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Fig. 51.—Sluice for returning water from filter 
presses to clay pit. Florida China Clay Com¬ 
pany, Okahumpka, Lake County. 
The greater part of the output is shipped to the pottery centers in 
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Shipments are also 
made to other eastern states, to some of the Mississippi Valley states, and 
to the Pacific Coast states. 
One of the small potteries in Florida was experimenting with mix¬ 
tures of the sedimentary kaolin and other clays during the summer of 
1922. The results at that time were satisfactory. 
methods oe mining 
The overburden is removed at Edgar and at the Lake County Clay 
Company’s plant, near Okahumpka, by a steam shovel. At the Florida 
