492 CLAYS AND CLAY INDUSTRY. 



Dillon's Island. — Cook also mentioned a bed of yellowish-white 

 clay, 3 feet thick, in the bluff on the south side of Dillon's Island. 

 The overburden is recorded as being 10 to 15 feet thick. 



Clay-working industry. — Few clay products are manufactured 

 in Ocean county. Common brick have been made at Toms River 

 for twenty years or more, and three small yards are in operation 

 near Herbertsville. Some brick have also' been made near Lake- 

 wood. Considerable clay for pressed brick is dug southeast of 

 Whiting station, and clay for terra cotta at Old Half Way, 2 

 miles east of Woodmansie. 



There is opportunity for much prospecting in searching for 

 pressed-brick and terra-cotta clays in the Cohansey formation. 

 It is possible also that some fire clay might be found, although 

 none has been up to the present time, with the exception of that 

 on the Applegate property north of Toms River. 



Where deposits are located at some distance from a railroad it 

 would be necessary and economical to take the clay out to' the 

 main line by rail, as the roads in this region are very sandy. 



