Pacific service magazine . Mt^£00 PROFILE OF MELONES TUNNEL Map of hydro-electric development operated by our company on the Stanislaus river, withlocation of the Melones combined irrieation and power project. Pacific Service Magazine 353. laus river by pur-chase of the oldTulloch first con-struction work ef-fected was theGoodwin dam, ont h e S tanislausriver, eighteenmiles up streamfrom Oakdale,and in 1913 waterwas first deliv-ered by the irri-gation districtsfrom the d i s t r ictsgrew as the years rolled by, but as the population increasedand more lands were irrigated a
Pacific service magazine . Mt^£00 PROFILE OF MELONES TUNNEL Map of hydro-electric development operated by our company on the Stanislaus river, withlocation of the Melones combined irrieation and power project. Pacific Service Magazine 353. laus river by pur-chase of the oldTulloch first con-struction work ef-fected was theGoodwin dam, ont h e S tanislausriver, eighteenmiles up streamfrom Oakdale,and in 1913 waterwas first deliv-ered by the irri-gation districtsfrom the d i s t r ictsgrew as the years rolled by, but as the population increasedand more lands were irrigated and a greatervariety of crops raised it became evidentthat the natural flow of the Stanislaus wasnot sufficient to give full service during thefive irrigating months of the year. The irri-gation enterprises, in a word, suffered fromlack of sufficient water storage for the ex-pansion of agricultural development. Theterritory embraced by the two districts is afruitful one. involving large tracts in thecounties of Stanislaus and San Joaquin and Melones reservoir as it looked December 18th, 1926. lying between the cities of Stockton andModesto. The gross irrigable area is givenas 145,258 acres and the area under irriga-tion 77,559 acres
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