. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. date. Clay is minedby hand in an open pit and hauled in a small truck to the railroad cars,a few hundred feet away. It is thought this clay will prove suitablefor tile. The white sand is stated to run about 71% silica. If regularproduction starts, drifts will be run to avoid handling the overburden. Stockton Fire Brick Company, Stockton, has for years obtained fireclay from a pit one mile south of Clarksona on the Southern PacificRailroad, their shipping point being only a sh
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. date. Clay is minedby hand in an open pit and hauled in a small truck to the railroad cars,a few hundred feet away. It is thought this clay will prove suitablefor tile. The white sand is stated to run about 71% silica. If regularproduction starts, drifts will be run to avoid handling the overburden. Stockton Fire Brick Company, Stockton, has for years obtained fireclay from a pit one mile south of Clarksona on the Southern PacificRailroad, their shipping point being only a short distance west ofClarksona. The deposit was opened originally as an open cut on the southeastside of a hill, but more recently has been worked by drifting to avoid 142 REPORT OP STATK MINERALOGIST. handlinf? tho rapidly incicasinj; overburden, as the work advances intotht liill. A vertical section shows the following .{ feet soil and andesite boulders, increasing uphill10 feet white and iron stained sand and .sandy ela\10-14 feet wiiite fire clayred clay The property was idle when visited in Varu Clay Tit, lu-ar Curl>on<lale. Cluy Storago and Loading ot N. Clark & Sons Company, at Clarksona. Yaru (l(i;( Pit is at liifriiite simr. a short distance east of is within the Arroyo Seco Kancho and is operated by Bacon & Baconunder Four men and a small tiiick were employed in April. 1927,when visited. An (uerburden of four to six feet of soil and .sand is removed byhand labor. The upper clay bed is se<ond (piality clay, stained yellow, SACRAMENTO FIKLD DIVlSIiN. 14: J and is about nine feet thick. A black layer a few inches thick seperatesthis fi-f)ni tlie better (luality. which is lijrht prray. This lower bed is 16to 17 feet thick and is used for li<rht-colored tile and fancy products. This deposit has been drilled to a deptli of 90 feet, wher(! lignite Avasstruck. A sand bed containinjr considei-able iron was struck be
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