. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ^ adjoin, the first 192 MINES AND MINERAIi RESOURCES. named being the older, and to the north (see photo No. 92). Both prop-erties have railroad facilities. The canyon of Stone Corral Creek cutsthrough the series nearly east and west at about the center of the Colusacompanys ground. The individual strata vary in thickness up to 18feet so far as opened up by quarrying operations. The stone is very even-grained and is quite uniform in color, being ablue-gray which darkens but s
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ^ adjoin, the first 192 MINES AND MINERAIi RESOURCES. named being the older, and to the north (see photo No. 92). Both prop-erties have railroad facilities. The canyon of Stone Corral Creek cutsthrough the series nearly east and west at about the center of the Colusacompanys ground. The individual strata vary in thickness up to 18feet so far as opened up by quarrying operations. The stone is very even-grained and is quite uniform in color, being ablue-gray which darkens but slightly in weathering. It is exceptionallywell adapted for general use as a building material. Among other testsmade on this stone the following by Thomas Price & Son, analytical. Photo No. 92. Sandstone beds in McGilvray quarry, Colusa County, California, lookingnorth. Bed in center 15 feet thick. Colusa sandstone quarry in middle distance. chemists, is of interest (State Mining Bureau, Bull. 38, p. 124) : Whenheated to a red heat and plunged into water, the stone neither splintersnor cracks. It resists, without fusion, the temperature of a full whiteheat, not even the sharp edges of the stone being blunted. Plunged intowater after being subjected to a full white heat, the stone assumes alight brown color. Colusa sandstone has been employed so far princi-pally in San Francisco and other central California cities. Some hasalso been shipped to Hawaii. Colusa Sandstone Company (ONeil & Abbott; also Sites SandstoneCompany). F. E. Knowles, president; Abel Hosmer, secretary; homeoffice and yards, Tenth and Division streets, San Francisco. This quarryin the S. -J of SE. i of Sec. 20, T. 17 N., R. 4 W., f mile east of Sites, COLUSxV COUNTV. 193 was first opened up
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