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This enterprise prospered for several years until the respective California and Arizona real estate booms caused hundreds of orchards and fields to be sold and bulldozed to accommodate the building of new subdivisions and shopping centers. Now that all of these early operators and promoters are deceased, it is difficult to obtain many more details, but these photographs, dated around 1948, were made available to us from a scrapbook kept by the widow of the first foreman.
A ground-breaking held with considerable fanfare, received attention in at least one newspaper. The rich silts pursued by the venture are easily observed within the stratified layers in the background which form variously-colored chunks that one can fairly easily crumble by hand.
Notice the different earth tones due to stratification within the deposit.
