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Title: Annual report of the Regents
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: New York State Museum University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
Subjects: New York State Museum Science
Publisher: Albany : J.B. Lyon, State Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ys. Alfred, Steuben co. Alfred clay co. This is another yardusing a shale, which is in the same geologic horizon as that atHornellsville. The works are on the Erie railroad a few hundredyards south of the station. They have but recently commencedoperations. A semi-dry clay brick is made. To dampen the groundclay, it is discharged from the hopper into a long box of square cross-section in which a worm screw revolves. The axis of the screw ishollow and has nipples projecting into the tube three fourths of aninch, so that, if any of the steam which is injected to dampen theclay condenses, it will not escape into the clay. The shale used ismined near the yard and hauled in carts to the dry pan. Burningis done in a continuous kiln. Big flats, Chemung co. ISTear tlie village is an extensive bed ofclay owned by J. E. Lowe. It underlies an area of about 60 acres.Excavations have been carried to a depth of 15 feet without reach-ing the bottom of the deposit. The clay is of a bluish gray color.
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X CLAYS OF NEW YORK: 727 Mr Lowe manufactures drain tile onlj, most of which are for privateuse. Horseheads, Chemung co. The Horseheads brick co. has a claydeposit several acres in extent, having an average thickness of about20 feet. There is a covering of about 10 inches of soil, and under-lying the clay are sand and gravel. At present the material used ischiefly shale. (See also under ^ Shale, p. 839.) The shale bank is on the north side of the valley and the shale isbrought over to the works in cars. The softer portions are cinishedin a dry pan, but hard pieces are crushed in a Blake crusher. Theyard, which turns out common brick, has a capacity of 40,000 a day.The soft mud process and tunnel driers are used, and burning isdone in a Haigh continuous kiln. Elmira. P. J. Weyer is manufacturing common brick fromthe same kind of shale as is used at Horseheads, but the quarry isat a higher elevation. The bricks are burned in a Wilford contin-uous kiln. Breesjport, Chemung co.^ About a m

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