260 REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 
East of Palo Alto (S. Taber). — On the Embarcadero road, from the railroad crossing 
at Palo Alto toward the Bay of San Francisco, only about half the brick chimneys had 
been thrown down. Plaster on first-floor walls cracked, but it was not injured to any 
extent in the upper stories. Many houses showed little damage to plaster, even on the 
first floor. The tanks of the Palo Alto Water Company (at 1, map No. 22) had not been 
thrown over, but the frame (100 feet high) had slipt on the concrete foundation a maxi- 
mum distance of about 0.5 inch in a direction N. 87° E. The water is reported to have 
slopt out of the reservoir on the east side. A water-tank about 0.5 mile nearer the 
bay (at 2, map No. 22) was standing, as was a brick chimney near it. Damage to houses 
in this section was directly due to high brick chimneys; plaster was sometimes scarcely 
cracked, even on the first floor of houses thus damaged. 
Mayfield to Guth Landing (R. L. Motz). — In the town of Mayfield most of the houses 
are small, 1-story buildings resting on wooden foundations, and many of the chimneys 
were of terra cotta and wired to the roofs. Out of a total of 258 chimneys 183 fell — 
about 70 per cent. A few brick buildings were badly cracked, and the fire-walls were 
all thrown off. The plaster in the small buildings was somewhat cracked, while in the 
larger buildings the damage done to plaster was more marked. The concrete bridge 
over Madera Creek, on the county road 0.5 mile southeast of Mayfield, was not cracked. 
A half mile further southeast along the road, 2 water-tanks and 3 chimneys (2 brick and 
1 cobble-stones and lately built) were standing. A short distance nearer Mountain View 
Landing there were fallen or damaged chimneys (at 4 and 5, map No. 22). 
At Guth Landing a large brick warehouse facing N. 87° E. had its sides cracked, lost 
a few bricks at the top, and had the upper part of its east and west ends knocked out. 
From Guth Landing southward along the road into Mountain View, the effects were 
uniform; chimneys were down with two exceptions, there was little or no damage to 
plaster, and the flow from bored wells had increased. In one case a wind-mill (at 6, 
map No. 22), which had been in use for years to pump water from the well, was no longer 
found necessary, but the artesian water was muddy. 
Mountain View (H. P. Gage). — On the county road between Mayfield and Mountain 
View, concrete bridges were uninjured, water-tanks were left standing, and the smaller 
or more solidly built chimneys uninjured. 
(R. L. Motz.) —In the new town of Mountain View, built mostly in the vicinity of the 
railway station, 6 brick structures, including the Pacific Press and the cannery buildings, 
were seriously injured. Out of 271 chimneys, 206, or 76 per cent, fell; out of 46 large 
water-tanks 20, or 43 per cent, fell. In the Mountain View Cemetery there were 26 
large monuments; of these 11 fell and 7 were shifted, while 13 slab headstones out of 27 
were thrown down. In the village of Old Mountain View 75 per cent of the chimneys 
(31 out of 41) fell, and 332 per cent of the water-tanks (3 out of 9) fell. 
(H. P. Gage.) —On the road leading southwest toward San Antonio Creek from the 
town of Mountain View, the houses showed no uniform damage. At one place south of 
the county road and two miles west of the Mountain View Station, the water-tank 
swayed and threw out several barrels of water during the shock, yet the plaster in the 
house was unhurt and only a few dishes were broken. At the next house, the chimney 
fell. 
At the Weeks poultry ranch 2 chimneys fell, dishes were broken and plaster was 
cracked; but the water-tank was uninjured. 
Two and a half miles southwest of Mountain View Station, beside the road running 
up San Antonio Creek, a water-tank was so badly wrenched that it had to be braced to. 
keep it from falling; another tank, on a side hill west of San Antonio Creek, had col- 
lapsed. ‘The house near the latter, in course of construction, lost an outside chimney. 
Following the road up San Antonio Creek on its southeast side, another house between 
the road and the creek had one chimney cracked and another thrown down; plaster had 
