Cogswell, president; R. M. Williams, secretary; John W. Mitchell, Hubert Dunn, Miller McPherson. E. H. Barton, chief engineer of the Turlock canal and La Grange dam. H. B. Waters, clerk of the board.

The district had the usual difficulty in obtaining right of way for its canals at anything like fair prices. It was compelled to pay from $45 to $60 an acre for right of way, while to farmers who will be greatly benefited by the canal $15 to $20 an acre would have been a fair price for this privilege. One farmer who is a bitter anti-irrigationist wanted $700 an acre for right of way. The canal was not built through his land.

The Modesto Herald, always a good friend of irrigation, thus notes recent sales of bonds by the Turlock district: The landholders in the Turlock irrigation dis

xaminations of the section of countrytom, at a failing grade of four feet per

east of the district and tributary to it, we find a very extensive watershed for our source of supply, covering an area of 468 square miles, about 150 square miles of which are more than 3000 feet elevation above sea level and above the snow line, where a vast amount of water is stored in winter for use in summer, when most needed, but owing to the rapid fall of the mountain streams, from thirty to 200 feet per mile, the water descends rapidly to the plains in the early spring and winter, and it is not to be had in summer when most needed.

We have located and surveyed five reservoirs, four storage and one supply reservoir, as follows: Granite reservoir on sections 29, 30 and 31, township 29, range 30, a supply reservoir; Little Creek reservoir or sections 34 and 35, township 26, range 27, and sections 1, 2 and 3, township 27, range 27; Poso Creek reservoir on sections 26 and 26, township 27, range 27, and sections 29, 30 and 31, township 27, range 28, on Poso creek; Dyer Creek reservoir on sections 10 and 11, township 26, range 27; and Rag Gulch reservoir on sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, township 25, range 27, and section 18, township 25, range 28, storage reservoirs, all of Mount Diablo base and meridian.

We also made surveys of about thirty miles of canals as follows: From Granite reservoir to Dyer creek, a distance of 12.51 miles; from Granite station to Dyer creek, 5.50 miles, and from Poso creek reservoir, through the south and east part of the district, 14.16 miles, besides two preliminary surveys to Poso creek to determine the elevation and where to locate the two reservoirs on Poso creek. These surveys were made to determine the estimate of amount of work and cost to complete the system of water supply for the district before offering the bonds for sale.

Granite reservoir is located on Poso creek, above a narrow gorge of graphite or granite rock, thirty-eight feet wide at the bottom and 260 feet wide at a point 100 feet high. This reservoir is only intended as a supply reservoir, to divert the water from Poso creek into Little creek, Dyer creek and Rag gulch reservoirs, which are located near the east line of the district.

A masonry dam built at this reservoir would be thirty-eight feet long at the bottom and fifty feet long on the top, twenty feet thick at the bottom and ten feet thick on top, and thirty feet high, and would require 750 cubic yards of masonry, at a cost of $12,000.

The conduit, wasteway, supply pipes and other necessary work would cost eight thousand ($8000) dollars, or a total cost of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars. This is based upon the cost of masonry in the Bear Valley and Sweetwater dams,

Our survey was trom the dam down Poso creek for 2000 feet, at a falling grade of ten feet per mile, and gradually diverging from the creek; at this point we leave the creek and follow along a steep mountain side, of rocky formation, to a point $11,875 feet from the dam, where we located a tunnel 800 feet long. From the dam to this tunnel would be a pipe line and flume 2.25 miles long, or a flume might be constructed for this distance. From the end of this tunnel we commenced the survey of a canal, twenty feet wide at the bot

mile, winding around the base of the mountain along a formation of loose granite rock, with gravel and clay intermixed. This canal will be five feet deep and carry three feat of water, with slope of banks of two feet horizontal to one foot perpendicular, and the lower bank will be eight feet wide on top. This canal was surveyed to Granite Station, 54,300 feet or 10.28 miles, where it leaves the granite formation. There will be required on this route of 10.28 miles of canal three tunnels, varying in length from 200 to 800 feet, and four flumes across deep gulches and watercourses, from 250 to 400 feet each.

The two pipe lines from Granite reservoir will necessarily have to be 36 inches in diameter to carry the volume of water required and discharge the water into a flume a distance of 2000 feet, where it would be carried to the tunnel, 2.24 miles from the reservoir, at a cost of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars. The canal, with given width and slopes, would require an excavation of 17,271 cubic yards per mile, and being largely of a rocky formation, would cost about $3000 per mile, or a total cost of $30,000 for the canal to Granite station.

The flumes are located as follows: One from station 230x50 to 233 is 250 feet long. just above Long Tom mine and across Long Tom gulch; the second from station 304x30 to 307 is 250 feet long, one mile west of Long Tom and across a deep gulch; the third from station 478x40 to 482x46 is 406 feet long, and the fourth from station 593x50 to 597 is 350 feet long. Total length of flume, 1256 feet, which should be 8 feet wide on the bottom and sides, 3% feet high, and at a fall of 10 feet per mile, which would cost $2 per lineal foot, or u total cost of $2512.

One tunnel at station 118 by 75 is 800 feet long at the end of pipe line or flume, southeast of Long Tom, 6 feet wide and 6 feet high, would cost about $2 50 per lineal foot, or a total of $2000; the second at station 192 by 30 is 300 feet long (same size as above), at a cost of $2 per lineal foot, or a total cost of $600; the third at station 256 by 50 is 200 feet long, at a cost of $2 per lineal foot, would cost $400, or a total cost for tunnels of $3000.

The canals from Granite station are made on the slope of the hills and are all easy grading, and in most parts the amount of excavations will make the embankments; they will be sixteen feet wide at the bottom, with side slope of two to one, and will require about 12,000 | cubic yards per mile; they are as follows from Granite station to Granite creek: One mile from Granite creek to Little creek, three and a half miles; from Little creek to Dyer creek, two and a half miles; and from Dyer creek to Dyer creek reservoir, two and a half miles; total, nine and a half miles. These would cost about $800 per mile, or a total cost of $7600. These canals discharge the water into natural channels, which have a fall of from twenty to thirty feet per mile, and would save building about fifteen miles of canals, to carry the water from Granite reservoir to Little creek, Dyer creek and Rag gulch reservoirs, to be stored in winter and spring for use in summer. These reservoirs completed would hold enough water to irrigate 70,000 acres during the