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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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rts of the plant is obtained from the San JoaquinLight and Power Company. The capacity is 1500 tons per day and anaverage of forty men are employed. The product is sold for road metaland concrete work and is loaded directly from the bins to the railroadcars (see photo No. 32). San Joaquin Rock and Gravel Company. E. A. Forthcamp, presi-dent; C. Murray, secretary and manager. Office, 224 Edgerly Build- FRESNO COUNTY. 469 ing, Fresno. The property is o\^^led by A. G. Wishon and W. E.Durfy of Fresno, the company operating under a lease. It is in Sec.18, T. 11 S., R. 21 E., 1 mile southwest of Friant, with a spur trackfrom the Southern Pacific Railroad. This bed of gravel, about 30feet thick, forms a bench above the present level of the San JoaquinRiver, being on the same bench as the California Road and StreetImprovement Company farther south. Elevation about 345 feet(S. P.). The overburden averages 2J feet. The plant has beenenlarged and improved this summer (see photo No. 67). Electric
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Photo No. 67. Gravel pit and plant of San Joaquin Rock and Gravel Company, near Friant,Fresno County. power is obtained from the San Joaquin Light and Power Company.Fresno scrapers move the material to the belt elevator. It is thenscreened and washed to four sizes, 2-inch to 1-inch; 1-inch to f-inch;J-inch to J-inch; sand. The oversize is crushed by a 24 x 13 jawcrusher. The motors installed vary from 5 h.p. to 35 h.p. The capa-city of the plant is 500 cubic yards per day, and fifteen to twenty menare employed, according to demand for the product.* ♦Since the above was written, the property has been sold to the Grant Rock andGravel Company of San Francisco, with offices in Fresno. The wasliing section of theplant has been enlarged and fully equipped to a capacity of 20 cars (of 40 tons each)per day of 10 hours. Hungarian riffles have been placed in the discharge boxes fromthe screens to the sand bunkers. Sufficient gold is being recovered in the riffles topay the operating expenses

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