. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . SACRAMENTO RIVERSACRAMENTO. Cross tSection opposite A/Sirect. T. REPORT OF COMMISSION ON RIVERS AND HARBORS. 33 obstruction in Sacramento River below Sacramento, in the form of siltdeposits, that prevent the falling of water to about the usual low-waterplane. The soundings in front of Sacramento serve as a reliable basis forapproximating the reduction of the waterway throughout the distancefrom Sacramento to the head of Grand Island. This must be nearly asgrea
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . SACRAMENTO RIVERSACRAMENTO. Cross tSection opposite A/Sirect. T. REPORT OF COMMISSION ON RIVERS AND HARBORS. 33 obstruction in Sacramento River below Sacramento, in the form of siltdeposits, that prevent the falling of water to about the usual low-waterplane. The soundings in front of Sacramento serve as a reliable basis forapproximating the reduction of the waterway throughout the distancefrom Sacramento to the head of Grand Island. This must be nearly asgreat as that which the sections indicate as having prevailed near Sacra-mento in 1885, or about 50 per cent of the original waterway at a bank-full stage. The deposits in the river channel above American River tothe mouth of Feather River have not been much less than those belowAmerican River, and it is, therefore, safe to estimate the reduction forthe entire river division from the mouth of Feather River to the headof Grand Island at 40 per cent of the original waterway, as elsewherenoted. It is not without interest to know that within a few days after Painecrevasse became the escapeway for Sacr
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