202 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I5TH ANNUAL REPORT 
Fig. 32.—Portable press in operation. Allentown Consolidated School, 
near Milton, Santa Rosa County. 
provide brick for the erection of a modern school building. They have 
employed G. H. Murphy, of the Glendale Brick Works, Glendale, to 
make for them 400,000 brick. They plan to use half of this brick in the 
construction of the building and sell the remaining half to defray the 
expenses of manufacture. More than the 200,000 allotment to be sold 
had been engaged by local citizens at the time the scheme was put into 
operation. Most of the work necessary in the manufacture of the brick 
is being donated by residents of the community. 
Mr. Murphy has opened up a clay-pit about one-half mile from the 
site of the school building. He is using a portable press and cutting 
machine which is drawn by a tractor. The tractor is also used to furnish 
the power when the press is in operation. 
Two clays are dug by scrapers and molded immediately in the press. 
The green brick are stacked out in the open to dry with no protection 
whatever from rain, wind or sunshine and when dry are burned in tem¬ 
porary scove kilns of 50,000 capacity. Drying is completed in three 
days. 
Those interested in this enterprise are exceedingly fortunate in 
having a clay close at hand which can stand such rapid, crude and un- 
