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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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ipping 40° southwest. Other minor claims on the south faceof this mountain are i\Iaud and Happy Hooligan, also Buster Brown,formerly White Cloud, belonging to John Reed, of Fallbrook, andAdolph Shoulders, of Pala. 698 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES. Pala Chief dike is the largest of all the gem bearing pegmatites. Asthe photograph shows, it is exposed on the west side of the summit of ahill, about 1,500 feet in height. It is about 1 mile east of TourmalineQueen and lies mainly in the SE. J of Sec. 14. Its thickness seemsto vary from 30 to 50 feet and it dips about 15° west. The hanging wallappears to be a mica diorite and the foot wall a granite, but over a con-siderable area the hanging wall has been removed by erosion so that ithas been called a blanket vein. The gem material, chiefly kunzite,occurs in a reddish clay in pockets of considerable size. One of thesewas 3^ feet high and 20 feet long. Lepidolite in small masses is offrequent occurrence. Pala Chief Mine. Hiriart Mountain.
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Pala Chief Mine and Hiriart Mountain. Looking Eastward from TourmalineQueen Mountain. P.J.H.M. Photo. The following are Dr. Eakles determinations of the wall rocks: Hanging-wall, dark hornblende-diorite. A thin section shows therock to consist almost wholly of plagioclase feldspar and fibrous greenhornblende. Magnetite occurs scattered throughout. Foot wall, biotite-granite. A disintegrated granitic rock. A thinsection shows biotite flakes, little plagioclase, considerable orthoclaseand small amounts of quartz and hornblende. An occasional titanitecrystal is seen. The Pala Chief claim is one of a group of 5, the others being OceanView, Goddess, Hazel W. and Knickerbocker. This group, togetherwith the Tourmaline Queen, Pala King and Homestake, is controlled bythe Pala Chief Gem Mining Company, of San Diego, Frank A. Salmons,president; R. Fenton, secretary. SAN DIEGO COUNTY. 699 South of the Knickerbocker claim is the 011a, owned by John Reedand Adolph Shoulders. South of 011a is Butter

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