inches.
Its cost, including water rights and flumes, was $256,000. The San Juan
ditch and branches extend some forty-five miles in length; the main
ditch is thirty-two miles long, and its capacity is 1,300 miner's
inches. The cost was $292,992. These two last mentioned ditches belong
to the Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal Company.
South Yuba Canal Company.—The
main ditch of the South Yuba Canal Company (from the head of Bear
River) is one and one-half miles long, six feet wide on top, and five
feet deep, with a grade of thirteen feet per mile. Its present capacity
is said to be 7,000 miner's inches. From Bear Valley (the junction of
the main and the Dutch Flat ditches) the size of the canal for the
succeeding thirty-one and one-half miles is six feet wide on top, four
and one-half feet deep, with a grade of eight feet to the mile. The
Dutch Flat ditch is thirteen miles long ; it is six and one-half feet
wide on top, four feet deep, and has a grade of thirteen and one-half
feet per mile. The capacity of this ditch is 3,150 miner's inches. The
Chalk Bluff ditch is six feet wide on top and five feet deep, with a
grade of sixteen feet per mile, and has a capacity of 4,100 miner's
inches. The several ditches owned by the South Yuba Company have an
aggregate length of one hundred and twenty-eight miles.
Smartsville Ditches.—The
Excelsior, or China, ditch at Smartsville is thirty-three miles long,
five feet wide at the bottom and eight feet on top, and is four feet
deep. The grade is nine feet to the mile, and the ditch discharges
1,700 Smartsville miner's inches.
The
Bouyer and Union ditches are each about fifteen miles long, four feet
wide on the bottom, eight feet on top, and three and one-half feet
deep. Their grades are thirteen feet to the mile, and each discharges
1,200 Smartsville miner's inches.
There
are several minor ditches which deliver water in and around
Smartsville. The total capacity of all these ditches is 5,000
Smartsville miner's inches, and the
