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to a depth of 5 or 6 feet. It is adapted to the manufacture of 

 common red brick, for which purpose only it is used. The clay 

 burns to a pale red color. The clay is brought into the machine 

 in carts and is fed into the machine by a belt with carriers at- 

 tached. The bricks are dried in racks and burnt in the common 

 up-draft kilns. The market is almost wholly local. The yard 

 closed down Nov. 15 with a total product of 1,000,000 for the 

 season. 



C. & L. Merrick's brickyard is at Whiskey island, 2 miles north- 

 east of Syracuse, on the cut-off of the New York Central & Hudson 

 River Railroad. Besides the great number of common red brick, 

 they manufacture repressed, hollow, and buff brick and draintile. 

 They have increased the output this year, which amounts to 

 about 3,000,000, by putting an automatic cut-off to the machine. 

 They have also obtained new dies'for the tile machine. 



The Onondaga Vitrified Brick Co. manufactures red building 

 brick at its plant at Warner's. 



Lime and cement 



The quicklime industry was almost entirely abandoned in Onon- 

 daga county during 1902, largely from the high price of coal due to 

 the strike in the anthracite coal field. The output of waterlime 

 was much smaller than usual, partly for the same reason, the 

 high price of coal, and because of the more extended use of Port- 

 land cement, which seems to be displacing the natural cement to 

 some extent. 



The Paragon Plaster Co. obtains its waterlime from the dif- 

 ferent quarries in the county, while its quicklime is made from 

 limestone brought from Chaumont, Jefferson CO., and the sand is 

 obtained from Forestport, Oneida co. 



R. D. Button, Cottons. Madison co., quarried a few hundred 

 tons of gypsum this year and sold it to the plaster and cement 

 companies. Mrs F. Hodge, Perryville, Madison co., has a small 

 mill for grinding plaster, which is bought from the neighboring 

 quarries. 



The Empire Portland Cement Co. of Warner N. Y.. whose 

 large mill was destroyed by lire recently, has rebuilt the mill, 

 enlarging its capacity and equipping it with improved rotary 



