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California Miners' Association Annual (PH 1-6)(1906) (210 pages)
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Page: of 210
126 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION oF THE
approximately 20,000,000 cubic yards of fine material. It has
been estimated that this will take over ten years to fill, after which
time the gates to this settling basin will be permanently closed
and the land will revert to the original owners. :
At Daguerre Point the river is to be diverted to either one
side or the other by a high embankment, V-shape in plan
the apex up stream, most of which has been already pai fi
by the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields Company, under sie
ment with the United States. This work on their part is ra
dental to their operation of dredging for gold and is free ee
cost to the United States and State of California. bee
getting our easements that the dredging conpen yi aut
Consolidated Gold Fields, had rights over areas that we exp a
to use for sediment basins, and in order to agree with sia ee
could both work in harmony, we agreed to move out iia a
could provide us an equal area elsewhere, which they ee
also consented to build these barriers free of cost to sete
States, which is now being done. It will be completed in an
For all stages of the river below 3000 cubic feet per eH a
the water -will be diverted into the settling basin; Seta vat i
brought to rest and later will be released into the inte a
point about 214 miles down stream from the entrance ae a a
having deposited its load of sediment in the pool createc “ pe.
all stages of the river above 3000 second feet the water be nine
diverted through Daguerre Point Cut and thence between trai!
walls into the Feather River. This cut has been completed.
was built at a cost of $152,900.30, under contract with Edwar
Malley of San Francisco, nat
A concrete lip or sill across the entrance to this cut has 7
completed at a cost of $28,394.78, under contract with Palmer °
McBryde of San Francisco, This lip is 700 feet long and is built
of reinforced concrete. It is necessary to prevent irregular
Scour on the bottom, and to serve as a foundation for a debris
restraining barrier when such steps become necessary in the
future to secure more storage,The third section of the work lie
Training Walls—From D
walls will extend down stream
these training walls two mile
wall is being built, free
S below Daguerre Point Cut.
aguerre Point Cut two training
as far as the Feather River. Of
S are now provided for, The south
of cost to the United States and State of
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