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MATERIAL RESOURCES. 



For common red brick there is plenty of good clay in Defiance county. 

 The following establishments for its manufacture were noted in the sur- 

 vey of the county : 



Joseph Chalat, Defiance Bri <*. 



Trompe, " 



Booth & Aldrich, " 



Enoch Bandall, Farmer Center 



Mr. Fitz Charles, S. W. J section 21, Milford 



A very hard, dark-blue limestone is burned for quicklime by Andrew 

 Dilz, N. E. I section 9, Defiance. Three cords of mixed wood are required 

 here for calcining one hundred bushels, at a cost of one dollar and fifty 

 cents per cord. The lime, which is very strong, and of a gray color, 

 weighs seventy-two and a half pounds per bushel, and retails at the kiln 

 at twenty-five cents. It is said to be somewhat hydraulic. This is the 

 only lime-kiln in Defiance county. 



For building stone Defiance county depends on the Oriskany sandstone 

 quarried at several places further down the Maumee River, and upon the 

 Charloe quarry, in Paulding county. The blue limestone of the Au- 



