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279 - tellistai
1 ft 2 in sandy gray rock
1/2 ft gray rock massive rock,
chance
tand with remainder 20-24 in, from
4 ft reddy gray. well bedded, with
29 ft not exposed.
10 2 ft limestone layers at top;
(The last layer: sandy layer.)
(Four inches (rounded) with almu)
large crinoid heads, whit fieldsh,
1/2 ft clayey limestone for upper 1/4th,
at top;
3 3/4 ft thinly bedded. large crin'd head
7 ft solid bedded Clinton.
3 ft 6 in. solid massive Clinton.
Clay rock (Richmond) bedded,
Black Shale,
2 1/2 ft massive, = disassociated
rock;
1 ft 2 in. in 3-4 in. layers, solid
1/2 ft 4 in sandy gray rock weathering
2 ft massive with crinoid stem
6 in nodular layers.
1/2 ft gray massive rock.
Dermium 15 1/2 ft.
20 ft clay?
13 ft limest + clay;
5 1/4 clay
7-1/2 limestone, rem
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73
Lexington Tile Roof Co.
Maco Shingle Tile,
Thronton & Ross, McCullan Ho.
5 ft of clay overlies the Black shale
at the shingle tile work;
6 in. I am not verifying this is stripped
away.
Clay dug, soak it, leave overnight
for drain tile, brick, shingles.
Next day clay is shovelled
into the disintegrators. Then
cray at me present if clay is
crushed, fragments crushed
down to 7/6 inch. Carried
by belt from disintegrator to
to the tile wheel. The clay is
pushed out of the tile wheel
through the chutes where the
profile thickness and weight
is given to bricks, shingles,
&c.
The clay pushed at to
corners to cut off tails, where these
objects are cut off to perfect
lengths.
Clay for shingle + anything I &
dressed, is shaped up at least
2 days, cooked to oil cloth, to
get evenly moist = winter temper.
Can be kept all winter.
Then it is pressed. Shingles, &c.
In case of shingles the wheelhead
is stationary, and there 3 clams
dries plies are runnable after
black shingle is prepared i,