Page 739 - calmining1890

STANISLAUS COUNTY. 689

E., and E. part of T. 5 S., R. 8 E., all of T. 5 S., R. 10 E.; and W.
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?. 5S., R. 11 E., E. | of T. 6 S., R. 9 E., all of T. 6 S., R. 10E.; and the
f\T. i of T. 6 S., R. 11 E., all being in M. D. M.
This irrigation system will commence with a canal supplied by water
•aken out of the Tuolumne River near La Grange. From this canal
lateral ditches will distribute the water throughout the territory above
inentioned. The district irrigated will be at an elevation of between fifty
one hundred and eighty feet above sea level. This system will
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-jlivert one thousand live hundred cubic feet of water per second. More
.than that amount has been located, but there are prior locations which,
Jit low stages of the river, will exhaust the water in the stream; when the
is high there is ample supply for all possible demands.
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The Modesto Irrigation District.
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The Modesto Irrigation District is also organized under the Wright
flaw." The irrigation system will comprise a territory bounded on the
by the Stanislaus River, on the south by the Tuolumne, leaving
{north
'out the swamp lands on the margin of the rivers, on the west by the
flow-lying lands near the junction of the Stanislaus and the San Joaquin;
will extend eastward to a contour line forming the eastern boundary
[it
W lands lying at an elevation of one hundred and fifty feet above sea
'level. It will embrace the southern portion of T. 3 S., R. 11 E., the
south and west half of T. 3 S., R. 9 E., and a strip about one mile on
the east side of T. S., R. E.; also, the south portion of T. S., R.
• 3 7 2 9
•E., and T. 2 S., R. 8 E., and T. 4 S., R. 8 E., all of these being in
D. M.
[M.
The total amount of land irrigated will be about eighty-two thousand
"acres. It is contemplated that the main canal will commence in Sec.
16, T. 3 S., R. 14 E., M. D. M., at a point commonly known as Wheaton's
Dam, where water will be taken from the Tuolumne River. The main
canal will run in a westerly direction, nearly parallel to the Tuolumne
River and Dry Creek.
The Modesto irrigation system will divert about five hundred cubic
feet of water per second in their main canal where it leaves the river.
The district it is proposed to irrigate will be at an elevation of between
forty-five and one hundred and fifty feet above the sea level.

The OaJcdale Irrigation Company.
This company was incorporated in 1887, and is owned principally in
Oakdale and by farmers of the surrounding country, on the south side of
the Stanislaus River. Their intention is to take the water from the
Stanislaus from a point about one and one half miles below Knight's
Ferry.
At this point a dam made of brush and rock was constructed across
the river in 1888, but the freshets of 1889-90 partially destroyed it.
The dam will now be repaired, and when completed will be seven feet
high, sixteen feet thick at the top, and about one hundred yards long on
top; at the base it will follow the contour of the bed of the river. The
main canal will be about twenty feet wide at top, sloping to a width of
about ten feet at the bottom, and will be about six feet deep. The first
half of the canal, which was constructed in 1888 and 1889, is of larger
dimensions. The twenty-foot canal will divert about sixty-three cubic