
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