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dams at Lake Temescal and at Lake ‘Chabot
That they are considered good is
oven by
the fact that many engineers have used them
as models wherever they wished to construct
‘earthen dams :
~ . Until the year 1875 Mr. Chabot was
rs
sole owner of the Contra Costa tater Company,
In that -year-he sold a half interest in order }
te enatle him to develop Lake Chabot.
241649 ie first water systen in
Sen Jose wes elsc built by M. Chabot and
We, WeFenzie. The water was piped fron
near Alma, He also
Vallejo,
Los Geics Creek,
the water syste of
CHAPTER VI
ENTERPRISES.
Althourh Mr. Chabot was deeply in-:
terested in: mining and in-constructing water
systems he still had enough time to devote to
other things of im poure ince.
Shy
He-always took much interest in work
‘carried on for the good of community
although he knew that he would receive but
little in return. ye
Mr. Chabot helped to buile up the
{ cs ‘ :
Paper industry on the Pacific coast. He had
én interest in a paver mill in Shoocton: and
,also in tr
e Pioneer. Pulp Manufacturing Coes
pany in Placer County.
Some ot his money was invested in the