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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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f landhas already been purchased on the corner of Polk and Fulton streets. SAN QUENTIN AND fOLSOM PRISONS. At Folsom we now have under construction the wall, twenty feet high,enclosing the prison proper. At the entrance this will have a massivedouble gate, which was designed by the Department. The wall andgate are of cut ashlar granite, which will need trimming or spalling offafter erection. We have also opened a new quarry of granite to meetthe increased demand for stone, constructed a runway to obtain goodsat the commissary from the track near the canal, erected, by contract,for 16,800 a new electric generator, panel board arc lamps and appur-tenances, and are cutting out the foundation for a new 500 single cellbuilding. Its location comes in a solid granite formation, the dip ofwhich towards the American River makes the west end deep in decom-posed granite to get an even footing. The east end of this foundation issolid granite. The design of this building is complete and gives many
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40 REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING. new features, such as interior guard gallery, utility corridor, cell blocksof reinforced concrete, one man cells, plumbing fixtures in each cell, andcomplete ventilation. The outer shell or building proper is to be builtof cut ashlar granite of a neat, plain, but heavy design. Outside of thewall is now being erected the hospital for the criminal insane. Somechanges have been made in the original plans by this Department, butthe main structural part of the building is cut ashlar granite. The workdone on all this construction is by prisoners, and in the case of the hos-pital for the criminal insane, the progress has been hindered by lack ofcut stone. The completion must await an additional appropriation, asthe funds are now about exhausted. At San Quentin Prison the cutting away of South Hill began beforethe organization of the department, but was continued and finished byus about September 15, 1908. Upon becoming the ojBBcial head of theDepartmen

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