Annual report of the Regents . to a nice red inthe drain tile, deepening to brown when burned harder. Themachinery is run by steam power. Owasco, Cayuga co. A. Lester^s clay bank and brick yard arelocated in the north end of Owasco village on the bank of Owascocreek. The clay deposit has an area of about 9 acres and is from10 to 15 feet in thickness. Gravel overlies the clay in pits are used for tempering, and a Penfield plunger machinefor molding. The tiles are dried in an open shed and burnt inscove-kilns. Drain tile is the chief production but a few bricksare made. The color of
Annual report of the Regents . to a nice red inthe drain tile, deepening to brown when burned harder. Themachinery is run by steam power. Owasco, Cayuga co. A. Lester^s clay bank and brick yard arelocated in the north end of Owasco village on the bank of Owascocreek. The clay deposit has an area of about 9 acres and is from10 to 15 feet in thickness. Gravel overlies the clay in pits are used for tempering, and a Penfield plunger machinefor molding. The tiles are dried in an open shed and burnt inscove-kilns. Drain tile is the chief production but a few bricksare made. The color of the product is white. Other manufacturers of drain tile, whose works have been al~ready mentioned in the detailed account of brick yards, are: William Davenport, Fonda C. Stephens, South Bay Rochester brick and tile manufacturing co., Eochester A. Mosell, LockportJames Sigler, Clarkson J. E. Mecusker & Son, Jamestown B. G. Abbey, AllenshillJ. B. Lowe, Bigflats P. Hayne, Goshen Clark & Sons, Union Springs COO) ft 0) o H. bf. o
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