Annual report of the State Mineralogist for the year ending ... (1883)
California State Mining Bureau · Sacramento : California State Mining Bureau · leaf 203
) represents the foldings. From here, continuing up the canon, a series of brown bituminousshales are met, after which hard sandstone is again encountered. Thesandstones seem to form the walls or casings of the oil-bearing region,which extends for several miles. Small holes have been sunk at… … FRESNO COUNTY. 191 over 45 per cent of chrome, and being twenty-five miles from railroadvery little has been done in its development. IRON. While in the county great interest was displayed in the deposits ofhematite and magnetite iron ore, which report gives as existing near theMinaret Mountains in…
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