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101 continued.
Top of Berea Hills
fossiliferous, as below (675)
19 ½ ft came sandstone after
30 ft not exposed coal measure
part = 21"
somewhat fossiliferous (625 ½)
83 ½ ft (brown sandstone after
10 ft limestone in sill, (542)
1st me. (532)
7 ½ [white] crystalline lime-
fossilizing limestone 460 ½
fossile this hold erratic
mm up to here, a rather
38 ½ f[ing]est me experiences cm.
of this section, (422)
cut abundantly in lower half
two levels. corals weathered
38 ft limestone exposed at number-
12 ft limestone ledges
I distinct limestone.
14 ft [white] limestone. first very
4 ½ ft soft clayey shale.
2 ½ ft just one layer in several beds
5 ½ ft soft shale (varied)
glaucon making part of it sandy
with distinct white quartz
1 ½ ft a sort of firm hard freestone
4 ft not exposed
1 ft pure limestone.
102. Berea College brickyard. (63)
G.I and Automatic, Brick
maker made by Jonathan
Creager Sons Cr. Cincinnati, O.
Standard of models,
made by the Willington ma-
chine Cr. Wellington, Ohio. 601.
Strip spoil about 3 inches.
Clay used: 3 ½-4 ft. use a track
car and cars haul clay from pit
to incline by line, 5 up,
incline by steam, using cable,
at top of incline day is
dumped from car on to plat-
form & shovelled into disinte-
grate consisting two large
steel rolls between clay passes,
and any pebbles are ground
to small size. Water is added
to clay as it reaches the
rolls in disintegrator.
Clay drops from disintegrator
great a into pug mill made
in Cincinnati (here revolving
blades mix the clay and if
necessary more water is added.
The blades push the clay for-
ward into the brick mull,
The blade in brick mill press
the clay down into the arms.