Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Fig. 1,—Irrigated Rolling Meadow in Browns Valley Irrigation Fig. 2.—Main Supply Ditch of Browns Valley Irrigation District. Bui. 2—(p. 66) IRRIGATION DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA. 67 conditions, as has previously been slated, that the Wright act of 1887grew, and that this act was suited to these conditions, even if the actitself was incomplete, has been proven by the success of the two largedistricts formed at I\Iodesto and Turlock. It was therefore not unnat-ural that th
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Fig. 1,—Irrigated Rolling Meadow in Browns Valley Irrigation Fig. 2.—Main Supply Ditch of Browns Valley Irrigation District. Bui. 2—(p. 66) IRRIGATION DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA. 67 conditions, as has previously been slated, that the Wright act of 1887grew, and that this act was suited to these conditions, even if the actitself was incomplete, has been proven by the success of the two largedistricts formed at I\Iodesto and Turlock. It was therefore not unnat-ural that the neighboring communities about Oakdale, Ripon, INIantecaand Escalon should also eventually come to the district form oforganization for irrigation development. South San Joaquin irrigation district, lying wholly in San JoaquinCounty, was organized May 11, 1909, by a vote of 376 to 87. Previouseiforts to obtain water date back to about 1889, when the San JoaquinLand and Water Company was formed to divert water from StanislausRiver.^ After passing through many difficulties and later reorganiza-tion into the Stanislaus and San Joaquin Water Company, and againafter passing into th
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