Quarry Building - Saratoga, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 15.104 W 122° 02.850
10S E 584470 N 4123223
A photo of a building at the old quarry. The area is now a park.
Waymark Code: WMT31B
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2016
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"In the early 1900s, there were two active quarries on the Site.17 One parcel was purchased by Dr. John W. Knowles, a County Supervisor who had originally been pushing the County to buy the property, and John J. Stanfield in 1908.18 The two men converted the lime quarry into a gravel quarry. During their ownership, a spur from the electric railway was connected to the Site, aiding gravel transportation into San Jose. The quarry was officially called Stanfield & Knowles Quarry and employed three men. The Saratoga Crushed Rock Company was adjacent to the Stanfield & Knowles Quarry. By 1921, it was called the Quality Sand & Rock Company. The company office was located in San Jose and operated by GWC Baker, president and Wm. T. Macdonald, secretary. Twenty men were employed and produced 450 cubic yards of crushed rock daily. In 1921, Chas. C. Bell was the superintendent of plant operations and had been in that position since 1908. This was the company that drove the two concrete tunnels into the hillside. A movie about an Alaska goldmine was reportedly filmed at the quarry in 1917.19 Because the quarry was equipped with rock crushers, gravel screens, chutes, and bunkers, it provided the perfect setting. Titled “The Wolf ’s Fangs”, the melodrama featured local actors and was shown at the Foothill Club in January 1918. Unfortunately, it was not release elsewhere and the well-known director subsequently moved down to Hollywood." (
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