The Enderby Brick and Tile Company's works are located on the bank of the Shuswap River, near the railway station.

A stratified, yellow, calcareous clay strongly impregnated with iron oxide, is obtained from the river terrace. The clay bed is discontinuous, and is laterally replaced by sand. It has been mined to about 1.2 metres in depth for brick making; there is very little overburden. The clay is slightly silty, contains an abundance of mica scales, and is only moderately plastic.

The clay worked up with 28 per cent of water to a mass whose air shrinkage was 6.3 per cent and average tensile strength 290 pounds per square inch (1999 kPa).

In burning, the wet moulded bricklets behaved as follows:

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CONE FIRE SHRINKAGE(%) ABSORPTION(%) COLOUR

010 0 20.76 Red

03 3 14.77 Red

1 7.3 0.23 Dark Red

5 Fused

The clay is steel hard at cone 03 and makes a good common brick.

It burns to a vitrified body at cone 1, but the fire shrinkage is

rather high at this temperature. It is more refractory that most

surface clays tested, and the bricks could be burned hard enough for

underground work where a non-absorbent brick was required. The clay,

as dug, is too silty to use in a stiff-mud brick machine, but the

lower portion of the bank, which is more plastic, would probably

serve for this process.

A soft-mud brick machine is used, and a small quantity of facing

bricks are re-pressed by a hand machine. The burning is done in

scove kilns, with dry wood for fuel. The bricks have a good hard red

body when burned, but the colour of the faces is somewhat obscured by

the impure sand used in moulding. "Some 331 M bricks were kilned in

1920" (GSC Memoir 296, page 158).

The product of this yard was shipped south in the Okanagan

Valley as far as Kelowna, and east along the main line of the

Canadian Pacific Railway as far as Revelstoke.