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Report of the State Geologist. 



Fogelsonger kiln by natural gas from wells on the premises. The product 

 marketed last year amounted to 20,000 barrels. The office of the company is 

 at 215 Oak street, Buffalo. 



The Consumer's Lime Co., Straub & Meyer, lessees, has three large kilns 

 at Gunnville, N. Y., on the West Shore railroad. The rock is obtained from 

 an outcrop of the Corniferous limestone about midway between its northern 

 and southern boundaries. Crude petroleum from Ohio and Pennsylvania is 

 used for fuel, and the kilns are kept running all the year round. In 1893 the 

 product amounted to 30,000 barrels, the greater part of which was consumed 

 in Buffalo. During the present year the output has been diminished, on 

 account of the financial stringency which has lessened the demand for lime; 

 but they were unable at the office to estimate how much the product had 

 fallen off. The city address is 480 Hamburg street, Buffalo. 



There is a small lime kiln at Harris hill, owned by A. Fiegel, which 

 burns lime chiefly for local consumption. It has a capacity of one hundred 

 barrels in twenty-four hours, but is not kept burning all the time. The fuel 

 here is wood. 



About half a mile north of Mill grove, at the east side of the road, is a 

 small kiln, owned and operated by Mr. Shaw. Lime is burned here for 

 neighborhood use whenever it is needed. 



The preceding are all the lime kilns now in use within the county. 

 Remains of old kilns were noticed in several places, notably at Young's old 

 quarry, northeast of Williamsville ; another about a mile north of that, near 

 the Transit road; one east of Harris hill, on Main street, and one about two 

 miles north of Crittenden, on the road to Falkirk. 



Brick, Tile and Fire-Proofing. 



While manufacturers generally use clay as the raw material from which 

 to make the above products, two firms manufacture directly from shale. The 

 lock selected in both cases is an olive shale of the Portage group lying, in one 

 instance, above, and in the other instance below the lowest divisions of the 

 Portage sandstones. The Jewettville Pressed Brick Co. grinds the shale in a 

 mill. The product, having about the appearance and consistency of dry road 

 dust, is then pressed in moulds with a Boyd machine, which gives a pressure 

 of about three tons on four bricks. The firing is done in continuous, double 

 down-draft kilns, of w hich four are used. The fuel is soft coal. From 10,000 

 to 12,000 is the usual make pel' day. The total output for a year was not 

 Learned. The plant is ow ned by Smith & Brush. 



