AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1908 



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THE PRODUCTION OF 

 COMMON BRICK 



OF THE long list of mineral products 

 of the United States concerning which 

 statistics are collected by the National 

 Geological Survey, only three — pig iron, cop- 

 per, and bituminous coal — exceeded in value 

 in 1906 the products of the clays; and 

 of the clays themselves the product ranking 

 highest in value was, as heretofore, the com- 

 mon brick, of which more than ten billion — 

 to be exact, 10,027,039,000 — were marketed 

 during the last year. The value of this great 

 product amounted to $61,300,696. an increase 

 of $93,687 over the value for 1905, and con- 

 stituted 47.30 per cent, of the value of all 

 the brick and tile products and 38.07 per 

 cent, of the value of the entire product of 

 the clay industries. 



The largest production of common brick 

 in 1906 by any one State was reported by New 

 York, whose output amounted to 1,535,579,000 

 brick, valued at $9,205,981, or about $6 per 

 thousand. This quantity represents 15.31 per 

 cent, of the entire output of the country, and 

 the value is 15.02 per cent, of the total. The 

 greater part of New York's common brick 

 comes from the Hudson River region, which 

 is one of the most interesting centers of the 

 clay-working industries in the United States 

 and has for many years been the almost ex- 

 clusive source of supply for the common build- 

 ing brick used in New York City. 



Next to New York, the largest producer 

 of common brick in 190b was Illinois, which 

 reported an output of 1,195,210,000 brick, 

 valued at $5,719,906, or $4.79 per thousand. 

 The great common-brick producing region of 

 Illinois is Cook County, and it was the de- 

 cline in price in this district that brought the 

 average price per thousand for the State to 

 $4.79, the lowest for several years. 



The only other State reporting more than 

 a billion common brick was Pennsylvania, 

 whose marketed output amount to 1,027,541,- 

 000 brick, valued at $6,586,374, or $6.41 per 

 thousand. While third in quantity the prod- 

 uct of this State was second in value, and the 

 average value per thousand was greater than 

 that for either New York or Illinois. 



Ohio's production of common brick in 1906 

 was fourth in quantity and value — 550,422,- 

 000 brick, valued at $3,243,157, or $5.89 per 

 thousand — and New Jersey's fifth, amount- 

 ing to 413,258,000 brick, valued at $2,610,- 

 686, or $6.32 per thousand. The other States 

 range from Kansas, with 314,371,000 brick, 

 valued at $1,376,552, or $4.38 per thousand, 

 to South Dakota, with 6,064,000 brick val- 

 ued at $54,175, or $8.93 per thousand. Cali- 

 fornia's 278,780,000 common brick were val- 

 ued at $1,962,866, or $7.05 per thousand. 



The average price per thousand for com- 

 mon brick in 1906 ranged from $9.68 in 

 Wyoming to $4.38 in Kansas, the average for 

 the whole country being $6.11. The State 

 whose average per thousand most nearly ap- 

 proached the general average was Tennessee, 

 where the average price was $6.13 per thou- 

 sand. 



Details of Building 

 Construction 



A collection of 33 plaits of scale drawings with introductory text 



By clareinoe: A- Martin 



Assistant Professor, College of Architecture* Cornell Universify 



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