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In Putnam county bricks are made as follows: 
At the yard near Break neck Hill, , 2,000,000 
" " at the foot of Bull Hill, l,200,C0O 
3,200,000 
In Westchester county, 
At Carpenter's yard below Peekskill, . . , 7,000,000 
" the four yards east of Verplanck's, 5,000,000 
" H. I. Crugher's yard, southeast of Verplanck's, 600,000 
" Jesse Wood's yard, 2 miles above Teller's Point, .... 6,000,000 
" Anderson's, " " " 2,000,000 
Frost & Doty's, " " 5,000,000 
Wager & Hull's, half " 2,000,000 
" Hull's, " " " 1,500,000 
Yard on Teller's Point,, 1,500,000 
" James and Samuel Wood's yard at Tarrytown, 5,500,000 
Appleton's yard, 3 miles below Sing Sing, 500,000 
" Daniel C. Hardin's yard at Sparta, 1,200,000 
" Charles Smith's " Sing-Sing, 500,000 
Stephen Ford's yard, one mile above " 500,000 
Total amount of bricks made in Westchester county, . . 38,700,000 
There are several small brick yards that burn bricks occasionally, that 
have not been taken into account, but it is believed that all those making 
a regular business for shipments to New York and other places, have 
been mentioned. We may estimate the annual product of the clay 
beds in Putnam, Westchester and New-York counties, at 42,900,000 of 
bricks, which, at the average price of $5.50 per thousand, gives an in- 
come of $235,950 per annum. 
The brick yard at Tarrytown has been in operation about 40 years, and 
w^as established by James Wood, the father of the present proprietors. 
He is gaid to have invented and patented the improvement in burning 
bricks by the use of anthracite. Five tons of the dust of anthracite 
coal is mixed with the clay for 100,000 bricks. For 450,000, which is 
about the usual size of the brick kilns, 22 i tons of coal are consumed 
in the bricks and 40 cords of wood in the archef. 
This method is a great improvement over the former one, not only in 
expense but in saving time. Four days only are required to burn a kiln, 
