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The following table gives the names, lengths, and capacities of the distributing 



canals : 



I Distribuling canals of the SotUh Yuba Water Company. 



Name of canal. 



Length. 



Daily 

 capacity. 



Name of canal. 



Length. 



Daily 

 capacity. 



Miles. 



Main to Bear Valley 



Main, entire 



Dutch Flnt 



Chalk Bluff 



('ascade 



t<K>nard 



I'ittsburg 



Deer Creek 



Si'ow Mountain 



Coyote 



Wet Hill 



Cement Hill 



Rock Creek 



Ridge 



Ridge 



Blue Tent 



Round Mountai 



Remington 



Fall Creek 



Auburn Main 



Iron Mine 



Atwood (10,000 feet 6-inch pipe). 

 Fiddlers Green 



16 

 25 

 14.5 



8 

 13.5 



1.5 



6 



9 



1.5 



2 



4 



7 

 18 



6 



4 



4 

 10 

 11.5 

 58 



6 



3 

 15 



Gallons. 



136,000,000 



102,000,000 



68,000.000 



34,000,000 



34,000,000 



34,000,000 



8,500,000 



8,000,000 



20,400,000 



17,000,000 



3,400,000 



3,400,000 



.5,100,000 



34,000,000 



4,250,000 



34,000,000 



1,700,000 



8,500,000 



17,000,000 



34,000,000 



17,000,000 



860,000 



8,500,000 



Auburn Town (2.000 feet 11-inch 



pipe) 



Shirlin 



Ophir 



Cook 



Gold Blossom 



Gold Hill 



Danetown 



Whisky Diggins 



Sebastopol 



Lincoln 



Newcastle 



Frenchmans 



Banyard 



Antelope 



Caperton 



Penryn (1,200 feet of pipe) 



Greeley (9,500 feet 11-inch pipe) . . . 



Dutch Ravine 



Coyote 



Loomis (1 mile 11-inch pipe) 



Total 



Miles. 



0.875 



4 

 10 



4 



2 

 20 



6 



7 



8 

 14 



5 



4 



8 

 10 

 10 



3 

 10 



2 



QtiU/ms. 



1,700,000 

 1,700,000 

 8,500,000 

 1,760,000 

 1, 750, 000 

 8,600,000 

 2,350,000 

 850,000 

 1,275,000 

 1,235,000 



10,200,000 

 1,700,000 

 2,550,000 

 6,880,000 

 2,650,000 

 1,700,000 



17,000,000 



6,800,000 

 4,260,000 



In addition to those listed, the companj^ owns a number of old canals not now in 

 use, which could be reopened if water were needed on their routes. 



The water appropriated by the company is being used for various purposes. 

 Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn, Newcastle, and Lincoln use the water for 

 municipal supph. In Auburn and Newcastle the waterworks are owned by the 

 company outright. In Lincoln the company owns a half interest. In Nevada City 

 and Grass Valley' local corporations own and operate the systems, purchasing from 

 the South Yuba Company the necessary water. 



To cover rights of way and protect water rights and reservoir sites, the company 

 owns about 4,500 acres of land. It also owns and operates mining lands to the 

 extent of 948.27 acres. 



The S.\le of V^ates. 



The standard of measurement is the miner's inch, which is the quantity of water 

 that will flow through an aperture 1 inch square, the center of the aperture being 

 6 inches below the surface of the water, or, approximately, 17,000 gallons in twenty- 

 four hours. 



The i^ate at which water is sold for purposes of irrigation is $45 a year per 

 miner's inch. As 1 inch will suflice for 7 acres of land, the annual expense to the 

 farmer is less than $7 per acre. Water for power is sold in miner's inches, except 

 in special cases where it is delivered with the horsepower as the unit of measure- 

 ment, and all water so used is returned after use to the company's canals. The rate 



