Pacific service magazine . ke is dry one may see scat-tered around in profusion old pans, bottles,even stoves, that lie there just as they wereabandoned by the miners in their hastyflight for other parts when the mining bub-ble burst. As a matter of fact. Bowman reservoiritself was built more than a half a centuryago and was long used as a source of watersupply for the North Bloomfield hydraulicmines. It has two dams, at separate open-ings, and the work now consists in replac-ing these old timber-crib relics of the 70swith modern structures. The main damnow in process of construction is to be
Pacific service magazine . ke is dry one may see scat-tered around in profusion old pans, bottles,even stoves, that lie there just as they wereabandoned by the miners in their hastyflight for other parts when the mining bub-ble burst. As a matter of fact. Bowman reservoiritself was built more than a half a centuryago and was long used as a source of watersupply for the North Bloomfield hydraulicmines. It has two dams, at separate open-ings, and the work now consists in replac-ing these old timber-crib relics of the 70swith modern structures. The main damnow in process of construction is to be ofrock-fill type, 167 feet in height and 680feet along the crest, \vhile the second dam,which will be used as a spillway, will be aconcrete structure 117 feet in height and430 feet in crest length. This work willresult in the development of a storage reser-voir of 65,000 acre feet estimated capacity. There is in process of construction a con-duit consisting mainly of a four-mile tunnelby which water from the new Milton and.
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