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FIG. 38. Stone corral, Crimea House. 1).\IP,S Tuo-H3. 



The mud bricks measure 10 by 17 by 4 inches. Its preservation is due to 

 a wooden framing which is a later addition to the adobe which was built 

 in the 'fifties. Opposite the adobe building is a pair of stone buildings 

 complete with iron doors (Fig. 39). They are made of light tan-and-pink 

 lone sandstone which occurs just west of La Grange. 



Two miles south of La Grange on the road to Coulterville is a stone- 

 walled ditch used in earlier times for mining operations (Fig. 40, right). 

 It is neatly made of dry-laid flat schist slabs gathered from the imme- 

 diate vicinity. 



JAMESTOWN 



Jamestown, the historic "Jimtown," has a large number of stone 

 buildings surviving from the Gold Rush period. These include the present 

 Post Office which was formerly St. James Masonic Lodge, and other Main 

 Street buildings. The construction of most buildings is masked by heavy 

 coatings of stucco and false facades but the building pattern seems to 

 have been consistently one of brick fronts with side and rear walls of 

 schist slabs set in mortar in a manner similar to the buildings of Chinese 

 Camp. Many years ago a Captain Neville built a hotel near the old depot 

 whose lower walls were of green mariposite rock. It has since been 

 destroyed and is mentioned here as the only instance encountered on this 

 survey of the use of this rock in construction. 



Midway between Jamestown and Sonora on the north side of the 

 highway there is a house with a schist foundation and frame upper 

 structure (Fig. 41). 







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TIG. 39. Sandstone Imildings. I.;i (inuige, PMHS. :>;-D-4. 



Kiu. 40. 



Left, sandstone \v.-i]l. Knights Kerry. DM US Sta-III ; right. stoi)e-\vallcd 

 ditch, south of La (Ji-iinge. KM US Sta-H2. 



