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The inclined gage, constructed at that time, is made of scantling, 
4 by 4 inches, spiked to posts set firmly in the ground. It is on the 
right-hand side of the river, at a place where the slopes are very gen- 
tle, and therefore is of considerable length in order to reach out to 
the low-water channel. It is graduated from about 7.30 feet, the low- 
water mark, up to 16 feet. The point 3.50 would correspond approxi- 
mately to the deepest part of the section. The gage is about 75 feet 
above the cable and is in three parts, with different slopes. The cable 
is five-eighths-inch wire, with nineteen steel strands. It is fastened to 
a cedar tree on the left-hand side and to sand anchors on the right. 
Measurements were originally made from a boat held by traveling pul- 
leys running on the cable. The boat being washed away by flood, later 
measurements were made from a box suspended from the cable. 
Bench mark No. 1 is on a rock near the end of the cable, on the left- 
hand bank, marked "B. M." with white paint. It is 20.66 feet above 
zero of the gage. Bench mark No. 2 is on a rock about 100 feet above 
the cable, on the left bank of the river, and is marked U B. M." with 
white paint. It is 18.79 feet above datum. Bench mark No. 3 is a 
notch cut in the southeast corner of the station house, about 2 feet 
above the level of the platform, and is 30.48 feet above datum. 
Observations at this point were maintained for a number of years. 
In 1893 the record is deficient from November 4 to December 4, and in 
1894 no reports were received from March 1 to September 15. The 
station was inspected September 30, 1894, by Mr. Arthur P. Davis, 
who at that time made a measurement of discharge, showing that for a 
height of 7.7 feet the river was carrying 284 second-feet. On the next 
day a flood occurred, and measurements were attempted, although the 
height of water was fluctuating considerably. The computed discharge 
was 1,138 second-feet. The changes in the channel at this point are 
not great, but are sufficient to vitiate the rating table formerly used, 
and therefore computations of discharge have not been made pending 
construction of a better rating table. 
