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Ch. 10: Ditched and Flumes

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ditch, including distributers, is fifty-five miles long. Its size is 8.65 feet on top, 5 feet at. bottom, and 3-1/2 feet deep. The ditch and distributers cost $466,707. Its grade is six­teen feet per mile, discharging 3,200 miner's inches.
Milton Com­pany.—The Milton Company's ditch­es are eighty-four miles long, and their grades are from twelve to thirty-two feet to the mile. The size of the main ditch is 4 feet on the bottom, 7.6 feet on top, and 3-1/2 feet deep, discharging 3,000 miner's inches ; cost, $462,998.
Eureka Lake.—The Eureka Lake main ditch is eighteen miles long and has a capacity of 2,500 miner's
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