Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . gated there has necessarily comean increase in the extent of the works and in the bonded total length of canals and main laterals has grown from in 1900 to miles in 1915, not counting about 700 miles ofsublaterals; the bonded indebtedness has increased from $1,170, 1901 to $2,302,, or $ per acre, at the close of 1914, allbonds except the original funded issue bearing 5 per cent. Thisincrease in bonded indebtedness has raised
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . gated there has necessarily comean increase in the extent of the works and in the bonded total length of canals and main laterals has grown from in 1900 to miles in 1915, not counting about 700 miles ofsublaterals; the bonded indebtedness has increased from $1,170, 1901 to $2,302,, or $ per acre, at the close of 1914, allbonds except the original funded issue bearing 5 per cent. Thisincrease in bonded indebtedness has raised the tax rate from $ in1901 to $ in 1914, and the total tax for both bonds and maintenanceand operation from $40, in 1901 to $370, in 1914. Withthis increase in tax rate, how^ever, has come an increase in the amountof water run, from a maximum of 535 cubic feet per second in 1904,the first year of keeping records, to a maximum of 1,580 cubic feet persecond in 1915. During these years the total assessed valuation withinthe district has gone up from $1,788, to $10,165, PLATE Fig. 1.—Ceres main of Turlock Canal
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