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largest outturn up to the present. The capacity of the yards may 

 be placed at about 10,000,000 a day, the output of nearly 500 

 soft-mud machines. The chief districts are in the vicinity of 

 Haverstraw, Dutchess Junction and Kingston. There are over 20 

 3'-ards in the Haverstraw district which extends from the southern 

 limits of the town north through Grassy Point and North Haverstraw, 

 a distance of about 3 miles. Nearly one-third of the capacity of 

 the whole Hudson River region is represented in this district. The 

 clay is obtained from pits and banks just back of the river shore 

 and by dredging the bed of the river itself, the latter practice being 

 employed by four yards. At Dutchess Junction there were imtil^ 

 recently 16 yards and their capacity was about one-fifth of the total 

 for the district. The Kingston district stretches along the river 

 front above and below that city for 12 miles, including yards at 

 Port Ewen, Kingston, East Kingston, Glasco, Saugerties and Maiden, 

 with a capacity nearly equal to that of the Haverstraw district. 

 According to R. W. Jones who has supplied most of these particulars, 

 the yards now use coal largely for firing the arches in the place of 

 wood which has become too expensive for the purpose; the open 

 yard is favored for drying, although pallets, covered yards and steam 

 tunnels are to be found in the district. The brick are mostly shipped 

 to New York, the output in Albany and Rensselaer counties alone 

 being largely marketed locally. Barges are used for transport. 



Output of common brick in the Hudson River region for 1916 



COUNTY 



NUMBER 



OF 



OPERATORS 



OUTPUT 



VALUE 



PRICE 

 PER 



THOUSAND 



Albany 



n 



4 



14 



5 



7 



19 



22 



3 



71 183 000 



59 415 000 

 87 779 000 

 29 683 000 

 80 450 000 



$442 640 

 350 771 

 552 271 

 182 524 



577 829 



$6 21 



5 90 



6 29 



6 14 



7 18 



Columbia 



Dutchess 



Greene 



Orange 



Rensselaer a 



Rockland 



121 967 000 



222 651 000 



18 357 000 



809 019 



I 444 275 

 126 197 



6 63 



6 43 

 6 87 



Ulster 



Westchester 





Total 



85 



691 485 000 



$4 485 526 



$6 48 





a The output of Rensselaer county is not included with that of the Hudson river counties, having 

 tidewater transportation. 



