Show I ROCK FORMATION t tAID AID TO CALIF C A L STADIUM PLANS Cost of Excavation for Giant Structure Will be Greatly Lessened by Shale Found F I I I j t hit UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IA f f Oct 5 b 1922 Discovery that tho the hillside hillside hill hill- side where the tho will bo be built bunt was of a soft sedimentary formation rather than hard rock has remo removed i ithe the final and most Important difficult which faced the Stadium committee Professors Andrew Lawson ant and an t John Buwalda heads of or tho the geology 1 department gave an opinion soap some sometime time ago that the entire hill by Strawberry Straw y j berry canyon was of or shale t r lion tion This statement has now been ben r verified by tho the drift shaft which go got i iback back into the hill for a distance of p over oyer a hundred feet teet I p Uncertainty Yields Holds Up lip Work ork I Had the test shaft revealed hard rock strata the approximate cost of oI excavating excavating- for the bowl would hare han e a been about ab ut three million dollars J The rhe Stadium Stadia m committee planned for tor the total cost of oC tho structure to be bo approximately I Because of or tho the uncertainty concern Ing lag the ground structure actual wor work k kon on tho the stadium has been held up for t several weeks longer than was thought pj necessary at first |