Pacific service magazine . t two yearslater Dr. Millerplanted abouttwenty acres withfruit trees shippedfrom Switzer-land to this country around the Horn. Hisfarm was on the American river and wasirrigated from the North Fork ditch, a veryimportant mining ditch at that time. It isnow known as the Robert Hector ranch. From these and other early experimentsit was seen that fruit-growing could be verysuccessfully carried on in Placer county ifan adequate supply of water for irrigationcould be had. Owing to the scarcity of thesupply, however, very little progress wasmade until, in 1879, the South Y
Pacific service magazine . t two yearslater Dr. Millerplanted abouttwenty acres withfruit trees shippedfrom Switzer-land to this country around the Horn. Hisfarm was on the American river and wasirrigated from the North Fork ditch, a veryimportant mining ditch at that time. It isnow known as the Robert Hector ranch. From these and other early experimentsit was seen that fruit-growing could be verysuccessfully carried on in Placer county ifan adequate supply of water for irrigationcould be had. Owing to the scarcity of thesupply, however, very little progress wasmade until, in 1879, the South Yuba WaterCompany came to the rescue. This com-pany had a number of storage lakes and anample supply throughout the year for thegreater portion of which they had no sale,due to the closing down of the hydraulicmines in Nevada county. From that timeon the fruit industry in Placer county maderapid progress. View of the abandoned diggings at Dutch Fiat. The purchase of the South Yuba Com-panys properties by our company in 1905. Views on the Drum-Alta highway. formed the nucleus of what is nowknown as the Spaulding-Drum sys-tem of Pacific Service. Thegreat dam at Lake Spaulding wasplaced in service in November,1913, and, at the same time. Drumpower-house with its initial instal-lation of 33,333 horsepower. Hal-sey and Wise plants came next inorder of construction. 352 Pacific Service Magazine a Pacific Service Co-operates with South San Joaquin and Oakdale Irrigation Districts in Project The second project and one which is im-portant in point of extent and character ofarea to be benefited concerns an agreementbetween the South San Joaquin and Oak-dale Irrigation Districts, on the one side,and the Sierra and San Francisco PowerCompany and Pacific Gas and ElectricCompany, the latter operating the proper-ties of the former under a lease, on theother. This involves the construction by theirrigation districts of a dam on the Stanis-laus river, near the town of Melones, socreating a stora
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