. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. D. Hutchinson, lessees, 3480 Tulare avenue, Fresno. This depositof talcose schist has been known for twenty-five years, but not utilizedexcept locally. There is a belt of the material about 400 feet wide,striking northwest. Only a small quarry face has been opened up. Itis not high grade, but can be sawed into blocks several feet across. STONE INDUSTRY. The well known Raymond granite quarries near Raymond, inMadera County, not only are and have been for a number of years them
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. D. Hutchinson, lessees, 3480 Tulare avenue, Fresno. This depositof talcose schist has been known for twenty-five years, but not utilizedexcept locally. There is a belt of the material about 400 feet wide,striking northwest. Only a small quarry face has been opened up. Itis not high grade, but can be sawed into blocks several feet across. STONE INDUSTRY. The well known Raymond granite quarries near Raymond, inMadera County, not only are and have been for a number of years themost important mineral industry of the county, but they are also animportant factor in the states production. As has already been noted(see Introduction), these deposits of workable building stone are locatedin the western edge of the Sierra foothills. There are two quarriesabout 1 mile apart, on the east side of a small valley, about 2 miles eastof Raymond, which is the terminus of the Berenda-Raymond branch ofthe Southern Pacific Railroad. Both quarries are served by spur tracks 560 MINES AND MINERAL Photo No. 123. Hearst Memorial Mining Building, University of California, Berkeley. Raymond granite (1903).
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