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readied. It contains several veins of fine sand. Both, yellow and 

 blue clay are present. At tlie sonth end of the yard tlie escarpment 

 of the terrace is drift containing small boulders. The tempering 

 sand is obtained from this bank. 



There are outcrops of clay on the land of Mr Bronk, to the 

 north of Corwin & CuUough's yard; also on the Lawson property 

 to east of the white iron bridge crossing Coeymans creek. This 

 latter locality lies some 800 feet from the river, and would be 

 somewhat more expensive to work. Again, on Main street, just 

 south of the residence of Miss Wolf, there is an exposure of clay on 

 the hillside some 400 feet from the river, 



Albany, Albany co-. There are several yards situated on the 

 outskirts of the city. The clay banks, which are all of the same 

 nature, belong to the Hudson river estuary formation, being strati- 

 fied and blue or gray in color with the upper portions weathered 

 yellow or red. M. TI. Bender's-^ yard is on Delaware avenue, near 

 Dove street. He manufactures common and pressed brick, and drain 

 tile. The upper loamy clay can be used only for common brick; 

 the lower blue and some of the yellow are used for the other 

 products. Auger machines are used for better grade brick and 

 tile, and the latter are made of several sizes. Scove-kilns are used for 

 burning the brick and down-draft kilns for the tile. The latter 

 kilns hold 60,000 small size tiles or 35,000 assorted size. It takes 

 three wheelers and two setters two and a half days to fill the kiln, 

 and burning occupies four days. The tiles after molding are first 

 dried on shelves under a closed shed. 



Adjoining Bender's yard are those of J. Babcock, E. Smith, J. 

 C. Moore and D. H. Stanwix.-*- They, make common brick chiefly, 

 and their clay banks are the same as Bender's. All are open yards. 



T. McCarthy's-^ yard is situated on First avenue. The clay bank 

 is about 15 feet thick and covers an area of about 10 acres. It is 

 chiefly blue. The stripping is a light soil and sand underlies the 

 clay. , The bricks are manufactured by the soft mud process. 



1 Since this report was written the Bender, Stanwix and McCarthy yards 

 are closed. 



