. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. I, pp. 634, 635;Bull. 38, pp. 163, 343, 344, 345. McNears Quarry, McNear Company, Petaluma. owner. This is asmall quarry at the north end of Main street. The rock is basalt, inpart weathered and disintegrated, and a few loads are occasionallytaken out for road work. Bibl.: Bull. 38, p. 326. McNeil Ranch Quarry {Kellas; also ^Y^lkiuson), F. Riebli et al.,lessees. It is near Penn Grove. Idle in 1913. Bibl.: R. XII, p. 397; XIII, p. 635; Bull. 38, p. 345. SONOMA COUNTY. 359 On t
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. I, pp. 634, 635;Bull. 38, pp. 163, 343, 344, 345. McNears Quarry, McNear Company, Petaluma. owner. This is asmall quarry at the north end of Main street. The rock is basalt, inpart weathered and disintegrated, and a few loads are occasionallytaken out for road work. Bibl.: Bull. 38, p. 326. McNeil Ranch Quarry {Kellas; also ^Y^lkiuson), F. Riebli et al.,lessees. It is near Penn Grove. Idle in 1913. Bibl.: R. XII, p. 397; XIII, p. 635; Bull. 38, p. 345. SONOMA COUNTY. 359 On the F. Meacham Ranch on the Sebastopol road northwest of Peta-luma, rock is occasionally obtained for road work. It is a somewhatsoft and broken up material. Bibl.: Bull. 38, p. 327. Melani Quarry, Melani Estate, owner. It is a small quarry adjoin-ing the Schocken quarries at Sonoma. Idle past ten years. Bibl.: Bull. 38, p. 344. Melitta Stone Quarries {Wymore; also Harney), C. C. Wymore,R. F. D. No. 5, Santa Rosa, owner; W. W. and G. H. Wymore, AngloBuilding, San Francisco, lessees. This group of quarries is 1 mile. Photo No. 142. Paving blocks. Melitta (Wymore) stone quarry, Melitta, Sonoma County, California. south from Melitta, 6 miles east of Santa Rosa, at an elevation of 900feet (bar.). These large cuts (see photo No. 142) are visible from SantaRosa. Operations were first begun here about 1888 by the LaurentBrothers, who continued for 15 years, and the present lessees since the 9 years to 1913 production was at an average rate of 100,000blocks per month. Idle since April, 1913. There is a gravity tramway of 3200 feet which delivers the pavingblocks in side-tipping cars to bunkers at the railroad. The rock, whichis a medium-grained, gray olivine basalt, occurs principally in the formof boulders, the result of concentric decomposition. On a field examina-tion only it might be mistaken for a trachyte or an andesite, because 360 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. of its
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