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South branch of Kaiser Creek. Dated March S9, 1S81. 



Notice of location: Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned persons, claim 400 inches of 

 the water of this creek, where this notice is posted, this creek being one of the south branches of the 

 Kaiser Creek. The water is to be taken out where this notice is posted and conveyed in a flume and 

 ditch to the side of the ridge next to Kaiser Creek, and used in hydraulic and "min." purposes, and 

 returned to its original channel about 2 miles below. 



Dated at Kaiser Creek, Fresno County, Cal., March 29, 1881. 



V. B. C. claims "The water of the San Joaquin River * * * to the extent of 51,840 cubic 

 inches, under a 4-inch pressure." 



San Joaquin River. Dated October SO, 1887. 



Notice. — Notice is hereby given that we claim the waters of the San Joaquin River to the extent 

 of a flow of 3,456,000 cubic inches under a pressure of 4 inches; that we intend to use said water for 

 irrigation, navigation, domestic, and manufacturing purposes; that we intend to use said water on 

 the east of the San Joaquin River and on the west of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 

 and in the counties of Fresno, Merced, and Stanislaus; that the course of the canal will be easterly 

 and northerly; that we intend to construct a canal of sufficient size and capacity, to be not less than 

 60 feet wide on the bottom, nor less than 75 feet wide on the top, and to be 7 feet deep, reckoning from 

 the grade to the top of the embankment. (The point of diversion of said water is on the right or east 

 bank of the San Joaquin River, at or near the end-of a large slough, at or near where this notice is posted. ) 



Fresno County, October 29, 1887. 



Recorded November 4, 1887, in Book B of Water Rights Records of Fresno County, Cal., pages 

 50-51. 



A. B. and J. B. claimed **500 inches, miner's measurement, under a 4-inch pres- 

 sure, or all of the waters of this Willow or North Fork Creek. * * * The point 

 at which we take the waters of said stream for the purposes aforesaid is about 20 feet 

 in a southeasterlj' direction from a certain yellow-pine tree marked B. D., on the 

 west bank of said stream, and on which this notice is posted, and about li feet in an 

 easterly direction from a certain white live-oak tree, also marked B. D. , on the west bank 

 of said stream." * * * It is hoped that these trees are not situated in the forest, 

 and that they still remain standing, although probably the " B. D.'s" are now illegible. 



Fifteen miners claim 250 feet of the water under a -t-inch pressure from the south 

 branch of the South Fork of the San Joaquin. Probably they knew what thej- meant 

 by 250 feet of water under a 4-inch pressure. But it is very doubtful if H. N. B. 

 did know exactly what he meant by claiming "4 .square feet of the water of Whisky 

 Creek, measured under a 4- inch pressure." 



On the Chowchilla Creek, 4,000 and 20,000 cubic inches, measured under a 4-inch 

 pressure, are claimed. 



The K. C. A., and J. P. and W. M. propose to take out 5,000 miners inches, 

 under a 4-inch pressure, from the San Joaquin River, or 100 feet of water; but to 

 make sure that they can transport this quantity, they propose to make a canal 150 

 feet wide and 6 feet deep, which, even with a velocitj' of 1 foot a second, would 

 transport 900 cubic feet of water per second^a large river in itself. 



M. J. B. and R. B. propose to take 5,0(K) miner's inches of water from the San 

 Joaquin River and transport it in a ditch 2 feet on the bottom, 4 feet on top, and 3 

 deep, with a grade of 16 feet to the mile. As the area of cross section of the ditch 

 through which this 100 cubic feet of water per second must pass is onlj- Jt square feet, 

 the water must have a velocity of more than 11 feet a second, and therefore M. J. B. 

 and R. B. should carefulh' line their ditch with cast iron, in order that it ma}' not be 

 washed awaj' at the first rush. 



