CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: KRAFTILE CO NILES CALIF
Company: Kraftile Company
Location: Plant at 800 Kraftile Rd., Fremont, CA; office 55 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA.
Years: 1926-1996
Type: Split paver
Description: Company name and NILES CALIF impressed on the side.
Equipment: Hummer augers, dry-pan grinding mill, American wire cutting machine, 8 gas-fired 75-foot
long drying tunnels, trimming machines, 5 round, 25-foot diameter, down-draft kilns.
Deposit: Local red clay mined from a trench on the property.
Comments: From the collection of James Salata.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 41; California State Mining Bureau, v. 46, no. 2, 1950, p. 292-293;
Kraftile Co., Split Pavers, Nov. 1986; Kraftile Co., A Complete
Line of Enameled Clay Products, no date; Daily Review, Oct., 11, 1984, p. 29.
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