vater power for a large flouring mill. branches, the town branch, supplyng a length of 2 miles, and a central outh of the town, and running uearly If to 2 miles distant, for a distance of This branch has a width of 20 feet et, with slopes of 3 to 1. The central distance of 10 miles, placed at interand and its branches have thirty-one ng ditch with the Stine Canal, having The Kern Island Canal appropriates cubic feet per second. Its location

e Old South Fork Canal. It is taken hern part of the northeast quarter of ut three-fourths of a mile below the 1. It runs 3 miles southwesterly into Kern River, in which its waters are y southerly direction. The canal has and is from 2 to 3 feet deep. Its diss, one of the principal of which is the 100 acres of alluvial bottom lands, d. Most of the water diverted into to the Panama Slough, and again tch. This canal is also used at times

41 miles of distributing ditches. tem, to the Kern Island Canal, and gating T. 30 and 31 S., R. 27 E., be west and south. Its appropriation cubic feet per second. It was loca

The Anderson Canal heads also i T. 29 S., R. 27 E., at the junction gate connects with those of the Sti of wing dams serves for all. The 15 feet wide on the bottom, and 2. clusively for irrigating Stockdale west of Bakersfield. Its appropr 101 cubic feet per second. The lo The Gates Canal, owned by the of Kern River, in the southwest qu and runs in a southwesterly directi bottom and 2 feet deep. It also is dale ranch. Its appropriation is feet per second. This canal was lo in 1872, and relocated October 7, 1

The Buena Vista Canal belongs Its head-gate is in the northeast o E., and runs southwesterly throu miles west of Bakersfield. It is 131

unt of the appropriation is 2,880 inches, econd. Its location dates January 29,

waters out of the Kern River, in the T. 39 S, R. 26 E. It flows south westerly e bottom, with a depth of 1 feet. It lent to 52 cubic feet per second. It was

pany has two main canals for the rerict No. 21, in Buena Vista Slough, and cipal canal is that on the west side of , the border of the swamp lands for a id it is 125 feet wide on the bottom, 7 13 to 1 and from 7 to 1, and a grade of The grade is very irregular, and we give the grade is nine-tenths of a foot; 9

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feet; and 14 miles, level; vertical miles, level.

rallel distributing canal, 30 feet wide was constructed about 10 miles long. a canal about 6 miles long was conhaving a width on the bottom of 25 feet, lopes of 3 to 1. The appropriation of Company is 100,000 inches, equivalent d its location dates April 7, 1877. The

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The rains of winter and the m Sierra thus maintain a full flow the year, the period covering the River has a slope through the val shallow, sandy bed, with banks of favorable conditions, and enable point at comparatively small co very expensive head-works have dam of sand and brush, running acute angle up the stream, serv diverting water into the canals, across the river in the whole syst Then, again, the slope of the ir there is no difficulty in running ca nor in distributing water in the s is therefore peculiarly favorable f to permit of canals of any consid the ground without serious erosio

The grade over these sloping pl placed at proper intervals, with mo venient and necessary for raising

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e which can not be practiced except ount of water must be utilized to the ere the results as derived therefrom are

litches at stated distances apart, the age or percolation of water through the This method is applicable only in diswhich the water can easily pass, and use in Kern County, where such con

ditches on the ridges or highest ground rom them running the water downhill small temporary checks, or, in cases ater downhill through plow furrows. adapted to the irrigation of orchards. the water to good advantage; but in land, or in other cases where it is delarge area of land, it has been found the irrigation history of Kern County, y, the fourth method.

itches at stated distances apart, rune country, and between them building s, the latter being distributed with the , as desired, of 6, 9, 12, 18, or 24 inches.