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per perch, or five dollars per cord. The sandstone taken out in the east- 

 ern part of the county brings a better price. The best sells for $2 per 

 perch. Other grades bring $1 50 and $1. A cheaper quality is sold for 

 fifty cents per load. Flagging sells from six to twenty cents per square 

 foot ; a thin kind of walling stone for fifty cents per load. 



For brick and common red pottery the Drift clays are considerably 

 used. These clays afford in all places a very fine material for these 

 uses. There is probably not a square mile within the county where 

 such clay could not be obtained. In the progress of the survey of the 

 county the following establishments of this kind were noted. This list 

 may not be complete : 



Brick and Pottery "Works. 



A. Gronerberger, Bucyrus— Brick. Situated in the creek bottoms. The material 

 here used is a clay-loam, and contains no gravel. The brick, which are of a dark red 

 color, show no evidence of lime when broken. 



William Sitter, New Washington— Brick. 



Joseph Schell, " —Pottery. 



Jacob Green, section 34 (?), Chatfield— Brick. 



Retan, section 1 (?), Liberty— Tile. 



Matthias Haiser, Crestline — Brick. 



John Willerton, " —Tile and brick. 



Daniel Baslin»er, Bucyrus — Brick. 



Bryant & Smith, " " 



William Fail, Gal ion — Brick. 



Leopold Wiltendollar, Galion — Brick. 



John Cronowelt, " 



" section 18, Whetstone — Tile. 



The eastern portion of the county, especially the rolling strip of land 

 that characterizes the line of junction between the Berea grit and the 

 Bedford shale, is well supplied with gravel and sand. These knolls are 

 largely made up of stratified gravel and sand mingled with northern 

 bowlders. One of the oldest gravel pits in the county is that near the 

 depot at Leesville. From it thousands of car-loads have been taken for 

 use on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. It affords also 

 a great many northern bowlders of all sizes, averaging about eighteen 

 inches in diameter. This gravel ridge has already been referred to under 

 the head of Drift. Several deposits of gravel and sand were also noted 

 in the flat and more clayey portions of the county; but here they are 

 much more rare, and also more valuable. One occurs on Mr. Nathan 

 Cooper's land, in the bank of the Sandusky River, S. W. \ section 32, 

 Liberty. 



