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rDepositFound On theRanch Near the CityLineCorporation Organization Already Complete, Engineers Study Land for Erection of Plant to HandleBuilding Material Product11!Engineers were here yesterday from Los Angeles to look over the ground with a view to commencing immediate construction of plant for Corona’s newest industry—the development of a silica deposit near the city limits on the Elsinore Road. Work will be started at once on the plant, which is expected to be in operation by March 1st. These facts were disclosed by M. B. Fitch of Corona, president and manager of the new organization.1IIFitch stated that the company had already been formed and was a closed corporation. The enterprise represents an investment of approximately 1215,000, he said. Other officers of the company; P. J. Wei-sel of La Habra, vice president and treasurer; George Soule, secretary.Five ProductsSilica will be developed in five different grades, according to screen sizes, .the finer grade for glass manufacture; the next for molding sand; then stucco; roofing stucco and the coarser for filters, roofing and stucco. The clay separated from the silica will be used as a composition for clay bricks.The Los Angeles office of the Company and also the office of the sales organization is 514 San Fernando Bldg., Los Angeles.Discovery of the silica depositwas not sudden. Fitch has been working on his project for more than a year, studying the different formations near Corona, desiring to get a deposit showing both quantity and quality as well as a condition for cheap preparation and transportation.4Craig RanchThe Craig ranch, just two miles from the the city limits on the Corona-Elsinore highway, has been purchased by the newly organized company. The purchase involves 620 acres of land. The silica deposit forms a big bar on the ranch close to the surface and is crossed by the highway, making it most accessible, with the power line of the Southern Sierras Power Co. along the side of the highway. The power used wil be entirey electrical.The silica is probably the decomposition of pegmatites which have been carried for several hundred miles, causing a segregation of the quartz clay and mica. The finalseparation of the silica as shown in this deposit was probably made in a second deposition, according to Fitch.A great deal of silica sand is said to be distributed over thecountry surrounding Corona althoa larger portion of it is covered too deep to make commercial exploitation possible.% Large DepositThe head of the silica plant claims that 3,000,000 tons of silica are right in sight, with theprobability of three times that much. That would be enough torun the plant for more than fifty years, at double capacity. The plantwill be constructed to* produce one hundred tons of the finished product per shift.iBuilding ContractA contract has been made with the Southwestern Engineering company of Los Angeles for the erection of the plant, plans for which have just been completed by Mr. Geo. E. Lynch, consulting engineer.Charles Edward Fitch will come here January 1 and will act as superintendent of the new plant. He is now connected with the Westinghouse Company at Pittsburg as a special engineer. He is a graduate of California Institute of Technology, and assisted his father in the construction and operation of the Blue Diamond Quarry plant, then known as the plant of the Temescal Rock Company.
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, Dec 19, 1924
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