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PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [bull. 131. 
name of the stream, the locality or river station at which the measure- 
ments were made, and the name of the hydrographer or engineer under 
whose immediate direction the work was done. There is also given, 
wherever it can be obtained, an estimate of the drainage area in square 
miles above the point where these measurements were made. This esti- 
mate has in general been prepared by means of planimeter measure- 
ments of the best accessible maps, the outline of the drainage area 
being sketched according to the topographic features. Next to the 
right of this is given the height of water at the time of the measure- 
ment on the arbitrary gage established at the regular river stations; 
also the mean velocity, obtained by dividing the total computed dis- 
charge of the area by the cross section of the river at the point where 
the measurements were made. The discharge is given in units of cubic 
feet per second (now commonly employed), briefly designated, for con- 
venience, second-feet. 
List of discharge measurements of various streams in the United States. 
Date. 
Stream. 
Locality. 
Hydrographer. 
Area 
drained. 
Gage 
height. 
Mean 
ve- 
locity. 
Dis- 
charge. 
1893. 
Pendleton, Oreg 
Sheridan road, Wyo.. 
Above Buffalo, Wvo. . 
W.P.Trowbridge 
E. Mead 
Sq.m. 
640 
Feet. 
1.54 
Sec. feet. 
239 
Shell Creek 
Clear Creek 
.. do ... 
1 
10 
do 
304 
12 
do 
.. do . 
652 
14 
Piney Creek 
do 
975 
14 
do 
do ... 
14 
Rock Creek 
Clear Creek 
. . do 
do .. 
87 
16 
Above Buffalo, Wvo. . 
do 1 
178 
22 
do 
...do . 
4.494 
134 
July 6 
17 
Bear Gulch Creek. 
Above Kearney, Wyo 
Above Buffalo, Wyo. . 
Old stage crossing . . . 
Near Sundance, Wyo. 
Near Beulah, Wyo . . . 
Union Gap, Wash . . . 
North Yakima, Wash 
Outlet, Wash 
M. C. McFarlane 
2 
E. Mead 
2.32 
37 
18 Powder Kiver 
M. C. McFarlane 
E. Mead 
66 
1 
26 Sanrl Creek. 
do 
55 
Aug. 14 
14 
F. H. Newell 
.90 
1.00 
3.09 
3.70 
2.58 
3.35 
3.28 
1.83 
2.15 
"l.4Jd 
2, 963 
1,193 
do 
16 
Katehess Lake 
West Gallatin 
do ... 
211 
22 
Above Salesville, 
Mont. 
Near Red Bluff, Mont. 
do 
850 
818 
23 
do 
2,085 
9,400 
2,285 
15, 000 
6,000 
2.10 
"\*30" 
88.75 
1.70 
1,189 
24 
. . do . . . 
808 
24 
do 
do 
1, 251 
25 
do 
3,008 
715 
Sept. 2 
10 
do 
St. Charles 
do .. 
4 
22 
. . do . . 
3,060 
2.45 
.25 
.45 
2.26 
"l.'ll' 

291 
26 
Yakima, Wash 
1, 186 
27 
F. TT. Newell 
12, 200 
24 
27 
do 
Holly, Colo do 

1894. 
Jan. 10 
Tejon House Cr .. 
do 
Kern County, Cal 
do 
J. B. Lippincott 
do 
60 
21 
60 
do 
do 
. . do 
80 
Apr. 24 
May 8 
15 
P. J. Preston . . . 
4,600 
332 
North Platte 
Arkansas 
South side ditch.. 
Orin Junction, Wyo.. 
6,823 
F.H. Newell.... 
do 
3,060 
4.20 
7.27 
1.88 
2.45 
6.68 
3.57 
3.08 
1.57 
1.00 
2,395 
18 
do 
do 
32 
18 
do 
27 
18 
do 
...do 
3.060 
3.80 
1,940 
21 
Little Laramie 
So. Fork, Wyo 
La Junta, Colo 
do 
do 
69 
21 
F.H. Newell 
620 
. do ... 
12, 200 
1.20 
157 
21 
do 
5 
24 
Cumberland, Md 
Rocky Ford, Colo 
C. C. Babb 
F.H. Newell 
891 
3,037 
71 
28 
Rocky Ford ditch . 
2.22 
2.83 
2.41 
1.70 
2.12 
1.25 
28 
do 
187 
28 
do 
do 
104 
28 
do 
do 
136 
28 
High Line Canal.. 
Vroomans 
do 
do 
115 
29 
do 
do 
10 
