. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. Merced Stone Companys rock quarry at Jasper Point on the Merced River and the YosemiteValley Railroad, Mariposa County, California. MARIPOSA COUNTY. 603 located on the Merced River at Jasper Point in Sec. 19, T. 3 S., R. 16 E.,M. D. M. The rock is an altered quartzite, very hard and of a jasperynature. The equipment consists of a steam shovel, compressor and airdrills, three gyratory crushers, screens, bucket conveyors, bins, electricmotors, power line and transformer house.
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. Merced Stone Companys rock quarry at Jasper Point on the Merced River and the YosemiteValley Railroad, Mariposa County, California. MARIPOSA COUNTY. 603 located on the Merced River at Jasper Point in Sec. 19, T. 3 S., R. 16 E.,M. D. M. The rock is an altered quartzite, very hard and of a jasperynature. The equipment consists of a steam shovel, compressor and airdrills, three gyratory crushers, screens, bucket conveyors, bins, electricmotors, power line and transformer house. Power is obtained from theSan Joaquin Light and Power Company. The capacity of the plant is750 tons per ten hours and the rock is sold at from 20 to 30 centsper ton on the cars of the Yosemite Valley Railroad. Only a few menwere at work when the property was visited. Yosemite Stone Quarry. This property consists of 40 acres of pat-ented land owned by the Ransome-Crummey Company of Oakland andlocated on the Merced River at Exchequer on the Yosemite Valley. Ransome-Crummey rock crusher at Exchequer, on the Merced River and Yosemite Valley railroad, Mariposa County, California. Railroad. The rock is a fine grained diorite and the dike is about 500feet wide between the walls of slate. The equipment consists of an aircompressor and 5 machine drills, a blacksmith shop, gravity tram,two 5-ton cars, 5 Gates gyratory crushei^, elevating buckets, 10 motors,one 100-ton ore bin, a large crane, office, and superintendents is supplied by the San Joaquin Light and Power Company and20 men are employed at the present time. 604 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. SLATE. Cunnmgham Slate Quarry. Consists of slate land located in , 7, 8, and 17, T. 7 S., R. 17 E., M. D. M., and owned by theCunningham Corporation of Planada, Merced County. The quarrywas leased from Cunningham by D. J. Gonyer for fifteen years. Thequarry is developed and a good quality of roofing slate produced. It isnot w
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