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higher situation, where it will be beyond the reach of the overflow of 
the bayou during the late winter and early spring rains. It will be 
an advantage to house the clay in covered pits, where it can be pro- 
tected from excessive wet and where at the same time it will not 
become too dry for working. If it contains a considerable quantity 
of its natural moisture, less work will be required in mixing and 
grinding and a much better final article will be produced. 
Like the other clays found in the bottom lands of the State, this 
clay holds a considerable percentage of water, and at the same time 
it parts with the water very slowly. For this reason it will be nec- 
essary to work this clay in as dry a condition as possible. The slow 
parting with its combined water renders the drying of the bricks and 
tiles made of this or similar clays a rather long process and one which 
must be very carefully attended to. Such clays can be best dried 
under cover, in sheds so constructed that, as far as possible, a uni- 
form amount of air and heat will be allowed to come in contact with 
the newly made bricks or tiles and strike them as equally as possible. 
At some seasons of the year, and for reasons given above, an artificial 
drier may probably be the most advantageous. Probably the drier 
may be economically used at all times, as clays of this class can not - 
be dried in the air sufficiently to be ready for the kiln within fifteen 
to twenty days. Great care must be taken that the bricks or tiles 
are sufficiently dry before they are placed in the kiln. If not thor- 
oughly dry when put into the kiln, the bricks will crack and the tiles 
have a tendency to split longitudinally. 
m'almont district. 
West of the village of McAlmont, in the center of sec. 16, T. 2 N., 
R. 11 W., on the line of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern 
Railway, and in the NE. £ NE. | sec. 29, T. 2 N., R, 11 W., the rail- 
way crosses a bank of clay running in a northwest-southeast direction. 
The northern boundary of this field begins near Tremble Lake, in 
the SW. I SW. \ sec. 9, T. 2 N., R. 11 W., and passes northeastward, 
curving gently round it until it crosses the St. Louis, Iron Mountain 
and Southern Railway 1 mile north of McAlmont. It there crosses 
the Memphis wagon road and, turning somewhat abruptly, comes 
west, crossing the wagon road to Galloway, a short distance east of 
McAlmont. The bank then curves round toward Ink Bayou. It 
follows the edge of the bayou for some distance and again crosses the 
public road and railway in the SE. \ sec. 20, T. 2 N., R. 11 W. This 
area is overlain to a great extent by a brighter colored loam than 
that found in the old brick field around Argenta, and from appear- 
ances it seems capable of making a finer brick. 
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