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INDEX. 



Page. 



Excelsior Ditch 148 



Excelsior Water and Mining Company 149 



canals 14S 



dams 151 



reservoirs 151 



water rights on South Yuba 152 



Fall Creek Lakes Reservoir 124 



Farm Ditch 150 



Farmers Irrigating Ditch Company 173 



Faucherie Lake Reservoir 124,142 



Feather River 115 



Fertilizers, use of in fruit growing 28 



Fink Channel 285 



FinkDitch 286 



Forest protection 27,126,127,130,400 



Fowler Switch Canal 290 



litigation affecting 58, 60, 61 



water rates 291 



Franchises to water — 



in European countries 64 



suggested for California 64 



water rights treated as 37, 323 



Fresno Canal 286 



Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company, litigation 



affecting 58,60 



Fresno County, benefits of irrigation 217 



Fresno Plains 263 



Fresno River — 



canals 225,249 



claims to water 228 



description and watershed 225 



flow 2-26,227,232 



irrigation from ." 226 



, riparian rights claimed 233 



Fresno Slough- 

 Borland pump 314 



Lee pump 313 



Mitchlerpump 313 



pumping from 313 



Whiteside pump 313 



Fruit growing in California, limit to profitable exten- 

 sion 28 



Gaging of streams by State engineer, Wyoming IM 



Garber, John, argument in Lux r. Haggin, quoted... 44 



Glenn estate, value of land 31 



Gordon, William, deed from Mexican Government 



confirmed by United States patent 171, 172 



Grain farming— 



Greeley Colony, Colorado 29 



Sacramento Valley 29 



Grain, irrigation of, Browns Valley l&i 



Grant Canal 290,309 



Grunsky, C.E 58,60 



field of investigations 6 



report on Kings River 259 



Guesisosi grant 166 



Haas, E. F., assistance of, acknowledged 5 



Haines, A., water rights defined by 378 



Halen, A., a-ssistance of, acknowledged 5,75 



Hall, William Ham., quoted 26,75,76,219,232 



Hanke Ditch 284 



Hardy grant 156 



Hawley Lake, area 126 



Hay, irrigation of, Browns Valley 133 



Health, influence of irrigation on 32,135,266 



Hemet Creek- 

 claims to water 390 



description and watershed 389 



Hemet Creek — Continued. Page. 



duty of water 392 



flow 389 



lands irrigated 392 



water rates 392 



water-right contracts 392 



Hemet Dam 389,391 



Hemet Valley, description 339 



Henkenius, J.C., assistance of, acknowledged 6 



Hermann, F.C., assistance of, acknowledged 5 



Hilgard, E. W., quoted 221 



Hite Ditch 312 



Homestead law in Honey Lake Basin 109 



Honey Lake — 



area 75 



loss by evaporation 75 



measures water supply of Honey Lake Basin 75 



water flowing into, estimate 76 



Honey Lake Basin — 



claims to water 83, 89 



climate 72 



contribution for investigations on, from California 



Water and Forest Association 6 



description 72 



duty of water gg 



first laws 71 



industries 72 



irrigated area 1 107 



needs 73 



possible irrigable area .•. 76 



problems 73 



products 72 



report on, by W. E. Smythe 71 



storage sites 77 



surrounding resources 73 



water measurements 80 



water-right system 108 



watershed 76 



water supply 74 



waste of water 76 



Hydraulic mining — 



resumed under Camanetti act 127 



suspended on Yuba River 127 



Immigration, state of. California 19 



Inadequate water laws, obstacles presented by 34 



India, government ownership of canals 64 



Industrial conditions near Chico and Willows 29, 30 



Instructions, letter of, to agents and experts 23 



Investigations by board of control, necessity for 66 



Investigators, duty of 21 



Irrigated land in California 19 



Irrigation- 

 effect on land values 26,294 



from Cache Creek 171 



from San Joaquin River affected by navigation... 18 



from Sacramento River affected by navigation... 18 



importance 215 



northern California 26 



not everywhere a necessity in California 17 



obstacles to in California, local in character 18 



prejudice against 217 



pueblo of Los Angeles 378 



reasons for restricting investigations to..- 24 



southern California 26 



value of, to California 17 



Irrigation development — 



affected by unfavorable social conditions 19 



California 216 



San Joaquin Valley 216,217 



