CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: LABCPCO ALBERHILL (Crescent)
Company: Los Angeles Brick and Clay Products Company, formerly Los Angeles Brick Company (1900).
Location: Yard at Alberhill, in sec. 21, T. 5 S., R. 5 W., S.B., Riverside County; office at 1078 N. Mission Rd.
(up to 1961), 2310 E. 7th St. (1962-1966), 1255 W. 4th St. (1967-1968), Los Angeles County, CA.
Years: 1935-1942
Type: Fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed on the face with a crescent shape turned downwards beneath the name.
Equipment: Bueyrus diesel loader, trucks, Telsmith gyratory crusher, 7 American 9-ft. dry pans, one-quarter 18-mesh
screens, steel bins, double pug mill, auger machine, automatic cutter, stiff mud brick machine, fire brick dry press,
64-tunnel waste-heat drier, 18 32-ft. round down-draft kilns, oil fired, one gas-fired Harrup tunnel kiln.
Capacity: 110,000 per day. Round kiln 60,000; 6 days burning, 5-6 days drying, 5500 brick per day per kiln.
Tunnel kiln 30,000; 72-hour cycle, 10,000 brick per day.
Deposit: Clay in three main pits 4-50 ft. thick of red, brown, and bone clay. Face brick was made from red clay,
high refractories were made from brown and bone clays.
Comments: This company operated from 1925 to 1968.
Source: California Division of Mines and Geology Rept. v. 41, no. 3, 1945, p. 160-161; California State Mining
Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 174-175; US Bureau of Mines Minerals Yearbooks 1965-1968; Gurcke, Karl, Bricks and
Brickmaking, The University of Idaho Press, 1987.
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