. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . ompleted November flume itself was made 6 ft. wide and 4j^ ft. deep,and its construction took a force of no men workingnearly four months and using 1,250,000 ft. of grade was equivalent to a drop of 262-3 ft to themile, and the distance traversed was this flume a constant flow of 5,800 minersinches was to be delivered into a steel pipe, 3 ft. in diameter and 298 ft. long,down the final slope for anactual perpendicular fall of190 ft. to the wheels. Thatwas the full supply of waterto the power house for thefirst two
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . ompleted November flume itself was made 6 ft. wide and 4j^ ft. deep,and its construction took a force of no men workingnearly four months and using 1,250,000 ft. of grade was equivalent to a drop of 262-3 ft to themile, and the distance traversed was this flume a constant flow of 5,800 minersinches was to be delivered into a steel pipe, 3 ft. in diameter and 298 ft. long,down the final slope for anactual perpendicular fall of190 ft. to the wheels. Thatwas the full supply of waterto the power house for thefirst two years of its opera-tion. During October of1896 Alfred Tredgido was, succeeded as superintendentby L. M. Hancock. March1, 1898, a crib dam 54 and 356 ft. across thecrest from bank to bank wasstarted in Rock Creek to backwater up into a partially ex- m the Dam and Shov March 26, 19101 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS 269 ?•M ^^^^^ ^ ??~^ Vfc^ ^nj n H H w. id 1 p 1^^. ^M 1 ^.„«™^»i ^S^Hh^H E^M 9fHH ^ y J^ ^^^B^^Ki. The Oriyiiial Fulc Linu iis built in 18^5 The Ditch Flowing into Liiku Vora bringint,Water from the Deer Creek Power House Constructing the Lake Vera Dam in 1898 cavated basin that had formerly been the scene ofhydraulic diggings. It was completed November reservoir area of about 42 acres was then namedLake Vera, for one of E. J. de Sablas little Vera had a storage capacit} sufficient to furnisha constant flow of 1,000 miners inches for a periodof 30 days. A viaduct was constructed from this laketo convey water a distance of 2)^ miles through 2,340ft. of flume and 11,404 ft. of ditch (most of it an oldmining ditch) to a small forebay, on the hillside 1,870ft. from the Nevada power house and 785 ft. above itperpendicularly. l-rom this foreba^ the water shotdown through a 20-in. steel pipe to additional impulsewheels installed in the same building with thoseoriginally established. After the acquisition of theLake Vera source
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