Pacific service magazine . horsepower, lift water fromSan Joaquin River into two canals, irrigating 10,000 acres Many thousands of acres in different tractswere attempted to be reclaimed in this way,and in the seventies hundreds of thousands of dollars werespent in put-ting up leveesand attemptsmade to culti-vate the landbehind all suchattemptsproved fail-ures. The peatwas of such aporous charac-ter and of sucha light forma-tion (being ofsuch lightnessthat it will float on water) that theweight of this small amount of ma-terial put on the land for such purposeshad the effect of com-pr
Pacific service magazine . horsepower, lift water fromSan Joaquin River into two canals, irrigating 10,000 acres Many thousands of acres in different tractswere attempted to be reclaimed in this way,and in the seventies hundreds of thousands of dollars werespent in put-ting up leveesand attemptsmade to culti-vate the landbehind all suchattemptsproved fail-ures. The peatwas of such aporous charac-ter and of sucha light forma-tion (being ofsuch lightnessthat it will float on water) that theweight of this small amount of ma-terial put on the land for such purposeshad the effect of com-pressing the foundationon which it was laid,so that the levee settleduntil it was impossible tokeep it materially abovethe natural surface of theground. Practically all ofthe reclamation under-taken under these condi-tions resulted in an abso-lute failure, and it wassoon realized that differ-ent methods of reclama-tion must be adopted be-Upper main canal Westside Irrigation District, south of Tracy fore an\ success could be. Interior of Westside Irrigation District pumping plant
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