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A small brick and tile yard with a single boiler for one kiln was established and run by a Mr. Foster. The compact mixture of lacastrine (silt lake deposits) and glacial clay that formed the lower part of the nearby gully provided the raw material for the brick yard. Later, a second brick yard, owned by Oliver Cabana Jr., was established with three large kilns. Oliver Cabana Jr. was one of the Buffalo capitalists Cantin had influenced during the years he spent in Buffalo. Cabana was an industrialist and chairman of the Greater Buffalo Liberty Bank. There is some evidence that Cabana also partly financed the Novelty Factory.