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The ruins of the Jamul Cement Works.
Interior of a kiln, looking up. Cement bricks and coke were loaded in through
doorways in the brick structure at the top.
Cement clinker dropped to the arched discharge flues at the bottom, from where it was taken to be
ground into fine powder. The smaller openings lined with firebrick probably
served to control the firing or to allow the kiln to be unclogged.
Map of Jamul Cement Works and Vicinity.
The Jamul Cement Works soon after its abandonment. The trolley tracks
to the limestone deposit on the hill are directly behind it. The masonry kilns
occupy the center behind the lumber shell. The buildings on the right house the
boiler room, the brick machine, the grinding apparatus and the workers' living
quarters. To the left are the five pot kilns.
Fallen firebrick fill the
brick foundations of the pot kilns. In the foreground is the metal cap of one of
the boiler-iron casings.
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