. Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . Pig. 11.—Cross section of Siekers dam on San Saba River. From the lake thus formed leads the ditch known as the Mamieditch, built in 1894. It was chartered for a length of 4 miles, butonly If miles have been constructed. It is 6 feet wide and 2 feetdeep. At one place it is forced to within 30 feet of the river, onaccount of the foothills crowding up to the river bank. The cut atthis place was 18 feet deep and the bottom of the ditch 9 feet above. Pig. 12.—Flexible pipe joint used on the Mamie ditch. the ordinary wate
. Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . Pig. 11.—Cross section of Siekers dam on San Saba River. From the lake thus formed leads the ditch known as the Mamieditch, built in 1894. It was chartered for a length of 4 miles, butonly If miles have been constructed. It is 6 feet wide and 2 feetdeep. At one place it is forced to within 30 feet of the river, onaccount of the foothills crowding up to the river bank. The cut atthis place was 18 feet deep and the bottom of the ditch 9 feet above. Pig. 12.—Flexible pipe joint used on the Mamie ditch. the ordinary water level of the river. One hundred and seventy-fiveacres are irrigated from the ditch, but it has a capacity of 200 chief crops are cotton and corn. Cotton averages from 1-J to 2bales and costs $ a bale for transportation to the railroad. Corabrings from 15 to 20 cents more a bushel than at the markets on therailroad. Sweet potatoes average 250 bushels to the acre. The ditch crosses four screams, Millers Branch, Temple Branch, taylor.] SAN SABA VALLEY. 35 Temple Field Creek, and Scalp Creek. At first the old form ofwooden flume was used across these creeks and branches, the chan-nels being 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep, but the excessive heal ofsummer caused constant leaks in the Humes, and they were finallyabandoned as water carriers. The sides were taker off and thefloors were left as supports Tor the pipe lines which were substi-tuted to carry the water across the creeks. To counteract the expan-sio
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