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King and Ly nek's yard is situated on George Point near 

 Montrose. The bank is about 700 feet distant, and the clay is 

 hauled in cars drawn by horses. At most of the yards the haul- 

 age is down grade. Fisher's clay bank at Crugers is overlain by 

 two feet of loam. This is used to supply part of the tempering 

 material and the rest is obtained from Jones' Point. At the yards 

 on Verplank Point horse power is chiefly used to operate the 

 machinery. Most of the yards at this locality obtain their clay 

 from the pits of the Hudson River Brick Co. This clay bank 

 is worked in benches. The haulage distance is about one half 

 mile. It is done either in carts or else in cars run on tracks 

 and drawn by horses. 



Along the New York Central Railroad tracks a short distance 

 south of Montrose station are the yards of C. Hyatt and J. 

 Morton. Mr. Morton also has a covered yard on Yerplank Point 

 where front brick are made. Their banks are practically a con- 

 tinuation of each other. The clay is both blue and yellow and 

 is overlain by several feet of coarse sand. Hyatt uses steam 

 power and Morton horse power to run his machinery. The 

 bricks are loaded on cars and shipped to various points along the 

 Central Railroad. 



Peehskill, Westchester Co. Bonner & Cole's brick yard lies 

 between the river and the railroad about three quarters of a 

 mile south of Peekskill. The clay lies below tide level. It is 

 claimed that borings have shown a thickness of 50 feet. There 

 is oa the average a stripping of five feet of gravel and cobble 

 stones. 



South of this yard are two others, viz., Oldfield Brothers and 

 the Bonner Brick Co. Their clay is similar to Bonner & Cole's, 

 but rises to a greater height above tide level. 



JIaverstraw, Rockland Co., is one of the great brick man- 

 ufacturing centers of New York state, there being forty-two 

 brick yards, with a yearly capacity of 238,000,000 bricks. The 

 yards are situated in a line along the river stretching from the 

 lower end of Haverstraw Yillage northward around Grassy Point, 

 to Stony Point. A few of them are situated along Minisceongo 

 Creek. Most of the yards along the river are digging their clay 

 below tide level. At the south end of the village a dam was built 



