80 PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [bull. 131. 
for the purpose of obtaining the information necessary to the operation 
of the great system of canals irrigating the Kern delta. Data are not 
at hand giving the daily height of water or the relation of height to 
discharge, but the following figures given by Mr. James show the total 
flow of the river upon the days named: 
Flow of Kern River at Bakersfield, California, in 1893. 
Second- feet. 
April 19 2, 058 
April 21 2, 223 
May 22 4 ; 776 
June 6 5, 547 
June 13 5,619 
June 14 5, 068 
June 20 4, 899 
June 24 4, 142 
July 7 '. 3,82L 
September 29 486 
October 24 519 
November 7 519 
November 20 467 
KINGSBURG STATION, ON KINGS RIVER. 
This station is located at the Southern Pacific Railroad bridge, 1 mile 
south of Kingsburg, Oal. The station is an old one, and was exam- 
ined by Mr. Arthur P. Davis on January 10, 1895. The observer is 
Mr. Alf. Thompson, watchman. It is distant about 500 feet from the 
watchman's house. The gage is a vertical plank, fastened to a bridge 
pier, painted white, and divided into feet and inches. Measurement of 
discharge was made from the watchman's boat, suspended from the 
wagon bridge, about 200 feet below the railroad bridge. The channel 
is too badly broken up for gaging from either bridge. Above this 
bridge the following canals are taken out : 
Name of canal. 
Capacity. 
Fresno 
Seventy-six ... 
Fowler Switch 
Kingsburg 
Total.... 
Second-feet. 
1, 500 
600 
600 
600 
3,300 
