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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Wreck of Loma Prieta Saw Mill, Hinckley's Gulch, Santa Cruz County. 



the canon. The crack went on across the hills, always in the same 

 direction, southeast by south, till it came to the Chittenden Eanch in 

 the Pajaro Valley. Here it tore off the hillside, destroying the high- 

 way at its base; then descended to the Pajaro Eiver, shifting a pier of 

 its railroad bridge about eighteen inches to the northwest. Here it 

 met the Pajaro cross-fault. But here the straight line from Point 

 Arena came to an end. A series of short breaks creeps off to the 

 southeast, ending two miles southwest of San Juan, the last act being 

 the final, almost complete, wreck of the beautiful and venerable Mission 

 of San Juan Bautista. 



That the oblique crack from Chittenden, famous as an ' earthquake 

 ranch ' of earlier times, to San Juan, is part of the original rift, is not 







Site of Loma Prieta Saw Mill, covered to the depth of 125 feet. 



