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IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS IN CALIFORNIA. 



the ditch. This distribution of water from the ditch is under control of a superin- 

 tendent, and water is apportioned according to the needs and relative interests of the 

 owners. 



LOWER KINGS RIVER CANAL. 



This is another south side canal in the Kings River delta. Its head is about 6 

 miles below Kingston. (Fig. 14 C.) Its course is southerly, and the district it com- 



PART OP 

 LOWER KINGS RIVER CANAL 

 AND 



Headworks 



OF 

 EMIGRANT CANAL 

 LIBERTY CANAL 

 SOUTH MILLRACE DITCH 

 TURNER DITCH 

 REED DITCH , 



Fig. 15.— a, Lower Kings River Canal; B, headworks of Emigrant Canal; C, headworks of Liberty Canal; D, headworks of 

 South Millrace Ditch; E, headworks of Turner Ditch; F, headworks of Reed Ditch. 



mand.s lies just westward of that of Last Chance Ditch and has Lemoore in its center. 

 The canal is cut southerly from the river, and at the end of its first mile reaches Lein- 

 berger Slough, into which its water is dropped. (Fig. 15 A.) It is reclaimed from this 

 slough less than half a mile below that point, and thence has a .southerly course to 

 within about '6 miles of Lemoore. Two principal branches — the East Branch, about 40 



