History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . o devise plans and later to dig ditches to keep theSanta Ana River from spreading over this entire delta country. He secured a right-of-way for deepening and making a new channel for the said Santa Ana River from Seven-teenth Street in Santa Ana to the ocean, and took the contract to dig the channel, andsuccessfully dug it. This has confined the river to its new channel, and protected
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . o devise plans and later to dig ditches to keep theSanta Ana River from spreading over this entire delta country. He secured a right-of-way for deepening and making a new channel for the said Santa Ana River from Seven-teenth Street in Santa Ana to the ocean, and took the contract to dig the channel, andsuccessfully dug it. This has confined the river to its new channel, and protected thefarming lands from flood water. No money was available for this work at first; theNewbert Protection District was organized, bonds were voted and he was made presi-dent and manager and the success of the enterprise followed. His work was highlypraised by engineers and he has repeatedly been the subject of interesting write-ups inthe Santa Ana and Los Angeles papers. With his brother, T. B. Talbert, our subject secured the right-of-way for thePacific Electric Railway. He excavated the road-bed, moved houses and grubbed trees,and graded six miles of the route from Huntington Beach to the Santa Ana River. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1189 channel, in twenty-eight days, finishing the job in two days less than the time stipulatedin the contract. The distance from Huntington Beach to Santa Ana is fifteen miles,and the performance was one of which anyone might reasonably be proud. On January 26, 1895, Mr. Talbert was married to Miss Hattie L. Brady, then amaiden of fifteen and a half years of age, who was born at Santa Ana, the daughterof John and Louisa (Shrode) Brady of that city. Her father was a butcher, and con-ducted a butcher shop there when the town was only a village. The parents had bothbeen born and married in Texas, and when they came from Texas to Santa Ana, in theseventies, they brought two children with them. Her father, therefore, was well knownto the pioneers of Santa
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