. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. er Natural Gas). J. R. Chad-bourne, president, Geo. Trainor, secretary, Suisun. The company hasa natural gas well in Sec. 24, T. 5 N., R. 1 W., 8 miles north of eastfrom Suisun. Salt water flows from the well with the gas. and isrun out into a shallow basin of about 10 acres in extent and dried bysolar evaporation. The basin has a hard-pan bottom and the brine SOLANO COUNTY. 313 is run in to a depth of 4 to 5 feet in the spring, the salt being gatheredin August or September.
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. er Natural Gas). J. R. Chad-bourne, president, Geo. Trainor, secretary, Suisun. The company hasa natural gas well in Sec. 24, T. 5 N., R. 1 W., 8 miles north of eastfrom Suisun. Salt water flows from the well with the gas. and isrun out into a shallow basin of about 10 acres in extent and dried bysolar evaporation. The basin has a hard-pan bottom and the brine SOLANO COUNTY. 313 is run in to a depth of 4 to 5 feet in the spring, the salt being gatheredin August or September. The excess brine is piped to the evaporation the top material is thrown up with forks, then hauledin wagons to the bank, where it is piled in cones and afterward refining is done. It is sold at $3 per ton at the well, principallyfor stock salt, pickling, etc. STONE INDUSTRY. Benicia Bock Crushing Company (see Vulcan Rock Company).Cordelia Quarry (see Thomasson). County Macadam Quarry. F. A. Steiger, Vacaville, owner. It is1 mile north of Vacaville, and the county at one time obtained crushed. Photo No. 58. Rock Crushing Plant of E. B. & A. L. Stone Company, at Thomasson (Cordelia Quarry), Solano County. rock here for road work, but it has been idle for several years. Therock is basalt. It is stated that there is another and larger body ofbasalt a short distance north of this one, on the Garnet ranch, but unde-veloped. McNaughtons Quarry (see Thomasson). Thomasson Quarry (known locally as the Cordelia quarry, alsoformerly as McNaughtons). E. B. & A. L. Stone Company, B. Stone, president, R. P. McDonald, secretary, 401 PhelanBuilding, San Francisco; T. Griffiths, superintendent at the quarry is in an isolated hill of basalt at the edge of the marsh 314 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. land 1 mile east from Cordelia. It is connected by a spur track withthe Southern Pacific Railroad at Thomasson Station. The quarry wasfirst opened up about 1875
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