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Ch. 10: Ditched and Flumes

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whole investment in this class of property approximates $1,200,000.
Spring- Valley.—The Spring Valley and Cherokee ditch is fifty-two miles long and has about four miles of iron pipe thirty inches in diameter. The size of the ditch averages five feet wide, three and one-half feet deep, dis­charging about 2,000 inches of water.
Hendricks.—The Hendricks ditch, in Butte County, is forty-six and one-half miles long; grade of the upper line of ditch, 12.8 feet per mile ; grade of the lower line, 6.4 feet per mile; dimensions, 5 feet wide, 2 feet deep.
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