CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: GMcB/PLACER
Company: Gladding, McBean and Co.
Location: Lincoln, Placer County, CA
Years: 1921-1935
Type: Fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed on the face with company logo impressed above it.
Equipment: Steam shovel, steam locomotive, 5-ton dump cars, 9 bins, 4 dry pans, storage bins,
mixer, grinder, pug mill, side-cut auger machine, 15 oil-fired circular down-draft kilns,
2 long furnaces.
Deposit: On property near plant on 480 acres containing 7 ft. thick Fire-proofing clay bed
overlying 15 ft. thick Terra cotta clay bed.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928; Gurcke, Karl,
Bricks and Brickmaking, The University of Idaho Press, 1987.
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