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Colusa County; Its History Traced from a State of Nature Through the Early Period of Settlement and Development to the Present Day with a Description by Justus H Rogers
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Author: Justus H Rogers
Page Count: 184 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781230341903
File size: 32 Mb
File Name: Colusa.County;.Its.History.Traced.from.a.State.of.Nature.Through.the.Early.Period.of.Settlement.and.Development.to.the.Present.Day.with.a.Description.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter Xi. Irrisatiojt And Irrigation Districts. In the preceding pages have been noted in chronological order the various irrigation enterprises in the county. Numerous private water-rights have been located, both on the Sacramento River and Stony Creek. Messrs. Boggs, Packer and others have a ditch out of the river near Princeton, from which they irrigate their lands during high water in the river, as also have Mc-isrs. De Jarnatt, Bridgford & Mulligan, Porter & Willis, Pope, Beville, and others, near Colusa. John L. Smith some years ago took out a ditch from Stony Creek to use the water to run his flourin DEGREES-mill. From this ditch he also irrigated his fields and raised alfalfa. The Stony Creek Improvement Company, the purchasers of his land, have taken out a ditch higher up the- creek, which carries more water and takes it over the higher lands of the place. Another ditch is taken out below and on the opposite side of the creek from the Smith ditch, by the land-owners in th.it locality, who use it in growing alfalfa and watering orchards. A short distance below the last-mentioned ditch, a smaller one is taken out to irrigate a Chinese orchard and garden. These several ditches spreading out over that portion of Stony Creek Valley, clothes it in a perennial verdure, and makes a productive locality. The Fruto Land and Improvement Company has dug a six-mile ditch to the lands of the company, which carries water for irrigating alfalfa. Several ditches are taken out about the town of Elk Creek, and some small ditches lower down the creek than that place. The Stony Creek Irrigation Company, incorporated in 1888, are working on a ditch thirty feet wide, which takes water from Stony Creek nine miles northwest of Orland, and extends to
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Colusa County; Its History Traced from a State of Nature Through the Early Period of Settlement and Development to the Present Day with a Description by Justus H Rogers
Author: Justus H Rogers
Page Count: 184 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781230341903
File size: 32 Mb
File Name: Colusa.County;.Its.History.Traced.from.a.State.of.Nature.Through.the.Early.Period.of.Settlement.and.Development.to.the.Present.Day.with.a.Description.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter Xi. Irrisatiojt And Irrigation Districts. In the preceding pages have been noted in chronological order the various irrigation enterprises in the county. Numerous private water-rights have been located, both on the Sacramento River and Stony Creek. Messrs. Boggs, Packer and others have a ditch out of the river near Princeton, from which they irrigate their lands during high water in the river, as also have Mc-isrs. De Jarnatt, Bridgford & Mulligan, Porter & Willis, Pope, Beville, and others, near Colusa. John L. Smith some years ago took out a ditch from Stony Creek to use the water to run his flourin DEGREES-mill. From this ditch he also irrigated his fields and raised alfalfa. The Stony Creek Improvement Company, the purchasers of his land, have taken out a ditch higher up the- creek, which carries more water and takes it over the higher lands of the place. Another ditch is taken out below and on the opposite side of the creek from the Smith ditch, by the land-owners in th.it locality, who use it in growing alfalfa and watering orchards. A short distance below the last-mentioned ditch, a smaller one is taken out to irrigate a Chinese orchard and garden. These several ditches spreading out over that portion of Stony Creek Valley, clothes it in a perennial verdure, and makes a productive locality. The Fruto Land and Improvement Company has dug a six-mile ditch to the lands of the company, which carries water for irrigating alfalfa. Several ditches are taken out about the town of Elk Creek, and some small ditches lower down the creek than that place. The Stony Creek Irrigation Company, incorporated in 1888, are working on a ditch thirty feet wide, which takes water from Stony Creek nine miles northwest of Orland, and extends to
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