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A STORY of the English Dam breaking (on this page) takes
a look into the past history of the Middle Ford of the Yuba
River. This picture takes a look at the present, the Bullards
Bar Dam © constructed on the Same river, Throughout this
issue are pictures of the dam and present ‘scenes from the
rain storm which has hit northern California. Picture below
is shown looking down the spillway of Bullards Dam,
"The English dam broke this morning
at 5 o'clock. Warn everyone along the Middle Yuba river!"
Such was the excited message flashed
along the stations of the Ridge telephone
line, the world's first practical long distance line, the morning of June 18, 1883,
The dam was located near the headwaters of the Middle Yuba about six
miles above the present Milton dam of
was of crib construction, built of logs
about 25 years previously by the Milton
Mining and Water Company. Henry Perchoir, acting president of . the —.
said ‘the company had strengthened and
raised the dam about eight years before
the break by putting a deep facing of rock
on the outside and a stone lining inside.
The dam was about 400 feet long and at
center, 125 feet high, the reservoir back
of it was about two and a half miles long
and a half-mile wide.
Its capacity was 650,000,000 cubic feet,
and served 80 miles of ditches having 2
carrying capacity of 2,800 miner's inches,
and led to the company's hydraulic mines
at. Badger Hill, Manzanita Hill, Birchville
and Corral.
George Davis, the watchman, reached
the .spot a few minutes after it began
breaking. He said, “it started by carrying
off the wooden upper portion, and then
the Nevada Irrigation District, The dam.
Engli Dam catastrophe
hastened Sawyer decision
gradually crumbling the rest, stones and
all, until nothing was left but the site.
vi eae was an hour and a half running
out."
Superintendent H. C. Perkins declared
the dam had been subjected to a critical
inspection three days previous to the break,
and advanced his theory that the dam had
been blown up by powder. He assumed it
was one more lawless act in the long
series. that dotted the conflict between
hydraulic miners and farmers of the
valley.
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‘The water company posted a $5,000
reward for information leading to convic~ tion of the parties believed to have caused
the destruction of the dam. No one was
ever brought to trial, and the cause of the
break in a rainless month to this day remains a mystery.
Davis, sole witness to the break, “fell
from a “flume soon afterwards to his
death, Miners suspected foul play.
N. C. Miller, ditch superintendent,
flashed the telephonic warning of the first
paragraph, to all stations along the line
and gave the approximate time of arrival
of the hundred-foot wall of water. —
A house and barn at Jackson ranch,
three miles below the dam took passage
toward the valley on the first wall of
water. The Black brothers, operating the
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