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A considerable amount of brick was sent to the New York market 

 during the month of February. Building activities increased some- 

 what during this month and on March ist the stock in storage, at 

 New York, had been reduced to 3,150,000. Price cutting in other 

 structural materials affected the selling price of brick and during 

 March the majority of sales were at $5.75 wholesale for the best 

 grades. In April there were 300,000,000 bricks in the Hudson 

 river yards. This stock was reduced in May to 117,800,000 with 

 no bricks in storage in New York. The wholesale price was ad- 

 vanced to $6.50 a thousand and remained at this rate until the 

 middle of July when it fell to $5.75. With the end of the Haver- 

 straw labor troubles, in the third week of August, the price ad- 

 vanced to $6 and at the end of the month had risen to $7. Over- 

 anxiety to sell brought the price again to $6, which held to the 

 middle of September. Jn October the price dropped to $5,875. At 

 the end of October, the close of the brick-making season, there were 

 only 60,000,000 bricks in the yards, or 50 per cent below normal. 

 During November the price rose to $7. For the first time in many 

 years the brick-making season, for a few of the larger yards, was 

 carried through the winter months into the season of 1916. 



Hudson River region. Labor troubles affected this region to 

 such an extent during 191 5 that several of the larger plants made 

 hardly any attempt to operate until September. The following 

 tables give the production of the Hudson River region for the last 

 two years: 



Output of common brick in the Hudson River region in 1914 



