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The C. P. Co./MERCED


Brand name: The C. P. Co./MERCED

Company: California Pottery Co. (1921)

Location: 2 miles south of Merced, at Creegan Siding, Merced County, CA

Years: 1921-1930

Type: Face brick

Description: Company abbreviations with MERCED benath it impressed on the face.

Equipment: Stevens and Raymond dry pan, American Clay Co. stiff mud machine, conveyor belt, cars, 20-track American Clay Co. dryer, 8-Beehive down-draft kilns, 30 ft. diameter, oil burner.

Production rate: 50 tons per day.

Deposit: 53 acres of sandy loam on property, supplemented by fire clay from Valley Springs, Calaveras County, and buff-burning clay from Lincoln, Placer County.

Source: California State Mining Bureau Report 21, no. 2, 1925; California Division of Mines Directory of Producers For 1921-1930.


Plant of the California Pottery Company, Merced, CA.
From California Division of Mines and Geology Rept. 21, no. 2, 1925.

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