CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: K. L. Co.
Company: King Lumber Company
Location: Bakersfield, Kern County, CA
Years: 1900-1941
Type: Common brick
Description: Brand name raised inside a rectangular frog on the face.
Equipment: Potts disintegrator, pug mill, six-mold press, oil-fired field kilns.
Capacity: 37,000 per day per kiln
Deposit: Clay pit near plant contained a 25-foot thick sandy loam.
Comments: For further details about this company,
see King Lumber Co., Kern County.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Preliminary Report 7, 1920; California State Mining Bureau 14th Report, 1916;
California Journal of Mines and Geology Directory of Producers, Bulletin 122, 1941; California State Mining Bureau
Bulletin 99, 1928.
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