CHAPTER XXIX. 



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JAN I FEB lUAPCH] APRIL I UAY | JUNK | JULV I AUG | SEPT I OCT I NOV [ DEC 

 10 10 10 iO 10 »0 10 30 10 10 10 to 10 10 10 20 10 20 10 20 10 20 10 20 



Sec. fL. 



4,000 

 3,600 



2,500 



l,.50O 



Discharge of Cedar River, near Seattle, Washington, for lsy7. 



following table of discharge is taken from the Nineteenth Annual Re- 

 port of the Geological Survey, i'art IV, Hydrography. 



MONTH 

 1897 



Discharge in Second-Feet 



Max. 



January 2,812 



February 2,415 



March 1,366 



April 2,752 



May 2,143 



June 1,410 



July 2,284 



August . . . 

 September 

 October . . 

 November 

 December 



Total . . . 



561 



418 



433 



3,155 



3,601 



3,601 



815 

 823 

 723 

 790 

 939 

 780 

 572 

 342 

 311 

 294 

 323 

 674 



294 



Mean. 



T,430^ 



1,303 



901 



1,599 



1,562 



1,060 



1,135 



427 



350 



339 



1,318 



1,639 



1,08^9 



Total for I 

 Month in i 

 Acre-Ft. 



"87,928 

 72,365 

 55,400 

 95,147 

 96,043 

 63,074 

 69,788 

 26,255 

 20,827 

 20,844 

 78,426 



100,778 



Depth in 

 inches 



~il.55 



9.49 



7.28 



12.47 



12.61 



8.26 



9.15 



3.44 



2.72 



2.74 



10.28 



13.23 



786,875 103.22 



2d-ft. per 

 sq.mile. 



10.00 

 9.11 

 6.30 



11.18 



10.92 

 7.41 

 7.93 

 2.98 

 2.44 

 2.37 

 9.22 



11.46 



7.61 



It will be noted that the vertical scale showing the discharge is 

 twice as large on the Cedar Creek diagram as on that of Queen Creek. 

 If they were on the same scale the contrast would be greater. 



Estimated monthly discharge of Cedar River near Seattle, Washing- 

 ton. Drainage area, 143 square miles. 



