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work, owing to the unsuitable quality of the clay it was using. When in 

 operation the clay used was obtained from the same bed as that of the Texas 

 Fire BricH and Tile Company. The company's works have a capacity of pro- 

 ducing one thousand gallons of ware daily. 



Henry Morrison's Brickyard. — This brickyard is situated about a mile 

 southeast of Athens, and works a white clay in conjunction with the bright 

 red clay found on the south side of the J. B. Attwood survey. The upper 

 yellow or surface sandy clay is also utilized in the manufacture of ordinary 

 building bricks. The section at this yard gives the following: 



1. Brown or yellowish brown clay or loam . 5 feet. 



2. Light blue white clay 12 feet. 



3. "White sand . . .... 



Ordinary building bricks, ornamental and frontal bricks, and paving tiles 

 are made at this yard. The bricks are first made in a Penfold machine and 

 afterwards repressed by a Raymond hand press. The ordinary bricks are 

 usually dried on the yard, but the finer articles are dried under cover. The 

 kilns (of which there are two) are oblong-shaped, up-draft, old-fashioned kilns, 

 with a capacity of ten thousand bricks. 



The paving tiles made at this yard are very hard and durable and of a 

 good size and shape. 



The yard does not work regularly, and the number of men employed is 

 variable. 



GLASS SAND. 



The sections shown in the clay pits belonging to the Texas Fire Brick and 

 Tile Company, at Henry Morrison's pit, and also at the base of the clay de- 

 posits on B. Wofford's land, show the existence of a fine white siliceous 

 sand. This sand bed wherever cut through shows a uniform thickness of 

 between five and six feet, and has an areal extent, so far as known, coexten- 

 sive with the fire clay deposits, or nearly two miles in length and over a mile 

 in width. 



This sand is an angular, even-grained white sand, in every respect suitable 

 for the manufacture of ordinary glassware, as well as for the manufacture of 

 window glass. It contains a very small proportion of alumina and practi- 

 cally no iron, and will require very little preparation in the way of washing 

 to fit it for the glassmaker's use. 



This sand compares with the New Jersey glass sands in every respect and 

 is much more cheaply obtained. In the New Jersey sand beds the stripping 

 or top dirt, consisting of gravel and sand, is in some places seventeen feet 

 thick.* At Athens the stripping is in a few places as deep as twelve feet, but 



*G-eology of New Jersey, 1868, page 691. 



