Peak and Sen Juan. Thero was 374 aoros of Government lend 

 burned ovor this year, 165 acres of this being classed ao 

 timber lr,nd. The oc-cimr.tod damage to timber was >60, the 

 value of reproduction boin$ ostinatod at $350. TTighty-one 

 acres of pri/ate land within the Joroot 'as burned over, 

 twenty-five dollr.rs wor-h of timber boinn; destroyed. 



Hydro-Electric Development 



on 

 South Yuba and Bear Rivers 



The Pacific Gas fc Electric Company has a hydro- 

 electric ^reject of colossal proportions under way on South 

 Yuba and Bear Rivers, part of it being within the boundaries 

 of this Forest. The following account of the work being done 

 was compiled from several articles v;hieh appeared in the Com- 

 pany's magazine for Aagust: 



On July 3, 1912, , work was begun on a project 



which has been under contemplation for some time and which was 

 recently made possible by the purchase of 20,000, Tacific Gas 

 & Llectric Company bonds by J. Piermont Morgan. The Company 

 has lori controlled and used to a certain extent a system of 

 twenty reservoirs within the catchment area of the South Yuba 

 River. The system \?ill now be greatly enlarged by the con- 

 struction of e. dam a short distance down stream from Lake 

 Spaulding, an old raseroir site about two miles northeast of 

 Smart Station, on the Southern Pacific Rrilroad, at an eleva- 

 tion of 4000 foot. 



This dam will create a reservoir having a sur- 

 face area of about 70? acres and a storage capacity of 3J.OOO 

 million gallons. The <viitershod directly tributary to the 

 reservoir will annually discharge 60,000 million gallons into 

 it, or double its stort.go capacity. 



The roc!: required for the concrete for the 



dam -/ill bo quarried out of the bluff over-topping its souther- 

 ly abutment. Lumber "or construction worl: is baing sawed at 

 the old Birco & Smart sawmill. It ie estimated that the reser- 

 voir site hos on it at least a million feet of saw timber, all 

 of which will be utilized. A considerable part of this timber 

 is located on Government land of which there is approximately 

 90 acres embraced in the reservoir site. 



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