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Berrick kilns, and C. Berrick & Sons an equal number of Colwell kilns. As 

 far as noticed all were np-draft. 



At Pine liill is an extensive plant under the management of Jew ett & 

 Reynolds. In addition to common brick, they manufacture hollow brick and 

 tile. They have three Millington machines for common brick, one Frey- 

 Scheckler wire-cut machine, one Turner, Vaughn ct Taylor direct-action steam 

 press, and a four-mould Simpson press, which is not now in use. 



The South Buffalo Brick Co., H. Bender, manager, near Garden ville, uses 

 a Martin brick machine, and makes about a half million of brick yearly. 



The Star Brick Co., Lancaster, is working one machine this year, and 

 making two million brick, which is less than the usual amount. 



The Lancaster Brick Co., office 95 Franklin street, Buffalo, lias its works 

 near Town-line. The clay bed is there thirty feet thick. The company has 

 one stiff clay and three soft clay machines, the former a Frey-Scheckler. Five 

 of the kilns are up-draft and two down-draft. Drain tile, mostly flat sole, 

 with one octagon size, are produced to the number of 200,01m) yearly, and 

 also about 500,000 hollow brick. 



A brickyard has been started during the past summer by Mr. J. F. 

 Stengel on Grand Island, about a mile below the Bedell house. It is 

 expected to produce .'5,000,000 common and stock brick per annum. 



A small brickyard at Fast Evans, and one, owned by Mr. Charles 

 Seedorf, at Springville, are not now in operation. 



Hall it Sons, (11) Tonawanda street, Buffalo, are the only firm making 

 fire-brick within the county. They consume about 4,500 tons of material, 

 which is brought here principally from New Jersey, with about ten per cent, 

 from Pennsylvania. None of the material is obtained within the county. 



Sewer Pipe. 



The Buffalo Sewer Pipe Co., at Black Rock, is the only firm manufac- 

 turing sewer pipe. During the past year the amount sold amounted to 

 600 carloads, and the increase of stock on hand over the preceding year is 

 estimated by the company as between fifty and one hundred carloads 

 more. Some clay is obtained from Tonawanda, but the larger part, with the 

 sand necessary to temper it, from South Amboy, N. J. The manager of this 

 company is Mr. \. ( '. Barnum. 



The names of the firms engaged in the foregoing industries, with the 

 amount of clay products, are shown by the following summary: 



