. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . Yuba county during the iater months of the dryseason. This state of affairs did not prove satisfactory,and in the year 1890 the South Yuba compau} boughtthe Bear River ditch properties and laegan a S3stem-atic development of the irrigating system. The constantly increasing demand for water,necessitating an increase in ditch capacity and storage,resulted in the reconstruction of the Boardman ditchfrom Bear Valley to Gold Run; thence in the buildingof a new system into the fruit district, a distance, byway of the ditch, of 16 miles; also in the building
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . Yuba county during the iater months of the dryseason. This state of affairs did not prove satisfactory,and in the year 1890 the South Yuba compau} boughtthe Bear River ditch properties and laegan a S3stem-atic development of the irrigating system. The constantly increasing demand for water,necessitating an increase in ditch capacity and storage,resulted in the reconstruction of the Boardman ditchfrom Bear Valley to Gold Run; thence in the buildingof a new system into the fruit district, a distance, byway of the ditch, of 16 miles; also in the building ofLake Spaulding and Lake Van Norden and the acquir-ing of the Towle water system, including Valley the company has in operation for use in the fruitdistrict of Placer count}^ about 265 miles of ditches,pipes, and flumes and a storage capacity of 1,036,000,-000 cubic feet, by means of which it distributes to thegrowers about 1800 miners inches of water each dayof twenty-four hours from May ist to September water irrigat
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