. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ntains 60% boulders and coarse{Travel with 40% fine jrravel and sand. The pit is about one-quarter ofa mile wide by one-half mile in lenjth and 65 feet deep. Two steamshovels are operated on di lie rent benches in the pit. Three Porter20-ton locomotives deliver the trains of {Travel to incline tramway. Thecars are hoisted by electric-driven hoist to top of incline where theyare dumped over 4 ofrizzly. oversize {roinf? to Gates gyratory the crushed rock and gi-ave
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ntains 60% boulders and coarse{Travel with 40% fine jrravel and sand. The pit is about one-quarter ofa mile wide by one-half mile in lenjth and 65 feet deep. Two steamshovels are operated on di lie rent benches in the pit. Three Porter20-ton locomotives deliver the trains of {Travel to incline tramway. Thecars are hoisted by electric-driven hoist to top of incline where theyare dumped over 4 ofrizzly. oversize {roinf? to Gates gyratory the crushed rock and gi-avel passes to bin, from which it is loadedinto two 4-yard skips, which are hoisted to the top of steel and concretescreening and sizing plant which has a height of 126 feet. Allis-Chalmers electric-driven hoist operates the skips. Secondarycrashers consist of two Allis-Chalmeis 10 gyratory crushers and oneSymonds 48 disc crusher. The different products go from screens tovarious compartments in the concrete bunkers. ]\Iaterial from bunkersis loaded into railroad cars. Excess material is unloaded from cars to. Kincaid !:? ,.\j1 Ilaiit. Inioli K ground storage by Brown locomotive crane. Twenty-eight men areemployed. Durbin Plant. Tliis i)lant has recently been acquired by the UnionRock Company. It was formerly operated by Los Angeles Rock Com-j)any and is located at Durbin, on the Pacific Electric Railway, 2 mileswest of Baldwin Park. The capacity of the plant is about 3000 tons perten-hour day. Twenty-five men are employed. Kincaid Plant. This plant is located 2 miles west of Azusa on theSan Gabriel wash. The pit is one-half mile long by 1000 feet in width and 80 foet gravel from pit contains 75% boulders and coarse gravel, with25*;; fine gravel and sand. The material is loadt^d into cars by Bucyrussteam .shovel, which is delivered by locomotive lo foot of incline tram-way. The cars are hoisted over incline by electric-driven hoist to trestleabove the plant. ^Mate
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