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Cameron Ditch and connects Patterson Slough with Outside Slough. A brush dam is 

 maintained in Patterson Slough to divert water into the high-water channel, and a 

 smaller dam in this channel — which is about 10 feet wide — turns the water into the 

 ditch. Dennis Ditch has a width of about 5 feet and a flow of from 5 to 10 cubic feet 

 per second. It has a southerly direction, is about 3 miles long, and supplies water 

 to about 300 acres of land. 



BTRD DITCH. 



This ditch is reported to have been constructed in 1858. It receives its water 

 from the same channel that supplies water to the Dennis Ditch, having its head 

 about half a mile below the head of the latter. The original diverting works were 

 destroyed by the freshet of 1867-68, and the ditch fell into disuse. It has been in 

 service again since 1885. Its capacity is about 5 to 7 cubic feet of water per second. 

 It has a width of about 5 feet, flowing in a southerly direction for about 3 miles, 

 paralleling the Dennis Ditch and irrigating about 300 acres. 



THE NEW JACK DITCH. 



This ditch was built in 1898, receiving its water from Outside Channel about 4 

 miles below the point where Outside Channel separates from Patterson Slough. It 

 is a short, small ditch, about 3 feet wide and 1 mile long, irrigating about 160 acres 

 of land lying between two of the branches of Outside Channel. 



MITCHELL DITCH. 



This is a small ditch. It receives water from a branch of Outside Slough and 

 serves a few acres of land in the same vicinity as that served by the Jack Ditch. 

 The width of the ditch is about 3 feet and its length about 1 mile. 



FINK CHANNEL. 



By this name the eastern arm of Outside Slough is known. Its course is almost 

 due south for a distance of 5 miles, near the eastern limit of the Centerville Bottoms. 

 The water was first diverted from Outside Channel at the head of this water course 

 in 1868. A brush dam in one of the several channels into which Outside Channel 

 separates at the head of this water course turns the water into it. The inflow into 

 Fink Channel is controlled by a headgate 12 feet in width. This gate is of recent 

 construction. Fink Channel is about 20 feet wide, and carries from 25 to 30 cubic 

 feet of water per second. It supplies the Jack Ditch, Fink Ditch, and a number of 

 other small ditches with water. This channel was formerly known as the Kincaid 

 Ditch. About 1,000 acres are reported as being served with the water of this 

 channel. 



JACK DITCH. 



This is a ditch supplied with water from Outside Channel through the Fink 

 Channel. Its head is about 2 miles below the point where Outside Channel sepa- 

 rates from Patterson Slough on the easterly side of Fink Channel. The ditch has a 

 southwesterly, then southerly, course, being a little over 2 miles long. Its bed width 

 is about 5 feet. 



