Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . ¢ii75,()00. It tapped 1873-7 4 completed the Amador canal tothe nf)rtli fork of tiie Mokclumne river at its present terminus at the Tanner reser-iine Log crossing, about tliree-quarters voir above Suiter creek, a distance ofof a mile below the present intake of the forty-two and a half miles from the in-.\mador or Lower Standard canal; as was take. The conslruction of the .\madorcustomary in those days, the grades were canal destroyed the Butte ditch fiom itsal)out thirteen feel to the mile. During headworks to a point above llie presentIlic sixties, with th
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . ¢ii75,()00. It tapped 1873-7 4 completed the Amador canal tothe nf)rtli fork of tiie Mokclumne river at its present terminus at the Tanner reser-iine Log crossing, about tliree-quarters voir above Suiter creek, a distance ofof a mile below the present intake of the forty-two and a half miles from the in-.\mador or Lower Standard canal; as was take. The conslruction of the .\madorcustomary in those days, the grades were canal destroyed the Butte ditch fiom itsal)out thirteen feel to the mile. During headworks to a point above llie presentIlic sixties, with the exhaustion of the l^lcctia slalidii. The new canal was prac-surface diggings, the system was allowed lically nf the same capacity as at pres-to deteriorate, and in 1870 it passed into cmI, i. e., ,i,000 M. L throughout its coursetile hands of llie Sutler Canal and Miniiif; lliroMgh tlie .Midielumne canyon and 2,000(.onipan\, who slai-tcd the coiisliiicl ion Iroiii there to Sullcr creek. In 1875 342 Pacific Service Magazine I. tlie limelight as a possible source;the project was favorably reportedon by Colonel citys ex-pert, but nothing developed alongthis line, and the company settleddown to furnishing the numerousquartz mines of Amador Count}with water power, and the townswith a domestic supply. Aboutsixty miles of laterals were con-structed or purchased, reachingfrom Plymouth on the north tothe Mokelumne on the south, andlone on the west. Until 1892 therewas little done on constructionother than some further develop-ment of the storage reservoirs inAlpine County. In the latter yearthe Blue Lakes Water Companytook over the properties with theannounced intention of bringingwater to Oakland;a bond issue of$5,000,000 was au-thorized and sur-veys completed toOakland, contem-plating the deliv-ery at that pointof a daily supplyof 17,500,000 gal- !^ the company lilcdlocations on theBlue Lakes in Al-pine County, and inthe succeeding sea-sons built the orig-inal dams
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