DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIKECTOK

WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 290

SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OP THE 

UNITED STATES

1910

PART X. THE GREAT BASIN

PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF M. 0. LEIGHTON

BY

E. C. LA KITE, F. F. HENSHAW, AND 

E. A. POKTEK

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1912
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

GEORGE OTI8 SMITH, DIRECTOR

WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 290

SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OP THE 

UNITED STATES

1910

PART X. THE GREAT BASIN

PEEPAEED UNDER THE DIEECTION OF M. 0. LEIGHTON

BY

E. C. LA RUE, F. F. IIEJSTSHAW, AND 

E. A. PORTER

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 

1912
CONTENTS.

Page.

Introduction................................................................ 7

Authority for investigations...................................."......... 7

Scope of investigations................................................... 8

Publications.......................................................... 9

Definition of terms..................................................... 12

Convenient equivalents................................................ N 13

Explanation of data.................................................... 14

Accuracy and reliability of field data and comparative results............. 16

Cooperative data...................................................... 18

Cooperation and acknowledgments.........'.............................. 18

Division of work...................................................... 20

General features of the Great Basin.......................................... 21

Great Salt Lake basin...................................................... 27

General features......................................................... 27

Bear River basin........................................................ '28

General features................................................... 28

Bear River at Dingle, Idaho....................................... 30

Bear River near Preston, Idaho.................................... 33

Bear River near Collinston, Utah.................................... 35

Logan River near Logan, Utah..................................... 38

Blacksmith Fork near Hyrum, Utah................................ 40

Blacksmith Fork power-plant race near Hygmm, Utah............... 43

Box Elder Creek at Brigham, Utah ................................. 45

Weber River basin..................................................... 48

General features........... ^....................................... 48

Weber River near Oakley, Utah..................................... 49

Weber River at Devils Slide, Utah.................................. 52

" Weber River near Plain City, Utah.................................. 54

Ogden River near Ogden, Utah..................................... 56

Jordan River basin..................................................... 62

General features................................................... . 62

Utah Lake tributaries.............................................. - 64

Summit Creek near Santaquin, Utah............................ 64

Peeteetneet Creek near Payson, Utah............................ 66

Spanish Fork at Thistle, Utah.................................. 68

Spanish Fork near Spanish Fork, Utah........................... 71

 United States Reclamation Service power canal near Spanish

Fork, Utah................................................. 73

Spanish Fork at Lake Shore, Utah.............................. 75

Diamond Fork near Thistle, Utah............................... 77

Hobble Creek near Springville, Utah...^........................ 79

Maple Creek near Springville, Utah............................. 81

Provo River above Telluride Power Co.'s dam near Provo, Utah.. 82

3
4 CONTENTS.

Great Salt Lake basin Continued. Page. 

Jordan River basin Continued.

Tributaries of the Jordan............................................. ' 85

Little Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah.............. 85

Big Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah................. 86

Mill Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah............................ 88

Parleys Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah........................ 89

Emigration Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah.................... 90

Sevier Lake basin.......................................................... 91

General features....................................................... 91

Sevier River near Marysvale, Utah..................................... 92

Sevier River near Gunnison, Utah...................................... 94

Beaver River at Minersville, Utah...................................... 96

Thousand Springs Creek basin............................................... 98

Thousand Springs Creek near Tecoma, Nev............................. 98

Salton Sink .............................................................. 99

Salton Sea near Salton, Cal............................................. 99

Alamo River near Brawley, Cal........................................ 102

New River near Brawley, Cal.......................................... 104

Owens Lake basin...................'........................................ 105

General features....................................................... 105

Owens River near Round Valley, Cal.,................................. 108

Owens River near Tinemaha, Cal....................................... 110

Owens River near Lone Pine, Cal...................................... 112

Rock Creek near Round Valley, Cal...............................'..... 114

Pine Creek near Round Valley, Cal..................................... 116

Bishop Creek near Bishop, Cal.......................................... 118

Baker Creek near Big Pine, Cal........................................ 121

Big Pine Creek near Big Pine, Cal...................................... 121

Birch Creek near Tinemaha, Cal......................................... 123

Tinemaha Creek near Tinemaha, Cal.................................... 125

Taboose Creek near Aberdeen, Cal...................................... 127

Goodale Creek near Aberdeen, Cal...................................... 130

Division Creek near Independence, Cal................................. 132

Sawmill Creek near Independence, Cal.....'............................. 133

Oak Creek near Independence, Cal...................................... 133

Little Pine Creek near Independence, Cal............................... 136

Shepard Creek near Thebe, Cal........................................ 138

Bairs Creek near Thebe, Cal............................................'. 138

George Creek near Thebe, Cal.......................................... 139

Lone Pine Creek near Lone Pine, Cal.................................... 139

, Tuttle Creek near Lone Pine, Cal........................................ 141

Cottonwood Creek near Olancha, Cal..................................... 144

Ash Creek near Olancha, Cal........................................... 146

Mono Lake basin........................................................ 1. 146

General features....................................................... 146

Rush Creek near Mono Lake, Cal......................................!.. 147

Leevining Creek near Mono Lake, Cal.................................. 149

Walker Lake basin .......................................................... 150

General features....................................................... 150

East Walker River near Mason, Nev ..................................... 151

Walker River at Mason, Nev............................................ 152

Robinson Creek near Bridgeport, Cal.'.................................... 153

, Buckeye Creek near Bridgeport, Cal.................................... 154
CONTENTS. 5

Page.

Carson Sink basin......................................................... 155

General features................................................'....... 155

Carson River basin. ......\............................................ 155

General features................................................... 155

East Carson River near Markleeville, Cal........................... 156

East Fork of Carson River near Gardnerville, Nev................... 156

Carson River and Brunswick Mill power canal near Empire, Nev..... 159

Carson River near Hazen, Nev..................................... 163

Silver Creek near Markleeville, Cal................................. 165

Markleeville Creek at Markleeville, Cal.............................. 165

Pleasant Valley Creek at Markleeville, Cal........................... 166

West Fork of Carson River at Woodfords, Cal........................ 167

Humboldt River basin.................................................. 171

General features................................................... 171

Humboldt River near Golconda, Nev............................... 172

Humboldt River near Oreana, Nev.................................. 173

Bishop Creek near Wells, Nev...................................... 174

North Fork of Humboldt River near Halleck, Nev................... 176

South Fork of Humboldt River near Elko, Nev....................... 177

Pyramid and Winnemucca Lake basins...................................... 179

General features....................................................... 179

Truckee River basin.................................................... 180

General features.......................................*........... 180

Lake Tahoe at Tahoe, Cal............................1............. 181

Truckee River at Tahoe, Cal........................................ 183

Truckee River at Nevada-California State line........................ 185

Truckee River at Reno, Nev....................................... 188

Truckee River at Clarks. Nev....................................... 190

Truckee River at Derby dam, Nev.................................. 191

Dormer Creek near Truckee, Cal...................... '. .............. 193

Prosser Creek near Hobart Mills, Cal................................. 196

Little Truckee River at Starr, Cal......................"............ 199

Warner Lake basin........................................................ 201

General features....................................................... 201

Twentymile Creek near Warner Lake, Oreg............................. 203

Deep Creek at Adel, Oreg.............................................. 206

Honey Creek near Plush, Oreg.......................................... 210

Miscellaneous stations in Warner Valley.................................. 213

Abert Lake basin ......................................................... 215

General features....................................................... 215

Chewaucan River at Paisley, Oreg...................................... 215

Summer Lake basin....................................................... 218

General features....................................................... 218

Ana River near Summer Lake, Oreg.................................... 218

Silver Lake basin......................................................... 219

General features....................................................... 219

Silver Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg-................................... 219

Bridge Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg .................................... 223

Bear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg....................................... . 224

Malheur and Harney Lake basins........................................... 231

General features....................................................... 231

Silvies River near Silvies, Oreg........................................ 232

Silvies River near Burns, Oreg.......................................... 236
6 CONTENTS.

Malheur and Harney Lake basins Continued. Page.

Donner und Blitzen River near Diamond, Oreg.......................... 239

Keiger Creek near Diamond, Oreg....................................... 243

McCoy Creek near Diamond, Oreg...................................... 245

Silver Creek near Biley, Oreg .........................................' 247

Goose Lake basin ....................................'.................... 250

Miscellaneous measurements................................................ 251

Index.................................................................... 253

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page. 

PLATE I. Typical gaging stations: A, For bridge measurement; B, For wading

measurement................................................... 16

II. Small Price current meters........................................ 17

III. Sketch map of the Great Basin................................... 22
SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE GREAT BASIN, 1910.

By E. C. LA RUE, F. F. HENSHAW, and E. A. PORTER.

INTRODUCTION.

AUTHORITY FOR INVESTIGATIONS.

This volume contains results of measurements of the flow of certain 

streams in the United States. The work was performed by the 

United States Geological Survey, either independently or in cooperation with private or State organizations. The organic law of the 

Geological Survey (Stat. L., vol. 20, p. 394) contains the following 

paragraph:

Provided, That this officer [the Director] shall have the direction of the geological 

survey and the classification of public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain.

As water is the most abundant and most valuable of the minerals 

the investigation of water resources is authorized under the provision for examining mineral resources. The work has been supported 

since the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, by appropriations in successive sundry civil bills passed by Congress under the following 

item:

 For gaging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, and 

for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and for the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources.

The various appropriations that have been made for this purpose 

are as follows:

Annual appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30 

1895................................................................. $12,500

1896.................................................................. 20,000

1897 to 1900, inclusive............................................... 50,000

1901 to 1902, inclusive................................../...........1 100,000

1903 to 1906, inclusive................................................ 200,000«

1907................................................................. 150,000

1908 to 1910, inclusive............................................... 100,000

Mil................................................................. 150,000

7
8 SXJBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X. 

SCOPE OF INVESTIGATIONS.

These investigations are not complete nor are they inclusive of all 

the streams that might purposefully be studied. The scope of the 

work is limited by the appropriations available. The field covered 

is the widest and the character of the work is believed to be the best 

possible under the controlling conditions. The work would undoubtedly have greater scientific importance and ultimately be of more 

practical value if the money now expended for wide areas were 

concentrated on a few small drainage basins; but such a course is 

impossible because general appropriations made by Congress are 

applicable to all parts of the country. Each part demands its proportionate share of the benefits.

It is essential that records of stream flow shall be kept during a 

period of years long enough to determine within reasonable limits 

the entire range of flow from the absolute maximum to the absolute 

minimum. The length of such a period manifestly differs for different streams. Experience has shown that the records for some 

streams should coyer 5 to 10 years, and those for other streams 20 

years, or even more, the limit being determined by the relative 

importance of the stream and the interdependence of the results 

with other long-time records on adjacent streams.

In the performance of this work an effort is made to reach the 

highest degree of precision possible with a rational expenditure of 

time and a judicious expenditure of a small amount of money. In 

all engineering work there is a point beyond which refinement is 

needless and wasteful, and this statement applies with especial force 

to stream-flow measurements. It is confidently believed that the 

stream-flow data presented in the publications of the Survey are in 

general sufficiently accurate for all practical purposes. Many of the 

records are, however, of insufficient length, owing to the unforeseen 

reduction of appropriations and consequent abandonment of stations. 

All persons are cautioned to exercise the greatest care in using such 

incomplete records.

Records have been obtained at nearly 2,000 different points in 

the United States. The surface water supply of small areas in 

Seward Peninsula and Yukon-Tanana region, Alaska, and in Hawaii 

has also been investigated. During 1910 regular gaging stations 

were maintained by the Survey and cooperating organizations at 

about 1,100 points in the United States, and many discharge measurements were made at other points. Data were also obtained in 

regard to precipitation, evaporation, storage reservoirs, river profiles, 

and water power in many sections of the country, and will be made 

available in the regular surface water-supply papers and in special 

papers from time to time.
THE GBEAT BASJU. 

PUBLICATIONS.

The data on stream flow collected by the United States Geological 

Survey have appeared in the annual reports, bulletins, and watersupply papers. Owing to natural processes of evolution and t6 

changes in governmental requirements the character of the work 

and the territory covered by these different publications have varied 

greatly. For the purpose of uniformity in the presentation of reports 

a general plan has been agreed upon by the United States Keclamation 

Service, the United States Forest Service, the United States Weather 

Bureau, and the United States Geological Survey, according to which 

the area of the United States has been divided into 12 parts, 

whose boundaries coincide with certain natural drainage lines. The 

areas so described are indicated by the following list of papers on 

surface-water supply for 1910. The dividing line between the north 

Atlantic and south Atlantic drainage areas lies between York and 

James rivers.

Papers on surface-water supply of the United States, 1910.

Part.

I

II ni

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI 

XII

T 

No.

281

282

283

284

285

286

287

288

289

290

291 

292

Title.

'North Atlantic coast.

South Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Ohio Elver basin.

St. Lawrence River basin.

Upper Mississippi River and Hudson Bay basins.

Missouri River basin.

Lower Mississippi River basin.

Western Gulf of Mexico.

Colorado Elver basin.

Great Basin.

Pacific coast, California. ~- North Pacific coast.

The following table gives the character of data regarding stream 

flow at regular stations to be found in the various publications of the 

United States Geological Survey, exclusive of special papers:
10 SUEFACE WATEB SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Stream-flow data in reports of the United States Geological Survey. 

|A= Annual Report; B=Bullettn; WS Water-Supply Paper.]

Report.

10th A, pt.2. .........

llthA, pt. 2..........

12th A, pt. 2..........

13th A, pt.3. .........

14th A, pt.2..........

B131.... ..............

16th A, pt. 2..........

B140. ................

WS 11. ................

18th A, pt. 4..........

WS 15.. ................

WS 16..... ............

19th A, pt. 4.. ........

WS27.................

WS 28.... .............

20th A, pt. 4..........

WS 35 to 39. ..........

21st A, pt. 4. ..........

WS 47 to 52. ..........

22d A, pt. 4... ........

WS 65, 66..... ........

WS 75..... ............

WS 82 to 85,.... ......

WS 97 to 100. .........

WS 124 to 135... ......

WS 165 to 178... ......

WS 201 to 214. ........

WS 241 to 262. ........

WS 261 to 272. ........

WS 281 to 292.........

Character of data.

.....do...........................................................

Descriptions, measurements, gage heights, ratings, and monthly 

discharge (also many data covering earlier years).

Descriptions, measurements, ratings, and monthly discharge 

(also similar data for earlier years). 

Descriptions, measurements, and gage heights, eastern" United 

States, eastern Mississippi River, and Missouri River above 

junction with Kansas. 

Descriptions, measurements, and gage heights, western Mississippi River below junction of Missouri and Platte, and western United States. 

Descriptions, measurements, ratings, and monthly discharge 

(also some long-time records). 

Measurements, ratings, and gage heights, eastern United States, 

eastern Mississippi River, and Missouri River. 

Measurements, ratings, and gage heights, Arkansas River and 

western United States.

.....do...........................................................

.....do..........................................................

.....do...........................................................

Year.

1884 to Sept.. 

1890. 

1884 to June 30, 

1891. 

1884 to Dec. 31, 

1892. 

1888 to Dec. 31, 

1893. 

1893 and 1894.

1895.

1896. 

1895 and 1896.

1897. 

1897.

1897. 

1898. 

1898.

1898. 

1899. 

1899. 

1900. 

I960. 

1901. 

1901. 

1902. 

1903. 

1904. . 

1905. 

1906. 

1907-S. 

1909. 

1910.

NOTE. No data regarding stream flow are given in the fifteenth and seventeenth annual reports.

The records at most of the stations discussed in these reports extend 

over a series of years. An index of the reports containing records 

prior to 1904 has been published in Water-Supply Paper 119.

The first table which follows gives, by years and drainage basins, 

the numbers of the papers on surface-water supply published from 

1899 to 1910. Wherever the data for a drainage basin appear in two 

papers the number of one is placed in parentheses, and the portion 

of the basin covered by that f>aper is indicated in the second table. 

For example, in 1904 the data for Missouri River were published in 

Water-Supply Papers 130 and 131, and the portion of the records 

contained in Water-Supply Paper 131, as indicated by the second 

table, is that relating to Platte^and Kansas rivers.
THE GREAT BASIN. 11 

Numbers of water-supply papers containing results of stream measurements, 1899-1910.

1899 i 1900 s 1901 1902 1903

Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico:

New England rivers............................

Hudson River to Delaware River, inclusive.....

Susquehanna Eiver to York Eiver, inclusive...

James River to YadMn River, inclusive.........

Santee River to Pearl River, inclusive..........

St. Lawrence River.................................

Hudson Bay........................................

Mississippi River:

Ohio River.....................................

Upper Mississippi River........................

Missouri River..................................

35

35

35 

(35), 36

36

36

47 

47,(48)

48

48

49

Lower Mississippi River........................

Western Gulf of Mexico.............................

Pacific coast and Great Basin: 

, Colorado Eiver.................................

Great Basin....................................

South Pacific coast to Klamath Eiver, inclusive.

North Pacific coast.............................

36

36

(36), 37

37

37

(37), 38 

38, (39) 

(38), 39

38

48. (49)

49

49. (50)

50

50

50

51

51

51

65,75

65,75

65,75

65,75

65,75

65,75

66,75

65,75 

65,75 

66,75 

(65),

66,75

66,75

66,75

66,75

66,75

82

82

82 

(82), 83

83

(82),83 

85

83

83

84

(83), 84

84

85

85

85

85

97

97

97 

(97), 98

98

97

100

98 

98,(99)

99

(98),99

100

100

100

100

1904 1905 1906 1907-8 1909 1910

Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico:

New England rivers..............................

Hudson River to Delaware River, inclusive......

Susquehanna River to York River, inclusive.....

James River to Yadkin River, inclusive..........

Santee River to Pearl River, inclusive............

St. Lawrence River..................................

Hudson Bay.........................................

Mississippi River:

Ohio River.......................................

Upper Mississippi River. 

Missouri River..........

Lower Mississippi River. 

Western Gulf of Mexico......

Pacific coast and Great Basin: 

Colorado River............

Great Basin......................................

South Pacific coast to Klamath River, inclusive.. 

North Pacific coast...............................

124

125

126

126

127

129

130

128

128.

(130) 

130.

(131) °a

132

133, 

(134)

133. 

(134)

134

135

165

166

167

167

168

170

171

169

171

172

174

175. 

(177)

176.

(177) 

177

/(177), 

\ 178

201

202

203

203

204

206

207

205

207

208

(205),

209

210

211. 

(213)

212. 

(213J

213

214

241

241

241

242

242

244

245

243

245

246

J- 247 

248

249. 

(251)

250. 

(251)

251

252

261

261

261

262

262

264

263

265

266

267

268

269,

^

"Si

272

281

281

281

282

282

284

285

283

285

287

290

291

292

1 Rating tables and index to Water-Supply Papers 35-39 contained in Water-Supply Paper 39. 

* Rating tables and index to Water-Supply Papers 47-52 and data on precipitation, wells, and irrigation 

In California and Utah contained in Water-Supply Paper 52.
12 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X. 

Numbers of water-supply papers containing data covering portions of drainage basins.

No.

3.5

a«

^7

38

39

48

iQ

fifl

65

82

83

07

OS

99

19S

130

134

IfiO

177

m1;

213

«M

«71

Kiver basin.

James . ... . .

Ohio...............................

James . ................ .

Lower Mississippi. .................

[North Pacific coast.. . ..............

Tributaries included.

Gallatin,

Loup and Platte near Columbus, Nebr. All tributaries below

junction with Platte.

Data near Yuma, Ariz., repeated.

Susan, Owens, Mohave.

Below junction with Gila.

Susan repeated, Owens, Mohave.

Kogue, Umpqua. Siletz.

Data at Hardyville repeated; at Yuma, Salton Sea.

Owens, Mohave.

Yuma and Salton Sea stations repeated.

Owens Kiver basin.

The order of treatment of stations in any basin in these papers is 

downstream. The main stem of any river is determined by measuring or estimating the drainage area; that is, the headwater stream 

having the largest drainage area is considered the continuation of the 

main stream, and local changes in name and lake surface are disregarded. Records for all stations from the source to the mouth of the 

main stem of the river are presented first, and records for the tributaries in regular order from source to mouth follow, all records in each 

tributary basin being given before those of the next basin below.

The exceptions to this rule occur in the records for Mississippi 

River, which are given in four parts, as indicated above, and in the 

records for large lakes, where it is simpler to take up the streams in 

regular order around the rim of the lake than to cross back and forth 

over the lake surface.

DEFINITION OF TEEMS.

The volume of water flowing in a stream the "run-off" or "discharge" is expressed in various terms, each of which has become 

associated with a certain class of work. These terms may be divided 

into two groups (1) those which represent a rate of flow, as secondfeet, gallons per minute, miner's inches, and run-off in second-feet per 

square mile, and (2) those which represent the actual quantity of 

water, as run-off in depth in inches and acre-feet. The units used in 

this series of reports are second-feet, second-feet per square mile, and 

run-off in inches and acre-feet. They may be defined as follows:
THE GBEAT BASIN. 13

"Second-foot" is an abbreviation for cubic foot per second and is 

the rate of discharge of water flowing in a stream 1 foot wide, 1 foot 

deep, at a rate of 1 foot per second. It is generally used as a fundamental unit from which others are computed by the use of the factors 

given in the following table of equivalents.

"Second-feet per square mile" is the average number of cubic feet 

of water flowing per second from each square mile of area drained, on 

the assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as 

regards time and area.

"Run-off in inches" is the depth to which the drainage area would 

be covered if all the water flowing from it in a given period were 

conserved and uniformly distributed on the surface. It is used for 

comparing run-off with rainfall, which is usually expressed in depth 

in inches.

"Acre-foot" is equivalent to 43,560 cubic feet, and is the quantity 

required to cover an acre to the depth of 1 foot. It is commonly 

used in connection with storage for irrigation work.

CONVENIENT EQUIVALENTS.

The following is a list of convenient equivalents for use in hydraulic 

computations:

1 second-foot equals 40 California miner's inches (law of Mar. 23,1901). 

1 second-foot equals 38.4 Colorado miner's inches. 

1 second-foot equals 40 Arizona miner's inches.

1 second-foot equals 7.48 United States gallons per second; equals 448.8 gallons per 

minute; equals 646,317 gallons for one day. 

1 second-foot equals 6.23 British imperial gallons per second. 

1 second-foot for one year covers 1 square mile 1.131 feet or 13.572 inches deep. 

1 second-foot for one year equals 31,536,000 cubic feet. 

1 second-foot equals about 1 acre-inch per hour. 

1 second-foot for one day covers 1 square mile 0.03719 inch deep. 

1 second-foot for one 28-day month covers 1 square mile 1.041 inches deep. 

1 second-foot for one 29-day month covers 1 square mile 1.079 inches deep. 

1 second-foot for one 30-day month covers 1 square mile 1.116 inches deep. 

1 second-foot for one 31-day month covers 1 square mile 1.153 inches deep. k 

1 second-foot for one day equals 1.983 acre-feet. 

1 second-foot for one 28-day month equals 55.54 acre-feet. 

1 second-foot for one 29-day month equals 57.52 acre-feet. 

1 second-foot for one 30-day month equals" 59.50 acre-feet. . 

1 second-foot for one 31-day month equals 61.49 acre-feet. 

100 California miner's inches equals 18.7 United States gallons per second. 

100 California miner's inches equals 96.0 Colorado miner's inches. 

100 California miner's inches for one day equals 4.96 acre-feet. 

100 Colorado miner's inches equals 2.60 second-feet. 

100 Colorado miner's inches equals 19.5 United States gallons per second. 

100 Colorado miner's inches equals 104 California miner's inches. 

100 Colorado miner's' inches for one day equals 5.17 acre-feet. 

100 United States gallons per minute equals 0.223 second-foot. 

100 United States gallons per minute for one day equals 0.442 acre-foot.
14 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

1,000,000 United States gallons per day equals 1.55 second-feet.

1,000,000 United States gallons equals 3.07 acre-feet.

1,000,000 cubic feet equals 22.95 acre-feet.

1 acre-foot equals 325,850 gallons.

1 inch deep on 1 square mile equals 2,323,200 cubic feet.

1 inch deep on 1 square mile equals 0.0737 second-foot per year.

1 foot equals 0.3048 meter.

1 mile equals 1.60935 kilometers.

1 mile equals 5,280 feet.

1 acre equals 0.4047 hectare.

1 acre equals 43,560 square feet.

1 acre equals 209 feet square, nearly.

1 square mile equals 2.59 square kilometers.

1 cubic foot equals 0.0283 cubic meter.

1 cubic foot equals 7.48 gallons.

1 cubic foot of water weighs 62.5 pounds.

1 cubic meter per minute equals 0.5886 second-foot.

1 horsepower equals 550 foot-pounds per second.

1 horsepower equals 76.0 kilogram-meters per second.

1 horsepower equals 746 watts.

1 horsepower equals 1 second-foot falling 8.80 feet.

1J horsepower equals about 1 kilowatt.

To calculate water power quickly:' P60 -"* -* * m .^e-=net horsepower on water 

wheel realizing 80 per cent of theoretical power.

EXPLANATION OF DATA.

For each drainage basin there is given a brief general description 

covering such items as area, source, tributaries, topography, geology, 

forestation, rainfall, irrigation, storage, power, and other interesting 

or important facts.

For each regular current-meter gaging station the following data, 

so far as available, are given: Description of station, list of discharge 

measurements, table of daily gage heights, table of daily discharges, 

table of monthly and yearly discharges, and run-off. For stations 

located at weirs or dams the gage-height table is omitted.

In addition to statements regarding the location and installation 

of current-meter stations, the descriptions give information in regard 

to any conditions which may affect the constancy of the relation of 

gage height to discharge, covering such points as ice, logging, shifting 

channels, and backwater; also information regarding diversions 

which decrease the total flow at the measuring section. Statements 

are also made regarding the accuracy and reliability of the data.

The discharge-measurement table gives the results of the discharge 

measurements made during the year, including the' date, name of 

hydrographer, width and area of cross section, gage height, and 

discharge in second-feet.

The table of daily gage heights records the daily fluctuations of 

the surface of the river as found from the mean of the gage readings
THE GEEAT BASIN. 15

taken each day. At most stations the gage is read in the morning 

and in the evening. The gage height given in the table represents 

the elevation of the surface of the water above the zero of the gage. 

All gage heights affected by the presence of ice in the streams or 

by backwater from obstructions are published as recorded, with 

suitable footnotes. The rating table is not applicable for such 

periods unless the proper corrections to the gage heights are known 

and applied. Attention is called to the fact that the zero of the 

gage is placed at an arbitrary datum and has no relation to zero 

flow or the bottom of the river. In general the zero is located somewhat below the lowest known flow, so that negative readings shall 

not occur.

The discharge measurements and gage heights are the base data 

from which rating tables, daily discharge tables, and monthly discharge tables are computed.

The rating table gives, either directly or by interpolation, the 

discharge in second-feet corresponding to every stage of the river 

recorded during the period for which it is applicable. It is not published in this report, but can be determined from the daily gage 

heights and daily discharges for the purpose of verifying the published results as follows:

First plot the discharge measurements for the current and earlier 

years on cross-section paper, with gage heights in feet as ordinates 

and discharge in second-feet as abscissas. Then tabulate a number 

of gage heights taken from the daily gage-height table for the complete range of stage given and the corresponding discharges for the 

days selected from the daily discharge table and plot the values on 

cross-section paper. The last points plotted will define the rating 

curve used and will lie among the plotted discharge measurements. 

After drawing the rating curve, a table can be developed by scaling 

off the discharge in second-feet for each tenth foot of gage height. 

These values should be so adjusted that the first differences shall 

always be increasing or constant, except for known backwater 

periods.

The table of daily discharges gives the discharges in second-feet 

corresponding to the observed gage heights as determined from the 

rating tables.

In the table of monthly discharge the column headed "Maximum" 

gives the mean flow, as determined from the rating table, for the day 

when the mean gage height was highest. As the gage height is 

the mean for the day, it does not indicate correctly the stage when the 

water surface was at crest height and the corresponding discharge 

was consequently larger than given in the maximum column. Likewise, in the column of "Minimum" the quantity given is the mean 

flow for the day when the mean gage height was lowest. The
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column headed "Mean" is the average flow in cubic feet for each 

second during the month. On this the computations for the remaining columns, which are defined on page 12, are based.

The field methods used in the collection of the data presented in 

this series of reports are described in the introductory sections of 

Water-Supply Papers 261 to 272, inclusive, "Surface water supply 

of the United States, 1909." Plate I shows typical gaging stations, 

indicating the method of suspending the current meter; Plate II 

shows the various types of current meters * used in the work.

ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY OF FIELD DATA AND COMPARATVB

RESULTS.

The accuracy of stream-flow data depends primarily on the natural 

conditions at the gaging station and on the methods and care with 

which the data are collected. Errors of the first group depend on the 

degree of permanency of channel and of permanency of the relation 

between discharge and stage.

Errors of the second class are due, first, to errors in observation 

of stage; second, to errors in measurements of flow; and, third, to 

errors due to misinterpretation of stage and flow data.

Practically all discharge measurements made under fair conditions 

are well within 5 per cent of the true discharge at the time of observation. Inasmuch as the errors of meter measurements are largely 

compensating, the mean rating curve, when well defined, is much 

more accurate than the individual measurements. Numerous experiments made to test the accuracy of current-meter work show that 

it compares very favorably with the results from standard weirs and, 

owing to simplicity of methods, usually gives results that are much 

more reliable than those from stations at dams, where the coefficient 

may be uncertain and conditions of flow are complicated.

The work is, of course, dependent on the reliability of the gage 

observers. With'relatively few exceptions the observers perform 

their work honestly. The records are, however, closely watched, 

and the cause of any discrepancy is investigated. It is obvious that 

one gage reading a day does not always give the mean height for 

that day. As an almost invariable rule, however, errors from this 

source are compensating and virtually negligible in a period of one 

month, although a single day's reading may, when taken by itself, be 

considerably in error.

An effort is made to visit every station at least once each year for 

the purpose of making a measurement to determine the constancy 

of conditions of flow since the last measurement made in the preceding 

year, and also to check the elevation of the gage. On account of lack

i See Hoyt, J. C., and others, Use and care of current meter aa practiced by tbe United States Geolog* 

teal Survey: Trans. Am. Soc. Civil Eng., vol. 66,1910, p. 70.
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 290 PLATE

A. FOR BRIDGE MEASUREMENT.

£. FOR WADING MEASUREMENT. 

TYPICAL GAGING STATIONS.
U. 6. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

SMALL PRICE CURRENT METERS.
THE GREAT BASIN. . 17

of funds or for other causes some stations were not visited during the 

current year. If conditions of flow have been reasonably permanent 

up to the time of the last preceding measurements, it is considered 

best to publish estimates of discharge based on the latest verified 

rating curve rather than to omit them altogether, although it.should 

be distinctly understood that such records are at times subject to 

considerable error. This is also true, although to a less degree, of the 

period of records since the date of the last measurement of the current 

year. As a rule, the accuracy notes are based on the assumption that 

the rating curve used is strictly applicable to the current year.

In order to give engineers and others information regarding the 

probable accuracy of the computed results, footnotes are added to 

the daily discharge tables, stating the probable accuracy of the rating 

tables used, and an accuracy column is inserted in the monthly discharge table. For the rating tables "well defined" indicates, in 

general, that the rating is probably accurate within 5 per cent; "fairly 

well defined," within 10 per cent; "poorly defined" or " approximate," 

within 15 to 25 per cent. These notes are very general and are based 

on the plotting of the individual measurements with reference to the 

mean rating curve.

The accuracy-column in the monthly discharge table does not apply 

to the maximum or minimum nor to any individual day, but to the 

monthly mean. It is based on the accuracy of the rating, the probable reliability of the observer, and knowledge of local conditions. In 

this column A indicates that the mean monthly flow is probably 

accurate within 5 per cent; B, within 10 per cent; C, within 15 per 

cent; D, within 25 per cent. Special conditions are covered by 

footnotes.

In general, the base data which are collected in the field each year 

by the Survey engineers are published, not only to comply with the 

law but also for the express purpose of giving to any engineer the 

opportunity of examining the computed results and of changing and 

adjusting them as may seem best to him. Although it is believed 

that the rating tables and computed monthly discharges are as good 

as the base data up to and including the current year will warrant, it 

should always be borne in mind that the additional data collected at 

each station from year to year nearly always throw new light on data 

already collected and published, and hence allow more or less improvement in the computed results of earlier years. It is therefore 

expected that the engineer who makes serious use of the figures 

presented in these papers will verify all ratings and make such adjustments for earlier years as may seem necessary. The work of 

compiling, -studying, revising, and ^publishing data for different 

drainage basins for 5 or 10 year p'eriods or more is carried on by the 

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United States Geological Survey so far as the funds for such work are 

. available.

The estimates in the table of monthly discharge are so arranged as 

to give only a general idea of the conditions of flow at the station, 

and it is not expected that they will be used for other than preliminary 

estimates.

The daily discharges are published to allow a more detailed study 

of the variation in flow and to determine the periods of deficient flow.

COOPERATIVE DATA.

Cooperative data of various kinds and data regarding the run-off 

at many stations maintained wholly by private funds are incorporated 

in the surface water-supply reports of the United States Geological 

Survey.

Many stations throughout the country are maintained for specific 

purposes by private parties who supply the records gratuitously to 

the United States Geological Survey for publication. When such 

records are furnished by responsible parties and appear to be reasonably accurate, they are verified, so far as possible, and estimated 

values of accuracy are given. Records clearly worthless or misleading are not published. As it is, however, impossible to completely 

verify all such records furnished because of lack of funds or for 

other causes they are published for what they are worth, as they 

are of value as a matter of record and afford at least approximate 

information regarding stream flow at the particular localities. The 

Survey does not, however, assume any responsibility for inaccuracies 

found in such records, althorgh most of them are believed to be 

reasonably good.

COOPERATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

The stream-gaging work in the Great Basin in 1910 has been carried 

on by the Survey in cooperation with the States of Utah, Nevada, 

California, Oregon, and Idaho, and with the United States Reclamation Service. Cooperation with the States is effected under contracts 

which are made between the Director of the Federal Survey and the 

State engineers or other officials and are authorized by legislative acts 

appropriating moneys. The State contracts are essentially of the 

same order, the principal provisions being substantially as follows:

1. The United States Geological Survey retains direct supervision 

of the field work and the preparation of the data for publication.

2. The Federal Survey retains possession of all material collected 

field notes, maps, etc. but this material is open at all times to inspection by the State officials and if not satisfactory the agreements can 

be terminated at any time.
THE GEE AT BASIN. 19

3. The salaries of gage observers and the salaries and traveling 

and field expenses of the engineers are divided between the two parties 

in some manner agreed upon, the accounts being rendered monthly 

in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Survey.

4. The streams and localities in which investigations shall be made 

are determined by conference between the State officials and the 

representatives of the United States Geological Survey. 

. 5. The cost of publication is borne entirely by the Federal Survey.

The work in Utah is done under a legislative act passed in 1909, 

providing an annual appropriation of $2,000, contingent on the allotment of an equal amount by the United States Geological Survey, 

to be expended within the State for the investigation of its water 

resources.

The legislative act directing the State engineer of Idaho to obtain 

data on the flow of the streams of the State was also passed in 1909. 

To carry out the provisions of this act the State engineer was authorized by the State land board to expend the sum of $2,000 on the work 

if an equal amount was allotted for expenditure by the Federal 

Survey. The contract made between the Federal Survey and the 

State in 1909 was renewed for the fiscal year 1910, each party agreeing 

to allot $5,000 to the work.

State investigation ;of the water resources of Oregon was authorized by the State legislature in 1905, by an act providing an annual 

appropriation of $2,500, contingent on the allotment of an equal 

amount by the United States Geological Survey for similar investigations. A full statement of the method of handling the work and 

distributing the expenses is published in Water-Supply Paper 292.

The United States "Reclamation Service, having under consideration 

the possibility of developing in'the future some irrigation projects 

in central Oregon, has paid one-half the cost of maintenance of certain stations in the Great Basin for the first half of 1910; for the last 

half of the year the cost of this work was borne by the Federal Survey 

and the State.

Special acknowledgments are due to Mr. Caleb Tanner, State 

engineer of Utah, and to Mr. D. G. Martin, State engineer of Idaho, 

for assistance rendered the engineers of the Geological Survey.

Acknowledgments are also due to the United States Reclamation 

Service, which has borne the expense of the work in the Spanish Fork 

drainage basin in Utah, and in the Carson and Truckee basins in 

California and Nevada; to the United States Weather Bureau; to 

the United States Forest Service, which has furnished gage heights 

for stations in the East. Carson, East Walker, and Mono Lake basins; 

to the engineers of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, who have cooperated 

in the maintenance of stations in the Owens River basin; to the 

Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, of Reno, Nev., which
20 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

has furnished records of discharge measurements on streams in the 

Truckee and Carson River drainage areas; to the Warner Lake Irrigation Co., which has collected and furnished to the Survey data 

regarding Twentymile Creek and Deep and Honey creeks and their 

tributaries in Oregon; to the William Hanley Co., which has supplied 

gage heights on Donner und Blitzen River; to the Silver Valley Irrigation Co., which has cooperated in the maintenance of gaging stations in Harney Valley, Oregon; to G. F. McGonagle, city engineer 

of Salt Lake City; to the officials of the Telluride Power Co., the 

Utah light & Railway Co., the Pacific Reclamation Co., the Vineyard Land & Stock Co., the Muddy Valley Irrigation Co., and other 

corporations and individuals who have furnished data, cooperated 

in the maintenance of stations, and rendered valuable assistance in 

collecting and preparing for publication the data in this volume.

DIVISION OF WORK.

Field data for the Great Basin in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho were 

collected under the direction of E. C. La Rue, district engineer, assisted by G. C. Baldwin, E. S. Fuller, O. W. Hartwell, A. B. Purton, 

E. A. Porter, J. C. Dort, G. H. Canfield, and L. Crandall.

Field work in western Nevada was carried on under the direction 

of W. B. Clapp, district engineer, by T. W. Norcross and H. D. 

McGlashan; and by F. C. Schafer and D. S. Stuver, under the direction of the project engineer of the United States Reclamation Service. 

The gage-height records of the Truckee River at Reno were furnished 

by the United States Weather Bureau, through Mr. H. F. Alps, 

section director.

Field work in California, except in the Klamath River basin, was 

carried on under the direction of W. B. Clapp, district engineer, by 

J. E. Stewart, W. V. Hardy, R. E. Haines, F. G. Wood, G. T. Peekema, 

H. J. Tompkins, T. W. Norcross, and H. D. McGlashan. Field work 

in the Klamath River basin was carried on under the direction of 

W. W. Patch, project engineer, United States Reclamation Service, 

by G. C. Yadon and Leland Moser.

Field data for the Great Basin in Oregon were collected under the 

direction of J. C. Stevens and Fred F. Henshaw, district engineers, by 

L. R. Alien and R. W. Davenport.

The rating curves, special estimates, and studies of the* completed 

data for Nevada stations were made by Fred F. Henshaw and H. D. 

McGlashan; those for California stations were made by W. B. Clapp 

and Messrs. Henshaw and. McGlashan; those for Oregon were made 

by Fred F. Henshaw, assisted by E. S. Fuller, F. B. Storey, Howard 

Bumble, R. W. Davenport, and Charles Leidl.

The data were compiled for publication and computations made 

under the direction of R. H. Bolster and E. A. Porter, by G. C.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 21

Stevens, K. C. Rice, J. G. Mathers, H. D. Padgett, H. J. Dean, 

A. H. Tuttle, P. S. Monk, and M. I. Walters.

The entire report was edited by Mrs. B. D. Wood.

GENERAL FEATURES OP THE GREAT BASIN.

The following description of the Great Basin forms part of the 

introduction to a report on Lake Bonneville, by G. K. Gilbert:1

INTERIOR BASINS.

In. physical geography the terms "basin." and "drainage district" are synonymous 

and are used to indicate any area which is a unit as to drainage. The basin of a stream 

is the tract of country it drains, whether the stream is a great river or the most insignificant tributary to a river. We thus speak of the basin of the Ohio and of the basin 

of the Mississippi, and say that the latter includes the former. And it may be said 

in general that the basin of any branching stream includes the basins of all its tributaries.

The basin of a lake is the tract of country of which it receives the drainage, and it 

includes not only the basins of all affluent streams, but the area of the lake itself. The 

terra "lake basin" is also applied to the depression occupied by the water of a lake 

and limited by its shores, and where confusion might arise from the double use, the 

wider sense is usually indicated by the adjective "hydrographic" or its equivalent. 

If the lake has an outlet its basin is a part of the basin of the effluent stream, but if it 

has no outlet its basin is complete in itself and is wholly encircled by a line of water 

parting. In such case it is called a continental or interior or closed or shut or drainless 

basin.

If an interior basin exists in-a climate so arid that the superficial flow of water, 

which constitutes drainage, is only potential and not actual, or else is occasional only 

and not continuous, it contains no perennial lake and is called a dry basin.

The boundaries separating basins are water partings or divides, and these are of all 

characters, from the acute crests of mountain ranges to low rolls of the plain scarcely 

discernible by the eye. Interior basins are cpmpletely encircled by lines of water 

parting.

The existence of interior basins depends on two conditions: A suitable topographic 

configuration and a suitable climate. The ordinary process of land sculpture by running water does not produce cup-like basins, but tends on the contrary to abolish 

them. Wherever a topographic cup exists the streams flowing toward it deposit 

within it their loads of detritus, and if they are antagonized by no other agent eventually fill it. If the cup contains a lake, with outlet the outflowing stream erodes the 

rim of the basin, and eventually the lake is completely drained.

The work of streams occasionally produces topographic cups by the rapid formation of alluvial deposits where two streams meet. If the power of one stream to 

deposit is greatly increased, or if the power of the other stream to erode is greatly 

diminished, the one may build a dam athwart the course of the other, and thus produce a lake basin.

The great agent in the production of lake basins, or the agent which has produced 

most of the large basins, is diastrophism,2 and in a majority of the cases in which

i Gilbert, G. K., Lake Bonneville: Mon. U. 8. Geol. Survey, vol. 1,1890, pp. 2-12; PI. II. This report is 

now out of printj but it may be consulted in the libraries of most of the larger cities.

* I find it advantageous to follow J. W. Powell in the use of diastrophism as a general term for the process 

or processes of deformation of the earth's crust. The products of diastrophism are continents, plateaus 

and mountains, ocean beds and valleys, faults and folds. Diastrophism is coordinate with volcanisru, 

and is the synonym of displacement and dislocation in the more general of the two geologic meanings acquired 

by each of those words. Its adjective is diastrophic.
22 STJKFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

basins are partitioned off by the alluvial process just described, the change in the 

relative power of the streams is brought about by diastrophism.

Other basin-forming agencies are volcanic eruption, limestone sinks, wind waves, 

dunes, landslides, and glaciers. By far the greatest number of topographic cups 

are due to glaciers; but with these we are not now concerned.

The basins of ordinary lakes are distinguished from interior basins by overflow, 

and that depends on climate. The rainfall of each basin is or may be disposed of 

by three processes first, evaporation from the soil and from the vegetation supported 

by it; second, evaporation from a lake Surface; third, outflow. If the rainfall is 

sufficiently small, it is all returned to the air by evaporation from the soil and vegetation, and the basin is dry. If it is somewhat larger, the portion not directly evaporated 

accumulates in the lowest depression, forming a lake, from the surface of which 

evaporati6n is more rapid. The area of the lake surface is determined by the area 

of the basin, the rainfall, and the local rates of evaporation. The basin is closed so 

long as a lake sufficient for the purpose of evaporation does not require such an extent 

as to cause it to discharge at, the lowest point of the rim. The area inclosed by a 

contour passing through the lowest point of the rim,- the total area of the basin, and the 

local climate are the three factors which determine whether a given topographic cup 

shall constitute an interior basin. If the area of a topographic cup and the area of 

the maximum lake it can contain are nearly identical, it may constitute an interior 

basin in a region of humid climate. If the contour through the lowest point of 

the rim incloses an area very smaH in comparison with the entire basin, the maintenance of an outlet is not inconsistent with an arid climate.

If there were no erosion and sedimentation, unchecked upheaval and subsidence 

would greatly multiply the number- of basins. On the contrary, if all displacement 

should ceaige and the foundations of the earth become stable, erosion and sedimentation would merge all basins into one. The actual state of the earth's surface is therefore at once the result and the index of the continuous conflict between subterranean 

forces on the one hand and atmospheric on the other. The two processes which 

destroy basins are conditioned by climate. In an arid basin the.inwashing of detritus 

is slow and there is no outflow to corrade the rim; but with abundant rainfall the 

accumulation of detritus is rapid and corrasion conspires with it to diminish the 

inequality between center and rim. In arid regions, therefore, the formative subterranean forces are usually victorious in their conflict with the destructive atmospheric forces, and as a result closed basins abound; in humid regions the destructive 

agencies prevail and lake basins are rare. In the present geologic age it is necessary 

to restrict this generalization to lands in the lower latitudes, because the glaciation 

of the last geologic period created an immense number of lake basins in humid regions 

of high latitude, and running water has as yet made little progress in their destruction.

THE GREAT BASIN.

The major part of the North American continent is drained by streams flowing to 

the ocean, but there are a few restricted areas having no outward drainage. The 

largest of these was called by Fremont, who first achieved an adequate conception 

of its character and extent, the "Great Basin," and is still universally known by that 

name. It is not, as the title might suggest, a single cup-shaped depression gathering 

its waters at a common center, but a broad area of varied surface, naturally divided 

into a large number of independent drainage districts. It lies near the western 

margin .of the continent and is embraced by rivers tributary to the Pacific Ocean. 

On the north it is bounded by the drainage basin of the Columbia, on the east by 

that of the Colorado of the West, and on the west by the basins of the San Joaquin, 

the Sacramento, and numerous minor streams. . The central portion of the western 

water parting is the crest of the Sierra Nevada, one of the greatest mountain masses 

of the United States, and farther south high mountains constitute much of the
U. 8. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 290 PLATE III

SKETCH MAP OF THE GREAT BASIN.
THE GBEAT BASIN. 23

boundary. The northern half of the eastern boundary is likewise high, winding 

through the region of the High Plateaus. The remainder of the boundary does not 

follow any continuous line of upland, but crosses mountain ranges and the intervening valleys without being itself marked by any conspicuous elevations. It is 

denned only through a study of the drainage. The general form of the area [PL III] 

ia rudely triangular, with the most acute angle southward. The extreme length in 

a direction somewhat west of north and east of south is about 880 miles, the extreme 

breadth from east to west, in latitude 40° 3(X, is 572 miles, and the total area is approximately 210,000 square miles. Of political divisions it includes nearly the whole of 

Nevada, the western half of Utah, a strip along the eastern border of California and 

a large area in the southern part of the State, another large area in southeastern Oregon, 

and smaller portions of southeastern Idaho and southwestern Wyoming. The 

southern apex extends into the territory of Mexico at the head of the peninsula of 

Lower California,

The region is occupied by a number of mountain ridges which betray system by 

their parallelism and by their agreement in a peculiar structure. Their general trend 

is northerly, inclining eastward in the northern part of the basin and westward at 

the south. The individual ridges are usually not of great length, and they are so 

disposed en 6chelon that the traveler winding among them may traverse the basin 

from east to west without crossing a mountain pass. The type of structure is that of the 

faulted rdonocline, in which the mountain ridge is produced by the up tilting of an 

orogenic block from one side of a line of fracture, and it has been named (from the 

region) the Basin Range type. Its distribution, however, does not coincide perfectly 

with the district of interior drainage. On the one hand the Great Basin includes 

along its eastern margin a portion of the Plateau province, with its peculiar structural 

type, and on the other the Basin Range province extends southward through Arizona 

to New Mexico and Mexico.

Between the ranges are smooth valleys, whose alluvial slopes and floors are built 

of the debris washed through many ages from the mountains. In general they are 

troughlike, but in places they coalesce and assume the character of plains. The 

plains occupy in general the less elevated regions, where an exceptional amount of 

detritus has been accumulated. In local terminology they are called deserts. The 

largest are the Great Salt Lake and Carson deserts at the north and the Mojave andColorado deserts at the south. The Escalante, the Sevier, the Amargosa, and the 

Ralston are of subordinate importance.

Where the basin is broadest, the general elevation of its lowlands is about 5,000 

feet, but they are somewhat higher midway between the eastern and western margins, 

so as to separate two areas of relative depression, the eastern marked by the Great 

Salt Lake and Sevier deserts, and the western by the Carson Desert. Southward there 

is a gradual and irregular descent to about sea level, and limited areas in Death Valley 

and Coahuila Valley lie lower than the surface of the ocean.

The aridity of the region is shown instrumentally by the records of rainfall and 

atmospheric humidity. On the broad plain bounded east and west by the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, 43 inches of rain falls in a year. On the 

lowlands of the Great Basin there falls but 7 inches. In the former region the average 

moisture content of the air is 69 per cent of that necessary for saturation; in the lowlands of the Great Basin it is 45 per cent. 1 From the surface of Lake Michigan evaporation removes each year a layer of water 22 inches deep. 2 The writer has estimated that

1 These figures and those in the preceding sentences are based on data compiled by the United States 

Signal Service. Through the courtesy of Gen. A. W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer, thewriter has had 

access to manuscript as well as printed data.

* D. Farrand Henry, in a report on the meteorology of the Laurentian lakes (Rept. Chief Eng. for 1868, 

Washington, 1869, p. 980).
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80 inches are yearly thus removed from Great Salt Lake,1 and Mr. Thomas Russell 

has computed from annual means of temperature, vapor tension, and wind velocity 

that in the lowlands of the Great Basin the annual rate of evaporation from water 

surfaces ranges from 60 inches at the north to 150 inches at the south.2

The variation with latitude exhibited by the evaporation is found also, inversely 

in the rainfall, but it is not clearly apparent in the humidity. In the southern third 

of the Basin the lowland rainfall ranges from 2 to 5 inches. On the line of the Central 

Pacific Railroad, between the fortieth and forty-second parallels, it averages 7 inches; 

on the Oregonian arm at the north, 15 inches. The average lowland precipitation for 

the whole area is between 6 and 7 inches. With the relative humidity approximately 

constant, the evaporation rate varies directly and the rainfall inversely with the 

temperature, and both latitude and altitude here make the lowland temperature fall 

toward the north. The sympathy of rainfall with temperature is likewise shown in 

the greater precipitation of the mountains as compared with adjacent valleys. 

Mountain stations proper are wanting, but rain-gage records on the flanks and in the 

passes of mountains show a marked advantage over those in neighboring lowlands. 

An estimate based on these, on the records at high points in the Sierra Nevada, and on 

approximate knowledge of the heights and areas of the mountains and plateaus of the 

Great Basin, places the average precipitation for the whole district at 10 inches.

The story of climate is more eloquently told by the hydrography and the vegetation. 

In the valleys of the northwestern arm of the basin there are numerous lakes,'drainless 

and of varying extent, but fed by streams from mountain ranges of moderate size. In 

the middle region the only perennial lakes are associated with mountain masses of 

the first rank. The great Sierra forming the western wall of the Basin receives each 

winter a heavy coating of snow the greater part on the side of the great California 

valley, but enough east of the water parting to maintain a line of lakes in the marginal 

valleys of the Great Basin. The Wasatch Range and its associated plateaus, overlooking the Basin from the east, are less favored than the Sierra, but still receive an 

important precipitation, and by gathering the drainage from a large area support Great 

Salt Lake, the largest of the Basin's water sheets. The East Humboldt Range, standing midway, and one of the largest mountain masses within the Basin area, catches 

enough moisture to feed at one base two small lakes and at the other the Humboldt 

River. The neighboring and smaller mountains are whitened every winter by snow, 

a large share of which either evaporates without melting or, if melted, is absorbed by 

the soil, to be returned to the thirsty air without gathering in drainage ways. Many 

of them are without perennial streams; some even lack springs; and of the mountain 

creeks few are strong enough to reach the valleys before succumbing to the ravenous 

desert air. The Humboldt itself, though fairly entitled to the name of river, dwindles 

as it goes, so that its remnant after a course of 200 miles is able to sustain an evaporation 

lake barely 25 square miles in extent. Most of the small closed basins are without 

permanent creek or lake, containing at the lowest point a playa or "alkali flat" a 

bare, level floor or fine saline earth, or perhaps of salt, over which a few inches of water 

gather in times of storm.

In the southern half of the Basin there are no lakes dependent for their water on the 

interior ranges. At the east the most southerly lake is Sevier, in latitude 39°; the last 

of the lakes sustained by the Sierra is Owens, between the thirty-sixth and thirtyseventh parallels. Then for 300 miles evaporation is supreme. Playas abound, 

streams are almost unknown, and springs are rare. Death Valley, with its floor of salt 

spread lower than the surface of the ocean, is overlooked on either side by mountains 

from 5,000 to 10,000 feet high, but they yield it no flowing stream, and more than one 

traveler has perished from thirst while endeavoring to pass from spring to spring.

i Report on the lands of the arid region, * * * J. W'. Powell, 2d ed., Washington, 1879, p. 73. 

a Manuscript report to the Chief Signal Officer.
THE GBEAT BASIJST.

The Mojave "river" is 100 miles long, but it preserves its life only by concealment, 

creeping through the gravel of the desert and betraying its existence only where 

ledges of rock athwart its course force it to the surface.

As in other desert regions, precipitation here results only from cyclonic disturbance, 

either broad or local, is extremely irregular, and is often violent. Sooner or later the 

"cloud-burst" visits every tract, and when it comes the local drainage way discharges 

in a few hours more water than is yielded to it by the ordinary precipitation of many 

years. The deluge scours out a channel which is far too deep and broad for ordinary 

needs and which centuries may not suffice to efface. The abundance of these trenches, 

in various stages of obliteration but all manifestly unsuited to the every-day conditions 

of the country, has naturally led many to believe that an age of excessive rainfall has 

but just ceased an opinion not rarely advanced by travelers in other arid regions. 

So far as may be judged from the size of the channels draining small catchment basins, 

the rare, brief, paroxysmal precipitation of the desert is at least equal while it lasts to 

the rainfall of the fertile plain.

A line of cottonwoods marks the course of each living stream, but otherwise the 

lowlands are treeless. So are most of the alluvial foot slopes and some of the smaller 

mountains, especially at the south. Except on the high plateaus in central Utah, 

there is little that may be called forest. The greater mountains have much timber in 

their recesses, but are not clothed with trees. The growth is so irregular and interrupted that the idea of a tree limit could not have originated here, but it may be said 

that only the straggling bush-like cedar passes below 6,000 feet at the nprth or 7,000 

feet at the south. Only conifers are of such size and abundance as to have economic 

importance. Oak and maple grow commonly as bushes, forming low thickets, but 

occasionally rank as small trees, along with the rarer box elder, v ash, locust, and hackberry. The characteristic covering of the lowlands is a sparse growth of low bushes, 

between which the earth is bare, excepting scattered tufts of grass. Toward the 

north, and especially on the higher plains, the grass is naturally more abundant and 

the bushes occupy less space, but the introduction of domestic herds favors the 

ascendency of the bushes. At the south the bushes are partly of different species, and 

they are partially replaced by cactuses and other thorny plants. The playas are bare 

of all vegetation and are usually margined by a growth of salt-loving shrubs and grasses. 

A single southerji bush bears leaves of deep green, but with this exception the desert 

plants are grey, like the desert soil. These, and the persistent haze whose grey veil 

deadens all the landscape, weary the eye with their monotony, so that the vivid green 

marking the distant spring is welcome for its own sake as well as for the promise of 

refreshment to the thirsty traveler.

The causes of this arid climate lie in the general circulation of the atmosphere, in the 

currents of the Pacific Ocean, and in the configuration of the land. There is a slow 

aerial drift fronvwest to east, so that the air coming to the Basin has previously traversed a portion of the Pacific, to which its temperature and humidity have become 

adjusted. Off the west coast of the United States there is a southward current believed 

to be the chief branch of the Kuro Siwa. Prof. George Davidson * estimates its width 

at about 300 miles, and finds that its temperature rises with southward advance only 

1° Fahrenheit for each degree of latitude. Being derived from a north-moving current, 

it reaches our coast with a temperature higher than that normal to the latitude, while 

at the south its temperature is below the normal. »As pointed out by Button,2 the 

air passing from it to the land at the north is cooled by the land and precipitates 

moisture, while the similar air current at the south is warmed by the land and converted to a drying wind. The Great Basin falls within the influence of the drying

i Letter to the writer.

* Button, C.E., Cause of the arid climate of the western portion of the United States: Am. Jour. BoL, 

3d ser., vol. 22, p. 249.
26 SUBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

wind, its southern part being more affected than its northern. At the extreme south 

and the extreme north the mountains between the ocean and the Basin do not greatly 

interfere with the eastward flow of air, but between latitudes 35° and 41° the Sierra 

Nevada forms a continuous wall rarely less than 10,000 feet high. In rising to pass 

this obstruction the air loses much of its stored moisture, especially in winter, and it 

descends to the Basin with diminished humidity. The Basin is further influenced 

by deviations of the air currents from the eastward direction, and its southern part 

falls in summer within the zone of calms theoretically due to a descending current at 

the margin of the northern trade wind; but observational data are too meager for the 

discussion of these factors.

OTHER INTERIOR BASINS.

The southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico and the western part of Texas 

resemble the Great Basin in climate, and they contain a number of small interior 

basins. These are not so fully determined in extent as the Great Basin, but several of 

them may be approximately indicated. One of the largest lies between the Rio 

Grande and its eastern branch, the Pecos, extending from latitude 35° in central New 

Mexico to latitude 31° in western Texas. In its broadest part it is bounded on the 

west by the San Andreas and Organ Mountains, and on the east by the Sacramento 

and Guadalupe. Its area, of which two-thirds lies in New Mexico, is about 12,500 

square miles. Southwest of the Bio Grande, in Mexico, there is a larger tract of interior drainage, containing a number of saline lakes, and to one of these, Lake Guzman, 

the valley of the Mimbres River of New Mexico descends. Other basins adjacent on 

either side to that of the Mimbres are believed to bear the same relation to Lake Guzman, sloping gently toward it but contributing no water unless during periods of 

rare and exceptional storm. Yet other basins without exterior drainage are contiguous 

to these, and unite to form in southwestern New Mexico an arm of the Mexican district 

of interior drainage, the area within New Mexico probably falling between 7,000 and 

7,500 square miles. North of this, and intersected centrally by the one hundred and 

third meridian and the thirty-fourth parallel, lies a smaller basin, including the plain 

of San Augustin. Its area is about 1,800 square miles. In southeastern Arizona a 

slightly smaller basin lies between the Caliyuro and Dragoon Mountains on the west 

and the Pinaleno and Chiricahua Mountains on the east, including the Playa de los 

Pimas. Another and still smaller basin is known to exist in the Hualpai Valley of 

northwestern Arizona, and it is probable that others occur in the western part of the 

Territory, both north and south of the Gila River. When all have been determined 

and measured, it is estimated that the total area of the interior basins of the United 

States, additional to the Great Basin, will be found to equal 25,000 square miles, making the grand total for the United States about 232,000 square miles the thirteenth 

part of our territory. Mexico contains other inland districts besides th« one mentioned 

above, and the total area in that country may be one-third as great as ours. It is 

probable that the remainder of the continent drains to the ocean.

Large as are these districts, it is nevertheless true that North America, as compared 

with other continents, is not characterized by interior drainage. According to data 

compiled by Murray, the closed basins in Australia aggregate 52 per cent of its area, 

those of Africa 31 per cent, of Eurasia 28 per cent, of South America 7.2 per cent, of 

North America 3.2 per cent.l The Great Basin is great only in comparison with similar 

districts of our own continent. The interior district of the Argentine Republic and 

Bolivia is half as large again, and that of central Australia exceeds the Great Basin 

seven times; Sahara exceeds it sixteen times, and the interior district of Asia twentythree times.

i Murray, John, The total annual rainfall of the land of the globe, and the relation of rainfall to the annual 

discharge of rivers: Scottish Geog. Mag., vol. 3, pp. 65-77.
THE GREAT BASIN. 27

GREAT SALT LAKE BASIN.

GENERAL^FE ATURE S. 1

Great Salt Lake, the largest inland body of water in the United 

States, is situated in the north-central part of Utah, in the eastern 

part of the Great Basin, near the west base of the Wasatch Mountains. 

Its hydrographic basin, 54,000 square miles in area, shows two widely 

contrasted topographic types. The eastern portion is mountainous 

and contains peaks rising 12,000 feet above sea level or 8,000 feet 

above the lake; the western portion is composed of desert valleys, 

elevated but little above the lake surface, and separated from adjacent 

valleys by narrow, abrupt, desert ranges one to two thousand feet or 

more'higher than the intervening plains.

The shores of the lake are low, except at a point on the north, where 

a projecting mountain spur forms a rocky promontory, and for a short 

distance along the south shore, wherfe it touches the north end of the 

Oquirrh Mountains. Its surface is broken by several islands, two of 

which rise, rugged and precipitous, more than a thousand feet above 

the water and are made up of the short mountain ranges o'f the type 

so characteristic of the Great Basin. The saline and alkaline shores 

are mud plains, either naked and frequently white with drifting salts 

or scantily clothed with desert shrubs. The monotony caused by the 

absence of conspicuous flowers is in many places relieved by broad 

areas covered with a peculiar plant known as Salicornia, which grows 

in fleshy stems, without leaves, and looks not unlike branching coral, 

a resemblance that is heightened by its many shades of red, pink, and 

yellow.

The streams feeding the lake, of which Bear, Weber, and Jordan 

rivers are the most important, rise in the high mountains to the east 

and carry water so clear and sweet that only chemical tests reveal the 

presence of the mineral matter it has dissolved from the rocks and 

soils. About the lake or rising beneath its surface are a number of 

fissure springs, some of which supply hot water and contain more 

saline matter in solution than is usually found in surface streams, but 

with a single known exception none of the small springs are markedly 

saline. The salts they contain are acquired largely during the upward 

passage of the water through the sediment of former lakes, and their 

influence on the chemistry of the present lake water is important. It 

is believed, however, that the combined volumes of the streams and 

springs now tributary to the lake, if not concentrated by evaporation, 

would form a water body in which no trace of saline matter would be 

perceptible to the taste.

The waters of the lake during recent low stages have become nearly 

saturated with sodium chloride and sodium sulphate, and under ceri Abstracted from Russell, I. C., Lakes of North America, Boston, 1895, pp. 77-83.
28 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART x.

tain conditions these salts are precipitated. Along the margin of the 

lake, where the water is only a few inches deep, it becomes so concentrated by evaporation that common salt crystallizes and forms brilliant white layers on the bottom. The quantity of common salt held 

in the water of the lake is estimated at 400,000,000 tons and the 

sodium sulphate at 30,000,000 tons. The separation of the common 

salt forms an important industry. The solubility of sodium sulphate 

is controlled largely by temperature. In G^eat Salt Lake in summer 

it is all dissolved and the waters are clear, but as cold weather 

approaches it separates and renders the waters opalescent and 

somewhat milky in color. In the depth of winter, when the temperature falls below zero of the Fahrenheit scale, as it does at times for 

many days together, this salt separates and is thrown to the shore by 

the waves in hundreds of tons, forming a slushlike mass on the beach 

looking like soft snow. On such occasions it carWbe gathered in practically unlimited quantities, but it is soon redissolved when the temperature rises. The brine of the lake is so concentrated that fish 

can not live in it, but it furnishes a congenial home for small crustaceans known as brine shrimps and for the larvae of dipterous insects.

The area of the lake and the elevation of its surface vary somewhat 

from year to year and from season to season, partly as a result of 

climatic changes and partly because of human interference with the 

flow of the streams that supply the water. A map made from surveys 

under Lieut. Stansbury, in 1850, represents it as having an area of 

about 1,750 square miles. A second map, made in connection with 

the Fortieth Parallel Survey, in charge of Clarence Bong, in 1869, shows 

an area of 2,170 square miles. Its present area (1912) is about 1,800 

square miles. In 1850 the maximum depth of the water was about 

36 feet and the average depth about 13 feet; in 1869 the maximum 

depth was 49 feet, and the average about 19 feet; its present maximum depth is estimated at 40 feet.

The annual high-water stage of the lake occurs in June and is due 

to the melting of the snow on the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains. The 

annual and secular fluctuations of the lake have been carefully 

recorded since 1875. 1

BEAR RIVER BASIN. 

GENERAL FEATURES.

Bear River rises on the northern slope of the Uinta Mountains, in 

the northeastern part of Utah, and after a circuitous course in 

which it leaves Utah and enters Wyoming, reenters Utah, appears 

again in Wyoming, and makes a long detour in Idaho it returns to

i The records of these changes to 1890 and their significance are discussed by G. K. Gilbert in Mon. U. S. 

Geol. Survey, vol. 1, 1890.
THE GREAT BASIN.- S9

Utah and finally discharges its waters to Great Salt Lake. Hie 

maximum elevation of the upper rim of the basin is 13,000 feet above 

sea level.

The upper part of the basin comprises a rough, broken country, 

well drained by numerous short streams, most of which are confined 

to steep, narrow canyons. The streams are fed by many small springs 

and by the melting of the snow which forms the greater part of the 

precipitation. The rocks of the extreme headwater region are chiefly 

sandstones and quartzites and are covered with a thin layer of soil 

which supports scattered groves of fir and aspen. A few small lakes 

lie near the head of the river.

Just below Dingle the main stream passes through the north end 

of Bear Lake valley in a well-defined channel, and from this point to 

Preston it occupies a steep-walled canyon, broken here and there by 

short, narrow valleys containing irrigated farms. The tributaries in 

this stretch are few, the most important being Mink and Cottonwood 

creeks. About 10 miles below Dingle the river receives the outlet of 

Bear Lake, a small, crooked, sluggish stream that discharges but 

little water at any time, though it is the only visible outlet of a water 

body about 144 square miles in area. There is no storage on the 

main stream, but on Mink Creek a number of small storage reservoirs 

are contemplated or in process of construction, the water to be diverted 

for the irrigation of lands in the northwest end of Cache Valley.

Between Preston and the lower end of Cache Valley the Bear 

flows sluggishly along the west side of its basin in a well-defined 

channel, and during extreme floods it overflows slightly and covers 

a very narrow strip immediately along the river. The principal 

tributaries in this stretch are Cub Creek and Logan River.

Cub Creek rises in the-Bear River Range and flows through a 

fiteep, narrow canyon in a rough limestone country until it reaches 

Cache Valley, which it crosses in a winding but well-defined channel 

to its junction with the Bear.

Logan River rises on the west slope of the Bear River Range, flows 

southwest and then northwest, and unites with the Bear near Benson, 

Utah. Its basin is rough and rugged, elevations ranging from 4,500 

to 9,000 feet above sea level and the river being confined largely to a 

steep, rough channel in a comparatively narrow canyon. Probably 

three-fourths of the precipitation in this basin is snow, the melting of 

which supplies the principal part of the spring and summer flow; the 

late summer and winter flow is derived chiefly from springs which are 

Well distributed over the basin. In its upper course the Logan 

receives many short, swift tributaries. Temple Fork and South 

Fork, which enter, respectively, 10 miles and 15 miles above Logan, 

are perennial streams and furnish one-third to one-fourth of the total 

flow. Blacksmith Fork comes in below Logan. The entire flow of
30 SURFACE-WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

this river, after being used to develop power at two electric* plants 

near the mouth of the canyon, is diverted for irrigation. None of the 

run-off is stored at present.

Practically the only inflow to the Bear in Cache Valley is from 

seepage and springs. The lower portions of the valley form an 

artesian basin containing numerous small, flowing wells. The water 

table lies very near the surface, and during the early spring the lower 

lands are largely swamp.

The Bear River Canal Co. diverts practically the entire summer flow 

of the stream above Collinston to agricultural lands lying on both sides 

of the river below Bear River canyon. This system has a capacity of 

1,000 second-feet, and during the winter and flood seasons a part of 

the water is used to develop electric power at a point about one-fourth 

mile above the Collinstoh station and is returned to the river at Collinston. From 10 to 30 second-feet reaches the stream through leaks 

and as seepage from the diversion canals.

Owing to the complete control of the stream by irrigation works, 

the discharge is liable to extreme variation at any period.

Within the periods for which records are available the wettest year 

was 1907, the run-off at Collinston in the year being 2,680,000 acrefeet; in 1890, 1894, 1897, 1899, and 1909 the run-off was also high, 

the total for each of these years exceeding 2,000,000 acre-feet. The 

driest year was 1905, when the run-off at Collinston, Utah, was only 

701,000 acre-feet.

BEAR RIVER AT DINGLE, IDAHO.

This station, which is located in a cut-off built by the Oregon Short 

Line Railroad Co., one-fourth mile east of Dingle railroad station, 

about 10 miles above the outlet of Bear Lake, below the proposed 

intake of the diversion canal to the lake, was established May 9, 1903. 

Some water is diverted for irrigation above this point.

The gage is an inclined staff, and its datum has remained unchanged 

since the station was established.

. Discharge measurements are made from a car and cable near the 

gage.

The records at this station are not affected by artificial control of 

flow above or below. The river is usually frozen over from December 

to March, the ice reaching a thickness of 14 to 15 inches. The ice 

cover is, however, smooth, no anchor or needle ice ever having 

been known to form.

Conditions during the open-water season favor the accurate determination of discharge at this station; and as approximate estimates of 

the flow under ice have been made, the records as a whole may be 

considered good.
THE GREAT BASIN. 

Discharge measurements of Bear River at Dingle, Idaho, in 1910.

31

Date.

Apr. 22

23

23

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

119

105

107

107

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft.

4OT

175

185

185

Gage

Feet. 

6.05

3.32

3.43

3.43

Discharge.

See.-ft.

109

134

135

Daily gage height, in feet, of Bear River at Dingle, Idaho, for 1910. 

[M. K. Hopkins, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2

3............... 

4............... 

5...............

6...............

7...............

8............... 

9

10

11............... 

12...............

10

15...............

1C...............

17...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24............... 

25...............

'26.. .1.. ..........

27...............

28...............

29............... 

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

4.9

5.0 

"5."i5"

5.1

5.15

5.0

5.0

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.15

5.0

5.0

"4.9"

Feb.

"*4."9"

""i's"

4.8

""i's"

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

.......

Mar.

~~5.~6"

"5~7~" 

6.2

6.7

6.15

9.2

8.7

8.3

7.7

6:7

6.6

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.6

6.6

6.6

6.6 

6.4

6.2

6.0

5.8 

5.7 

5.6

Apr.

5.55

5.5 

5.45

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.4 

5.4

5.5

5.6 

5.65

5.7

5.8

5.9

5.9

5.85

5.8

5.8

5.85

6.05

6.15

6.3 

6.45

6.6

6.65

6.75 

6.85

May.

6.85 

6.8

"6.~7" 

6.55

6.2

6.1

6.0

"e.'i"

.6.1

6.1

6.15

6.2

5.9

5.4

5.2

5.1

5.0

5.0

4.9

June.

4.9

4.9 

"4." 95"

5.0

4.85

4.8 

4.8

4.75

4.7

4 4

,

4.3

4.15

3.9

"3.9"

3.8

3.8

3.7

July.

3.7

3.65 

"3.7"

3.65 "s.'e"

"s.'e"

3.6 3.6

3.6

3.6

3.55

3.6

3.55 

3.5

3.5

"3." 45" 

3.4

Aug.

"§." 35'

3.25

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.15

3.1

3.1

3

1

3.15

3.1 

3.1

3.1

3.2

3.3 

"O"

Sept.

"s.'s"

"3." 35"

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.4

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.4 

3.4

3.4

3.5 

3.5

Oct.

"3." 55"

"3." 55" 

3.6

3.55

"3." 55"

3.6 

3.5

3.6

3.6

3.65

3.7

3.6 "s.'e"

.3.6

3.6 

3.6

Nov.

3.6

3.6 "s.'e"

3.6

3.6

3.6

"3." 7"

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.65

3.65

3.8

3.75

3.75

"s.'s"

Dec.

"3." 7"

"s.'s"

4.1

......

3.7

"3." 7"

3.65

3.6

3.9

4.1

3.7 

3.7

3.6

3.7 "s.'e"

NOTE. Relation of gage height to discharge affected by ice Jan. 1 to about Mar. 15 and during toe 

greater part of December. Ice gorge about Mar. 11 to 15.
32 SUBFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bear River at Dingle, Idaho, for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan. Feb. Mar.

2,000

1,910

1,820

1,820

1,820

1,910

1,910

1,910

1,910 i 7<m

i fun

1,550

1,390

1 230

1,160

1,090

Apr.

1,060

1,040

1,020

990

960

Qfin

960 Qfin

960

1,020

1,090

1,120

1,160

1,230

1,310

1,310

1,270

I

OOft

1 93fl

1,270

1

OCA

1 430

1,510

1 640

I'TJJA

I

QAfl

1,910

1 960

2,050

2,150

May.

2,150

2,100

2,050

2,000

1,860

1,700

1 t\K/n

1,470

1,430

1,390

1,430

1,470

1,470

1,470

1,510

1,530

1,550

1 430

l'310

1,140

Qfin

840

otc

TOO

765

74n

740

715

690

690

AQO

June.

690

690

690

700

715

725

735

74fl

700

665

640

640

617

594

482

468

456

430

414

384

355

310

9fii

"Jfii

264

247

230

230

230

200

July.

200

194

187

194

200

194

187

180

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

168

162

166

170

174

168

162

150

150

150

150

144

139

128

Aug.

122

117

112

106

101

96

Q1

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

81

76

66

66

66

66

71

76

,71

66

66

66

66

86

106

106

106

Sept.

106

106

112

117

117

117

117

117

117

117

117

120

124

128

128

128

128

150

150

150

145

138

134

128

128

128

135

142

150

150

Oct.

156

162

162

162

168

174

162

162

162

168

174

150

162

174

174

174

180

187

194

200

192

182

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

Nov.

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

174

186

200

200

200

200

200

186

174

180

187

187

187

208

230

222

215

215

220

225

230

Dec.

*

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve well defined above 100 second-feet. 

Discharge interpolated for days for which gage heights are missing during the period of open water.

Monthly discharge of Bear River at Dingle, Idaho, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 2,890 square miles.]

Month.

January. ...................

February. ..................

March... ................:..

April.......................

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

2,150 

2,150 

740 

200 

122 

150 

200 

230

Minimum.

960 

690 

200 

128 

66 

106 

150 

174

66

Mean.

250 

210 

1,380 

1,330 

1,300 

493 

172 

86 

128 

172 

193 

190

494

Per 

square 

mile. '

0.08?' 

.073 

.478 

.460 

.450 

.171 

.060 

.030 

.044 

.060 

.067 

.066

.171

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.10 

.08 

.55 

.51 

.52 

.19 

.07 

.03 

.05 

.07 

.07 

.08

2.32

Total in 

 acre-feet.

14,900 

11,700 

84,800 

76,500 

77,400 

28,400 

10,200 

5,120 

7,360 

10,200 

' 11, 100- 

11,300

349,000

AccUr 

racy.

D. 

D. 

C. 

A. 

A. 

B. A. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

C.

NOTE. Discharge Jan. 1 to Mar. 15 and Dec. 1 to 31 estimated from the discharge at Preston, climatelogical records, and observer's notes in regard to ice. A heavy rainstorm in Idaho during the early part 

of March caused premature melting of the accumulated snows in the mountaim and Mgh run-off. Mean 

discharge Mar. 1 to 15 estimated at 1,060 second-feet.
THE GREAT BASIN.

BEAR RIVER NEAR PRESTON, IDAHO.

This station, which is located just below the wagon bridge on the 

road from Preston to Battle Creek, at a point about 4| miles northwest of Preston, Idaho, and about 10 miles north of the Idaho-Utah 

State line, was established October 11, 1889. The records show practically the amount of water passing from Idaho into Utah and will 

be of value in the final adjudication of water rights.

No important tributaries enter above the station; Battle Creek 

comes in a few hundred feet below the station. Although the river 

passes through large areas of irrigable land, no important diversions 

are at present made above this point.

The river freezes over at the section and the flow is affected by 

slush ice. On December 10, 1909, a heavy landslide obstructed the 

channel, and the relation of gage height to discharge from that date 

to about the end of March, 1910, is uncertain. From the latter part 

of March to the end of 1910 the conditions of flow were very stable.

A new gage was installed April 3, 1909, at a point about 200 feet 

below the old gage; it reads 0.05 foot lower than the old gage. The 

new curve was found to be parallel to the old curve, and the gage 

heights taken during 1909 previous to the establishment of the new 

gage were referred to the new gage datum.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable and car above the

new gage and about 300 feet below the bridge.

Discharge measurements of Bear River near Preston, Idaho, 1910.

Date.

Apr. 23

May 31

July 29

29

Dec 9

Hydrographer.

O.W.Hartwell..... ......................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

207

133

125

125

127

129

Area of

section.

Sq.ft. 

601

458

264

264

289

343

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.89

2.89

1.46

1.47

1.59

2.10

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

2,900

1,540

017

333

387

AQQ

43926° WSP 290 12 3
34 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Bear River near Preston, Idaho, for 1910. 

[O. M. Seamons, observer.]

Day.

1. ..............

3...............

4. ...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9............... 10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28. ..............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.0

2.85

2.55

2.35

2.5

2.7

2.8

2.85

2.85

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

9 QP*

2.55

2.2

2.2

2

0

9 9

2.2

2.2

9 1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.0

2 A

Feb.

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.05

2.1

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2

(\

9 ft

9 ft

2.0

2.0

2 A

2 A

2.t)

2.0

2.0

2.0

9 n

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.05

Mar.

2.25

2.55

2.7

2.8

2.95

2 Q

3.1

3.3

3.3

3.5

3.9

4

C

5

K

5.9

5.85

5.75

5.45

5 1 %

C ftK

4 Q

4.85

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.3

4 9

4.1

Apr.

4.0

3.9

3.85

3.8

3.7

3.7

3 7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.8

3

7F1

3.75

3

7F1

3.75

3.8

3

0

3.85

3.85

3.9

3.9

^ Q

3.9

3.9

4.0

4.05

4 1

4.15

A. 9

May.

A 9

A 9

4 2

A 0

4 1

A O

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3

QC

3 9

3.85

3.8

3.7

^ 7

3.65

3.6

3.55

3.5

3.45

3.4

3.35

3.2

3.1

3.0

2.95

2 Q

2

0

June.

2.8

2

7F1

2.7

2 7

2.65

2 ft

2.6

2.6

2.55

9 1

2

K

2 J.1

2.4

2.4

2.4

2 A

2.35

2

0

2 or:

2

0

2.1

1 9

1.85

1.8

1.75

1.7

1.65

1.6

1.5

July.

1.5

1.45

1.45

1 J.1

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1 V,

1.35

1 ^

1

0

1 ^

1 ^

1.3

1.4

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.45

1.45

1 45

1.45

1.45

1.45

Aug.

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.35

1.3 i ?

1.35

1.5

1.5

1 ii

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.45

1 41

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

Sept.

1.5

1.5

1 11

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.7

1.7

1.75

1.8

1.75

1.75

1.8

1.8

Oct.

1.8

1.85

1 95

1 9

1 Q

1 9

1 Q

1.9

1.9

1 9

1.9

1.9

1 9

1 Q

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.1i

2.2

2.0

2 05

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

Nov.

2.05

2.0

2.1

2.1

2.1

2 1

2.0

2.0

2.0

2 A

2.0

2.0

2 05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.15

2.2

2 2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

Dec.

2.2

2 9

2

9E

2.2

2 9

2 9

2.15

2.15

2.15

2 a

2.2

2.2

2 9

2.15

2.05

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.0

2.05

2.1

2.0

2.0

2

n

NOTE. Relation of gage height to discharge affected by ice Jan. 1 to Feb. 12. Probably no backwater 

from ice during December*

* Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bear River near Preston, Idaho, for 1910.

Day. Jan.

1.....................

2.....................

3.....................

4......................

5...... ............... .

6......................

71. .................. ..

8.. ................... .

9......................

10.. ....................

11......................

12......................

13......................

14......................

15......................

16......................

17......................

18......................

19......................

20......................

21......................

22. .....................

23......................

24......................

25......................

26......................

27......................

28......................

29......................

30......................

31......................

Feb.

630

630

630

630

630

630

630

flQA

630

630

flQA

630

630

630

630

670

Mar.

841

1,040

1,310

1,430

1,610

1,550

1,800

1,860

2,060

2,340

2,920

3,840

5,620

6,380

6,280

5,530

4 QQft

4,810

4

KAf\

4 450

4,180

4,000

4,000

3,840

3,680

3,680

3,520

3,370

3,220

Apr.

3,070

2,920

2 840

2,770

2,620

2,620

2,620

2,620

2,620

2,620

2,620

2,770

2,700

2,700

2,700

2,700

2,770

2,770

2,840

2 840

2

QOA

2

QOA

2,920

2,920

2,920

3,070

3,140

3,220

3,300

3,370

May.

3,370

3,370

3,370

3,220

3,370

3,220

3,070

3,070

3,070

3,070

3,070

3,000

2 Q9A

2 840

2,770

2,620

2,620

2

CCA

2,480

2,410

2,340

2 97ft

2,200

2,130

1 930

1,'800

1,670

1,610

1,550

1,430

June.

1,430

1,370

1,310

1,310

1,260

1,200

1 200

1,200

1 14ft

1,090

1,040

980

980

QQft

QQn

935

890

845

800

710

595

cart

530

500

470

44O

410

380

340

July.

340

320

320

320

300

300

300

300

300

280

280

260

OAA

260

260

260

300

320

300

300

300

300

300

300

320

320

320

320

320

320

320

Aug.

320

320

300

300

300

300

300

280

260

260

280

340

320

300

300

300

340

300

300

320

320

320

320

320

320

340

340

340

Wl

Sept.

340

340

360

440

440

440

440

440

440

440

440

440

440

440

440

440

470

470

470

470

470

470

440

440

470

500

470

470

500

500

Oct.

600

530

595

560

560

560

560

560

560

560

560

560

560

560

630

630

710

755

800

630

670

630

630

630

630

630

630

630

630

630

630

Nov.

670

630

710

710

710

710

630

630

630

630

630

630

670

670

670

670

710

710

710

710

710

710

755

755

800

800

800

800

800

800

Dec.

800

800

845

800

800

800

755

755

755

800

800

800

sot

755

670

630

630

630

630

630

710

no

710

710

710

630

670

710

630

630

630

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve well defined below 3.500 second-feet.
THE GREAT BASIN. 35

Monthly discharge of Bear River near Preston, 'Idaho, for 1910.

[Drainage area, 4,500 square miles, j

Month.

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

670 

6,380 

3,370 

3,370 

1,430 

340 

340 

500 

800 

800 

845

Minimum.

845 

2,620 

1,430 

340 

260 

260 

340 

500 

630 

630

Mean.

677 

569 

3,450 

2,850 

2,640 

899 

301 

311 

446 

610 

706 

720

1,190

Per 

square 

mile.

0.150 

.126 

.767 

.633 

.587 

.200 

.067 

.069 

.099 

.136 

.157 

.160

.264

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches oft 

drainage 

area.

0.17 

.13 

.88 

.71 

.68 

.22 

.08 

.08 

.11 

.16 

.18 

 .18

3.58

Tota1! in 

acre-feet.

41,600 

31,600 

212,000 

170,000 

162,000 

53,500 

18,500 

19,100 

26,500 

37,500 

42,000 

44,300

859,000

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

B.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

NOTE. Discharge Jan. 1 to Feb. 12 estimated from climatologic records and observer's notes in regard 

to ice. Mean discharge Feb. 1 to 12 estimated at 483 second-feet.

BEAR RIVER NEAR COLLINSTON, UTAH.

This station, which is located at the lower end of Bear River 

canyon, about one-fourth mile below the Utah Sugar Co.'s power 

plant and about 4 miles north of the CoUinston railroad station, was 

established July 1, 1889. The records show practically the amount 

of unapprqpriated water below all diversions.

The principal tributaries above are Cub Creek and Logan River; 

the only tributary below is Malade River, which enters 18 or 20 miles 

below the station. -Most of the normal low-water flow of the river 

at this point is appropriated by the Bear River Canal Co., which 

diverts water at a point about 2 miles above the station. The Utah 

Sugar Co. also diverts water about 2 miles above the station for 

power development, but returns it to the river above the station.

The gage is an inclined staff; its datum has not been changed 

since the station was established.

The channel is fairly permanent and the conditions favor accurate 

determination of discharge.

Measurements are made from a car and cable.

The records are not affected by artificial control below, but some 

variations in daily flow may be caused by manipulation of gates on 

the dam 2 miles above the station. A little shore ice occasionally 

forms at the station, but the effect on the discharge is very slight.
36 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Discharge measurements of Bear River near Collinston, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Aug. 3

3

Sept. 8

8

Oct. 6

Dec. 12

Hydrographer.

G. H. Canfield. ............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

J. C. Dort........... ......................................

Width.

Feet. 

221

220

233

233

271

270

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

296

295

324

320

501

612

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.15

1.15

1.31

1.30

1.94

2.44

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

343

336

474

457

989

1,520

Daily gage height, infect, of Bear River near Collinston, Utah, for 1910. 

[R. A. Johnson, observer^

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14............... 

15...............

16........ .......

17...............

18...............

19............... 

20...............

21...............

22............... 

23............... 

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29-............-- 

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0 

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2.8

2.9 

2.9 

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7 

2.6

2.5

Feb.

2.6

2.7

2.9

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.7

2.6 

2.7

2.6

2.4

2.6

2.7 

2.7

2.6

2.6 

2.6 

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.7

2 7

Mar.

2.8

2.4

4.0

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.9

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.9

4.7

4.8

4.9 

5.3

5.8

6.1

6.2

6.4 

6.4

6.4

6.3 

6.3 

6.2

6.2

6.1

6.0

5.9

5.7 

5.5

5.4

Apr.

5.7

5.4

5.3

5.4

5.6

5.6

5.4

5.2

5.1

4 9

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.7

4.8

4. Q

5.0

4.9

4.8

4 »

4.8

4.9 

4.9 

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.8

4 9

5.1 

5.3

May.

5.3 '5.2

5.2

5.1

5.0

5.0

4.9

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.6

A ft

4.6 

4.5

4.5

4.4

4.3

4.2 

4.1

4.0

3.9 

3.8 

3.7

3.6

3.4

3.3

3

0

3.1 

3.0

2.9

June.

2.9

2.8

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.2 

2.1

2.1

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.8

1.7

1.6 

1.4 

1.2

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0 

1.1

July.

1.0

1.1

1.0

1.0

.......

.......

.......

1.0

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1 

1.1

1.1

Aug.

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.1 

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0 

1.0

1.0

1.0 

1.0 

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

0

0

0.8 

0.8

0.8

Sept.

1.0

1.0

1,0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.2

1 t

1.4 

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.6 

1.7

1.6

1.6 

1.7 

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7 

1.7

Oct.

1.7

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.9

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0 

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.1 

2.1

2.2

2.2 

2.2 

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.2

2

0

2.3

2.2

Nov.

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1 

2.1

 2.2

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.2 

2.3 

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2

0

2.2 

2.3

Dec.

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.4 

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.2 

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.2 

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

o o

2.2 

2.2

2.2

NOTE. July 5-14, water below gage, which ends at 1 foot. July 15-24, water below gage except from 4 

p. m. to 12 p. m. each day while the power plant was in operation. Gage read 1 foot while the power plant 

was in operation. Aug. 28-31, water from 1 inch to 4 inches below gage; gage heights estimated. " 

heights probably not affected by ice during 1910.
THE GREAT BASIN. 37 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bear River near Collinston, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...... .........

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10............... 

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15............... 

16...............

17...............

18. ..............

19...............

20...............

21................

22...............

23...........:...

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2,830

2,830

2,830

2,830

2,830

2,830

2,550

2,550

2,550

2,550

S

een

2,550

2,550

2,550

2,550 

2,550

2 AOf\

2,300

2,300

2,300

2,300

2,420

2,300

2,300

2,190

2 1Qft

9 1Qft

2,190

2,080*

1,970

Feb.

2,080

2,190

2,420

1,970

1,970

1,860

2,080

2 ORft

9 ncn

2,190

2 1Qft

2

OAA

9 10ft

2 080

2,190 

2,080

1,860

S AGA

2,190

2,080

2,080

2

AOft

2,190

2,190

2,300

2 1Qft

2 ion

Mar.

2,300

1,860

3,980

4,790

4 960

5,130

5,470

5 640

5^640

5,640 

5,470

5,130

5,300

5,470

6,150 

7,040

7 fiflft

7 800

7,500

7,500

7,500

7,300

7,300

7,100

7,100

6,910

6,720

6,540

6,200

5,860

5,690

Apr.

6,200

5,690

5,520

5,690

6,030

6,030

5,690

5,350

5,180

4,840 

4,510

4,350

4,350

4,510

4,670 

4,840

5,010

4 840

4,670

4,670

4,840

4 840

4,840

4 840

4,840

4,670

4 840

5,180

5,520

May.

5,520

5,350

5,350

5,180

5,010

5,010

4 840

4,670

4,670

4,510 

4,510

4,350

4,350

4,350

4,200 

4,200

4,050

3

QAA

3,600

3,450

3,300

3,160

2,890

2,630

2

CAA

2 37ft

2,120

2,000

June.

2,000

1,890

1,780

1,670

1,670

1,560

1 450

1,450

1,350

1,350 

1,350

1,250

1,250

1,250

1,150 

1,150

1,050

afin

960

870

780

690

530

380

310

250

250

250

250

310

July.

250

310

250

250

.......

.......

250

310

310

310

310

310

310

Aug.

310

310

310

310

310

310

310

310

310

310 

310

250

250

310

250 

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

160

160

160

160

Sept.

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250

250 

250

380

450

530

610 

610

690

690

690

780

690

690

780

690

690

690

690

780

780

780

Oct.

780

780

870

870

960

1,050

1,050

1,050

1,050

1,050 

1,050

1,050

1,050

1,050

1,050 

1,050

1,050

1,050

1,150

1,150

1,250

1,250

1,250

1,250

1,150

1,150

1,250

1,350

1,350

1,250

1,250

Nov.

1,250

1,150

1,150

1,150

1,250

1,150

1,150

1,250

1,150

1,150 

1,150

1,150

1,150

1,150

1,150 

1,250

1,150

1,150

1,150

1,250

1,250

1,250

1,350

1,350

1,350

1,350

1,350

1,350

1,250

1,350

Dec.

1,350

1,350

1,350

1,450

1,450

1,450

1,450

1,350

1,350

1,350 

1,350

1,450

1,450

1.450

1,350 

1,350

1,350

1,350

1,250

1,250

1,150

1,150

1,250

1,250

1,250

1,250

1,250

.1,250

1,250

1,250

1,250

NOTE. Daily discharge determined as follows: Jan. 1 to Mar. 18, from the 1909 discharge rating curve, 

which is well denned; Mar. 19 to Dec. 31, from a curve well defined below 6,000 second-feet. Warm rains 

and rapid melting of the snow at the head of the river during March caused a sudden rise at the gaging 

station.

Monthly ^discharge of Bear River near Collinston, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 6,000 square miles.]

Month.

April.......................

May........................

July........................

November. ................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

2,830 

2,420 

7,800 

6,200 

5,520 

2,000 

310 

310 

780 

. 1,350 

1,350 

1,450

7,800-

Minimum.

1,970 

1,860 

1,860 

4,350 

2,000 

250 

20 

160 

250 

780 

1,150 

1,150

20

Mean.

2,460 

2,130 

5,950 

5,060 

3,900 

1,050 

141 

262 

515 

1,100 

1,220 

1,320

2,090

Per 

square 

mile.

0.410 

.355 

.992 

.843 

.650 

.175 

.024 

.044 

.086 

.183 

.203 

.220

.348

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.47 

.37 

1.14 

.94 

.75 

.20 

.03 

.05 

.10 

*.21 

.23 

.25

4.74

Total in 

acre-feet.

151,000 

118,000 

366,000 

301,000 

240,000 

62,500 

8,670 

16,100 

30,600 

67,600 

72,600 

81,200

1,520,000

Accuracy.

A. 

A. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

D. 

C. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A.

NOTE. Discharge July 5 to 24 estimated from inforn 

Mean discharge July 5 to 24 estimated at 60 second-feet.

estimated from information regarding the operation of the power plant.
38 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

LOGAN EIVEE NEAE LOGAN, UTAH.

This station, which is located near the mouth of the canyon, about 

one-fourth mile below the Hercules power house and about 2 miles 

east of Logan, Utah, was established June 1, 1896, discontinued 

July 18, 1903, and reestablished April 13, 1904.

The only tributaries below the station are Blacksmith Fork and 

Cache Kiver, which enter at distances of 5 and 10 miles, respectively. 

Above the station water is diverted to develop power, but is returned 

to the river. Water is also diverted above the station to the Logan, 

Hyde Park, and Smithfield canal, and the discharge of this canal 

should be added to that of the river at the gaging section to determine 

the total run-off from the drainage area at this point. Below the 

station practically all the normal low-water flow is diverted for irrigation.

The gage is an inclined staff; its datum has remained unchanged 

since January 1, 1906.

Discharge measurements are made by means of a car and cable.

The flow past the gage is not affected by artificial control or by ice, 

but the velocity of the current is so high that the stream bed is 

likely to shift greatly at high and medium stages and conditions for 

accurately determining the discharge are therefore 'rather unfavorable. Although the results are liable to some error during the first 

part of 1910 the records may be considered good during the later 

part of the year.

Discharge measurements of Logan River near Logan, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Apr. 19

Aug. 4

Sept. 3

Oct. 5

Dec. 13

Hydrographer.

E. 8. Fuller. ..............................................

G.H.Canfleld..... .......................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

59

44

44

46

42

Area of 

section.

Sq.feet. 

146

89

79

84

65

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.35

2.17

2.06

2.11

1.90

Discharge.

Sec.feet.

683

218

175

186

122
TSE GREAT BASIN. 30

Daily gage height, in feet, ofLogan River near Logan, Utah, for 1910. 

[S. G. Palmer, observer.]

Day.

1........ ....... 

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15..............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.3 

2.3

2.25

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

Feb.

2.2 

2.2 2.'2

2.2

2.2

2.2

0 1

-2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

Mar.

2.15 

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.5

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.5

2.6

2.6

2.65

2.75

2.8

2.85

3.0

3.15

3.1

3.0

2.9

3.1

2.85

2.85

2.8

2.7

2.75

Apr.

2.75

2 SS

9 Q

2.9

2.85

2.8

2 OK

2 0

3 A

3

1

3

*t

3.25

3

*>

3.25

3.15

3.15

3.1

3.25

3.3

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.8

3.95

4.0

4.0

4.1

4.0

May.

3.7 

3.6

3.5

3.45

3.45

3.3

*> 9K

3.25

3.45

3.7

3.75

3.8

3.85

3.75

3.65

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.35

3.35

3.4

3.5

3.55

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.45

3.45

3.4

June.

3.45

3 A

3.4

3.3

3.3

3.25

*y 9

3.15

3.1

3.1

3.15

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.0

 3.0

2.9

2.9

2.85

2.8

2.75

2.75

2.7

2.65

9 7

2.65

2.65

July.

" "2." 55"

2.55

2.5

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.35

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.35

2.3

2.25

2.3

2.3

2.25

2.25 '2.3

2.25

2.2

2.3

2.35

2.3

2.3

Aug.

2.3

2

*>

2.3

2.15

2.2

2 9

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2 9

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.0

2.05

2.05

Sept.-

2.05 

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.0

2.05

2 05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.2

2.15

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

Oct.

2.1

2.15

2.1

2 9

2.15

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2 1

2.1

2.1

9 1

2

n

2.05

2.1

2.05

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.05

Nov.

2.1

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.0

2.0

2

n

2.0

2.0

2.0

9 fl

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.95

2.0

1.9

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.95

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

Dec.

1.95 

1.95

1 95

1.95

1 9

1 a

1.95

1 9

1 95

1 95

1 95

1.95

1 D

9 n

1.95

1 QK

1 95

1 95

1.9

1 O

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.95

1 95

1.9

1.85

1.85

1 90

1.85

1.80

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Logan River near Logan, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1........ .......

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

S.. .............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18....... .........

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

si

Jan.

133

133

118

118

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

103

76

76

76

103.

103

103

103

103

103

103

Feb.

103

103

103

103

103

103

76

76

76

76

76

103

103

103

76

76

76

76

76

90

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

Mar.

90

103

133

133

168

168

168

207

188

168

168

168

188

207

250

250

274

322

346

372

455

551

517

455

398

517

372

372

346

298

*>9O

Apr.

322

372

398

398

372

346

372

398

455

517

655

620

655

620

551

551

517

620

655

655

727

800

874

950

1,030

1,150

1,200

1,200

1,280

1,200

May.

1,320

1,240

1,150

1,110

1,110

980

940

940

1,110

1,320

1,360

1,410

1,460

1,360

1,280

1,150

1,060

1,060

1,060

1,020

1,020

1,060

1,150

1,190

1,240

1,240

1,150

1,150

1,110

1,110

1 f 060

June.

1,110

1,060

1,060

980

980

940

900

860

820

820

860

780

780

780

740

740

660

660

622

585

550

550

515

482

515

482

482

468

455

442

July.

430

418

418

385

356

356

356

356

356

356

327

327

327

301

327

327

327

301

275

252

275

275

252

252

275

252

230

275

301

275

275

Aug.

275

275

275

252

210

230

230

230

230

230

230

230

' 230

230

230

230

210

230

230

 210

210

210

210

210

190

190

190

190

154

172

172

Sept.

172

172

172

172

154

172

172

172

172

190

190

190

190

190

190

210

230

210

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

Oct.

190

210

190

230

210

190

190

190

190

190

190

210

190

190

190

154

172

190

172

154

154

154

154

154

172

172

172-

190

190

190

172

Nov.

190

172

172

172

154

154

154

154

154

154

154 154'

154

154

154

154

154

138

154

122

154

154

122

138

154

154

122

122

122

122

Dec.

138

138

138

138

122

122

138

122

138

138

138

138

122

154

138

138

138

138

122

122

122

122

122

138

138

122

108

108

122

108

94

NOTE. Dally discharge determined as follows: Jan. 1 to Apr. 30, from a discharge rating curve fairly 

well defined between 500 and 800 second-feet; May 1 to Dec. 31, from a curve well denned below 300 secondfeet. Discharge interpolated June 28 to July 1.
40 SUKFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAKT X.

Monthly discharge o/Logan River near Logon, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 218 square miles.]

Month.

April.......................

May........................

July........................

The year... ...........

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

133 

103 

551 

1,280 

1,460 

1,110 

430 

275 

230 

230 

190 

154

1,460

Minimum.

76 

76 

90 

322 

940 

442 

230 

154 

154

122

94

76

Mean.

113

85.2 

280 

682 

1,160 

723 

317 

219 

187 

183 

150 

128

353

Per 

square 

mile."

0.518 

.391 

1.28 

3.13 

5.32 

3.32 

1.45 

1.00 

.858 

.840 

.688 

.587

1.62

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.60 

- .41 

1.48 

3.49 

6.13 

3.70 

1.67 

1.15 

.96 

.97 

.77 

.68

22.01

Total in 

acre-feet.

6,950 

4,730 

17,200 

40,600 

71,300 

43,000 

19,500 

13,500 

11,100 

11,300 

8,930 

7,870

256,000

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

. NOTE. Discharge of Logan, Hyde Park, and Smithfleld Canal excluded for lack of sufficient data. For 

information regarding the probable effect of this omission from month to month see table of monthly discharge of Logan River at Logan for 1909, Water-Supply Paper No. 270, p. 43.

BLACKSMITH FORK NEAR HYRUM, UTAH.

Blacksmith. Fork rises on the western slope of the Bear River Range 

and flows southwest and then northwest into Logan River. The 

drainage basin of the tributary is in every way similar to that of the 

main stream. Only the flood and winter discharge, however, reaches 

the Logan, the entire spring and summer flow being used for irrigation 

on the tillable lands below the gaging station.

The gaging station, which is located at the mouth of the canyon, 

about 10 miles southeast of Logan and about 5 miles from Hyrum, 

the nearest railway and post office point, was established July 19, 

1900, discontinued December 31, 1902, and reestablished May 16, 

1904. The original station was above the intake of the power canal; 

the present station is about 500 feet below the intake of the power 

canal and about 800 feet above the Hyrum city power plant. The 

flow of the power plant canal plus that passing the station represents 

the total amount of water available for irrigation in the valley below 

and for power development above.

The gage is a vertical staff. Its datum has not been changed since 

the new stations were established, in 1904.

Discharge measurements are made by means of a car and cable.

The flow is not affected by artificial control above or below the 

station or by ice at the gage. The velocity of the current is very high, 

and a slight shifting of the channel renders the determinations of 

discharge somewhat liable to error during high water. The results, 

however, may be considered fairly good.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 

Discharge measurements of Blacksmith Fork near Hyrum, Utah, 1910.

41

Date.

Apr. 19

Dec. 13

Hydrographer.

J. C. Dort .................................................

Width.

Feet. 

49

45

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

84

37

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

4.80

3.65

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

435

76

Daily gage height, in feet, of Blacksmith Fork near Hyrum, Utah, for 1910. 

[Uriah Benson, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18. ..............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28. ..............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.1

4.1

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

^ Q

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

1 Q

3

0

3

D

3

D

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

Feb.

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3

0

3

0

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

1 Q

4.1

4.1

Mar.

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4 1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.5

4.7

4.8

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

Apr.

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.9

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

4.9

4.9

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

May.

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

June.

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

July.

4.2

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4 1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

Aug.

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

Sept.

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

Oct.

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

Nov.

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

Dec.

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5
42 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Blacksmith For"k near Hyrum, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1.. .............

2..... ..........

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16. ..............

17.. .............

18. ..............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27.. .............

28...............

29. ..............

30. ..............

31...............

Jan.

184

184

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

130

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

Feb.

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

1 107

107

107

107

107

107

130

130

130

130

130

130

184

184

Mar.

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

244

276

310

310

385

427

471

471

471

471

471

471

471

471

471

Apr.

427

385

385

385

385

385

385

471

566

566

566

566

471

471

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

May.

427

427

427

427

427

427

427

385

385

346

346

310

310

310

310

310

276

276

276

276

276

276

276

244

244

244

244

244

244

244

June.

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

184

184

184

1 184

184

214

214

214

214

214

214

214

214,

214

July.

214

214

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

184

156

156

130

130

130

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

Aug.

107

107

107

86

86

86

86

86

8S

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

Sept.

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

Oct.

86

86

86

88

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

Nov.

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

85

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

Dec.

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

86

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

53

53

53

53

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a fairly well defined discharge rating curve.

Daily combined discharge, in second-feet, of Blacksmith Fork and power-plant race near

Eyrum, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1. ..............

2...............

3...............

5...............

6.. .............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

16...............

16......-.....--.

17.. .............

18...............

19...... .........

20.....-......-.-

21...... .........

22...............

93

24. ..............

25...... .........

26. ..............

27...............

28. ..............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

265

265

202

202

202

202

202

OAO

202

202

202

202

211

211

211

211

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

Feb.

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

188

211

211

911

211

911

211

265

OfiK

Mar.

265

265

265

265

265

265

265

265

265

265

265

265

325

357

391

391

4fifi

508

KE7

557

557

KE7

557

557

CC7

557

cc7

Apr.

513

471

471

471

471

.471

471

557

652

fffi

557

493

493

545

545

545

545

RAK

545

COK

535

535

535

535

EOE

535

May.

535

535

535

535

535

535

484

AQA

409

391

391

391

391

357

QK7

OE7

QK7

9E7

QC7

ooe

325

00 E

90 C

qo K

00 E

00 E

325

June.

295

295

295

295

295

OQE.

295

OQK

295

295

295

295

295

295

295

295

265

265

265

265

OQK

295

OOP;

OQK

OQE

OQE

OQE

295

OQE

July.

295

295

265

265

265

265

OfiC

265

265

265

265

265

265

265

9A4.

264

238

238

238

91 ^

215

91 *\

91 ^

215

91 ^

91 ^

91 ^

215

91 1

Aug.

215

215

215

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

IrM

194

194

194

Sept.

1O4

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

1(U

194

194

194

1CU

194

194

194

1Q4

1(U

194

194

1Q4

194

194

194

194

194

194

Oct.

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

194

Nov.

194

1Q4

194

194

194

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

176

Dec.

176

176

176

176

176

1 7fi

176

166

166

166

166

166

166

166

166

166

166

166

143

143

143

143
THE GEEAT BASIN. 43

Combined monthly discharge of Blacksmith Fork and power-plant race near Hyrum,

Utah, for 1910.

[Drainage area, 286 square miles.]

Month.

April..................

May...................

July...................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

265 

265 

557 

652 

535 

295 

295 

215 

194 

 194 

194 

176

C52

Minimum.

188 

188 

265 

471 

325 

265 

215 

194 

194 

194 

176 

143

143

Blacksmith 

Fork, 

mean.

122 

117 

295 

442 

319 

209 

154 

88.0 

86.0 

86.0 

86.0 

76.3

173

Powerplant 

race, 

mean.

78.1 

81.0 

82.5 

98.6 

90.0 

81.0 

94.1 

108 

108 

108 

93.0 

90.0

92.8

Total 

mean.

200 

198 

378 

540 

409 

290 248' 

196 

194 

194 

179 

166

266

Per 

square 

mile.

0.699 

.692 

1.32 

1.89 

1.43 

1.01 

.867 

.685 

.678 

.678 

.626 

.581

.930

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.81 

.72 

. 1.52 

2.11 

. 1.65

1.13 

1.00 

.79 

.76 

.78 

.70 

.67

12.64

Total in 

acre-feet.

12,300 

11,000 

23,200 

32,100 

25, 100 

17,300 

15,200 

12, 100 

11,500 

11,900 

10,700 

10,200

193; 000,

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B.

NOTE. Computations based on combined run-off of Blacksmith Fork and the power-plant race. Total 

,run-off for the year 1910 at the Blacksmith Fork gaging station, 126,000 acre-feet; in the power-plant race, 

67,000 acre feet.

BLACKSMITH FORK POWER-PLANT RACE NEAR HYRUM, UTAH.

This station, which is located 200 feet below the head of the Blacksmith Fork power-plant race, was established May 16, 1904.

The records derived from observations at this station indicate the 

amount, of water used by the Hyrum City power plant and the 

amount of water being carried around the Blacksmith Fork station by 

the canal.

The flow at this station should be added to that of Blacksmith Fork 

after May 16,1904, to give the total run-off of that river. For monthly 

discharge at this station see table above.

The gage consists of a vertical staff. The channel is practically 

permanent.

Discharge measurements are made from a 3 by 16 inch plank laid 

across the canal.

The variation in stage is very small, and although the rating curve 

is short the record may be considered good.

Discharge measurements of power-plant race near Hyrum, Utah, 1910.

Daje.

Apr. 19

Sept. 4

Dec. 13

Hydrographer.

E. S. Fuller...............................................

G. H.Canfleld........ .....................................

Width.

Feet. 

18

14

14

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

28

30

25

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

5.30

5.20

4.97

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

118

108

74
44 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage heights, in feet, of Blacksmith Fork power-plant race near Hyrum, Utah, for

1910.

[Uriah Benson, observer.]

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5 ..............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13. ..............

14. ..............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

10

20.....'..........

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.9

4.9

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

Feb.

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

Mar.

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4 9

4 9

4.9

d Q

4.9

4.9

4.9

A. Q

4 9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

Apr.

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4 95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4.95

4 95

4.95

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

May.

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4 9

June.

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.9

4.9

July.

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

5:2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

Aug.

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

Sept.

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

Oct.

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

3.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

Nov.

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

7.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

Dec.

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Blacksmith Fork power-plant race near Hyrum, Utah,

for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

81

S1

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

81

81

81

81

81

81

si

81

81

81

01

81

81

81

81

si

81

81

81

Feb.

si

si

81

si

81

0-1

81

01

81

81

si

81

81

si

81

81

si

81

01

81

81

si

01

81

81

81

81

si

Mar.

si

01

SI

R1

SI

SI

SI

SI

81

81

SI

81

81

si

81

81

si

81

si

81

81

si

86

Sfi

86

Sfi

86

Sfi

86

86

86

Apr.

86

86

86

86

Sfi

Sfi

Sfi

86

Sfi

86

86

Sfi

86

86

Sfi

86

11S

11S

118

11S

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

May.

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

99

oo

99

99

QQ

SI

si

81

81

SI

SI

SI

si

81

si

SI

01

SI

si

SI

SI

SI

SI

si

June.

S1

R1

Si

Si

SI

SI

SI

SI

81

81

S1

81

81

si

81

81

01

81

si

81

81

81

Q1

S1

81

si

81

Q1

81

Q1

July.

81

si

81

81

81

si

si

SI

81

81

si

81

81

ai

81

81

108

108

ms

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

ins

108

Aug.

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

 108

108

108

108

108

108

108.

1AO

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

Sept.

108

ins

108

108

108

1AC

108

108

108

108

ins

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

ins

108

IftS

IfiS

108

1AQ

108

Oct.

108

108

108

108

108

IftS

108

108

108

108

ins

108

108

' 108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

ins

108

108

108

108

108

108

108

Nov.

108

108

108

108

108

on

on

on

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

on

90

90

90

90

90

90

on

90

on

on

90

Dec.

90

on

90

90

90

on

90

on

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

on

90

, 90

90

90

on

90

on

90

on

90

on

90

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a fairly well-defined discharge rating curve.
THE GBEAT BASIN. 45

BOX ELDEE CREEK AT BRIGHAM, UTAH.

Box Elder Creek is tributary to Box Elder Lake about 3 miles 

northwest of Brigham, Utah. At high stages water from this lake 

may reach Bear River.

The gaging station, which is located about three-fourths mile 

northwest of Brigham City, Utah, on the Third West Street Bridge, 

about half a mile above the Oregon Short Line Railroad crossing, 

was established May 20, 1909.

A vertical gage is attached to the northwest corner of the bridge. 

It was lowered 2 feet on February 24, 1910, in order to obviate 

negative readings.

The relation between gage height and discharge at this point is 

not greatly affected by ice, but it is affected by artificial control above 

the station.

The gage heights for 1909 were not published in the report for that 

year (Water-Supply Paper 270) as they were considered unreliable. 

The inaccuracy, however, can not be definitely proved and the 

records are here presented. These records and also those for January 1 to March 31, 1910, which are also questionable, are at best only 

approximate, and computations based on them should be used with 

great caution. The record beginning April 8, 1910, when a new 

observer was engaged, is considered reliable.

Discharge measurements of Box Elder Creek at Brigham, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Feb. 24

27

Hydrographer.

J. C. Dort........ .............................. ^.........

.....do....................................................

Width.

Feel. 

15

16

13

10.5

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

10

16

5.6

6.4

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.35

4.20

3.32

3.38

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

17

55

14.6

14.5

NOTE. All gage heights refer to the new datum established Feb. 24,1910.
46 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, of Box Elder Creek at Brigham

Utah, for 1909.

Day.

1.... ..........

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7-.---.....-...

8. ..............

9..............

10. .............

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18. .............

19..............

20..............

21..............

22..............

23..............

24...........!..

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

May.

Gage 

height.

1.95

2.15 

2.20 

1.75 

2.35 

2.00

1.90 

1.95 

2.00 

1.95 

1.35 

1.40

Discharge.

58

77 

82 

42 

98 

63

40 

42 

45 

42 

17 

18

June.

Gage 

height.

1.85 

.95 

1.00 

1.35 

.90

1.00 

.90 

1.15 

1.85 

.70

.65 

.30 

.20 

.30 

.30

.10 

.25 

.10 

.20 

.20

.20 

.20

Discharge.

 37 

5 

6 

16

4

6 

4 

10 

37 

34

31 

28 

25 

23 

20

17 

14 

11

9

7

5 

2

0 

0 

0

0 

0 

0 

0 

0

September.

Gage 

height.

0.75

.80 

.65 

.65 

.70 

.70

.65 

.80 

.80 

.80 

.90

.95 

.90

.85 

.80 

.75

.75 

.75 

.75

.75 

.75

.75

.75 

.75 

.75 

.75

Discharge.

0 

0 

0 

0 

2

2 

1 

1 

1 

1

1 

2 

2 

2

4

6 

4 

4 

2 

2

' 2 

2 

2 

2 

2

2 

2 

2 

2 

2

October.

Gage 

height.

0.75

.75 

.75 

.75 

.75

.75 

.75 

.75

.75 

.75

.75 

.75

.75 

.75 

.75

.75

.70 

.70 

.70 

.70

.70 

.70 

.70 

.70 

.70

.70 

.70 

.70 

.75 

.80 

.75

Discharge.

2 

2 

2 

2 

2

2 

2 

2 

2 

2

2 

2 

2 

2 

2

2 

1 

1 

1 

. 1

1 

1 

1 

1

1

1 

1 

1 

2 

2 

2

November.

Gage 

height.

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

1.65 

1.65 

1.80 

1.80 

1.80

1.80 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

2.10

2.15 

2.15

1.85 

1.85 

1.70

1.70 

1.70 

1.70 

1.65 

1.65

Discharge.

28 

28 

28 

28 

28

28 

28 

35 

35 

35

35 

28 

28 

28 

28

28 

28 

28 

28

50

52 

52 

38 

38 

30

30 

30 

30 

28 

28

December.

Gage 

height.

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65 

1.65

Discharge.

NOTE. Gage heights June 10 to 22 questionable; not considered true indices of discharge. No water 

in creek June 23 to Sept. 4. The sudden increase in gage height on Nov. 1 suggests that the records from 

Sept. 5 to Oct. 31 may be unreliable, but the increase might have been caused by the closing of the headgates to the diversion canals above the gaging station. Gage heights for November and December thought 

to be fairly reliable, but the relation of gage height to discharge was probably affected by ice during December. See description.

Daily discharge determined from two fairly well defined discharge rating curves, one applicable from 

May 20 to 25 and the other from May 26 to Dec. 31. Discharge June 10 to 22 estimated as falling from disehargeon June 9 to zero discharge June 23. Discharge Sept. 5 to Oct. 31 taken as a true index of gage heights, 

but may be much too small. See description.
THE GREAT BASIN. 47

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, of Box Elder Creek at Brigham,

Utah, for 1910.

[Serell Nelson, observer.]

Day.

1..............

4....--....---.

5.............. 

6..............

7..............

8..............

10..............

11..............

12..............

13..............

14. .............

15..............

16. .............

17..............

18.............. 

19. .............

20..............

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26. ............. 

27..............

28..............

29..............

30

31..............

January.

Gage 

height.

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65 

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65 

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65 

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

3.65

Discharge.

/

.......

February.

Gage 

height.

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.65

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.65

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.65

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.65 

3.55

3.55 

3.50 

3.50 

3.50 

3-50

3.50 

3.70 

3.70

Discharge.

28 

28 

28 

28 

28

28 

28 

28 

28 

28

28 

28 

28 

' 28 

28

28 

28 

28 

28 

24

24 

22 

22 

22 

22

22 

30 

30

March.

Gage 

height.

3.70 

3.70 

3.70 

3.70 

3.70

3.25 

3.25 

3.95 

4.45 

4.45 

4.75

Discharge.

30 

30 

30 

30 

30

14 

14 

42 

70 

70 

88

April.

Gage 

height.

4.2 

4.3 

4.6

4.5 

4.3 

4.3 

4.1 

4.1

4.2 

4.0 

4.0 

4.0 

4.0

4.0 

3.9 

3.9 

4.0 

4.0

3.9 

3.6 

3.7 

3.7 

3.7

Discharge.

85 

82 

79 

75 

72

68 

60 

55 

61 

79

73 

61 

61 

50 

50

55 

45 

45 

45 

45

45 

40 

40 

45 

45

40 

26 

30 

30 

30

May.

Gage 

height.

3.7 

3.7 

3.7 

3.7 

3.7

3.8 

3.8 

3.7 

3.7 

3.7

3.6 

3.6 

3.6 

3.6 

3.5

3.4 

3.4 

3.4 

3.4 

3.4

3.4 

3.3 

3.3 

3.2 

3.2

3.2 

3.2 

3.1 

3.0 

3.0 

3.0

Discharge.

30 

30 

30 

30 

30

35 

35 

30 

30 

30

26 

26 

26 

26 

22

18 

18 

18 

18 

18

18 

15 

15 

12 

12

12 

12 

9 

6 

6 

6

June.

Gage 

height.

3.0 

3.1 

3.1 

3.1 

3.1

3.0 

3.0 

3.0 

3.0 

2.9

2.9

Discharge.

6 

9 

9 

9 

9

6 

6 

6 

6 

4

4 

0 

0 

0 

0

0 

0 

0 

0 

0

0 

0 

0 

0 

0

0 

0 

0 '0 

0

NOTE. Relation between gage height and discharge probably affected by ice during January.

Gage lowered 2 feet on Feb. 24; all gage heights from Jan. 1 to Feb. 24 corrected to refer to new datum. 

The uniformity of the record from Feb. 1 to Mar. 5 would seem to indicate that the reading of the gage was 

neglected except at scattered dates. Gage heights Mar. 6 to 25 have been discarded as worthless. No record Apr. 1 to 7. Gage heights Apr. 8 to June 11 considered reliable,as a new observer was employed during 

this period. Creek dry June 12 to Aug. 31. No record Sept. 1 to Dec. 31.

Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve that is fairly well defined. Discharge interpolated Apr. 1 to 7.
48 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Box Elder Creek, at Srigham, Utah, for 1909 and 1910.

Month.

1909. 

May 20-3 1 .........................................

July...............................................

1910.

March.................. . .... ..

April ..............................................

May...............................................

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

98 

37 

0 

0 

6 

2 

52

80 

88 

85 

35 

9 

0 

0

Minimum.

17 

0 

0 

0 

0 

1 

28

22 

14 

26 

6 

0 

0 

0

Mean.

52 

12 

0 

0 

2 

2 

32 

20

20 

27 

31 

54 

21 

2 

0 

0 

10 

15 

15 

15

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

1.240 

714 

0 

0 

119 

123 

1,900 

1,230

5,330

1,230 

1,500 

1,910 

3,210 

1,290 

119 

0 

0 

595 

922 893- 

922

12,600

Accuracy.

QQOO OQQOOOQ O

« Estimated for month. 

NOTE. Discharge Mar. 6-25,1910, estimated at 25 second-feet.

WEBER RIVER BASIN. 

% GENERAL FEATURES.

Weber River rises on the northern slope of the Uinta Mountains 

and flows in a tortuous course northwestward into Great Salt Lake.

The upper part of the basin is very rough. The highest peaks, 

reaching an elevation of about 13,000 feet above sea level, are barren 

masses of sandstone and quartzite, covered with snow for almost the 

entire year. The basin contains no extensive forests, meadows, or 

marshes. The greater part of the precipitation is in the form of snow, 

the melting of which is the chief source of the spring flood and early 

summer flow. A large part of the normal flow is derived from springs, 

which are well distributed over the area.

Between Oakley and Croyden the river traverses a very narrow 

valley given over to irrigated farms. The chief tributaries in this 

stretch are Beaver Creek, which enters from the south about 6 miles 

below Oakley and drains an area about 71 square miles in extent; 

Chalk Creek, from the east, which drains an area comprising about 

428 square miles and enters 15 miles above Croyden; and Lost Creek, 

which comes in from the east at a point about one-half mile above the 

Devils Slide gaging station and drains 205 square miles of the basin.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 49

Between Croyden and the Ogden Valley the stream flows through a 

comparativelynarrow, steep canyon, broken here and there by stretches 

of valley containing irrigated farms. East Creek, which enters near 

Morgan, discharges but little water to the river, as its flow is completely controlled by a storage reservoir about 5 miles above its mouth, 

the water being used for irrigation in Morgan Valley, through which 

the Weber flows. '

Ogden River, which joins the Weber about 8 miles above Plain City, 

drains a rugged limestone area, 363 square miles in extent, on the 

western slopes of the Wasatch Range. The main stream and its 

numerous small tributaries are confined to steep, narrow canyons. 

The entire normal flow of the stream is diverted for irrigation near the 

foot of the canyon about 3 miles above the mouth of the river, after 

being used for the development of power by the Utah Light & Railway 

Co. The flood and winter flow, therefore, is all that reaches the 

Weber, except for a small amount of seepage from the irrigated 

district. The city of Ogden also derives its water supply from Ogden 

River.

At present no storage reservoirs are used on the Weber, but a 

number of sites are available.

The wettest year since records have been kept was 1909, when 

1,290,000 acre-feet wasted into Great Salt Lake from the Weber 

basin, as shown by the records at the Plain City station. The year 

1905 was by far the driest year, when only 298,000 acre-feet wasted 

into Great Salt Lake.

WEBER RIVER NEAR OAKLEY, UTAH.

This station, which is located near the mouth of the canyon above 

Kamas Prairie, about 3 miles above Oakley, Utah, was established 

October 22, 1904. The records show the total amount of water 

available for diversion through Kamas Pass into Provo River in 

connection with the proposed Weber River project.

The station is below South Fork and above Kamas Creek and is 

above all diversions to the Kamas Prairie region.

The gage is an inclined staff; its datum has remained unchanged 

since the station was established.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable and car.

The bed of the stream is permanent. The river freezes over at the 

station at times during the winter season, but as the winter flow is 

fairly constant good results are obtained by interpolating between 

periods when the river is known to be open. 

43926° WSP 290 12 4
50 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Discharge measurements of Weber River near Oakley, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Dec. 6

Hydrographer.

G.H.Canfield... ..........................................

J. C. Dort.................................................

Width.

Feet. 

43

45

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

54

50

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

4.07

4.10

Discharge.

Sec.Jt. 

96

85

Daily gage height, in feet, of Weber River near Oakley, Utah, for 1910. 

[John Fransan, observer.]

Day.

1.... ...........

2...............

3...............

4..... ..........

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12. ..............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

5.5

5.3

4.5

4.6

Feb.

4.7

4.5

4.4

4.0

Mar.

4.1

4.25

4.2

4.3

4.3

4.4

4.8

5.0

4 Q

4.8

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.55

4 5

4.45

4.4

Apr.

4.5

4.55

4.6

4.55

4.6

4.6

4 6

4.7

4.8

4.9

5.0

5.1

5.2

5.0

4.9

4.85

5.0

5.1

5.15

5.2

5.3

5

K

5.6

5.8

6.0

6.1

6.1

6.0

6.0

May.

5.5

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.35

5.4 

5.5

5.8

6.1

6.4

6.4

6.3

6.3

6.3

6.0

5.6

5.7

5.7

5.6

5.5

^ fi

5.7

6.0

6.0

5.9

6.0

6.6

6.7

6.7

June.

6.9

6.8

6.4

6.0

5.8

5.8

5.7

5.65

5.6

5.4

5.4

5.3

5.2

5.1

5.05

5.0

4.95

4.9

4.85

4.8

4.75

4.7

' 4.65

4.6

4.55

A K

4.45

4.45

4.45

July.

4.45

4.4

4.4

4.35

4 35

4.35

4.35

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.25

4.25

4.35

4.3

4.3

4.25

4.25

4.3

4.25

4.2

4-2

4 1C

4.15

4.15

4.15

4.2

4.15

4.1

Aug.

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.05

4.05

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.15

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0 A. n

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

A. ft

4.0

Sept.

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

4.0

4.05

4.05

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0 '

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

Oct.

4.0

4.05

4.05

4.05

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.05

4.05

4.0

4.05

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.05

4.05

4.05

4.05

4.05

A f\K

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

Nov.

4.0

4.0

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.95

3.95

3.95

Dec.

3.96

3.95

3.95

4.0

4.1

3.95

3.95

3.95

4.0

4.0

4.05

4.1

4.3

4.5

4.3

4.3

4.5

4.6

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.5

5.6

5.4

5.8

5.3

5.1

NOTE. Relation of gage height to discharge probably affected by ice during January and February 

and from Dec, 15 to 31; stream filled with ice after Dec. 15.
THE GSEAT BASIN. 51

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Weber River near Oakley, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 163 square miles.]

Day.

1. ..............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...........

14...........

15............. .

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24. ..............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan. Feb. Mar.

80

85

OR

105

114

133

i^ri

120

132

138

146

14fi

146

155

165

174

190

320

419

364

330

278

240

OJA

999

205

190

174

Apr.

one

222

240

999

240

OA(\

94A

97R

SOn

364

419

462

514

419

364

344

Q7 E

419

488

514

EfiQ

685

878

1,020

1 ftQfi

1,090

1,020

1,020

May.

855

685

Eftfi

PIAR

56$

596

625

685

C7C

1 oon

1 3^Ui

1 330

1,250

1 9^n

1 9^n

1,020

885

747

811

811

747

685

747

811

1,020

1,020

948

1,020

1,510

1,600

1 ' 600

June.

1 790

1,690

I

QQn

1,180

1,020

C7C

C7Q

fill

7'9

747

ftoe

A95

EfiQ

514

437

412

342

299

278

240

999

OrtE

IQft

i9d

July.

190

174

174

165

160

160

160

160

146

146

146

146

160

Idfi

146

133

190

14.fi

120

108

108

108

108

120

108

Aug.

120

QA

QA

QA

QA

QA

85

QE

74

74

74

108

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

Sept.

74

74

74

74

74

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

74

80

85

85

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

Oct.

74

74

CE

CE

QE

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

85

85

74

85

96

85

85

85

85

85

85

74

74

74

74

74

Nov.

74

74

70

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

74

65

65

65

Dec.

65

65

65

65

74

96

80

65

65

65

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve that is fairly well defined, 

interpolated for days of missing gage heights during open season.

Monthly discharge of Weber River near Oakley, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area? 163 square miles.]

Discharge

» 

Month.

April.......................

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

412 

1,090 

1,600 

1,790 

190 

120 

85 

96 

74 

96

1,790

Minimum.

o80 

205 

568 

190 

96 

74 

65 

74 

65 

o50

o50

Mean.

85 

75 

180 

515 

952 

608 

141 

80.8 

71.9 

80.4 

68.2 

58.2

244

Per 

square 

mile.

0.521 

.460 

1.10 

3.16 

5.84 

3.73 

.865 

.496 

.441 

.493 

.418 

.357

1.50

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.60 

.48 

1.27 

3.53 

6.73 

4.16 

1.00 

.57 

.49 

.57 

.47 

.41

20.28

Total in 

acre-feet.

5,230 

4,160 

11,100 

30,600 

58,500 

36,200 

8,670 

4,970 

4,280 

4,940 

4,060 

3,580

176,000

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

C.

o Estimated.

NOTE. Discharge for periods during which ice was present estimated from climatologic records and 

observer's notes In regard to ice. Mean discharge Dec. 11 to 31 estimated at 50 second-feet.
52 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

WEBER RIVER AT DEVILS SLIDE, UTAH. 1

This station, which is located one-fourth mile upstream from the 

Oregon Short Line Railroad bridge at the town of Devils Slide, about 

1£ miles west of Croyden and 10 miles below Echo, Utah, was established February 1, 1905, to determine the amount of water available 

for storage in the Henefer basin, about 2 miles above, in connection 

with the proposed Weber River project.

Lost Creek enters the Weber about one-fourth mile above the 

station and Chalk Creek about 15 miles above. Water is diverted 

above the station only for irrigation in the narrow valleys and in 

Kamas Prairie.

The gage is a staff; its datum has remained unchanged since the 

station was established.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable and car.

The river never freezes over at the station, and the relation between 

gage height and discharge is not seriously affected by the slush ice 

that runs at times. The channel shifts somewhat, but the conditions 

under which observations are made are fairly good. The flow is not 

affected by artificial control above or below the station, and the 

records may be considered good.

Discharge measurements of Weber River at Devils Slide, Utah, in 1910. ,

Date.

Aug. 6

6

Sept. 6

Oct. 7

Dec. 7

Hydrographer.

G. H. Canfield .............................................

.....do......................................................

.....do......................................*...............

.....do.....................................................

J.C.Dort..... .............................................

Width.

Feet. 

92

Q4.

92

Q4

102

Area of 

section.

*** 

77

62

79

94

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.17

9 17

2.04

2.21

2.40

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

126

124

89

142

192

i. Station formerly described as "Weber River near Croyden."
THE GEEAT BASEST. 53

Doily gage height, in feet, for Weber River at Devils Slide, Utah, for 1910. 

[E. T. Crouch, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8. ..............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14. ..............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26. ..............

27...............

28. ..............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2

0

2.3

2.3

2.3

2

0

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

Feb.

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.5

Mar.

3.1

3.4

3.6

3.8

4.0

A. n

4.0

3.9

3 Q

9 q

1 Q

3.9

4.0

4.0

4.1

4

0

4 9

4.2

4 2

A 9

4.2

A n

4.0

40

3.9

3.9

3.9

3 O

3.8

3.8

3.8

Apr.

<i a

3.8

3.9

3.9

4.0

4.0

4.1

4.2

4.2

A *

4.5

4 a

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.1

A Q

A. a

A. fi

4.6

4.7

4.7

4 7

4 9

4 9

5.0

5.1

5.2

5.1

5.0

May.

A Q

A Q

4 6

4.5

4.2

4.2

4.3

4.5

4.5

4.7

4 7

4.8

4.8

4.0

4.0

3 A

3.8

3.6

3.6

<i >;

3.4

3.5

3

C

3.6

3.6

3 7

^ Q

4.0

4.0

4.0

June.

4.0

3 Q

3.9

3 Q

3 Q

<i a

3

/»

3.6

3.4

3

O

^ 9

3 1

3

f\

2 9

2 ft

2 9

2 a

2 a

2 a

2.5

2.4

2 A

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

July.

2

O

o Q

2

0

9 ^

2

0

2

0

2

0

2

0

2

0

2

0

2.3

2.3

2

0

2

0

2

O

2

O

2

0

2.3

2

O

2

0

2.3

9 1

9'^

2

0

2.3

2.3

2

0

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

Aug.

2

0

9 °.

2

0

9 ^

2

9

9 9

2 9

2.2

2 9

2 9

9 9

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2 2

2 9

2 9

2.2

2.2

2 9

2 9

2.2

2.2

2 9

2.2

2 9

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

Sept.

9 9

2.2

2 9

2 1

2 1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2

1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2

-1

2.1

2.1

2 1

2.1

9 9

9 9

2.2

9 9

9 9

2.2

9 9

9 9

2.2

2 9

9 9

2.2

2.2

Oct.

9 9

2.2

2.2

2 9

2 9

9 9

9 9

2 9

2

0

9 ^

9 °.

2

0

2

0

9 ^

9 3

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

Nov.

2 4

2 4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2 A

2. 4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2 A

2.4

2.4

2.4

9 A

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

Dec.

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2 4

2.4

2.4

2

K

2.6

2.6

2

C

2

C

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2 A

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

Daily discharge, in second-feet, for Weber River at Devils Slide, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12. ..............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18. ..............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24. ..............

25. ..............

26. ..............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30............... 01

Jan.

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

305

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

305

305

Feb.

305

305

305

305

305

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

349

395

395

395

349

349

349

395

Mar.

713

905

1,050

1,210

1,380

1,380

1,380

1,300

1,300

1,300

1,300

1,300

1,380

1,380

1,470

1,550

1,550

1,550

1,550

1,550

1,550

1,380

1,380

1,380

1,300

1,300

1,300

1,300

1,210

1,210

1,210

Apr.

1,210

1,210

1,300

1 300

1,380

1,380

1,470

1,550

1,550

1,830

1,830

2,110

2,320

2,320

2,320

2,440

2,110

2,110

1,920

1.920

2,020

2,020

2,020

2,220

2,220

2,320

2,440

2,550

2,090

1,990

May.

1,890

1,890

1,610

1,520

1,260

1,260

1,340

1,520

1,520

1,700

1,700

1,790

1,790

1,790

1,100

1,100

1,020

950

810

810

740

680

740

740

810

810

880

1,020

1,100

1,100

1,100

June.

1,100

1,020

1,020

1,020

1,020

950

810

810

680

560

560

500

450

400

400

400

350

350

350

225

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

160

160

160

July.

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

Aug.

160

160

160

160

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

.132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

Sept.

132

132

132

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

Oct.

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

132

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

190

-190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

Nov.

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

Dec.

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

225

265

265

225

225

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

190

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two fairly well-defined discharge rating curves, one applicable 

from Jan. 1,1909, to Apr. 27,1910, and the other applicable from Apr. 28 to Dec. 31,1910.
54 SURFACE WATEB SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Monthly discharge of Weber River at Devils Slide, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 1,090 square miles.l

Month.

April.......................

May........................

July......... ..............

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

349 

395 

1,550 

2,550 

1,890 

1,100 

160 

160 

132 

190 

190 

265

2,550

Minimum.

305 

305 

713 

1,210 

740 

160 

160 

132 

106 

132 

190 

190

106

Mean.

319 

348 

1,320 

1,920 

1,230 

493 

" 160 

136 

120 

, 168 

190 

198

550

Per 

square 

mile.

0.293 

.319 

1 21 

1.76 

1.13 

.452 

.147 

.125 

.110 

.154 

.174 

.182

.505

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.34 

.33 

1.40 

1.96 

1.30 

.50 

.17 

.14 

.12 

.18 

.19 

.21

6.84

Total in

acre-feet.

19,600 

19,300 

81,200 

114,000 

75,600 

29,300 

9,840 

8,360 

7,140 

10,300 

11,300 

12,200

398,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

NOTE. Accuracy somewhat uncertain from about January to May. 1910, as no discharge measurements 

were made between July, 1909, and August, 1910.

WEBER RIVEE NEAR PLAIN CITY, UTAH.

This station, which is located at the highway bridge on the main 

road to Plain City and West Weber, about 10 miles northwest of 

Ogden, Utah, and about 6 miles above the mouth of the river, was 

established in 1903 under the direction of the State engineer and 

was maintained by the State until May 14, 1905, when it was taken 

over by the United States Geological Survey, by whom it has since 

been maintained in cooperation with the State.

As the station is below all diversions and all tributaries Ogden 

River entering about 8 miles above the records show the total amount 

of water discharged into Great Salt Lake and will be valuable in the 

adjudication of water rights on the Ogden and Weber rivers.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge. The upstream 

face of the center bridge pier is graduated, marked with white paint, 

and forms the gage.

The records are very little affected by ice, although the river 

freezes at times near the station. There is no effect from artificial 

control above or below the station, and as the bed of the stream 

changes only slightly the records may be considered excellent.

Discharge measurements of Weber River near Plain City, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Dec. 10

Hydrographer.

E. 8. Fuller1 ...............................................

J.C. Dort.................................................

Width.

Feet.

114

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft.

272

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.40

4.96

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

16

480

a Wading measurement about 300 feet below the bridge.
THE GREAT BASIN. 55

Daily gage height, in feet, of Weber River near Plain City, Utah, for 1910. 

[W. E. Davies, observer.]

fray.

1............... 

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

8.2 

14.0

10.2

10.0

9.7

9.5

9.1

8.2

8.5

8.4

8.1

8.0

7.7

7.4

7.2

6.9

6.8

6.7

6.7

6.6

6.5

6.4

6.4

6.3

6.3

6.2

6.2

6.2

6.1

6.1

6.0

Feb.

6.0 

6.0

6.2

6.3

6.5

6.7

6.6

6.6

6.4.

6.2

6.1

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.9

5.9

5.8

5.7

5.6

5.6

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.6

5.8

6.1

6.7

.......

Mar.

7.4 

8.9

11.9

19 H

14.1

13.5

13.1

12.8

13.0

12.3

11.8

11.3

11.6

12.1

12.3

12.8

13.3

13.6

14.2

15.1

15.7

16.2

16.9

16.3

15.1

14.3

13.9

13.3

12.9

11.6

11.3

Apr.

11.1 

11.7

12.3

12.1

11.5

n o

12.4

19 7

13.1

13.7

13.4

13.4 1^1 i

13.1

13.0

13.1

13.1

13.0

12.8

12.9

11 9

13.7

13.9

14.1

14.5

14.7

H Q

15.2

15.8

15.9

May.

.......

11.6

12.2

11.6

11.0

11.0

11.2

12.0

H o

12.0

11.8

11.6

11.2

10.4

8.6

8.4

8.0

7.8

7.7

7.6

7.3

7.0

7.3

7.0

7.0

7.1

7.7

7.9

June.

8.0

7.5

7.7

7.8

6.9

6.7

6.6

6.1

6.0

5.9

5.4

5.1

4.8

4.0

3.5

3.3

3.3

3.0

3.1

3.0

2 0

2.7

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

July.

2.4 

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2

9

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

Aug.

2.2 

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

' 2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

Sept.

2.1 

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

1 2.3

2.3

2.3 2.3*

2.3

2.3

2.5

2.5

2.6

3.0

3.3

3.4

3.3

3

0

/ 3.2

3.4

3.6

3.8

Oct.

3.8 

4 1

4.1

4.1

4.3

4.6

4.5

3 Q

3.9

4.1

3.9

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.5

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

Nov.

4.5 

/ 4.5

4.5

4.7

4.7

4.4

4.4

4.3

4.5

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.7

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.7

Dec.

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

5.1

5.1

5.5

5.3

4.9

4.8

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.8

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.6

4.3

4.5

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Weber River near Plain City, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30............... 41

Jan.

1,310

3,690

2,060

1 980

1,860

1,780

1,640

1,310

1,420

1 380

1,280

1,240

1 140

1,040

974

880

850

820

820

. 790

762

734

734

707

707

680

680

680

654

654

fiOft

Feb.

628

628

680

707

762

820

790

790

734

680

628

628

628

602

602

576

576

550

525

525

500

500

475

525

576

654

820

Mar.

1,040

1,560

2,750

3,000

3,690

3,430

3,250

3,130

3,210

2,920

2,710

2,500

2,620

2,830

2,920

3,130

3,340

3,470

3,740

4,130

4,400

4,660

5,130

4,720

4,130

3,780

.3,610

3,340

3,170

2,620

2,500

Apr.

2,420

2,660

2,920

 2,830

2,580

2,750

2,960

3,080

3,250

3,520

3,390

3,390

3,250

3,250

3,210

3,250

3,250

3,210

3,130

3,170

3,300

3,520

3,610

3,690

3,870

3,960

4,050

4,180

4,450

4,500

May.

4,160

3,820

3,480

3,140

2,810

3,060

2,810

2,560

2,560

2,640

2,980

2,940

2,980

2,900

2,810

2,640

2,320

1,620

1,540

1,400

1,330

1,290

1,260

1,150

1,050

1,150

1,050

1,050

1,080

1,290

I

OflA

June.

1,400

1,220

1,290

1,330

1,020

956

926

778

750

722

590

512

438

266

172

136

136

88

104

88

72

44

32

32

22

22

22

16

16

16

July.

16

16

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

Aug.

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

Sept.

5

5

5

5

5

22

22

22

22

22

12

12

12

12

12

12

22

22 * W

88

136

154

136

120

120

154

190

226

Oct.

226

286

286

286

326

392

370

246

246

286

246

266

266

266

266

286

286

306

370

392

392

392

392

370

370

370

370

370

370

370

370

Nov.

370

370

370

414

414

348

348

326

370

392

392

392

370

370

370

392

414

414

438

414

414

414

438

438

438

438

438

438

414

414

Dec.

438

438

438

414

438

438

414

414

414

512

512

616

564

462

438

392

392

392

438

438

414

392

392

438

392

370

370

370

392

326

370

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two well-defined discharge rating curves, one applicable from 

June 1,1909, to Apr. 30,1910, and the other from May 1 to Dec. 31,1910. Discharge May 1 to 4 interpolated.
56 STJKFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Weber River near Plain City, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 2,060 square miles.]

Months.

January. ...................

April.......................

May......... ...............

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

3,690 

820 

5,130 

4,500 

4,160 

1,400 

16 

8 

226 

392 

438 

616

5,130

Minimum.

628 

475 

1,040 

2,420 

1,050 

16 

8 

5 

5 

226 

326 

326

5

Mean.

1,160. 

634. 

3,270. 

3,350. 

2,200. 

441. 

11.1 

6.7 53.9' 

324. 

399. 

427.

1,030.

Per 

square 

mile.

0.563 

.308 

1.59 

1.63 

1.07 

.214 

.0054 

.0033 

.026 

.157 

.194 

.207

.500

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.65 

.32 

1.83 

1.82 

1.23 

.24 

.006 

.004 

.03 

.18 

.22 

.24

6.77

Total in 

acre-feet.

71,300 

35,200 

201,000 

199,000 

135,000 

26,200 

682 

412 

3,210 

19,900 

23,700 

26,300

742,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

C. 

D. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A.

OGDEN EIVER NEAR OGDEN, UTAH.

This station, which is located at the dam of the Utah Light & 

Power Co., 2£ miles above the terminus of the Ogden Canyon Electric 

Kailway and about 8 miles from Ogden post office, in the NW. i SW. J 

sec. 16, T. 6 N., R. 1 E., Salt Lake base and meridian, was established by the Utah Lfight & Railway Co. in January, 1904.

The discharge is measured by a weir consisting of eleven 5-foot 

openings, each opening crested as a separate weir. The Francis weir 

formula is used in the computations. The water diverted through 

the power plant is measured by two Venturi meters, each having a 

24-inch throat. At the mouth of the canyon is a waste pipe, the 

capacity of which is taken into consideration in the company's 

records.

The height of the water surface above the crest of the weir openings 

is determined by a hook gage; an automatic gage is used in connection with the two Venturi meters, located in the pipe line just 

above the power house.

Records are furnished by Mr. Frank Carr, of the Utah Light & 

Railway Co. The few minor changes in the figures showing monthly 

discharge have been made by engineers of the United States Geological Survey.
THE GEEAT BASIF. 57 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Ogden River near Ogden, Utah, for 1904-1909.

 Day.

1904. 

1. .............

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

11............

12..............

13...........

14............ 

15.............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19..............

20..............

21............

22............

23..............

24.............. 

25..........

26

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31.............. 

1905.

2..............

3.......... .

4.............

5.............

6..............

7............

8............

9..............

10..............

11.............

12.............

13........ .

14........ .

15..........

16..............

17..............

18..............

19..............

20..............

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26.............

27.............

28.............

29............. 

30............. 

31.............

Jan.

48.9

49.4

47.4

47.1

48.0

50.8

52.8

52.0

50.6

51.4

54.4

57.6

56.2

55.6 

56.1

55.5

52.0

51.0

57.9

54.6

56.8

61.0

57.7

55.2 

55.3

55.8

56.0

55.3

55.8

56.8

56.8 

52.0

47.1

44.2

43.5

42.9

4.9 t\

49 f\

42.9

42.0

41 %

49 1

4^ 4

43.1

44.5

45.9

40 7

«2.6

63.7

64.4

65.7

67.5

69.6

70.3

70.0

68.8

AS n

68.9

67.5

67.0 

67.5 

76.5

Feb.

54.4

55.3

58.0

58.0

58.0

62.9

65.2

63.4

60.8

58.9

65.1

65.4

65.5

65.4 

69.3

77.3

79.8

68.3

73.3

74.8

152.6

285.5

350.5 

468.0

602.7

375.5

255.5

243.6

85.7

92.0

86.4

82.5

7fi 9

73.1

70.0

69.3

70.1

70.2

70.0

57.2

59.1

60.9

61.4

62.4

62.4

59.4

59.0

60.8

64.1

67.3

69.6

70.0

70.1

70.8

74.1

78.4

Mar.

236.6

289.7

227.0

252.1

221.5

231.1

302.5

383.1

421.9

401.2

416.1

308.8

301.4

308.8 

399.7

396.2

337.8

458.7

629.7

643.3

592.6

495.4

532.6

540.6 

447.7

375.4

374.3

394.7

691.8

647.5

569.0 

78.1

80.3

86.3

93.6

95.3

100.8

121.5

121.4

121.9

124.1

126.5

127.5

129.5

135.6

136.0

137.2

132.1

127.2

162.1

159.1

153.0

144.6

138.1

154.5

155.3

160.4

199.2

180.2

178.5 

175.4 

168.3

Apr.

490.2

490.5

573.9

580.5

685.8

666.0

626.8

583.1

603.3

693.7

804.6

.,005.1

1,111.1

1,215.1 

1,418.3

1,373.7

1,200.2

1,123.1

1,214.5

1,435.4

1,380.3

1,158.1

1,116.6

822.4 

793.1

856.5

1,084.8

1,257.6

1,186.0

1,141.8

160.9

159.4

156.7

153.9

153.6

157.4

174.6

208.2

239.6

293.1

255.2

218.6

212.5

231.6

242.2

368.0

332.1

312.9

353.6

397.5

368.9

354.8

379.2

442.6

489.6

585.3

594.1

606.6

579. 4< 

573.5

May.

1,184.5

1,105.8

1,288.0

.,425.5

.,205.8

1,496.0

1,758.4

.,413.1

1,287.9

1,454.1

1,536.2

1,406.3

1,425.5

1,473.6 

1,829.9

1,477.9

1,403.6

1,370.5

1,417.4

1,304.3

1,252.3

1,217.8

1,218.2

1,203.3 

1,260.8

1,105.9

966.1

890.0

783.0

701.2

717.5 

681.5

762.2

695.2

603.8

549.9

513.7

498.1

540.5

602.8

536.9

516.8

513.9

513.9

535.8

541.6

553.5

679.2

785.2

766.2

783.1

779.9

718.9

679.5

612.6

600.7

585.1

551.8

531.0

449.5 

398.0 

367.0

June.

558.6

616.9

598.9

544.9

500.5

471.6

450.8

403.8

403.3

361.4

330.2

294.4

256.2

245.0 

244.5

236.3

226.7

216.8

197.8

203.1

201.0

179.2

167.3

158.6 

163.1

160.6

146.2

134.8

127.3

122.7

335.6

294.4

267.5

252.9

233.7

185.1

159.4

130.4

116.9

116.9

113.4

111.1

108.4

105.0

104.2

103.5

125.2

134.2

126.4

108.2

101.5

96.6

94.2

93.5

90.0

85.6

81.0

81.8

81.8 

81.8

July.

129.9

122.4

114.5

112.0

109.2

108.0

107.4

107.6

107.1

95.8

86.1

89.7

95.5

86.7 

86.8

85.3

81.6

80.3

78.0

80.2

78.4

74.1

71.0

68.5 

65.3

56.0

55.5

54.1

60.6

56.0

55.4

82.6

81.4

82.8

75.0

73.0

72.6

71.5

73.6

74.5

79.5

68.4

68.1

67.3

71.9

82.7

71.6

71.0

68.5

66.0

66.4

63.6

63.0

61.9

60.2

56.2

54.8

52.8

54.1

53.1 

52.3 

52.0

Aug.

55.4

57.8

55.8

53.5

50.4

52.6

50.4

50.3

49.1

49.9

62.7

63.3

72.4

62.8 

59,0

56.5

67.4

63.2

74.6

48.5

52.6

54.9

73.0

68.3 

64.7

66.1

69.7

61.7

65.7

59.2

62.5 

49.7

49.2

48.9

49.0

51.6

52.0

50.7

50.3

50.9

49.8

48.6

47.7

46.8

46.2

45.8

44.9

47.3

48.9

50.0

50.7

45.6

50.7

53.3

55.8

58.6

72.9

57.0

67.4

57.8 

 63.5 

60.0

Sept.

59.6

58.9

59.3

52.2

54.7

47.6

41.7

41.0

40.3

41.4

39.3

45.7

46.5

47.7 

48.6

47.3

49.0

49.3

47.9

48.8

48.0

45.6

45.9

45.3 

42.1

45.0

45.1

47.7

50.2

53.9

50.7

50.2

50.0

50.8

50.9

50.0

49.5

48.6

48.9

48.2

47.5

45.6

44.3

42.2

42.9

45.4

45.9

47.8

48.7

48.3

47.4

46.9

46.9

47.0

48.1

50.6

49.1

49.2

49.5 

49.1

Oct.

52.0

51.3

51.4

54.3

57.0

58.9

59.7

57.0

57.0

61.1

60.0

67.9

«5.5

62.7 

61.8

71.1

70.0

70.0

66.4

67.1

67.7

67.9

64.5

67.4 

69.1

68.3

67.9

68.4

68.0

65.6

64.4 

50.7

50.2

50.0

50.8

50.9

50.0

49.5

48.6

48.9

48.2

47.5

45.6

44.3

42.2

42.9

45.4

45.9

47.8

48.7

48.3

47.4

46.9

46.9

47.0

48.1

50.6

49.1

49.2

49.5 

49.1 

49.7

Nov.

65.1

67.0

66.3

65.9

66.2

65.7

65.2

65.6

64.1

64.1

63.6

63.3

60.9

60.4 

60.2

61.0

60.9

60.6

60.6

59.1

59.5

59.2

58.8

59.3 

59.3

59.3

59.3

59.5

59.9

59.9

49.9

50.5

50.7

50.6

49.3

48.9

49.3

49.0

49.8

49.7

48.2

47.8

' 48.1

48.5

48.7

48.8

50.7

50.6

50.1

51.8

53.9

52.0

52.0

52.0

51.6

52.3

52.6

52.3

51.5 

51.2

Dec.

61.0

61.5

57.2 si. r

48.0

48.2

49.2

50.4

51.2

57.6

58.7

58.0

89.2

61.1 

56.2

55.0

52.2

57.5

59.9

59.3

58.8

61.8

63.3

63.2 

57.3

50.9

42.7

48.4

52.2

52.7

56.1 

50.1

50.1

49.4

47.3

42.3

41.7

40.7

40.5

40.4

40,2

*40.1

40.6

40.2

40.0

39.8

39.9

40.2

42.0

43.5

43.7

44.0

43.2

42.5

43.1

44.0

44.6

45.2

46.1 

45.6

45.7
58 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Ogden River near Ogden, Utah, for 1904-1909 Contd.

Days.

1906.

3..........

5..........

6..........

7......-.-.

8..........

9.......... 

10..........

11..........

19

13..........

14..........

15..........

16..........

17..........

18..........

19

20..........

21..........

22..........

23..........

24..........

25..........

26..........

27..........

28..........

29..........

30..........

31..........

1907. 

1. ........".

2..........

3..........

4..........

5..........

6...........

7..........

8..........

9..........

10..........

11.:........

12..........

13..........

14. .........

15..........

16..........

17..........

18..........

19

20..........

21..........

22..........

23..........

24..........

25..........

26..........

27..........

28..........

29..........

30..........

31..........

Jan.

45.0

45.0

45.4

45.4

45.3

44.2

44.1

44.3 

44.3

45.6

46.0

56.7

48.9

47.7

50.0

56.2

76.0

68.9

57.3

55.5

53.8

53.0

52.8

53.6

55.2

55.8

53.0

51.2 

81.3

80.9

81.3

83.4

87-2

QO Q

80.2

76.1

67.8

70.1

76.7

87.9

84.9

88.4

83.7

85.3

86.7

83.2

74.6

79 Q

72.8

70.2

70.5

69.8

70.7

86.1

87.9

90.6

89.9

93.3

Feb.

En fl

50.1

49.8

48.4

48.9

48.5

48.2

do 1

50.5 

51.7

52.5

53.5

55.5

57.9

62.1

63.2

63.2

63.3

64.0

68.7

70.7

65.0

61.0

63.4

65.2

67.1

71.7

105.3

129.6

319.5

1, 169. 3

3,257.2

2,313.3

1,055.0

630.3

454.1

375.6

291.5

304.0

266.9

'257 9

253.3

268.8

277.7

296.8

338.5

345.9

454.9

966.5

748.3

562.3

573.5

466.5

372.1

Mar.

73.7

77 9

73.0

71.7

69.6

69.0

69.0

AQ 9

77.1 

90.6

101.8

132.4

225.5

182.1

151.0

121.8

117.5

114.6

106.4

109.3

113.7

128.2

148.3

9QQ 7

785.0

647 4

596.1

574.2

667.0 

330.1

356.5

337.6

9OQ fl

291.5

317.0

374.6

361.4

352.7

322.5

336.1

286.5

257.1

997 7

588.0

1, 136. 0

9 9Qft ft

1,749.9

1, 475. 4

1,193.5

1,025.8

851.3

773.9

754.8

655.2

Apr.

7CQ O

610.8

J.79 7

408.7

384.7

QQfl Q

468.2

KAK *?

623.7 

705.6

7flfl o

592.9

512.0

570.0

746 0

831.5

844 1

852.4

970.7

1,050.8

929.3

787.4

679.2

637.3

640 2

642.4

704 4

854.9

1,461.0

1 423 2

1, 675. 3

1,793.6

1,727.6

1,591.2

1,744.0

1, 976. 6

2, 134. 8

2, 134. 8

2,566.4

2,835.4

2 CQ1 fl

2,361.0

2,253.8

1

QQ1 Q

1,579.7

1,337.8

1, 197. 4

1, 197. 4

1, 197. 4

1 1 07 d

1,243.5

1,407.6

1,553.2

1,545.5

1,481.4

May.

675.5

616.0

585.5

1,039.6

1,075.1

1,000.2

1,017.0

934.0

941.4 

1,071.0

1 066 0

l! 103.0

1,067.0

964.2

1,060.6

844.0

684.5

709.3

659.8

679.2

745.9

745.6

717.3

689.6

597.6

685.1

857.4

1,113.5

1,124.6

1 349 5

l'316.7 

1,414.7

1,463.5

1,270.8

1,262.0

1, 171. 8

1,048.4

1 045 9

1,366.8

2,251.3

o fll^ 9

l'533.5

1 304 1

1,148.2

1 979 R

1,317.8

1,709.2

0 100 O

2, 155. 7

1 945 2

1,771.0

1,763.8

1,554.1

1 957 7

1 080 3

1,008.3

1,007.6

934.3

1,030.0

June.

1 307 7

l' 141. 1

1,115.0

1,035.4

998.4

1,093.4

1,085.9

863.3 

799.3

792.4

692.4

610.9

535.9

487.8

443.3

398.0

350.7

274.6

250.3

236.8

208.8

180.5

184.5

170.0

309.1

239.4

1QQ Q

1,227.7

1,251.0

1,521.7

1,334.7

1,329.2

1,335.5

1,385.1

1, 441. 8

1 300 0

1,'098.9

1,057.1

1,076.8

1,038.6

995.1

817.6

767.4

737.9

663.7

658.6

590.1

587.7

550.6

515.3

415.3

388.0

352.4

317.4

299.6

July.

.......

284.5

280.9

288.0

271.2

261.2

OKO 9

262.1

247.4

242.7

238.6

246.6

213.4

200.3

191.5

187.2

185.1

188.4

169.6

167.0

148.9

138.3

136.7

133.4

128.2

117.1

110.0

97.5

97.0

109.5

Aug.

.......

105.6

107.1

111.9

103.9

110.3

109.9

96.3

87.1

86.9

96.6

88.6

89.7

85.3

89.5

89.0

91.9

92.1

87.3

76.4

80.2

81.2

95.1

112.9

92.8

92.1

89.0

96.7

115.5

119.5

Sept.

114.3

110.0

96.0

90.2

97.4

92.4

86.8

90.7

84.2 

89.4

83.4

76.7

88.5

92.5

98.2

90.6

89.9

85.5

81.4

75.7

77.6

78.6

76.5

77.3

77.0

74.3

75.2

73.9

76.9

69.3

91.9

85.4

85.5

87.7

97.7

85.1

84.8

84.8

84.7

84.7

90.3

92.3

91.1

87.2

87.6

80 7

80 1

82.5

82 9

81.5

86.9

89.6

91.0

90.3

Q1 7

84.8

84.8

84.8

84.8

84.8

Oct.

64.3

62.2

62.6

76.9

65.9

70.2

70.4

70.2

67. 

65.7

66.3

68.5

68.4

66.9

69.7

69.4

69.9

70.2

70.8

71.0

70.7

72.4

71.2

70.4

70.3

70.1

71.8

70.7

72.2

71.8

75.2 

84.8

84.8

84.8

84.8

84.8

CM Q

77.8

74.6

73.9

69.0

72.3'

76.0

77.8

107.0

87.2

86.2

£5.5

92.1

QO 7

85.6

07 o

80 7

77.3

76.9

% c

107.6

107.7

98.3

88.2

85.4

106.6

Nov.

79.8

74.9

77.4

78.4

78.4

83.7

78.5

79.6

80.8 

75.0

74.0

78.4

78.7

80.2

78.9

80.5

81.0

74.2

72.6

75.2

63.8

62.4

57.8

56.7

56.7

73.8

67.3

69.1

56.7

93.4

93.2

90.5

81.3

78.1

QQ Q

90.7

89.4

87.3

91.5

93.3

99.4

100.0

98.8

105.8

96.8

91.2

88.0

85.0

QQ Q

t\d Q

101.4

92.5

85.3

SU. <!

85.9

82.8

85.8

85.6

86.4

Dec.

53.1

52.2

69.0

83.5

79.7

77.6

71.9

77.0

78.7 

68.9

65.5

96.7

86.1

69.7

70.8

63.4

66.7

73.8

73.3

80.0

76.3

75.9

 7K Q

92.6

78.7

86.7

92.2

93.0

90.6 

84 6

84.2

83.4

82.3

82.0

QQ Q

94.2

116.3

QA O

83.8

94.5

ftfi Q

89.5

89.5

77.5

77.5

76.8

72.9

7? 1

66.1

K7 O

66.1

81.8

88.3

84.3

122.6

102.7

100.9

n o

98.0

88.7

NOTE. Daily discharge for July and August, 1906. not determined, but an estimate of the monthly mean 

discharge has been made by the Utah Light i&Ry. Co.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 59 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Ogden River near Ogden, Utah, for 1904-1909 Contd.

Day.

1908. 

1...........

2...........

3...........

4...........

5...........

6...........

7.. .........

8...........

9...........

10...........

11...........

12...........

13. ..........

14...........

15...........

16...........

17...........

18...........

19...........

20...........

21...........

22...........

23...........

24...........

25...........

26...........

27. ..........

28...........

29...........

30...........

31...........

1909. 

1...........

2...........

3...........

4...........

5...........

6...........

7. ..........

8...........

9...........

10...........

11...........

12...........

13...........

14...........

15...........

16...........

17...........

18...........

19...........

20...........

21...........

22...........

23...........

24...........

25...........

26...........

27...........

28...........

29...........

30........... 

31...........

Jan.

80.0

79.1

79.0

64.7

61.9

67.4

64.9

66.5

66.5

66.5

77.9

77.8

75.0

75.7

79.2

80.4

77.7

74.6

78.1

78.8

74.8

72.3

74.5

72.0

71.1

68.0

68.5

74.4

72 7

76.5

67.9

60.8

72.0

63.8

70.8

91.7

533.4

463.4

285.3

283.0

217.2

143.6

120.6

147.0

731.1

1,169.7

1,249.9

QftO Q

771.1

850.0

1,000.0

1, 166. 7

850.0

700.0

589.8

549.1

461.2

375.8

323.8

242.5

198.0 

278.3

Feb.

65.8

70.0

70.2

72.7

75.2

78.9

79.2

75.7

72.2

69.2

75.7

76.2

76.3

74.6

75.3

73.5

75.9

75.3

72.9

76.7

74.4

72.1

73.5

73.5

72.0

71.2

71.1

73.4

79.2

267.5

292.9

314.9

265.5

262.2

177.2

204.5

267.3

254.3

205.0

221.6

191.6

330.4

286.4

232.6

227.9

977 Q

282.8

253.4

219.1

22ft. 4

197.5

206.7

165.4

174.4

176.9

179.9

174.2

.......

Mar.

81.4

82.1

86.2

92.2

88.0

89.7

86.0

75.1

78.9

84.7

79.3

80.9

96.2

123.6

169.2

244.3

341.5

269.1

193.5

179.0

193.7

144.4

159.2

145.0

148.3

146.0

148.8

143.5

120.5

126.6

122.8

177.9

174.0

177.0

215.7

258.1

281.5

275.7

316.3

260.0

255.6

250.6

224.1

239.7.

258.5

262.2

307.2

381.8

571.1

433.2

478.9

406 4

390.2

341.0

425.7

526.9

548.1

552.2

1,285.4

852.1

741.4 

767.6

Apr.

122.9

127.5

133.6

136.1

143.4

151.7

155.0

153.1

154.4

176.7

180.3

217.0

259.5

318.9

305.0

347.0

361.0

359.1

356.8

403.7

431.0

50>.0

482.3

452.0

437.5

378.5

323.7

305.0

285.0

297.2

680 1

793.1

953.0

1,059.4

816.2

765.5

699.6

621.1

630.2

706.4

739.9

678.3

677.0

671.4

804.8

1,038.3

1 901 1

1,601.2

1,643.8

1,648.3

1,294.0

1,318.5

1,305.8

1,427.4

1,426.8

1,583.9

1,843.0

2,252.4

2,094.1

1,453.8

May.

293.2

303.5

337.3

406.4

352.5

339.0

326.6

348.8

350.6

328.4

312.2

295.9

300.8

. 279.2

237.3

233.2

239.5

250.7

409.5

373.8

355.4

348.5

352.8

338.8

322.6

461.5

421.6

393.4

404.1

423.2

1,197.1

1,111.5

1,188.7

1,559.6

1,954.4

1,777.6

1,336.6

1,869.8

1,969.5

1,782.0

2,033.0

1,733.0

1,513.1

1,525.0

1,849.8

1,969.5

1,690.5

1,364.9

1,531.1

1 7fiQ 1

1 Q77 3

2,036.4

2,165.6

1,854.4

1,630.6

1,708.8

1,945.5

2,215.7

1,510.9 

1,457.1

June.

626.8

447.4

662.6

634.3

935.4

827.7

768.2

757.3

783.1

779.2

745.3

717.9

643.0

620.1

750.2

680.5

663.5

776.7

636.4

625.6

613.9

589.5

537.3

470.6

424.9

390.6

330.3

272.4

257.9

186.8

1,703.0

1,849.5

1,904.8

1,920.7

1,939.1

1,738.4

1,707.5

1,611.5

1,283.2

970.0

917.1

782.1

752.3

756.1

710 A.

652.7

KfiQ f\

527.3

492.2

493.4

465 3

449.0

382.4 r»ctn o

386.1

363.0

336.4

315.1

300.4

266.5

July.

164.2

153.3

138.4

113.6

117.8

119.0

117.2

117.6

114.5

99.3

108.7

101.3

106.4

101.3

98.7

89.9

96.5

100.9

97.7

103.3

102.4

95.0

90.8

78.0

83.8

83.8

83.1

SO f\

 96.9

69.4

251.3

257.9

253.4

322.0

272.1

251.4

242.7

227.8

919 1

205.7

186.2

1W 9

159.5

152.5

147.4

152.5

1K*J 1

m o

130.6

136.2

129.1

118.5

122.2

124 4

m o

121.5

129.3

113.9

117.0

117.0 

111.5

Aug.

79.5

73.2

71.9

66.8

72.0

78.7

75.4

69.0

75.0

90.3

85.1

89.8

94.5

86.9

63.4

69.6

83.6

81.9

77.1

83.1

78.5

67.9

61.3

61.3

 SO 7

58.3

n o

68.6

BQ O

68.0

67.2

104.2

108.9

Qfi 1

93.8

94.1

88.8

85.4

91 0

101.6

110.6

108.3

Q1 -I

Q1 C

89.6

89.6

91 0

QQ Q

Q1 7

95 6

95.4

QC O

85.7

84.7

OK Q

or o

03 5

80.8

81.5

85.0

79.5 

88.1

Sept.

68.7

66.5

67.9

60.9

59.6

57.9

57.4

68.3

65.1

59.7

61.4

71.5

61.9

62.6

58.4

61.8

67.2

65.6

66.2

62.9

60.3

57.1

55.6

83.4

108.9

77.0

74.8

66.2

59.8

68.7

112.0

105.3

101.0

92.3

110.4

94.9

112.9

96.0

102.2

104.2

107.0

101.6

106.4

Qi n

01 7

90.5

84 9

88.2

86.2

87.1

86.9

83.6

80.2

on n

86.3

89.7

87.3

82.9

100.5

89.0

Oct.

66.2

74.0

83.2

103.2

115.5

82.4

71.9

68.7

64.1

64.7

63.2

62.3

57.1

61.9

71.6

102.0

RQ 3

83.3

71.2

83.2

71.5

83.2

80.0

73.9

74.6

84 A

81.7

74 0

77.6

77.6

83. S

89.4

89.6

84.5

on 1

106.6

at 9

98.7

QK A

95.3

QQ A

95.8

95.8

95 4

95.5

101.1

103.7

Q9 O

QJ, 7

98.6

101.8

95 7

at 9

101.4

QQ 0

93.0

98.0

93.2

91.1

Q1 fi

102.9 

98.8

Nov.

82.1

83.6

78.8

79.3

81.8

83.7

81.8

82.7

84.2

84.3

82.9

82.3

82.3

82.7

81.0

81.1

79.9

80.4

83.2

80.6

80.0

88.9

86.5

90.4

87.8

73.9

83.6

83.7

79.4

70 7

97.6

07 1

95.0

95.9

93.6

97.8

94.3

95.6

101.7

125.3

104.1

103.6

99.0

95.4

100.1

99.3

09 f\

90.5

336.3

601.6

423.8

745.9

683.4

393.1

509.8

467.5

329.9

315.1

277.1

Dec.

75.7

74.5

79.0

84.8

87.6

82.1

80.5

78.2

86.3

86.7

82.9

85.5

89.5

83.6

82.3

83.0

70 4

63.6

69.9

62.1

58.5

62.2

62.4

62.2

63.7

57.9

59.5

56.5

55.6

62.5

61.9

269.4

309.9

253.8

213.8

203.3

216.5

209.2

196.2

197.4

197.8

190.5

171.0

178.7

175.7

140.4

120.8

107. 1

115.7

99.9

99.4

QQ K

99.5

101.6

104.3

101.6

07 Q

102.1

102.6

99.3

103.8 

114.6

NOTE. Determinations of daily discharge, Jan. 19,20.22, and 23, omitted from original notes, have been 

interpolated by engineers of United States Geological Survey, in order to complete the record for the year
60 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily,discharge, in second-feet, of Ogden River at dam, for 1910. 

[Frank Carr, observer.]

Day.

1.. ...........

2.............

3.............

4.............

5.............

6.............

7.............

8.............

9.............

10.............

11.............

12.............

13.............

14.............

15.............

16.............

17.............

18.............

19.............

20.............

21............. 

22.............

23............. 

24.............

25.............

26............. 

27.............

28............. 

29.............

30.............

31.............

Jan.

529.3

799.2

559.8

413.8

250.2

205.6

189.0

202.8

215.0

176.2

174.0

171.2

179.2

187.5

188.1

182.6

182.3

178.9

149.5

151.2

149.9 

150.8

150.1

147.2

152.0

156.5 

144.5

145.0 

149.7

131.6

138.7

Feb.

142.9

155.4

116.3

104.6

104.9

87.9

99.5

103.2

118.9

113.9

123.7

112.3

118.4

141.0

118.4

115.2

112.8

116.9

116.6

126.0

122.7 

115.0

113.5 in. 9

123.5

124.9 

121.2

150.1

Mar.

224.2

306.4

366.4

462.3

541.4

569.0

727.9

787.0

810.6

771.6

741.9

761.6

797.0

878.3

938.9

1,034.9

1,071.3

1,178.1

1,264.6

1,363.9

1,585.5 

1,811.0

1,917.8 

1,752.6

1,203.0

1,232.1 

1,095.4

1,032.7 

952.4

783.6

759.8

Apr.

730.8

785.8

QAQ O

879.4

796.8

705.7

750.6

839.0

938.1

1,056.4

1,293.6

1,317.0

1

OQO 0

1,323.9

1,017.6

970.8

941.8

993.8

900.7

1,226.0

1,224.5 

1,141.9

1,185.3 

1,238.6

I

oqo Q

1,400.8 

1,248.5

1,243.0 

1,245.1

922.0

May.

968.6

825.2 71 n 4

.......

.......

.......

.......

June.

.......

.......

July.

79.1

80.7

68.6

62.3

69.7

71.2

§9.3 

61.0

64.8 

59.7

58.2

63.1

68.4

68.3 

65.9

58.2

60.8

Aug.

69.7

65.7

66.5

64.4

48.6

56.1

54.1

58.7

57.9

55.0

60.1

57.8

58.3

55.3

51.0

51.7

52.4

52.0

58.5

52.8 

54.8

54.1 

51.0

51.6

56.6 

56.7

53.8 

45.6

53.3

53.2

Sept.

56.9

50.6

52.2

54.2

53.0

53.7

46.4

48.1

50.2

49.5

48.0

46.3

50.8

49.7

46.9

53.8

54.0

47.8

48.9

47.9

48.0 

50.4

44.5 

47.6

47.1

51.5 

42.8

53.0 

50.3

49.6

Oct.

41.0

59.4

48.7

51.0

45.8

51.1

53.8

55.2

50.4

50.3

57.4

58.5

67.0

58.2

61.4

48.2

51.9

73.2

61. f

63.6

65.4 

69.0

63.6 

58.8

61.8

67.2 

66.0

65.7 

67.2

63.9

65.8

Nov.

70.4

68.6

65.4

64.3

69.2

59.9

60.0

61.6

64.3

62.4

64.5

64.3

66.2

58.3

68.8

65.3

64.1

65.7

72.6

63.4

58.3 

64.7

75.9 

66.0

57.4

68.5 

66.9

54.4 

64.7

60.1

Dec.

66.1

63.4

69.9

73.4

60.6

64.4

65.4

59.2

80.5

82.0

93.9

79.0

76.0

67.0

80.9

68.1

76.0

52.6

64.2

70.9

63.5 

70.0

68.0 

68.0

67.0

53.1 

52.2

59.5 

66.8

67.0

70.3

NOTE. Records May 4 to July 14,1910, not available. Discharge Oct. 27 interpolated.

Monthly discharge of Ogden River near Ogden, Utah, for 1904-1910.

Month.

1904.

April....................................................

miy...... ...............................................

July. ....................................................

1905.

February. . ..............................................

April.................................:..................

July.....................................................

October..................................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

61.0 

602.7 

691.8 

1,435.4 

1,829.9 

616.9 

129.9 

74.6 

59.6 

71.1 

67.0 

89.2

1,829.9

76.5 

92.0 

199.2 

606.6 

785.2 

335.6 

82.6 

72.9 

50.9 

50.9 

53.9 

50.1

785.2

Minimum.

47.1 

54.4 

221.5 

490.2 

701.2 

122.7 

54.1 

48.5 

39.3 

51.3 

58.8 

42:7

39.3

41.5 

57.2 

78.1 

153.6 

367.0 

81.0 

52.0 

44.9 

42.2 

42.2 

47.8 

39.8

39.8

Mean.

53.9 

141.5 

410.6 

955.5 

1,287.2 

297.4 

85.8 

59.8 

47.8 

63.3 

62.0 

56.4

293.8

55.7 

69.7 

135.6 

325.2 

595.1 

137.3 

67.5 

52.3 

48.0 

48.1 

50.4 

43.2

134.8

Run-off 

(total in

acre-feet).

3,314 

8,139 

25,247

56,856 

79,147 

17,697 

5,276 

3,677 

2,844 

3,892 

3,689 

3,468

213,200

3,425 

3,871 

8,338 

19,351 

36,591 

8,170 

4,150 

3,216 

2,856 

2,958 

2,999 

2,656

98,600
THE GEEAT BASIN. * 61 

Monthly discharge of Ogden River near Ogden, Utah, for 1904-1910 Continued.

Month.

1906.

April....................................................

May............... .....................................

July.....................................................

The year. ..........................................

1907.

March........... .............. ............

April....................................................

May.. .................................................. .

July.....................................................

The year ...........................................

1908.

April....................................................

May.....................................................

July.................... .......................... ...

The year. ..........................................

1909.

April....................................................

May . . ..

July.....................................................

The year. ........ A ................................

1910.

March .

April........ ............................................

July (15-31).. ............................................

October..................................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

76.0 

71.7 

803.2 

1,050.8 

1,349.5 

1,307.7

114.3 

76.9 

83.7 

96.7

1,345.9

93.3 

3,257.2 

2,862.8 

2,835.4 

2,251.3 

1,521.7 

288.0 

119.5 

97.8 

107.7 

105.8 

122.6

3,257.2

80.0 

79.2 

341.5 

507.0 

423.2 

935.4 

164.2 

89.8 

108.9 

115.5 

90.4 

89.5

935.4

1,249.9 

330.4 

1,285.4 

2,252.4 

2,215.7 

1,939.1 

322.0 

110.6 

112.9 

106.6 

745.9 

309.9

2,252.4

799.2 

155.4 

1,917.8 

1,400.8 

80.7 

69.7 

56.9 

73.2 

75.9 

93.9

Minimum.

44.1 

48.2 

69.0

384.7 

585.5 

170.7

69.3 

62.2 

56.7 

52.2

44.1

67.8 

105.3 

227.7 

704.4 

934.3 

299.6 

97.0 

76.4 

80.1 

69.0 

78.1 

66.1

66.1

61.9 

65.8 

75.1 

122.9 

233.2 

186.8 

69.4 

61.3 

55.6 

57.1 

73.9 

55.6

55.6

60.8 

165.4 

174.0 

621.1 

1,111.5 

266.5 

111.5 

79.5 

80.2 

84.5 

92.0 

97.9

60.8

131.6 

87.9 

224.2 

705.7 

58.2 

45.6 

42.8 

41.0 

54.4 

52.2

Mean.

51.4 

58.2 

244.9 

680.2 

894.7 

597.3 

131.0 

91.0 

85.7 

69.4 

73.0 

76.3

254.9

80.5 

612.3 

786.7 

1,681.7 

1,443.6 

871.3 

193.3 

95.3 

86.7 

86.3 

90.4 

85.9

506.8

72.9 

73.8 

136.1 

281.0 

338.6 

605.2 

104.1 

74.1 

66.1 

77.5 

82.4 

72.9

164.9

484.8 

237.0 

407.4 

1,150.6 

1,714.1 

898.1 

171.1 

92.2 

94.7 

95.7 

231.9 

154.6

478.3

222.6 

119.0 958.8' 

1,063.4 

66.4 

55.9 

49.8 

58.5 

64.5 

68.4

Run-off 

(total in

acre-feet).

3,160 

3,232 

15,058 

40,480 

55,013 

35,542 

8,055 

5,595 

5,100 

4,267 

4,344 

4,692

185,000

. 4,950 

34,005 

48,371 

100,068 

88,764 

51,846 

11,886 

5,860 

5,159 

5,306 

5,379 

5,282

366,877

4,482 

4,245 

8,368 

16,721 

20,820 

36,012 

6,401 

4,556 

3,933 

4,765 

4,903 

4,482

119,688

29,803 

13,162 

25,050 

68,465 

105,396 

53,441 

10,520 

5,669 

5,635 

5,884 

13,799 

9,506

346,336

13,687 

6,609 

58,959 

63,270 

2,238 

3,437 

2,963 

3,597 

3,838 

4,206

162,804

NOTE, Monthly means for July and August, 1906, estimated by Utah Light & By. Co.
62 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X. 

JORDAN RIVER BASIN.

GENERAL FEATURES. 1

Jordan River drains an area in north-central Utah in the extreme 

eastern part of the Great Basin. The eastern limit of this area is 

the lofty Wasatch Range; its western limit is defined by relatively 

low basin ranges the Oquirrh, Lake, and East Tintic mountains. 

It is crossed from east to west by the Traverse Range, whose slopes 

constitute a dam for Utah Lake, which drains through the Jordan to 

Great Salt Lake. The area comprises 3,300 square miles, of which 

2,600 are tributary to Utah Lake and 700 to the Jordan north of 

Traverse Mountains. About 2,000 square miles of the area are in. 

the Wasatch Mountains.

Utah Lake is a body of shallow water about 21 miles long and 7 

miles wide, covering a maximum area of 93,000 acres, and ranging in 

depth from less than 8 feet over much of its extent to about 13 feet 

in the main body of the lake. In its northwestern part, however, 

soundings have discovered several deep holes caused by springs. 

The shore line of the lake changes with the varying relations of 

evaporation, precipitation, and inflow, and the margins are characteristically swampy. Two large, shallow bays extend eastward and 

southward from the main body of the lake, one south of Provo and 

the other north of Goshen. West of the lake the Pelican Hills 

approach close to the shore and the region is barren, but on the north, 

east, and south the land rises gently toward the base of the mountains and is dotted with flourishing settlements which are supported 

by irrigation.

The principal streams tributary to Utah Lake are Dry, American 

Fork, Battle, and Grove creeks, Provo River, Hobble Creek, Spanish 

Fork and Peteetneet, Santaquin, and Currant creeks.

Provo River is the largest of the tributaries, is approximately 70 

miles long and drains an area 640 square miles in extent. It rises 

in the Uintah Mountains near the sources of Weber, Bear, and 

Du Chesne rivers, flows westward and southward through Kamas 

and Provo valleys, and passes through the Wasatch Mountains in 

the deep canyon. On entering Utah Lake Valley Provo River flows 

almost due south for 5 miles, skirting the great Erovo delta, and 

thence westward, entering Utah Lake about 3 miles west of Provo.

Hobble Creek rises on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains 

and flows in a general southwesterly direction to Utah Lake. The 

steep, narrow canyon in which the stream flows is broken here and 

there by narrow openings or flats, covered with a shallow deposit of 

bowlders and soil. As these tracts lie along the banks of the creek,

i Abstracted from Richardson, G. B., Underground water in the valleys of Utah Lake and Jordan 

River, Utah: Water-Supply Paper U. S. Creel. Survey No. 157,1906, pp. 5-7,
THE GEE AT BASIN. 63

a large part of the water used in irrigation of the farms is returned 

to the stream as seepage. The creek has no important tributaries, 

but short intermittent streams which flow in steep, narrow canyons 

enter all along the course.

. Spanish Fork drains an area about equal to that of Provo River, 

but carries less water. It rises near Soldier Summit, and, after 

receiving two main tributaries, North and Thistle Creeks, flows in a 

canyon through the main ridge of the Wasatch Mountains and enters 

Utah Lake Valley at the head of the large embayment that extends 

between Payson and Springville.

Salt Creek rises in the southern Wasatch Mountains, on the eastern 

slope of Mount Nebo, and, after crossing the border of the plateau 

region, emerges into the broad valley at the southwestern base of the 

Wasatch Mountains, where, in summer, it ceases to flow at the surface. The drainage way continues, in a narrow canyon, through 

Long Ridge, which partially connects the East Tinticand the Wasatch 

Mountains, and enters the southern end of Utah Lake in Goshen 

Valley, where the stream, which is fed largely by seepage, is known as 

Currant Creek.

The other tributaries of Utah Lake are relatively small. The chief 

ones rise in the Wasatch Mountains and occupy canyons in their 

mountain courses, where they maintain perennial flows. At the 

mouths of the canyons canals divert the water and distribute it over 

the valley, so that in the irrigation season practically all the available 

supply is thus used and the beds of the streams in Utah Lake Valley 

are commonly dry; but in the late spring and early summer, during 

the period of melting snow, large volumes are discharged directly into 

the lake.

Jordan River itself heads at the northern end of Utah Lake and 

flows northward in a meandering course of about 40 miles to Great 

Salt Lake. For the first 5 miles the river flows sluggishly in a broad 

valley, and in that distance falls only 10 feet. Below the "narrows" 

the valley spreads out and at its greatest width is about 18 miles 

wide. The country rises gradually toward the adjacent highlands 

to the base of the terraces that mark the shore lines of glacial Lake 

Bonneville, whence the ascent is by successive steps. Between Salt 

Lake City and Great Salt Lake the country is almost flat, and a 

number of small lakes of shifting outline occupy local depressions. 

This area west of Salt Lake City in general is barren and desolate and 

the surface in many places is white with alkali. On the uplands, 

away from the lake, alkali is scarce, but the western part of the valley, 

because of the lack of water, suffers in comparison with the cultivated 

eastern part, which is supplied by streams from the Wasatch Mountains.
64 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

North of the Traverse Mountains the principal tributaries of Jordan 

River are City, Red Butte, Emigration, Parleys, Mill, Big Cottonwood, 

Little Cottonwood, Dry Cottonwood, and Willow Creeks, all of which 

rise on the main crest of the Wasatch and drain small areas. In their 

mountain courses these creeks generally occupy narrow canyons 

from which they emerge on the lowlands and flow in broad, open 

valleys to the Jordan. Within the mountains they are all perennial 

streams, but at the mouths of the canyons their flow is largely diverted 

by irrigation ditches, so that in the driest part of the year their lower 

courses are generally dry. Big Cottonwood Creek, draining about 48 

square miles, is the largest. This stream rises at the base of Clayton 

Peak, is fed by a number of small lakes, and discharges a considerable 

quantity of water through a narrow canyon.

The vegetation is scanty. The valleys in their natural state are 

occupied by sagebrush, greasewood, and kindred desert plants, but 

wherever water is available there is a marked contrast, and the 

irrigated areas of these valleys rival in productiveness any in the 

country. Sugar beets are grown in quantity; alfalfa, potatoes, corn, 

etc., are common crops; and on the bench lands a variety of fruits are 

successfully cultivated. The mountains on the western border are 

generally barren; sagebrush and occasional cacti are the chief growths 

on the slopes, while scrub oak and stunted spruce and pine here and 

there grow in patches; the summits are usually bare.

The Wasatch Mountains areas are more favored, but they do not 

support a heavy growth of trees. At the heads of the valleys pine, 

juniper, mountain mahogany, and quaking aspen grow scatteringly, 

and cottonwood, birch, and maple are found in many places near the 

stream beds. The slopes are commonly covered with underbrush 

in varying degrees of thickness, sagebrush and scrub oak being 

prominent.

UTAH LAKE TRIBUTARIES. 

SUMMIT CREEK NEAR SANTAQtTIN, UTAH.

This station, which is located at the power house of the Knight 

Development Co., near Santaquin, Utah, was established March 

8, 1910.

Water is diverted for irrigation and domestic uses below the power 

house.

The discharge is determined by means of two weirs at the power 

house. One is a 5-foot, rectangular, sharp-crested weir with complete end contractions, in the main creek above the entrance of the 

tailrace; the other, a similar weir with a 4-foot crest, in the tailrace, 

is used during low-water season when the entire flow is taken through 

the power house. The head on tailrace weir is obtained by means 

of a standard hook gage installed by the power company. During
THE GEEAT BASIN. 65

1910 the weir in the river above the point of entrance of the tailrace? 

was not used.

A vertical rod gage, fastened to the roots of a cottonwood tree 

on the left bank about 250 yards above the power house, was used 

when the flow was greater than the capacity of the weir in the taifrace.

Discharge measurements are made by wading at various sections.

Discharge measurements of Summit Creek near Santaquin, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 8

22

May 10 July 9

Sept. 13

Hydrographer.

A. B.Purton..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................;...............................

Width.

Feet. 

9

9

9

9

9

Area of

section.

Sq.ft.^

8

14

6

6

&.

Feet. 

1.22

1.42

1.70

1.25

1.16

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

13.5

25.2

68.0

 12.2

7.6

Daily gage height, in feet, of Summit Creek near Santaquin, Utah, for 1910. 

[Lonsdale Alien, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7... ..i. ........

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21............... 22............:..

23

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan. Feb. Mar.

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.4

1.3

-1.3

1.3

1.3

1 3

Apr.

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.8

1.8

1 Q

1.8

1.7

1.7

1.7

May.

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.8

2.0

1.9

1.8

1.9

1.8

1.8

1.7

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

June.

1.6

1.6

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1 3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

July.

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

Aug.

0 9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

Sept.

0.8'

.8.8-

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

1.2

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.049

.814

.807

.742

.711

.681

714

.768

.762

.751

.749

.723

Oct.

0.749

.993

.766

.736

.745

.752

.714

.708

.749

.744

.742

.743

.747

.748

.751

.763

.932

.993

.847

.809

.791

.774

.734

.732

.731

.729

.728

.726

.725

.723

.723

Nov.

0.723

.723

.722

.721

.721

.721

.721

.721

.721

.692

.692

.692

.678

.678

.675

.675

.675

.675

.686

.686

.686

.686

.686

.685

.685

.685

.685

.679

.679

.679

Dec.

0.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.679

.652

.652

.652

.652

.652

.633

.633

.633

.604

.604

.604

.604

.604

.534

.534

.534

.985

.591

NotE. Gage heights Mar. 8 to July 11 and Sept. 12 to 18 read on staff gage above the wower house^from 

July 12 to Sept. 11 and Sept. 19 to Dec. 31 the head on the weir in the tailrace was read.

43928" WBP 200 12 5
66 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

. Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Summit Creek near Santaquin, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7............... 8.:.............

9...............

10...............

11.....:.........

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24. ..............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan. Feb. Mar.

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

17

17

17

17

24

24

34

24

24

17

24

17

17

17

17

17

Apr.

17

17

17

17

24

24

24

24

24

24

34

34

48

48

48

48

48

68

68

68

68

68

68

9*

92

121

92

68

68

68

May.

48

48

48

48

68

68

68

68

92

154

121

92

121

92

68

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

June.

48

48

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

July.

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

Aug.

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

Sept.

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

10

16

10

10

10

10

10

14

9.7

9.7

8.5

8.0

7.5

8.7

9.0

8.9

8.7

8.7

8.3

Oct.

8.7

13

8.9

8.4

8.6

8.7

8.0

7.9

8.7

8.6

8.5

8.5

8.6

8.6

8.7

8.9

12

13

10.4

9.7

9.4

8.4

8.4

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

Nov.

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

8.3

7.7

7.7

7.7

7.6

7.6

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.5

7.5

7.5

Dec.

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.1

7.1

7.1

7.1

7.1

6.7

6.7

6.7

6.3

6.3

6.3

6.3

5.,2

5.2

5.2

6.0

6.1

NOTE. Daily discharge Mar. 8 to July 11 and Sept. 12 to 18 determined from two discharge rating curves 

well defined. Daily discharge July 12 to Sept. 11 and Sept. 19 to Dec. 31 computed from readings of head 

on the weir in tailrace and the use of weir formula, Q=3.33 LH3/2. This formula gives values a few per 

cent higher than one which allows for end contractions. This is considered justifiable, however, owing 

to probable high velocity of approach in the tailrace.

Monthly discharge of Summit Creek near Santaquin, Utah, for 1910.

Month.

Mar. 9 to 31..............................................

April....................................................

July.....................................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

121 

154 

48 

16 

11 

16 

13 

8.3 

7.5

Minimum.

17 

48 

16 

11 

9.5 

8.0 

8.3 

7.5 

5.2

Mean.

17.7 

51.0 

65.0 

21.1 

12.8 

10.1 

9.67 

9.03 

7.80 

6.85

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

805 

3,030 

4,000 

l,2fiO 

787 

621 

575 

555 

464 

421

12,500

PETEETNEET OREEKi NEAR PAYSOW, TTTAH.

Peteetneet Creek rises to the south of Spanish Fork, at an elevation 

of about 7,000 feet above sea level, and flows northwestward to 

Utah Lake.

Called Payson Creek in Water-Supply Paper U. S. Geol. Survey No. 270.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 67

The gaging station, which is located in the SE. | SW. £ sec. 29, 

T. 9 S., E. 2 E., Salt Lake base and meridian, about 3 miles from 

Payson and half a mile above the power-canal intake, was established 

August 1, 1910, replacing a station established at the power plant 

April 8, 1908, and abandoned because the weirs used were poorly 

constructed and the records were very unsatisfactory. No estimates 

of daily discharge can be made for 1908-9.

Above the station the city of Payson has constructed several 

reservoirs which impound a considerable amount of the spring run-off 

and maintain a summer flow for power and irrigation. The records 

derived from observations at this point indicate the amount of water 

available for the Payson power house and for the water supply of 

the Strawberry Valley project from this creek.

The gage is an inclined rod spiked to posts driven in the left bank.

At ordinary stages discharge measurements can be made by, 

wading; flood-stage measurements are made from a foot bridge con-i 

structed for the purpose.

Discharge measurements of Peteetneet Creek near Payson, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

24

Hydrographers. Width.

Feet. 

8.6

8.6

3.5

Area of 

section.

S^6

4.4

3.5

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.55

1.55

1.60

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

9.7

9.2

10.0

NOTE. See also miscellaneous measurements, page 251.

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, for Peteetneet Creek near Payson,

Utah, for 1910.

[Edwin Gushing, observer.]

Day.

1.. .................

2.... ...............

3 ..................

4...................

5...................

6...................

7...................

10...................

11................... 

12...................

13...................

14...................

15...................

16...................

17...................

10

19...................

20...................

August.

Gage 

height.

1.60

1.70

1.65

1.60

1.65

1.60-

1.60

1.65

1.61

1.62

Discharge.

10.0 

10.6 

11.3 

11.0 

10.6

10.3 

10.0 

10.3 

10.6 

10.3

10.0 

10.0 

10.0 

10.3 

10.6

10.4 

10.1 

10.2 

10.3 

10.2

September.

Gage 

height.

""i.'ei"

""i.'ei"

1.61

1.60 "'i'.'s®' 

""i.'eo"

1.60

1.60 ""i.'ei"

1.60

Discharge.

10.0 

10.1 

10.1 

10.1 

10.1

10.1 

10.0 

10.0 

10.0 

9.9

10.0 

10.0 

10.0

10.0 

10.0

10.0 

10.0 

10.1 

10.0 

10.0

October.

Gage 

height.

""i.'&s" 

""i.'eo"

1.60

1.58 ""i.'se" 

""i.'se"

1.57 

1.57

""i.'ei"

1.58

Discharge.

10.5 

11.0 

10.5 

10.0 

10.0

10.0 

9.9

9.8 

9.7 

9.6

9.6 

9.6 

9.6 

9.7 

9.7

9.9 

10.1 

10.3 

10.0 

9.8

November.

Gage 

height.

1.56 

""i.'se"

1.57

1.59

1.67 

1.58

1.57

1.56

""i.'ss"

1.67

Discharge.

9.6 

9.6 

9.6 

9.6

9.7 

9.8

9.9

9.8

9.7 

9.8

9.8 

9.8

9.7 

9.6

9.6

9.7

9.8 

10.4

10.9 

10.4

December.

Gage

1.57 ""i.'ss"

1.59

1.57

1.56 

1,66

1.60

1.6S

'"i.'s?"

1.57

Discharge.

9.7

9.8 

9.8 

9.8 

9.9

9.8 

9.7 

9.6 

9.6 

9.6

9.6 

9,8 ia,o

9.9 

.9.8

'9.8 

9.7, 

9.7 

9.7 

.9.8
68 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, far Peteetneet Creek near Payson,

Utah, for 1910 Continued.

Day.

21...................

22...................

23...................

25. ..................

26...................

27...................

28...................

29...................

30...................

31...................

August.

Gage

height.

1.61

1.62

1.61

1.60

1.62

1.60

Discharge.

10.1 

10.2 

10.3 

10.2 

10.1

10.0 

10.0 

10.2 

10.3 

10.2 

10.0

September.

Gage 

height.

1.59

1.58

1.59 ""i.'eo"

1.59

Discharge.

10.0

9.9 

9.8

9.8

9

0

9.9 

10.0 

10.0 

10.0

9.9

October.

Gage 

height.

1.57

1.56

1.55 

"~i."55"

1.55

Discharge.

9.8 

9.7 

9.6 

9.6 

9.6

9.5 

9.5 

9.5 

9.5 

9.5 

9.6

November.

Gage 

height.

1.59

1.58

1.58

1.60

1.58

Discharge.

9.9 

9.8

9.8 

9.8

9.8 

9.9

10.0 

9.9

9.8 

9.8

December.

Gage 

height.

1.58

1.56

1.50

1.51

1.52

1.54

Discharge.

9.8 

9.7 

9.6 

9.2 

8.9

9.0 

9.0 

9.1 

9.2 

9.3 

9.4

NOTE. Range of stage very small. Daily discharge determined from a fairly well-defined dischargerating curve based on three measurements. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not read.

Monthly discharge of Peteetneet Creek near Payson, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 28 square mOes.]

Month.

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

11.3 

10.1 

11.0 

10.9

10.0

Minimum.

10.0 

9.8 

9.5 

9.6 

8.9

Mean.

10.3 

9.99 

9.83 

9.84 

9.59

Per 

square 

mile.

0.368 

.357 

.351 

.351 

.342

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches en 

drainage 

area.

0.42 

.40 

.40 

.39 

.39

Total in 

acre-feet.

633 

595 

604

586 

590

Accuracy.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

SPANISH FORK AT THISTLE, TTTAH.

This station, which is located about half a mile below Thistle, a 

station on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was established December 3, 1907, to determine the amount of water available for irrigation and power development in connection with the Strawberry 

Valley project of the United States Reclamation Service.

Thistle Creek and Soldier Fork unite above the station to form 

Spanish Fork, and Diamond Fork comes in about 2 miles below. 

Diversion ditches above the station are unimportant.

The gage is a vertical staff; its datum has remained unchanged 

since the station was established.

Discharge measurements are made from a car and cable.

The river usually freezes over at the station during two or three 

months in the winter, but as the winter flow is fairly constant good 

estimates may be made. The accuracy of the records is not affected 

by artificial control.
THE GREAT BASIF. 69

The section shifts badly at high stages, but many measurements 

have been made and the results may be considered fairly good.

Discharge measurements of Spanish Fork at Thistle, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 2

21

Anr 9O

Jime 21

July 23

A 1-1 rr Q

Sept. 19

> Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do..................................................... .....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

34

37

39

34

33

29

29

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

37

64

93

36

31

28

32

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.80

3.65

4.05

2.90

2.78

2.59

2.70

Discharge.

Sec.-fl. 

93

254

464

82

64.4

43.3

59

Daily gage height, in feet, of Spanish Fork at Thistle, Utah, for 1910. 

[E. T. Cluff, observer.]

Day.

1......... ...... 

2............... 

3............... 

4............... 

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9............... 10...............

11............... 

12...............

13............... 

14...............

15............... 

16...............

17............... 

18...............

19............... 

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24............... 

25...............

26...............

27...............

28............... 

29...............

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

I

.......

.......

.......

.......

:::::::

.......

Feb.

------

.......

.......

.......

.......

.......

--"--'

..:::..

.......

Mar.

2.8 

2.8 

2.8 

2.8 

2,85

2.9

9 Qt\

3.0 

3.1 

3.2

3.15 

3.1

3.1 

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5 

3.4

3.5 

3.6

3.7

3.75

3.55 

3.45

3.45

3.35 

3.35

3.35 

3.35

Apr.

3.35 

3.35

"3." 35" 

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.4 

3.4

3.6 

3.7

3.7

3.0 

3.6

"3.7"

3.7 

3.7

3.9

3.9

3 9

"3.8" 

4.0

4.1

4.1 

4.1

4.0

May.

4.0 

3.9 

3.9 

3.8

3.8

3.7

* 7

3.7 

3.8 

3.9

3.9 

3.95

3.9 

3.8

3.8

3.7 

3.7

3.6 

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.45 0 4

3.4

3 A.

3.45 

3.45

3.45 

3.4

June.

3.4 

3.4 

3.4 

3.4

3.3

3.25

3.2 

3.2 

3.15

3.1 

3.05

3.0 

2.95

2.9 

2.9

2.9 

2.9

2.9 

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.85 

2.8

2.8

2

0

2.9 

2.95

2.95

July.

2.8 

2.8

"i's"

2.8

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2 8

2.8

9 a

2.8 

2.7

2.8

2

0

2.8 

2.85

2.85

Aug.

2.8 

2.8 

2.75 

2.75 

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7 

2.6

2.6 

2.6

2.6 

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6 

2.6

2.6

2.6

"2.5"

"2.5"

Sept.

"2.5" 

"2.5"

2.5

2.5 

"2.5"

"2.5"

"2.5"

2.5

2.6 

2.7

2.7 

2.6

2.6

2.55 

2.6

2.55

2.5

2.6

Oct.

2.6 

"2.5" 

"2.5"

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.6

2.75 "i's"

2.65

2.7

" "2." 65~ 

2.7

2.7 

2.7

"2.7"

Nov.

"'2.7' 

2.7

2

17

2.7 

2.7

"'2.7'

2.7

"'2.7'

2.7 

2.7

2.7

"'2.7'

2.7

2.7

2.7

Dec.

2.7 

""2.*7

2.7

2.7

'"27

2.7

2.7

2.7 

2.7

2.7

2.7 

2.7

2.65

2.65 

2.65

NOTE. Gage not read during January or February, as the stream was probably frozen over. Relation 

between gage heights and discharge probably unaffected by ice during March and December.
70 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Spanish Fork at Thistle, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1. ..............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6..............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

IS... ............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan. Feb. Mar:

92

92

Q9

92

101

110

120

130

160

172

161

ittfi

150

218

242

218

242

255

268

294

307

255

230

230

218

206

206

206

206

Apr.

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

218

218

243

268

9QJ.

904

268

268

268

284

300

305

310

380

385

<lQfl

375

365

435

480

480

485

445

May.

440

400

395

360

355

325

320

320

345

375

365

370

360

39ft

320

320

290

290

260

260

260

240

225

215

205

205

205

210

210

210

200

June.

1.95

1.95

1.95

1.95

1.80

170

160

145

145

125

110

100

on

83

83

83

83

83

83

83

83 '83

76

69

69

69

83 ' 90

90

July.

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

fid

fid

69

fiQ

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

56

69

69

69

76

76

72

Aug.

69

69

62

62

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

39

34

34

34

Sept.

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

44

56

56

60

44

44

44

39

39

44

39

34

39

44

Oct.

44

39

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

34

44

53

62

66

69

62

56

60

53

56

53

60

56

56

56

56

56

56

Nov.

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

Dec.

' 5656

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

53

60

50

60

50

NOTE. Daily discharge determined as follows: Mar. 1 to Apr. 16, and June 14 to Dec. 31, from two welldefined discharge rating curves; Apr. 17 to June 13, indirect method for shifting channels used.

Monthly discharge of Spanish Fork at Thistle, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 480 square miles;]

Month.

May........................

July........................

October. ...................

November. .................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

307 

485 

440 

195 

76 

69 

56 

69 

56 

56

485

Minimum.

92 

206 

200 

69 

56 

34 

34 

34 

56 

60

34

Mean.

95 

90 

186 

307 

296 

114 

69.1 

49.9 

38.7 

47.3 

56.0 

55.1

117

Per 

square 

mile.

0.198 

.188 

.388 

.640 

.617 

.238 

.144 

.104 

.081 

.099 

.117 

.115

.244

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.23 

.20 

.45 

.71 

.71 

.27 

.17 

.12 

.09 

.11 

.13 

.13

3.32

Total in 

acre-feet.

5,840 

5,000 

11,400 

18,300 

18,200 

6,780 

4,260 

3,070 

2,300 

2,910 

3,330 

3,390

84,800

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

A. 

B. 

C. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A, 

A. 

B.

NOTE. Discharge for January and February estimated from flow of river at mouth of canyon and the 

run-off of the drainage area of Diamond Fork near Thistle, allowing a small gain below the mouth of Diamond Fork.
THE GEEAT BASIN". 71

SPANISH FORK NEAR SPANISH FORK, UTAH.

This station, which is located in the mouth of the canyon, about 

600 feet above the diversion dam of the East Bench Irrigation Co. 

and about 5 miles southeast of Spanish Fork, Utah, was established 

May 23, 1900, discontinued November 30, 1901, and reestablished 

March 26, 1903, to determine the total water available from Spanish 

Fork for irrigation near Utah Lake.

The station is below all tributaries and above all important ditches 

except the Reclamation Service power canal, which diverts water at 

a point about a mile above the station. The water thus diverted is 

used to develop power, after which a part of the water is returned to 

the river, the remainder being turned into the Salem canal and used 

for irrigation. The entire low-water flow of the river below the station is used for irrigation. The amount of water diverted is measured 

and added to the estimated discharge of the river.

The datum of the staff gage has remained unchanged since the station was originally established.

Measurements are made from a cable and car during high stages 

and by wading at low stages.

The relation between gage height and discharge is little affected 

by ice and not at all by artificial control below. Variations in daily 

gage heights are caused by manipulation of gates on the Reclamation 

Service diversion dam above.

Although the section is somewhat, shifting, numerous measurements 

have been made, and the results obtained are good.

Discharge measurements of Spanish Fork near Spanish Fork, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 3

23

21

Aug. 11

Sept. 2

20

Hydrographer.

A. B. Purton..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

33

38

37

35

16

14

19

Area of 

section.

«.5

82

39

60

12

9

16

Gage 

height.

Feet. 0.1

1.68

0.35

0.15

 .24

 .38

 .10

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

55

414

122

101

24.6

13.5

39.1
72 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Spanish 'Fork near Spanish Fork, Utah, for 1910. 

[Geo. H. Lewis, observer.]

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22.. ....t.. ......

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31J. .............

Jan.

-0.20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .25

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .25

- .25

- .25

- .20

- .20

- .20'

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .25

- .20

- .30

- .25

Feb.

-0.20

- .20

- .30

- .30

- .25

- .25

- .25

- .20

-. 20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .30

- .30

- .25

- .25

- .25

- .25

 20

- .20

- .25

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

Mar.

-0.20

- .20

.00

.10

.10

.10

.20

.40

.50

.40

.60

.70

.65

.95

.95

1.00

.90

.90

1.00

1.20

1.55

1.70

1.10

1.00

.90

1.00

.80

.80

.70

.70

Apr.

0.70

.70

.70

.70

.70

.80

.80

.90

1.05

1.20

1.40

1.55

1.60

1.45

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.70

1.90

o nrt

2.00

2.05

2.10

2.35

2.50

2.60

2.60

2.60

2.50

May.

2.40

2.10

2.00

1.90

1.90

1.85

1.80

1.80

1.90

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

1.80

1.70

1.60

1.50

1.40

1.35

1.25

1.20

1.10

1.00

.85

.85

.85

.80

.80

.70

.65

.65

June.

0.60

.59

.58

.54

.51

.46

.44

.39

.38

.37

.35

.34

.33

.28

.24

.22

.21

.20

.20

.17

.14

.12

.10

.10

.10

.07

.04

.01

.10

.15

July.

0.08

.00

.00

.00

.00

.00

.00

- .01

- .02

- .04

- .06

- .07

- .08

- .08

- .07

- .03

- .03

- .04

- .08

- .09

- .10

- .10

- .10

- .11

- .12

- .12

- .13

- .14

- .16

- .18

- .20

Aug.

-0.18

- .22

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .20

- .21

- .25

- .25

- .28

- .28

- .32

- .34

- .34

- .31

- .30

- .32

- .31

- .28

- .32

- .32

- .34

- .34

- .34

- .33

- .33

- .31

- .30

- .34

- .33

Sept.

-0.36

- .34

- .30

- .31

- .33

- .37

- .36

- .36

- .40

- .40

- .41

- .40

- .35

- .30

- .22

- .20

- .20

- .14

- .06

- .11

- .18

- .22

- .22

- .22

- .28

- .23

- .28

- .24

- .29

- .32

Oct.

-0.34

- .06

- .10

- .16

- .16

- .16

- .19

- .22

- .22

- .24

- .30

- .30

- .30

- .29

- .27

- .18

- .18

- .16

- .16

- .20

- .24

- .24

- .24

- .26

- .26

- .26

- .25

- .27

- .26

- .28

- .30

Nov.

-0.30

- .32

- .32

- .34

- .36

- .38

- .40

- .40

- .42

- .41

- .39

- .35

- .37

- .36

- .36

- .40

r- .35

- .40

- .25

- .30

- .36

- .32

- .28

- .34

- .36

- .45

- .48

- .44

- .43

Dec.

-0.46

- .46

- .44

_ _ 44

- .48

- .49

- .49

- .49

- .48

- .45

- .42

- .41

- .50

- .49

- .50

- .50

- .49

- .50

- .50

- .49

- .45

- .50

- .50

- .50

- .50

- .50

- .50

- .50

- .50

- .50

- .50

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Spanish Fork near Spanish Fork, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1. ..............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12..............;

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

47

47

47

47

' 47

47

47

47

47

47

47

42

47

47

47

47

42

42

42

47

47

47

47

47

47

47

42

47

37

42

Feb.

47

47

37

37

42

42

42

47

47

47

47

47

47

47

47

37

37

42

42

49

42

47

47

42

47

47

47

47

Mar.

47

47

72

86

86

86

102

138

157

138

176

197

186

252

263

240

240

263

361

402

44S

286

263

240

263

91 S

Apr.

197

197

218

218

94n

974

310

361

402

415

374

335

335

335

335

443

AQQ

528

528

c/io

557

632

677

708

708

708

677

May.

647

557

528

4.QQ

499

485

471

471

4.QQ

528

528

528

528

471

443

415

388

361

348

QO9

310

286

263

229

99Q

218

91 Q

1O7

186

186

June.

176

174

172

165

159

149

146

136

134

133

129

127

125

116

109

106

102

102

Q7

Q9

89

QA

84

83

78

7q

68CO*

88

July.

76

64

64

63

63

fi9

62

60

58

54

51

50

49

48

AQ

52

52

50

46

44

43

42

JO

40

39

3Q

07

36

OA

Q9

30

Aug.

31

28

29

29

28

28

27

26

23

23

21

21

18

16

16

18

1 Q

18

18

91

18

18

16

16

16

17

17

1 ft

lo

16

17

Sept.

15

16

19

18

17

14

15

15

12

11

12

16

19

26

28

28-

35

44

QQ

30

26

26

26

21

25

91

24

20ia

Oct.

16

44

39

32

32

32

29

26

9fi

24

19

19

1 Q

20

oo

30

30

32

32

OO

24

24

24

23

23

OO

24

00

00

91

1Q

Nov.

1Q

18

18

16

15

13

12

12

11

11

13

16

14

15

15

12

16

12

24

lo

15

18

21

16

15

"0

9 A

7 9

9 f\

10

Dec.

8.4

8.4

9.6

9 (\

7.2

6.6

6.6

6.6

7 9

a

rt

11

6.0

6.6

6.0

6.0

6.6

6.0

6.0

6.6

'9 0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

NOTE. Daily discharges determined as follows: Jan. 1 to June 21, from a discharge rating curve that is 

fairly well defined; June 22 to Aug. 10, by indirect method for shftiing channels; Aug. 11 to Dec. 31, from a 

well-defined curve.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 

Monthly discharge of Spanish Fork near Spanish Fork, Utah, for 1910.

73

Month.

March.............................................

April..............................................

May...............................................

June. .............................................

July...............................................

October ......................'....................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

47 

47 

443 

708 

647 

176 

76 

31 

44 

44 

24 

11

708

Minimum.

37 

37 

47 

197 

186 

68 

30 

16 

11 

16 

0 

6

0

Mean.

45.7 

44.1 

207 

411 

389 

116 

49.3 

20.8 

21.6 

25.8 

14.1 

7.1

113

Run-oft 

(total in 

acre-feet).

2,810 

2,450 

12,700 

24,500 

23,900 

6,900 

3,030 

1,280 

1,290 

1,590 

839 

437

81,700

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B.

Combined monthly discharge of Spanish Fork and power canal near Spanish Fork, Utah,

for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 670 square miles.]

Month.

February. ..................

April.......................

May........................

June. ......................

July........................

September. ................

October ....................

December. .................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

162 

. 162 

554 

777 

707 

245 

155 

122 

118 

131 

103 

103

777

Minimum,

130 

109 

162 

300 

249 

142 

112 

78 

79.2 

86.1 

86.4 

71

71

Mean.

151

147 

318 

502 

456 

183 

131 

89.8 

91.5 

95.2 

94.9 

88.7

196

Per 

square 

mile.

0.225 

.219 

.475 

.749 

.681 

.273 

.196 

.134 

.137 

.142 

.142 

.132

.293

Run-oft.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.26 

.23 

.55 

.84 

.79 

.30 

.23 

.15 

.15 

.16 

.16 

.15

3.97

Total in 

acre-feet.

9,280 

8,160 

19,600 

29,900 

28,000 

10,900 

8,060 

5,520 

5,440 

5,850 

5,650 

5,450

142,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B.

UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE POWER CANAL NEAR SPANISH FORK,

UTAH.

This station, which is located in the mouth of the canyon at a point 

about half a mile below the canal head gates and about 5 miles southeast of Spanish Fork, Utah, was established January 1,1909,, to determine the amount of water diverted by the Keclamation Service for 

power in connection with the Strawberry Valley project.

The station is located in the middle of a long tangent on the canal, 

which is smoothly lined with concrete. A good rating curve has been 

obtained and the records may be considered excellent. The gage 

datum has remained unchanged since the station was established.

The discharge of this canal has been added to that of the river at 

the station near Spanish Fork, just below, to give the total discharge 

of Spanish Fork above the diversions.

The following discharge measurement was made by A. B. Purton:

March 3, 1910: Width, 10 feet; area, 20 square feet; gage height, 2.85 feet; discharge, 109 second-feet.
74 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAKT X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of United States Reclamation Service power canal near Spanish

Fork, Utah, for 1910.

[George H. Lewis, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20............... 

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.8

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.85

2.65

2.9

2.8

2.9

2.85

2.85

2.9

2.8

2.8

2

0

2.8

2.8

2.75

2.6

2.7 

2.75

2.75

2.85

2.75

2.7

2.75

2.7

2.6

2.85

2.6

2.6

Feb.

2.6

2.8

2.7

2.55

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.8

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.7

2.7

2.3

2.8

2.75

2.75 

2.8

2.85

2.8

2.85

2.85

2.9

2.85

2.9

.......

Mar.

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.95

2.9

2.9

3.0

2.95

3.05

3.1

1 28

1.4

2.65

2.7

2.7

2.75

2.75

2.8

2.9

2.8

2.85

3.0

2.85

2.9

2.9

3.0

2.85

2.95

2.8

2.65

2.75

Apr.

2.8

2.8

2.9

2.75

2.75

2.9

2

0

2

0

2.8

2.85

2

0

2.8

2.75

3.0

2.85

2.9

2.9

2.45

2.1

2.25 

2.25

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.05

2.25

2.0

2.25

May.

2.1

2.05

2.0

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.05

2.1

2.2

2.25

2.3

2.2

2.3

2.25

2.2

2.25

2.3

2.35

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.4

.2.3

2.15

2.15

June.

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.14

2.19

2.16

2.22

2.22

2.20

2.18

2.20

2.20

2.20

2.16

2.16

2.15

2.15

2.19

2.19 

2.21

2.18

2.22

2.22

2.16

2.30

2.24

2.32

2.4

2.36

July.

2.40

2.31

2.38

2.40

2.50

2.50

2.46

2.49

2.49-

2.49

2.44

2.44

2.42

2.48

2.46

2.39

2.51

2.50

2.46 

2.45

2.46

2.41

2.38

2.38

2.42

2.44

2.45

2.41

2.42

2.45

Aug.

2.48

2.62

2.29

2.28

2.25

2.24

2.2

2.24

2.21

2.25

2.23

2.30

2.34

2.25

2.26

2.21

2.18

2.2

2.1

2.2 

2.22

2.22

2.21

2.19

2.21

2.20

2.20

2.20

2.20

2.22

2.21

Sept.

2.26

2.18

2.15

2.26

2.26

2.31

2.23

2.21

2.26

2.22

2.30

2.22

2.21

2.24

2.29

2.32

2.38

2.31

2.32

2.26 

2.22

2.22

2.19

2.21

2.29

2.19

2,31

2.26

2.37

2.4

Oct.

2.39

2.52

2.05

2.05

2.02

2.05

2.08

2.10

2.12

2.15

2.25

2.25

2.28

2.28

2.26

2.34

2.34

2.44

2.34

2.31 

2.25

2.24

2.28

2.26

2.26

2.26

2.29

2.30

2.33

2.32

2.35

Nov.

2.32

2.34

2.36

2.39

2.36

2.42

2.48

2.52

2.46

2.46

2.48

2.40

2.42

2.46

2.42

2.4

2.4

2.35

2.4

2.38 

2.39

2.46

2.52

2.49

2.48

2.65

2.38

2.42

2.48

2.45

Dec.

2.51

2.50

2.54

2.58

2.38

2.38

2.50

2.48

2.50

2.55

2.56

2.59

2.54

2.53

2.46

2.45

2.45

2.40

2.42

2.46 

2.52

2.39

2.24

2.38

2.42

2.32

2.18

2.44

2.28

2.35

2.38

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of United States Reclamation Service power canal near 

Spanish Fork, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29... ............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

107

115

115

115

111

96.1

115

107

115

111

111

115

107

107

107

107

107

103

92.5

99.7

103

103

111

103

99.7

103

99 7

92.5

111

92.5

92.5

Feb.

92.5

107

99.7

89

96.1

96.1

96.1

107

103

103

103

103

103

103

99.7

99.7

72.2

107

103

103

.107

111

107

111

111

115

111

115

Mar.

115

115

115

119

115

115

123

119

127

131

107

78.7

96.1

99.7

99.7

103

103

107

115

107

111

123

111

115

115

123

111

119

107

96.1

103

Apr.

107

107

115

103

103

115

107

107

107

111

107

107

111

123

111

115

115

82.1

60.1

69.1

63

63

63

63

63

57.3

69.1

54.5

69.1

May.

60.1

57.3

57.3

54.5

60.1

60.1

66.0

66.0

66.0

60.1

60 1

57.3

60.1

66.0

69.1

72.2

66.0

72.2

69.1

66.0

69.1

72.2

75.4

72.2

72.2

78.7

78.7

78.7

72.2

63.0

63.0

June.

69.1

66

66

63

62.5

65.4

63.6

67.2

67.2

66

64 8

66

66

66

63.6

63.6

63

65.4

65.4

66.6

64 8

67.2

67.2

72.2

68.5

73.5

78.7

July.

78.7

72.8

77.4

78.7

85.5

85.5

82.8

84.8

84.8

84.8

81.4

81.4

81.4

80 1

84.1

82.8

78.0

86.2

85.5

82.8

82.1

82.8

79.4

77.4

77.4

80.1

81.4

82.1

79.4

80 1

82.1

Aug.

84.1

93.9

71.6

71.0

69.1

68.5

66. 0

68.5

66.6

69.1

67.9

72.2

74.8

69.1

69.7

66.6

64 8

66.0

60.1

66.0

67.2

67.2

66.6

65.4

66.6

66.0

66.0

66.0

66.0

67.2

66.6

Sept.

69.7

64.8

63.0

69.7

69.7

72.8

69.7

69.7

72.2

67.2

66.6

68.5

71.6

73.5

77.4

72.8

73.5

69.7

67,2

67.2

65.4

66.6

71.6

65.4

72.8

69 7

76.8

78.7

Oct.

78.0

86.9

57.3

57.3

55.6

57.3

59.0

60 1

61.3

63.0

69.1

69.1

71.0

69.7

74.8

74.8

81.4

74.8

69.1

71.0

69.7

69.7

71.6

72.2

74.2

73.5

75.4

Nov.

73.5

74.8

76.1

78.0

76.1

80.1

84.1

86.9

82.8

82.1S

84 1

78.7

80.1

82.8

80.1

78.7

78.7

75.4

 78.7

77.4

78.0

82.8

86.9

84.8

84.1

96.1

77.4

80 1

84.1

82.1

Dec.

86.2

85.5

88.3

91.1

77.4

77.4

85.5

84.1

85.5

89.0

91.8

88.3

82.8

82.1

82.1

78.7

80.1

82.8

86.9

78.0

68.5

77.4

80 1

73.5

64.8

81.4

71.0

7>» 4

77.4

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a well-defined discharge rating curve.
THE GEEAT BASIN". 75

Monthly discharge of United States Reclamation Service power canal near Spanish Fork,

Utah, for 1910.

* Month.

April ..............................................

May........................ . . . . ......... .

July. ... ... .... .... . ....

August ............................................

November ........................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

115 

115 

131 

123 

78.7 

78.7 

86.2 

93.9 

78.7 

86.9 

96.1 

91.8

131

Minimum.

92.5 

72.2 

78.7 

54.5 

54.5 

62.5 

72.8 

60.1 

63.0 

55.6 

73.5 

64.8

54.5

Mean.

106 

103 

111 

90.5 

66.5 

66.7 

81.4 

68.9 

69.9 

69.3 

80.9 

81.6

83.8

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

6,520 

5,720 

6,820 

5,390 

4,090 

3,970 

5,000 

4,240 

4,160 

4,260 

4,810 

5,020

60,000

Accuracy.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

SPANISH FORK NEAR LAKE SHORE, UTAH.

This station, which, is located about 3 miles west of Spanish Fork,

Utah, 1 mile east of Lake Shore, and about 3 miles above the mouth

 of the river, was established December 10, 1903, discontinued July

10, 1907, and reestablished March 10, 1909, to determine the amount

of water wasted into Utah Lake.

The station is below all tributaries and diversion ditches. The 

original location was about 800 feet above the wagon bridge on the 

road from Spanish Fork to Lake Shore, but as the section was very 

unsatisfactory the station was relocated at a point about one-half mile 

farther downstream, where conditions for measuring are excellent.

The gage is a staff; its datum has remained unchanged since the 

station was reestablished.

Discharge measurements are made froan a cable and car.

The relation between gage height and discharge is not affected by 

ice or artificial control below. The bed of the stream is probably 

permanent at the station. A good rating curve has been obtained 

and the records for 1910 may be considered excellent.

Discharge measurements of Spanish Fork near Lake Shore, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Jan. 1

Mar. 4

July 26o

Hydrographer.

O.W.Hartwell.. ..........................................

A. B. Purton..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

24

28

5.4

5.8

Area of 

section.

Sl.ft.^

89

2

2

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

4.03

5.11

1.21

1.20

Discharge.

Sec:-ft. 

133

206

1.45

1.18

a Measurement on July 26 and Sept. 1 made by wading.
76 SUBPACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Spanish Fork near Lake Shore, Utah, for 1910. 

IG. J. Hansen, observer.]

Day.

1.. .............

2............... 

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7............... 

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12............... 

13...............

14............... 

15...............

16............... 

17...............

18...............

19............... 

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26............... 

27...............

28............... 

29...............

30...............

Jan.

"3." 75"

3.80

3.85

3.75

3.90

3.90

"i.'o"

3.45 

3.50

3.90

3.60

3.65

3 ^ft

Feb.

3.75

3.70

3.70

3.40

3.60

3.75

3.60

3.50

3.60

3.75

3.80

3.90

Mar.

4.20 

4.60

5.25 

5.30

5.75

6.70

6.40

6.35

6.55 

6.70

7.45

7 dfl

7.80

7 4R

7.50

7.80 

8.20

8.90

9.65

10.25

8.25

7.85

7.60 

7.40

7.0 

6.65

6.50

Apr.

6.35

6.70 

6.80

7.0

7.0 

7.1

7.0 

7.15

7.60

8.05

8.60

9.15 

9.0

9.0

8.6

8.3 

8.2

8,3

8.3 

8.6

8.35

8.70

8.55

8.75

8.95

9.15 

9.25

8.75 '8.7

8.1

May.

7.4

6.95 

6.0

5.65

5.55

4.8 

4.8

4.2

3.85

5.10

5.0

4.7

4.5 

4.1

3.7 

3.35

2.90

2.80 

2.35

2.15

1.95

1.70

1.50

1.40

1.35 

1.35

1.35

1.30

June.

1.30

1.25

1.25

"i"25"

"L"25"

"L"25"

 -L-,

1.25

1.25

"i."25"

July.

1.25

1.25

1.25

1.20

"i"2o"

1.20

"i."20

1.20

1.20

1.21 

1.21

"i'.21

Aug.

1.21

1.25

-- - 

1.21

1.21

"ill"

.......

1.21

1.21

1.21

1.20

"i.~2o"

1.20

Sept.

1.20

1.20

1.20

1.25

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.29 

1.28

1.25

1.25

1.25

1.25

Oct.

"i"37"

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.41

.......

2.60 

2.5

2.5

2.48

2.48

2.85

Nov.

2.25

2.25

2.9

3.05

2.22

.......

2.65

2.4

2.32

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.05

Dec.

3.15

3.2

3.1

3.2

3.3 "i'a"

"3.T

3.1

3.26

2.8

3.2

3.0

3.05

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Spanish Fork near Lake Shore, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1..... ..........

2...............

3..............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20.... ...........

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

'l33

119

105

106

108

110

112

110

108

105

110

115

115

115

117

120

122

104

87

88

90

98

106

115

106

96

98

99

92

85

78

Feb.

92

105

104

102

102

102

102

93

84

90

96

99

102

105

100

96

93

, 90

92

94

96

100

105

106

108

110

112

115

Mar.

126

,136

164

203

215

219

255

320

338

311

306

324

338

406

401

437

406

410

437

473

540

615

675

478

442

419

401

365

334

320

316

Apr.

306

338

347

365

365

374

365

378

419

460

510

565

550

550

510

482

473

482

482

510

486

520

505

525

545

565

575

525

520

464

May.

401

360

275

247

239

203

179

179

136

112

203

195

171

157

129

102

81

57

52

31

23

16

9.0

4.0

3.0

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.2

2.0

2.0

June.

2.0

1.8

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

July.

1.5-

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1

Aug.

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.3

1.5

1.4

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Sept.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.2

1.5

1.6

1.8

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.8

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

Oct.

1.9

2.3

2.7

2.4

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.6

3.1

11

19

27

34

42

40

37

37

37

37

36

36

36

36

42

48

54

Nov.

40

27

27

27

37

47

57

60

64

45

26

32

38

44

39

33

31

30

39

48

57

60

62

62

62

63

65

67

65

64

Dec.

67

70

70

71

72

70

67

70

72

75

78

78

78

78

78

75

72

67

69

72

75

63

52

58

65

72

67

62

63

64

65

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from well-defined discharge rating curve.
THE GREAT BASIN. 

Monthly discharge of Spanish Fork near Lake Shore, Utah, for 1910.

77

Month.

Mafch .............................................

May...............................................

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

133 

115 

675 

575 

401 

2.0 

1.5 

1.5 

2.0 

54 

67 

78

675

Minimum.

78 

84 

126 

306 

2.0 

1.5 

1.0 

1.0 

1.0 

1.9 

26 

52

1.0

Mean.

'106 

99.8 

359 

469 

115 

1.53 

1.12 

1.11 

1.54 

20.6 

47.3 

69.5

107

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

6,520 

5,540 

22, 100 

27,900 

7,070 

91.0 

* 68.9 

68.2 

91.6 

1,270 

2,810 

 4,270

77,800

Accuracy.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

D. 

D. 

D. 

D. 

B. 

B. 

B.

DIAMOND FORK NEAR, THISTLE, UTAH.

This station, which is located at a foot bridge about 2^ miles below 

Thistle, Utah, and about 200 yards above the mouth of the river, was 

established December 2, 1907, to determine the amount of water 

available for irrigation and power development in connection with 

the Strawberry Valley project of the United States Reclamation 

Service.

As no important ditches take out above or below, the records show 

the total run-off from the Diamond Fork drainage area.

The gage is an inclined staff near the bridge; its datum has remained 

unchanged since the station was established.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge.

The river freezes over during extreme cold periods, but as the 

winter flow is fairly constant good estimates may be made. The 

relation between gage height and discharge is unaffected by artificial 

control. Although the section shifts a great deal throughout the 

year, many measurements were made in 1910 and the records may 

be considered fairly good.

Discharge measurements of Diamond Fork near Thistle, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 2

' 21

Apr. 29

May 21

Hydrographer.

A. B. Purton..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

20

21

21

20

20

21

21

20

Area of 

section.

" ^

40

48

34

34

1818"

18

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.28

3.15

3.40

2.85

2.38

2.01

2.01

2.11

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

30.0

163

240

121

44.5

22

19.9

25.3

Wading measurement.
78 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Diamond Fork near Thistle, Utah, for 1910. 

[E. T. Cluff, observer.]

Day.

1....... ............

2...................

3...................

4...................

5...................

6........ ......... .-

7.. ............... ..

8.. ...-...../.......

9...................

10...................

11...................

12...................

13...................

14...................

15...................

16...................

17...................

18...................

19...................

20...................

21...................

22...................

23...................

24...................

25...................

26...................

27...................

28...................

29...................

30...................

31...................

Mar.

2.3

2.3

2.J

9 ^

2.35

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.55

2.7

3.0

3.2

3.25

3.35

3.4

3-35

3.35

3.3

3.2

3.0

3.0

2.85

2.85

Apr.

2.8

8.8

9 O

2 9

2.9

2.95

3.05

3 1 H

3 d

3.6

3.3

3 A

3.4

3.5

3.45

3.4

3.55

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.5

3.5

3

e

May.

3.4

3.3

3

0

^ 9

3.1

3.1

3 1

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.1

3.1

i 1

3.0

2 9

2.9

2.85

2 OK

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.6

9 R

2.55

9 1

2.4

June.

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2 4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2

0

2

0

9 ^

9 ^

2.3

2.25

2

oe

2

oe

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

9 9

July.

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.15

2.15

2 1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2 1

0 I

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

9 1

2

1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

Aug.

2.0

2.0

2.0 9 n

9 n

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0 9 n

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

Sept.

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.1

» 2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2

n<;

Oct.

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

Nov.

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2 AC

2.05

2.05

2.05

2

f\K

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

Dee.

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.0

2.0

1.95

NOTE. Stream frozen over during January and February. Relation between gage heights and discharge probably unaffected by ice during March and December.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Diamond Fork near Thistle, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1.... ...............

2... ................

3...................

4...................

5...................

6...................

T.. .................

&...................

9...................

10...................

11...................

12...................

13...................

14...................

15...................

16...................

17...................

18...................

19...................

20...................

21...................

22...................

23...................

24... ................

25...................

26... ............/..

27...-. ..............

28...................

29...................

30...................

31...................

Mar.

33

33

33

33

38

43

43

43

49

49

43

43

49

49

49

62

84

135

175

185

206

917

206

206

195

175

155

135

135

108

108

Apr.

100

100

108

117

117

117

126

145

165

200

238

286

262

214

238

238

250

262

250

238

274

238

238

238

238

238

262

262

262

May.

250

238

214

214

192

170

170

170

170

192

192

192

170

170

170

170

150

132

132

124

124

120

116

100

100

86

86

86

79

72

60

June.

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

48

48

48

48

48

43

43

43

43

38

38

38

38

38

38

38

July.

38

38

38

38

38

33

33

33

28

28

,28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

24

Aug.

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

2020'

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

Sept.

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

Oct.

24

24

24

24

24

24 " 24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

26

28

26

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

Nov.

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

26

28

28

28

26

24

24

24

24

24

24

Dec.

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

22

20

20

20

16

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two well-defined discharge rating curves, one applicable Mar. 

1 to Apr. 10, the other Apr. 11 to Dec. 31. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not read.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 79

Monthly discharge of Diamond Fork near Thistle, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 157 square miles.]

Month.

February. ..................

April.......................

May........................

July........................

October. ...................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

217 

286 

250 

60 

38 

20 

28 

28 

28 

24

286

Minimum.

33 

100 

60 

38 

24 

20 

20 

24 

24 

16

16

Mean.

50 

50 

100 

209 

149 

50.6 

30.0 

20.0 

22.8 

24.3 

24.5 

23.3

62.8

Per 

square 

mile.

0.318 

.318 

.637 

1.33 

.949 

.322 

.191 

.127 

.145 

.155 

.156 

.148

.400

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.37 

.33 

.73 

1.48 

1.09 

.36 

.22 

.15 

.16 

.18 

.17 

.17

5.41

Total in 

acre-feet.

3,070 

2,780 

6,150 

12,400 

9,160 

3,010 

1840 

1,230 

1,360 

1,490 

1,460 

1,430

45,400

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

A. 

B. 

A. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

NOTE. Monthly means for January and February estimated by comparison with run-off records of 

Spanish Fork at Thistle and at mouth of canyon.

HOBBLE CREEK NEAR SPRINGVILLE, UTAH.

This station, which is located at a point about 1 mile above the 

mouth of the canyon, 4 miles southeast of Springville, Utah, and just 

below the Springville electric power plant, was established March 23, 

1904, to determine the amount of water available for irrigation in 

Utah Valley in connection with the Strawberry Valley project of the 

United States Reclamation Service. The station is above all diversion ditches and below all tributaries.

Practically no ice forms at the station, this winter flow being largely 

from springs.

In May, 1909, a flood tore out the old gage and changed the section 

to such an extent that it was found advisable to change the location 

of the station. A new vertical staff gage was therefore installed at a 

point about 1,000 feet upstream from the old gage and about 200 

feet below the power plant. All gage heights since June 1, 1909, 

refer to the new gage.

Measurements are made from a cable and car or by wading.

The bed of the stream at the new section is more nearly permanent 

than at the old station. A good rating curve has been obtained, and 

the records at the new station may be considered excellent. 

Discharge measurements of Hobble Creek near Springville, Utah, in 1910. «

Date.

Mar. 4

July 13

Sept. 7

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

14

12

11

Area of

section.

****

16

14

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.60

3.45

3.35

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

44.9

29.2

23. 1
80 SUEFACB WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Hobble Creek near Springville, Utah, for 1910. 

[E. P. Noe and W. O. Packard, observers.]

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6............... 

7...............

8...............

9............... 

10...............

11............... 

12...............

13...............

14............... 

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19............... 

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24............... 

25...............

26...............

27...............

28............... 

29...............

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

3.45

.......

"3." 45"

"3." 45"

3.45

.......

3.45

3.45

"3." 45"

Feb.

3.40

3.35

"s.'io"

.......

"3." 45"

3.45

.......

3.45

3.45

.......

3.45

.......

Mar.

3.50

3.60

" "3." TO"

3

7K

"4." 66"

4.20 

4.30

4.50

4.50 

4.70

4.80

5.00

5.40

5.40

5.00

4 80

4.50 

4.40 "i'so"

Apr.

A Ort

4.30

4.30

4.40 

"4." 46"

4.45

4.50

5.00 

5.00

5.00

4.80 

4.70

4.60 "I'eo"

4.80 

5.00

5.20

5.10

5.10

5.10

5.10 

5.00

5.00

May.

4.30

4.30 

4.20

4.10 

4.10

4.10 

4.10

4.10

4.10

4.10 

4.10

4.10 

4.10

4.10

4.10

" "1" 66"

4.00

4.00

4.00 

4.00

June.

4 00

3.90 

3.90

3 on

3.90

3 on

3.90

3.90

3.90

3.90

3.90 

3.90 " "3." so"

3.75

3.70

3.60

3.60 

3.50

3.50

3.50 

3.50

.3.50

July.

3

KA

3.50

3.40 

3.40

3 4ft

3.40

3.40

3.40

3.40

3.40

"3."40"

" "3." 46"

3.40

3.40

.......

.......

Aug.

3 An

3 40

3.40

3.35

3 OK

3.30 

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30 

3.30

3.25

3.25

3.30 

3.20

3.30

.......

Sept.

3

0A

"3." 35"

3 OK

3.30

3 OK

3.30 

3.30

3.30

3.30

3 OK

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3.35 

3.45

3.40

3.40

3.35

3.35 

3.30

3.30

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3.30

Oct.

3 on

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3 OK

3.30

3 QA

3.30 

3.30

3.30

3.35

3 OK

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3.35 

3.40

3.40

3.35

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.35 

3.35

Nov.

0 OK

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3.35

3.35

O OK

3.35 

3.35

3.35

3.35

3 OK

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3.40 

3.40

3.35

3.35

3.40

3.35 

3.35

3.40

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3.35

Dec.

3

QC

3.40

3.35

3.35

3.35 

3.35

3 OK

3.35 

3.40

3.40 

3.40

3.35

3 on

3.30

3.30 

3.30

3.30 

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30 

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30 

3.30

3.30 

3.30

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Hobble Creek near Springville, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

/ 

21...............

22...............

23..... v ........

24...............

25

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

in

Feb.

28

07

26

24

22

24

26

27

28

28

29

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

Mar.

35

381

42

45

48

52

55

56

58

60

74

88

102

115

130

161

161

196

214

234

253

343

343

253

234

214

188

161

145

138

130

Apr.

130

» isn

130

130

145

145

145

153

161

207

253

253

253

214

196

178

178

178

214

253

296

274

274

274

274

274

274

274

253

253

May.

228

9f>4

180

155

130

130

115

108

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

101

94

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

June.

88

86

84

81

78

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

76

70

65

60

55

45

45

35

35

35

35

35

35

July.

35

35

32

29

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

 26 26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

Aug.

26

26

26

26

26

26

24

22

22

22

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

16

14

14

13

11

14

18

18

18

18

18

Sept.

18

18

18

20

20

20

22

22 18

14

18

18

18

18

22

22

22

22

22

30

26

26

22

22

18

18

22

22

22

18

Oct.

18

22

22

22

22

22

. 22

22

18

18

18

18

18

22

22

22

22

22

22

26

26

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

Nov.

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

 22

22

22

22

22

26

26

22

22

26

22

22

26

22

22

22

22

Dec.

22

22

26

22

22

22

22

22

22

26

26

26

26

22

13

18

18

18

18

18

13

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

NOTE. Dafly discharge determined tfom a well-defined discharge rating curve. Discharge interpolate)] 

or days oil which gage height was not read.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 81

Monthly discharge of Hobble Creek near Springmlle, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 120 square miles.]

Month.

Mamli , _ May........................

July........................

December. .................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

30 

30 

343 

296 

228 

88 

35 

26 

30 

26 

26 

26

343

Minimum.

30 

22 

35 

130 

88 

35 

26 

11 

14 

18 

22 

18

11

Mean.

30.0 

28.5 

141 

212 

112 

65.2 

26.9 19.5- 

20.6 

21.5 

22.5 

20.5

60.1

Per 

square 

mile.

0.250 .238- 

1.18 

1.77 

.933 

.543 

.224 

.162 

.172 

.179 

.188 

.171

.500

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.29 

.25 

1.36 

1.98 

1.08 

.61 

.26 

.19 

.19 

.21 

.21 

.20

6.83

Total in 

acre-feet.

1,840 

1,580 

8,670 

12,600 

6,890 

3,880 

1,650 

1,200 

1,230 

1,320 

1,340 

1,260

43,500

Accu

racy.

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

MAPLE CREEK NEAR SPRINGVILLE, UTAH.

This station, which is located about half a mile above the mouth 

of Maple Creek canyon and about 4 miles southeast of Springfield 

post office, in the NE. \ NW. i sec. 13, T. 8 S., R. 3 E., Salt Lake base 

and meridian, was established November 10, 1910.

The drainage area at this point is approximately 6,880 acres. A 

staff gage is fastened to the side of a flume 3.8 feet wide on the inside 

and about 3£ feet high.

Discharge measurements at low and moderate stages are made by 

wading at the upper end of the flume; flood measurements are made 

from a board across the flume.

The creek is frozen during the winter.

The following discharge measurement was made by E. C. La Rue:

November 10, 1910: Width, 3.6 feet; area of section, 1.28 square feet; gage height, 

1.43 feet; discharge, 1.39 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Maple Creel: near Springmlle, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1. ..'.... .......

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

g

10..............

Nov.

"

1 4Q

Dec.

415

.45

AQ

.48

.48

1.48

1.48

1.48

1 48

1 1Q

Day.

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16. ..... T . ......

17..............

18..............

10

20..............

Nov.

1.43

1.43

1.43

1.43

1 43

1 44

1.44

1.44

1.47

1 d*i

Dec.

1.50

1.50

1.50

1.49

1.48

1 ASl

1.48

1.48

1.48

1 48

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

1.30

1.48

1.46

1.44

1.44

1.45

1.45

1.46

1.46

1.45

Dec.

1.48

1.48

1.48

1.48

1.46

1.34

1.34

1.46

1.46

1.48

1.48

43926° WSP 290 12 6
82 SUBFACE WATEK SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

PROVO RIVER ABOVE TELLTTRIDE POWER CO.'S DAK NEAR PROVO, UTAH.

This station, which is located about 1 mile above the Telluride 

Power Co.'s dam and about 4 miles above the mouth of the canyon, 

and about 11 miles from Provo, was established February 1, 1905, to 

determine the amount of water available for irrigation in Utah 

Valley.

The station is below all tributaries, South Fork entering one-fourth 

mile above the station. Some water is diverted above the station for 

irrigation in Heber Valley, and all the normal low-water flow is 

diverted for irrigation below the station. The Telluride Power Co. 

diverts water about a mile below the station for power development, 

but returns it to the river at the mouth of the canyon.

The equipment consists of a cable and car and an inclined staff gage. 

The gage datum was changed July 24, 1908, when the station was 

established at a point one-fourth mile above the old site.

The relation between gage height and discharge is not affected by 

ice or by artificial control above.

The most recent information regarding conditions at this station 

indicates that there is no backwater from the dam below, but that the 

channel has become very unstable, requiring the use of many discharge 

rating curves. Results obtained at this station for 1909-10 are not 

good.

Discharge measurements of Provo River at Telluride Power Co.'s dam, Utah, in 1910,

Date.

17

July 18

Hydrographer.

C.C.Jacobs...............................................

Fuller and Canfield.. ......................................

Width.

Feet.

78

72

74

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

181

184

87.9

height.

Feet. 

3.10

3.25

2.00

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

695

704

244
THE GBEAT BASIN. 83

Daily gage height, in feet, ofProvo River near Provo, Utah, for 1910.

[Frank Dusenberry, observer.]

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14.. A- ..........

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22.. ............ .

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

Q1

Jan.

4.2

3.7

2.85

2.65

2.4

2.3

2.5

2.55

2.6

2.5

2.55

2.5

2.4

2.7

2.6

2.45

2.3

2.2

2.15

2.4

2.45

2.45

2.55

2.55

2.65

2.35

2.3

2.35

2.3

2.1

Feb.

2.3

2.35

1.8

1.9

2.0

2.15

2.0

2.25

2.25

2.35

2.35

2.25

2.4

2.4

2.9

2.4

2.2

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.3

2.4

2.4

Mar.

2.3

2.8

3.1

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.0

2.9

3.0

2.8

2.7

2.65

2.7

3.0

3.15

3.25

3.3

3.2

3.4

3.3

3.5

3.65

4.0

3.6

3.5

3.4

3.35

3.4

3.45

3.2

3 fl

Apr.

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.0

3.5

3.1

2.9

3.0

3.15

3.2

3.45

3.55

3.5

3.5

3.45

3.3

3.2

3.3

3.5

3.65

3.95

3.95

3.8

3.9

4.15

4.45

4.65

4.7

4.6

4.4

May.

4.25

4.0

3.65

3.75

3.6

3.5

3.25

3.55

3.65

3.95

4.65

4.6

4.5

4.6

4.5

4.0

3.95

3.6

3.5

3.25

3.35

3.35

3.3

3.35

3.35

3.7

3.6

3.5

3.65

4.0

3.8

June.

3.8

3.7

3.6

3.45

3.3

3.5

3.85

2.7

2.55

2.35

2.35

2.3

2.35

2.4

2.35

2.3

2.2

2.15

2.2

2.1

2.0

2.1

2.1

1.95

2.0,

1.95

2.0

1.95

2.0

1.95

July.

1.95

2.0

2.0

1 Qf;

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.9

2.0

1.9

2.05

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.Q5

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.95

1.95

2.0

1.95

1.85

1.8

1.9

2.0

2.0

2.0

Aug.

2.1

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.05

2.05

1.95-

1.95

1.9

1.95

1.9

1.95

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.9

1.85

1.8

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

Sept.

1 Q

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

2.0

2.0

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.05

2.05.

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.05

2.05

Oct.

2

1

2.1

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.15

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

Nov.

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.1

2.15

2.2 

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.2

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.25

2.3

2.3

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

Dec.

2.25

9 9

2.2

2

OG

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.25

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.15

2.2

2.3

2.25

2.25

2.3

2.25

2.2

2.15

2.15

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.15

2.2
84 SUBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, qfProvo River near Provo, Utah, for 1909-10.

Day.

1909. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

W.. .............

11...............

12.............J

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1910. 

1.... ...........

2...............

3...............

4.... ...........

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22..............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

240

240

240

240

270

760

670

375

375

375

910

495

455

1,310

1,500

760

620

570

530

670

710

710

670

530

410

410

370

300

300

300

335

1,200

950

550

470

370

335

410

430

450

410

430

410

370

490

450

390

335

300

285

370

390

QQA

430

430

470

352

00 C

QKO

335

97fl

318

Feb.

285

300

OAA

318

318

240

9M\

352

97n

97fl

ooc

Q7n

370

335

Ql O

335

01 0

335 33";

335

300

Qrtrt

335

Ql 0

300

270

OCK

335

QKO

180

91 fl

240

285

240

Q10

Ql o

QKO

QKO

318

370

Q7rt

570

370

300

370

QQK

335

Q7rt

QQn

O7fi

410

Q7rt

370

Mar.

285

285

300

300

335

335

352

352

300

255

9/tn

240

o/io

240

3711

352

370

430

430

430

390

370

370

410

410

430

410

450

450

470

450

335 S3n

665

755

755

755

615

570

615

530

490

470

490

615

688

732

755

710

755

850

QO9

1.100

895

850

805

7ftfi

805

828

710

615

Apr.

470

530

620

670

550

510

450

450

470

490

<lQft

510

530

670

785

900

1,175

1,350

1,275

975

830

810

Qftfl

850

900

1 i w

1,225

1,200

1,000

615

615

665

615

850

665

570

615

688

710

828

872

850

850

828

755

no

755

850

922

1,080

1.080

QQK

1 050

1^175

1 ^E>*»

1,425

1 450

1 400

1 3nrt

May.

1,000

850

QYlfl

1,100

1,325

1,325

1 d/lft

1,500 i f»fin

1,770

1 ftQA

1 600

1 450

1 d/ift

1,425

1 450

1,350

1 Qftfl

1,350

1,475

1,550

1,650

1,650

1,600

1,450

1 400

1^550

1 800

1^710

1,680

1,710

1,225

1,100

QOO

972

895

850

739

872

Q99

1 080

1,425

1 400

1,350

1 d/lft

1 °JM1

1,100

1,080

895

850

732

780

780

755

780

7Srt

QKfl

895

fiK.fl

Q99

1,100

oos

June.

1,650

1,830

2,310

2,850

3,410

3

KKrt

3,620

3,280

2 590

2

COrt

2,470

2

QKrt

2 9on

2,110

2,110

2,170

2,110

2

QKrt

2,110

1,930

1,750

1 7^/1

1,810

1,750

1,870

1,720

1,750

1,690

1,630

QQK

950

895

828

755

850

1.025

490

430

352

QKO

335

352 o7n

352

335

300

285

300

270

240

270

97fl

225

240

225

240

225

240

995

July.

1,570

1,460

1 460

1^510

1,410

1 360

l'210

1,010

Qlfl

860

01 rt

71 *

535

375

lift

358

322

QOO

305

322

322

305

9on

305

290

305

97e

275 971;

260

275

225

240

240

225

240

9M\

240

210

91 fl

, 210

94fl

210

255

OylA

240

255

240

240

9M\

225

99"?

94fl

225

195

180

91 rt

240

240

240

Aug.

250

290

275

275

250

QrtK

290

97*

O7K

9on

305

O7K

275

250

340

275

9on

305

290

290

410

340

399

340

340

358

340 009

392

375

97fl

240

240 04/1

255

255

225

225

210

225

210

225

210

210

210

210

210

210

195

195

195

210

195

180

210

91 fl

210

210

210

91 fl

210

Sept.

640

515

490

450

515

490

490

515

450

450

450

450

450

AKJ\

Afjf\

450

340

322

Oft*

QflK

QQO

qjA

375

490

470

390

J.CA

490

210

91 fl

210

210

91 fl

91 fl

91 fl

91 fl

210

91 fl

210

210

210

240

240

255

270

270

270

270

255

OKK

255

OEK

255

osy;

270

270

255

255

Oct.

450

430

450

450

470

430

450

410

430

410

410

430

370

390

370

390

370

370

370

370

370

370

370

352

352

O7fl

352

QQK

335

410

97fl

270

OCR

255

255

255

270

255

OEK

255

270

270

270

270

270

270

270

285

300

300

300

285

285

97fl

270

285

97fl

O7fl

270

270

270

Nov.

370

335

335

410

390

390

370

530

370

QKO

Q?rt

390

390

370

410

470

318

wn

470

470

470

470

470

370

QKO

410

97fl

97fl

OQC

285

OfiK

285

270

285

QAfl

285

285

285

285

285

300

300

285

300

318

300

300

318

335

QQK

318

318

318

318

318

318

Dec.

dan

570

410

370

352

300

335

410

470

370

335

352

410

370

300

270

185

240

300

300

2S5

335

335

352

370

335

335

335

4fW

335

300

318

qnrt

300

318

318

318

300

300

300

318

370

370

335

300

285

300

335

318

318

335

318

300

285

285

335

300

300

300

285

285

300

NOTE. Daily discharge during 1909 and 1910 determined from a set of 3 parallel cuwes drawn through 

discharge measurements made during 1909-10 and 1911; curve 1, used Jan. 1 to 14,1909, and June 8 to July 

13,1909; curve 2, used Jan. 15 to June 7,1909, and Oct. 25 to Dec. 31,1909; curve 3, used Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 

1910. July 14 to Oct. 24,1909, indirect method used.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 85

Monthly discharge o/Provo River near Provo, Utah, for 1909-^1910. 

[Drainage area, 640 square miles.]

Month.

1909. 

January. ...................

April.......................

May........................

July........................

September. ................

October. ...................

The year. ............

1910. 

January. ......:............

April.......................

May........................

June.......................

July........................

September .................

October. ...................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,500 

37,0 

> 470 

1,350 

1,890 

3,620 

1,570 

410 

640 

470 

530 

570

3,620

1,200 

570 

1,100 

1,450 

1,425 

1,026 

255 

270 

270 

300 

335 

370

1,450

Minimum.

240 

240 

240 

450 

850 

1,630 

260 

250 

305 

335 

318 

185

185

270 

180 

335 

570 

732 

225 

180 

180 

210 

255 

270 

285

180

Mean.

537 

310 

356 

774 

1,460 

2,250 

656 

307 

444 

395 

407 

345

687

435 

341 

703 

904 

992 

441 

230 

217 

238 

271 

299 

311

449

Per 

square 

mile.

0.839 

.484 

.556 

1.21 

2.28 

3.52 

1.02 

.480 

.694 

.617 

.636 

.539

1.07

0.680 

.533 

1.10 

1.41 

1.55 

.690 

.359 

.339 

.372 

.423 

.467 

.486

.702

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.97 

.50 

.64 

1.35 

2.63 

3.93 

1.18 

.55 

.77 

.71 

.71 

.62

14.56

0,78 

.56 

1.27 

1.57 

1.79 

.77 

.41 

.39 

.42 

.49 

.52 

.56

9.53

Total in 

acre-feet.

33,000 

17,200 

21,900 

46,100 

89,800 

134,000 

40,300 

18,900 

26,400 

24,300 

24,200 

21,200

497,000

26,700 

18,900 

43,200 

53,800 

61,000 

26,200 

14,100 

13,300 

14,200 

16,700 

17,800 

19,100

325,000

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

D. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C.

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

C.

TRIBUTARIES OF THE JORDAN. 

LITTLE COTTONWOOD CREEK NEAR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

Little Cottonwood Creek is the most southern of the streams 

tributary to Jordan River on which records have been obtained.

The flow is measured over two 15-foot Cippoletti weirs located near 

the mouth of the canyon.
86 STJBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Little Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah,

for 1910.

Day.

I...........................

2...........................

3...........................

5...........................

6...........................

7...........................

8...........................

10...........................

11...........................

12...........................

13...........................

14...........................

15...........................

16...........................

17...........................

18...........................

19

20...........................

21...........................

22...........................

23...........................

24...........................

25...........................

26...........................

27...........................

28...........................

29...........................

30...........................

31...........................

Jan.

23.2

24.1

1Q A

21.3

24.1

OQ 9

23.2

23.2

22.3

22.3

23.2

22.3

21.3

21.3

23.2

21.3

23.2

21.3

21.3

20.4

19 4

1O 4

20.4

21.3

19.4

20.4

19.4

Feb.

19 4

19 4

20.4

20.4

20 4

19.4

lo A

18.5

-\A 9

14 9

17.6

17.6

15.9

15.0

14.2

15.0

if; Q

15.0

17.6

17.6

15.9

1 K Q

18.5

17.6

17.6

Mar.

18.5

19 4

21.3

23.2

OK 9

9K 9

28.2

97 9

97 9

29.2

31.3

35.7

40 3

57.5

65.6

n 9

73.9

88.7

88.7

94.7

88.7

71.2

68.4

65.6

62.9

56.3

60.2

52.4

Apr.

55.0

' 57.5

60.2

A9 Q

A9 Q

65.6

65.6

68.4

71.2

76.8

104.0

110.0

........

Aug.

15.9

15.0

15.0

15.0

14.2

14.2

14.2

13.4

14.2

14.2

15.0

15.9

17.6

17.6

18.5

20.4

20.4

20.4

21.3

21.3

21.3

19.4

14.2

14.2

14.2

13.4

15.0

Sept.

14.2

15.0

15.0

15.0

15.9

15.0

15.0

15.0

14.2

14.2

14.2

13.4

14.2

14.2

15.0

15.9

17.6

17.6

18.5

20.4

20.4

20.4

21.3

21.3

21.3

19.4

16.8

16.8

17.6

17.6

Oct.

17.6

18.5

19.4

21.3

20.4

020.1

ol9.7

19.4

19.4

18.4

17.6

15.9

17.6

17.6

18.5

19.4

20.4

20.4

21.3

24.1

24.1

25.2

22.3

21.3

19.4

19.4

19.4

19.4

20.4

19.4

19.4

Nov.

18.5

18.5

18.5

17.6

17.6

17.6

17.6

17.6

17.6

15.9

15.9

17.6

17.6

17.6

17.6

14.2

14.2

15.9

15 9

17.6

15.0

17.6

15.9

15.9

15.9

14.2

14.2

14.2

13.4

Dee.

13.0

12.6

12.6

12.6

11.9

11.1

16.8

15.9

15.9

015.9

15.9

15.9

14.2

14.2

13.4

13.4

12.6

12.6

11.9

11.1

9.6

9.6

8.9

8.9

8.9

8.9

8.9

8.2

8.2

9.6

9.6

o Interpolated by engineers of United States Geological Survey to complete record for month.

Monthly discharge of Little Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for 1910.

[Drainage area, 12.7 square miles.]

Month.

Apr. 1-12.........................

Aug. 4-31.........................

September ........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

24.1 

20.4 

94.7 

110 

21.3 

21.3 

25.2 

18.5 

16.8

ItfiniTniitti19.4 

14.2 

18.5 

55.0 

13.4 

13.4 

15.9 

13.4 

8.2

Mean.

21.6 

17.2 

49.6 

71.7 

16.4 

16.7 

19 9 

1&5 

12.0

Per

square 

mile.

1.70 

1.35 

3.91 

5.69 

1.29 

1.31 

1.57 

1.30 

.945

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

1.96 

1.41 

4.51 

2.54 

1.34 

1.46 

1.81 

1.45 

1.09

Total in

acre-feet.

1,330 

955 

3,050 

1,710 

911 

994 

1,220 

982 

738

11,900

BIG COTTONWOOD CREEK NEAR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

Big Cottonwood Creek, the largest tributary of Jordan River, 

rises near Clay ton Peak, which reaches an elevation of over 12,000 

feet. Its headwaters are very mountainous and heavily timbered.

The discharge is measured near the mouth of the canyon by means 

of a compound weir, which serves not only to measure the water, but
THE GREAT BASIN. 87

to distribute it among the various claimants. The weir is just below 

the power plant of the Utah Power Co., the operation of which causes 

a diurnal fluctuation in the discharge.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Big Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for

1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10. ..............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

61.7

61.7

5Q 9

fifi Q

57 9

50.2

KQ O

59.2

59.2

51.7

56.6

56.6

56.6

57.9

57.9

K7 Q

56.6

64.3

54.2

51.7

51.7

55.4

46.9

51.7

56.6

51.7

50.5

50.5

56.6

51.7 

50.5

Feb.

50.5

55.4

44.6

46 9

45.8

48.1

51 7

49.3

46.9

48.1

46.9

45 8

43.5

45.8

45.8

Ad R

44.6

48.1

50.5

46.9

48.1

50.5

49.3

46.9

50.5

48.1

46.9

46.9

.......

Mar.

50.5

49 3

50.5

C7 Q

64.3

fifi Q

7Q 9

Q«> A

82.0

83.4

80.6

77 S

77.8

83.4

87.7

fiQ 1

Qfi 5

103

107

107

120

146

150

136

126

113

107

99.5

95.0 

93.5

Apr.

QO 5

103

107

107

106

104

106

115

121

138

155

17K

173

167

150

141

141

167

197

206

224

«244

a284

«324

343

323

May.

275

OQ1

212

216

199

182

195

254

310

355

071

«JQ7

376

341

97Q

C)At)

269

277

OQ1

258

224

265

318

327

303

307

307

336

355 

380

June.

383

390

383

DOO

«me

307

292

260

254

250

OKA

9*19

240

220

204

204

197

1Q7

171

171

167

166

160

336

146

145

131

128

125

July.

120

120

104

117

117

115

Sfi 9

93.5

101

93.5

87.7

84.8

93.5

83.4

70.9

QQ K

QQ A

7Q 9

70 9

80.6

77.8

77.8

76 4

70.9

79 3

72.3

76.4

80.6

77.8

75.0 

69.6

Aug.

82.0

77 S

76.4

75.0

75.0

73.6

72 3

69.6

63.0

63.0

61.7

61.7

64.3

63.0

64.3

61.7

60 4

5Q 9

59.2

KQ O

55.4

56.6

56.6

56.6

57 9

55.4

56.6

51.7

52.9 

54.2

Sept.

54.2

KO Q

55.4

51.7

52.9

51.7

51.7

50.5

50.5

48.1

51 7

50.5

50.5

51.7

EC A

55.4

52.9

51.7

59 Q

50.5

49.3

50.5

49.3

48.1

48.1

48.1

48.1

46.9

Oct.

46.9

69.6

55.4

54 9

59 Q

51.7

50.5

<tt> Q

48.1

49.3

49.3

55 4

56.6

52.9

51.7

AQ Q

56.6

50.5

66.9

54 9

55.4

52.9

54.2

52.9

51.7

51.7

59 Q

50.5

49.3

49.3 

50.5

Nov.

48.1

4S 1

48.1

46 9

42.3

43.5

48.1

46.9

48.1

48.1

44.6

44 fi

44.6

44.6

4ti.9

AK Q

40.1

42.3

42.3

41.2

42.3

49.3

048.1

046.9

45.8

36.8

40.1

40.1

42.3

Dec.

42.3

43.5

43.5

43.5

40.1

41.2

40.1

42.3

41.2

41.2

41.2

44.6

45.8

44.6

42.3

43.5

41.2

41.2

A A ft

43.5

17 0

40.1

41.2

40.1

44.6

44.6

44.6

36.8

41.2 

36.8

o Interpolated by engineers of United States Geological Survey to complete record for month.

Monthly discharge of Big Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for 1910. 

[ Drainage area, 48.5 square miles.]

Month.

March.. __ .......................

May..............................

July..............................

The year

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

66.9 

55.4 

150 

343 

387 

390 

120 

82 

55.4 

69.6 

49.3 

49.3

390

Minimum.

50.5 

43.5 

49.3 

99.5 

182 

125 

69.6 

51.7 

46.9 

46.9 

36.8 

36.8

36.8

Mean.

56.1 

47.8 

92.7 

181 

285 

235 

88.1 

62.9 

51.2 

53.0 

44.7 

42.2

103.5

Per 

square 

mile.

1.16 

.986 

1.91 

3.73 

5.88 

4.85 

1.82 

1.30 

1.06 

1.09 

.922 

.870

2.13

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

1.34

1.03 

2.20 

4.16 

6.78 

5.41 

2.10 

1.50 

1.18 

1.26 

1.03 

1.00

28.99

Total in 

acre-feet.

3,450

2,650 

5,700 

10,800 

17,500 

14,000 

5,420 

3,870 

3,050 

3,260 

2,660 

2,590

75,000
88 SUBFACE WATEK SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X. 

MILL CREEK NEAR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

Mill Creek drains a narrow basin extending to the crest of the 

Wasatch Range. Measurements are made by means of a 12.5-foot 

Cippoletti weir, located near the mouth of the canyon.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Mill Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1....... ........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7..........'.....

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

13.0

8.1

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

15.3

15.3

15.3

14.9

14.9

14 9

14 Q

14.9

14. 9 ,

14.9

14.9

14.9

14 9

14.9

H Q

14.9

14 9

Feb.

14 0

W Q

W Q

14 Q

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

14.9

14.9

14.9

Mar.

14.9

14.9

14 9

14 Q

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

22.9

22.9

22.9

25.1

25.1

25.1

25.1

25.1

25.1

25.1

25.1

22.9

22.9

22.9

 22.9

22.9

22.9

 22.9

22.9

22.9

Apr.

22.9

22.9

25.1

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

29.7

on 7

29.7

9Q 7

29.7

34.4

34.4

34.4

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

37.0

42.1

42.1

39.5

May.

39.5

39.5

39.5

34.4

34.4

344

34.4

34 4

34.4

49 1

44.8

44.8

44.8

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

32:0

32.0 V) n

42 1

42.1

42.1

42.1

42.1

42.1

42 1

42.1

49 1

42.1

AA Q

June.

44.8

44.8

44.8

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

32.0

9Q 7

29.7

29.7

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

27.3

97 ^

27. 3

July.

27.3

22.9

22 9

22.9

22.9

22.9

22.9

99 Q

22.9

99 Q

22.9

99 Q

22.9

22.9

99 Q

22.9

22.9

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

20.8

Aug.

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

ol8.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

18.7

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

Sept.

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

Oct.

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9-

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

W Q

15.3

15.3

NOV.

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

15.3

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

14.9

Dec.

13.0

13.0

13.0

13.0

13.0

13.0

13.0

13.0

13.0

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

10.8

16.8

14.9

14.9

14.9

14 9

U n

H n

W n

14.9

a Estimated.

Monthly discharge of Mitt Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 21.3 square miles.]

Month.

April....................... .......

May.......:.......................

July...............................

The year. ...................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

16.8 

15.3 

25.1 

42.1 

44.8 

44.8 

27.3 

18.7 

16.8 

15.3 

15.3 

16.8

44.8

Minimum.

8.1 

14.9 

14.9 

22.9 

32.0 

27.3 

20.8 

16.8 

15.3 

14.9 

14.9 

13.0

8.1

Mean.

15.4 

15.1 

21.5 

33.0 

38.4 

31.0 

22.1 

18.3 

16.2 

15.1 

15.2 

15.2

21.4

Per 

square 

mile.

0.723 

x , .709 

1.01 

1.55 

1.80 

1.46 

1.04 

.859 

.761 

.709 

.714 

.714

1.00

* Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.83

.74 

1.16 

1.73 

2.08 

1.63 

1.20 

.99 

.85 

.82 

.80 

.82

13.65

Total to 

acre-feet.

947 

839 

1.320 

1,960 

2,360 

1,840 

1,360 

1,130 

964 

928 

904 

935

15,500

NOTE. Discharge Aug. 5 has been interpolated by United States Geological Survey to complete month.
THE GREAT BASIN. 

PARLEYS CREEK NEAR SALT LAKE CITY, TTTAH.

89

Parleys Creek is formed by the junction of two forks, which together 

drain nearly 8 miles of the crest of the Wasatch Range, and empties 

into Jordan "River near the southern limits of Salt Lake City.

Measurements are made by means of two 10-foot Cippoletti weirs, 

located above the intakes of the city waterworks.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Parleys Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1...... .........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6............... 

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11............... 

12............... 

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27............... 

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

32.1

27.5

24.5

22.4

12.8

13.9

16.4

10 7

19.7

19.7

20.3 

19.6 

19.0

19.6

19.0

17.7

16.4

16.4

16.4

16.4

16.4

17.0

17.0

17.7

16.4

17.0

12.2 

14.5 

18.3

18.3

18.3

Feb.

18.3

15.2

8.9

7.4 

8.9

11.6 

16.4

15.8

16.4

16.4

16.4 

17.0 

17.0

18.3

17.0

10.5

13.4

15.8

15.8

15.8

17.0

15.8

15.8

17.0

18.3

18.3

19.7 

17.0

Mar.

19.6

21.0

30.5

36.9 

60.4

66.3 

o64.7

o63:l

o60.0

58.4 

58.4 

62.4

69.4

74.5

76.6

78.7

86.3

90.7

97.5

103

108

115

98.6

87.4

89.6

79.8 

84.1 

79.8

75.6

70.4

Apr.

70.4

75.6

83.0

76.6 

79.8

.......

.......

May.

.......

62.4

62.4

61.4

60.4

59.4

59.4

56.5

52.8 

51.8 

50.0

49.1

49.1

June.

47.3

45.5

44.6

42.9 

40.3

39.4 

39.4

38.6

37.8

33.7

33.7 

33.7 

33.7

32.9

32.1

31.3

29.7

29.0

27.5

27.5

26.7

26.7

26.0

26.0

26.0

26.0

26.0 

26.7 

28.8

28.2

July.

27.5

27.5

26.7

26.7 

26.0

23.8 

23.1

21.7

21.1

21.7

22.4 

23.1 

22.4

23.1

23.1

23.1

22.4

26.7

26.7

26.0

24.5

22.4

22.4

19.0

15.8

16.4

20.3 

20.3 

20.3

19.6

19.0

Aug.

19.0

19.0

19.0

19.0 

19.0

18.3

17.7

17.0

16.4

16.4

16.4 

16.4 

16.4

15.8

15.8

15.2

15.2

14.5

14.5

13.9

13.9

13.4

13.4

13.4

13.4

13.4 

13.4 

13.4

13.4

13.4

Sept.

ol3.2

olS.O

ol2.8

o!2.6 

ol2.3

o!2.a 

oll.7

oil. 4

11.1

11.6

12.2 

12.2 

11.6

12.2

12.2

11.1

13.4

12.8

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2 

12.2 

12.2

12.2

Oct.

12 2

1Q fi

15.2

14.5 

14.5

14.5 

14.5

13 9

13.9

13.9

13.9 

15.2 

13.4

13.4

13.4

12.8

13.4

15.8-

,14.5

W E

13.4

13.4

12.8

12.8

12.2

12.2 

12.2 

12.2

12 2

12.2

Nov.

12.2

19 9

11.6

11.6 

11.6

11.6 

11.6

11.6

11.6

11.6

11.6 

11.6 

11.6

11.6

11.6

11.6

11.6

11.6

12.8

11.1

11.6

11.6

11.6

12.2

12.2

12.2

8.4 

10.8 

10.5

10.5

Dec.

10,5

10.5

10.5

10.5 

10.5

10.5 

10.5

10.5

10.5

11.1

12.2 

12.8 

12.2

lo 9

10.5

10.5

10.5

10.5

10.5

10.5

10.5

5.6

6.5

6.5

5.6

5.6 

7.4 

8.9

10.0

11.6

o Discharge interpolated by engineers of United States Geological Survey to complete record for months.

Monthly discharge of Parleys Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for 1910.

[Drainage area, 50.1 square miles.]

Month.

March.............................

June..............................

July...............................

October...........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

32.1 

19.7 

115 

47-3 

27.5 

19.0 

13.2 

19.6 

12.8 

12.8

Minimum.

12.2 

7.4 

19.6 

26.0 

19.0 

13.4 

11.1 

12.2 

8.4 

5.6

Mean.

18.6 

15.4 

71.9 

32.9 

22.7 

15.7 

12.2 

13.7 

11.5 

9.74

Per 

square 

mile.

" 0.371 

.307 

1.44 

.659 

.453 

.313 

.244 

.273 

.230 

.194

Run-oft.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.43 

.32 

1.66 

.74 

.52 

.36 

.27 

.31 

.26 

.22

Total in 

acre-feet.

1,140 

855 

4,420 

1,960 

1,400 

965 

726 

842 

684 

599

13,600
90 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X. 

EMIGRATION CREEK NEAR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

Emigration Creek is tributary to Parleys Creek just below the 

mountain front. Its waters are used for the water supply of Salt 

Lake City.

Discharge is total flow over two Cippoletti weirs, 2.5 and 5 feet in 

length, respectively, located 600 feet below the dam at the mouth of 

the canyon.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Emigration Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, for 1909-10,

Day.

 } 

1909. 

1. ......

3 ......

4.......

5.......

6.......

7.......

8.......

9.......

10.......

11.......

12.......

13.......

14.......

15.......

Jan.

2.40

2.40

4.85

2.40

5.80

Feb.

5.80

5.80

5.80

Mar.'

5.80

7.83

Nov.

5.40

5.10

Dec.

4.86

3.15

Day.

1909. 

16.......

17.......

18.......

19.......

20.......

21.......

22.......

23.......

24.......

25.......

26.......

27.......

28.......

29.......

30.......

31.......

Jan.

4.85

5.80

Feb.

5.80

5.80

Mar. Nov.

5.10

5.80

3.99

Dec.

3.15

3.15

NOTE. Probably no record kept April to October.

Day.

1010. 

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

11.2

4.86

3.99

4.86

4.86

3.99

3.99

3.99

3.99

4.86

Feb.

3.99

3.99

3.99

3 QO

4 86

Mar. Apr. May. June.

5.79

6.81

5.79

July.

4.86

4.86

4.86

4.86

4.86

3.99

3.99

3.57

3.16

3.16

3.16

Aug.

3.16

2.97

2.97

3.16

2.39

1.72

1.72

1.72

Sept.

3.16

2.39

3.16

3.16

Oct.

8.94

3.16

3.57

3.99

3.16

Nov.

2.97

2.97

2.39

2.39

.

Dec.

2.39

2.39

2.39

2.39

NOTE. No record March, April, and May.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 91

SEVIER LAKE BASIN. 1

GENERAL FEATURES.

The lowest depression of the Sevier Desert has probably been occupied by a lake from the date of the earliest exploration nearly to the 

present time, but precise information in regard to it dates from 1872, 

when its form and extent and its relation to Sevier River were determined by Lieut. R. L. Hoxie, in charge of one of the field parties of the 

Wheeler Survey. In 1872 the lake was about 28 miles long and its 

water surface measured 188 square miles; its maximum depth at that 

time is said to have been about 15 feet, the northern part being 

deeper than the southern.

In January, 1880, the bed of the lake was nearly dry and was 

explored by Willard D. Johnson, who was able to travel on foot across 

a bed of salt where the water had before been deepest. The only 

direct feeder of the lake is Sevier River.

The desiccation of this lake is to be ascribed to human agency. 

The water of its sole tributary flows for nearly 200 miles through 

valleys containing more or less arable land and has gradually been 

monopolized by the agriculturist for the purpose of irrigation. The 

water that still reaches the lake during the spring freshets, caused by 

the melting of snow on the plateaus and mountains, represents an 

economic loss that should as far as possible be stopped. In 1880, and 

several preceding years, the water of the river was so nearly all 

utilized by the irrigators that the lake dried up; since that time, in 

spite of probable increased use for irrigation, the surplus has again 

accumulated. In the autumns of 1908 and 1909 a lake existed, but 

its margin was separated from the shore line of 1872 by a flat, miry 

belt.

The water of the lake is too saline to be used as a supply for live 

stock.

Sevier River is formed by the junction of its South and East forks, 

which rise in Garfield and Kane counties, in southern Utah, and 

meet near Junction. The river flows northeastward to a point near 

Gunnison, northwestward nearly to Leamington, then turns sharply 

to southwest toward Sevier Lake; it is more than 200 miles long, 

* measured by general course, and drains an area about 5,000 square 

miles in extent, above the lower end of Sevier Valley. In any ordinary region the Sevier would not be designated by the name of river; 

nevertheless, it is the largest stream between Great Salt Lake and the 

Colorado.

The river occupies a long, narrow basin and receives few tributaries, San Pitch River and Salina Creek being the most important.

i Abstracted from Gilbert, G. K., Lake Bonneville: Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1,1890, pp. 224r-228; 

and Meinzer, O. E., Ground water in Juab, Millardand Iron counties, Utah: Water-Supply Paper TJ. S. 

Geol. Survey No. 277, 1911, pp. 119-120.
92 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

SaJina Creek, which enters about 15 miles above Gunnison, is characterized by rapicl run-off and during flood season carries an immense 

amount of sediment.

The San Pitch joins the Sevier near Gunnison below the gaging 

station on the main stream. Its flow is controlled by a storage 

reservoir about 15 miles above the mouth and is used for irrigating 

small tracts along the river. Manti Creek, its principal tributary, 

which enters above the reservoir, drains a barren area and has a 

rapid run-off.

Beaver Kiver is nominally a part of the Sevier Lake drainage basin. 

This stream with its tributaries, North, South, and Indian creeks, 

rises on the western slope of the Tushar Mountains in the southwestern part of Utah, flows westward to Minersville, and thence 

northward until its waters are lost in the sands a few miles north of 

Milford. Only a small portion of the highest floods ever reaches 

Sevier Lake. The upper part of its drainage basin is rough and 

mountainous, some of the peaks rising to elevations of over 12,000 

feet. In this part of the basin the flow is regulated both by snow 

and by the soil, which absorbs and holds back moisture. The lower 

part of the area consists of a high plateau, most of which is desert.

SEVIER RIVER NEAR MARYSVALE, UTAH.

This station, which is located about 6 miles above Marysvale, Utah, 

about 3 miles below the site of the proposed State dam on Sevier 

River, and about 10 miles below the junction of South and East forks, 

was established February 18, 1906, to determine the amount of water 

available for irrigation and storage in the upper valley of Sevier River.

The gage is a vertical staff; its datum has remained unchanged since 

the station was established.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable and car.

The relation between gage height and discharge is somewhat 

affected by ice during very cold weather, and also by the manipulation of gates at storage reservoirs on the South and East forks. The 

flow is not affected by artificial control below the station.

The bed of the stream is somewhat shifting, but the results may be 

considered good.

Discharge measurements of Sevier River near Marysvale, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

May 12

19

Sept. 14

23

Oct. 20

Hydrographer.

E. S, Fuller. . .............................................

.....do.....................................................

O. H.Canfield.. ...........................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

60

56

52

53

53

53

Area of 

section.

SS.ft,

276

220

133

140

133

115

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

5.70

4.70

3.25

3.43

3.05

2 98

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

889

620

303

334

319

254
THE GEEAT BASIN. 93

Daily gage height, in feet, of Sevier River near Marysvak, Utah, for 1910. 

[Martha Pitts, observer.]

Day.

1.. ............. 

2...............

3.. ............

4............... 

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9.............. 

10..............

11...... ........

12...............

13...............

14.......... ....

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19.............:.

20...............

21...............

22

23............... 

24............... 

25...............

26...............

27...............

28............... 

29............... 

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

.......

.......

2.5

.......

2.1

.......

Feb.

.......

:..::::

2.3

.......

3.5

3.6

Mar.

.......

5.3

.......

4.8

4.9

5.0

5.0

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.6

5.9 

6.0

5.3 

5.0 

4.9

4.8

4.5

4.4 

4.2 

4.0 

4.0

Apr.

4.1 

4.15

4.1

4.0 

3.85

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.05 

4.05

4.25

4.25

4.9

5.0 

5.1

5.1 

5.1 

5.2

5.3

5.35

5.4 

5.5 

5.65

May.

5.6 

5.7

5.7

5.6 

5.6

5.65

5.65

5.6

5.6 

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.4

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

3.6 

3.55

3.55 

3.5 

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.45 

3.45 

3.45 

3.45

June.

3.4

t A

3.4

3.35 

3.2

3.3

3.3

2.4

2.1

2.25

3.0

3.2

3.3

3.55

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.75

3.75 

3.8

3.75 

3.9 

3.85

3.8

3.8

3.9

3.85 

3.8

July.

.......

.......

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.45

3.45

3.4 

3.35

3.3 

"3." 25" 

3.3

3.3

3.3 

3.4 

3.5 

3.55

Aug.

3.8 

3.95

3.9

3.6 

3.5

3.4

3.25

3.1

3.1 

3.0

3.05

3.2

3.2

3.5

3.45

3.4

3.35

3.2

3.25

3.25

3.25*

3.25 

3.3 

3.25

3.2

3.25

3.2 

3.7 

3.6

3

C

Sept.

3.5 

3.5

3.55

3.75 

3.8

3.85

3.6

3.6

3.5 

3.5

3.45

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.5

3.7

3.8

4.0

3.95

3.9

4.0 

3.8

3.45 

3.2 

3.1

3.0

3.0

2.9 

2.8 

2.8

Oct.

2.75 

2.8

2.8

2.75 

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.5 

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

3.35

3.6

3.3

3.0

.......

:::::::

3.7

3.4 

3.4 

3.35 

3.35

Nov.

3.35 

3.3

3.0

2.9 

2.9

2.8

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2.8

2.9

2.9

2.9

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.8 

2.8

2.8 

2.8 

2.7

2.75

2.8

Dec.

......

......

 "

2.6

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.7

3.7

3.6 

3.4

2.8

2.9

2.9 

3.1 

3.1

2.7

NOTE. Relation of gage height to discharge probably affected by ice during January and greater part 

of February. On Feb. 25 a sudden rise undoubtedly removed all ice, and gage heights were unaffected 

during the balance of the year. Water below gage Dec. 1 to 11.
94 SUKFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Sevier River near Marysvale, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

I...............

2...............

3...............

4..... ..........

5...............

6...............

7...... . ......

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19. ..............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24. ..............

25...............

26. ..............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30.. ............

31...............

Jan. Feb.

250

351

371

375

Mar.

500

600

700

777

763

749

735

720

705

690

675

660

645

671

697

697

723

750

777

860

950

980

697

671

645

570

546

500

456

456

Apr.

478

489

478

456

423

456

456

456

467

467

478

489

512

512

543

575

607

639

671

697

723

723

723

750

777

790

804

832

875

May.

860

890

890

860

860

875

875

860

860

860

860

804

712

620

620

620

620

371

361

351

351

351

351

341

341

341

341

June.

331

331

331

322

293

312

312

170

137

176

257

293

312

361

412

412

412

412

412

402

402

412

402

434

423

412

412

434

423

412

July.

407

401

395

389

383

377

371

366

361

356

351

351

351

351

351

351

351

351

341

341

331

322

312

307

302

312

312

312

331

351

361

Aug.

412

445

434

371

351

331

302

274

274

256

266

293

293

351

341

331

322

293

302

302

302

302

302

312

302

293

302

293

391

371

351

Sept.

351

351

361

402

412

423

371

371

351

351

341

331

331

331

351

391

412

456

445

434

456

412

341

293

274

256

256

238

220

220

Oct.

212

220

220

212

190

190

190

190

175

175

160

160

160

160

160

322

371

312

256

273

290

307

324

342

360

378

391

331

331

322

322

Nov.

322

312

256

238

238

220

220

220

220

220

220

220

238

238

238

256

238

238

232

226

220

220

220

220

205

212

220

220

220

220

Dec.

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

190

312

312

312

312

293

293

391

391

371

331

300

275

250

220

238

238

274

274

205

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a well-defined discharge rating curve. Discharge interpolated 

for days on which gage was not read, except Mar. 1 to 3, for which it was estimated; and Dec. 1 to 11, for-- 

which period discharge was estimated at 50 second-feet

Monthly discharge of Sevier River near Marysvale, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 2,560 miles.]

Month.

May. .......................

July........................

The year period ......

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

375 

980 

875 

890 

434 

407 

445 

456 

391 

322 

391

980

Minimum.

456 

423 

341 

137 

302 

266 

220 

160 

205 

50

50

Mean.

150 

185 

688 

595 

629 

352 

350 

325 

351 

258 

233 

203

361

Per 

square 

mile.

0.059 

.072 

.269 

.232 

.246 

.138 

.137 

.127 

.137 

.101 

.091 

.079

.141

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.07 

.08 

.31 

.26 

.28 

.15 

.16 

.15 

.15 

.12 

.10 

.09

1.92

Total in 

acre-feet.

9,220 

10,300 

42,300 

35,400 

38, 700 

20,900 

21,500 

20,000 

20,900 

15,900 

13,900 

12,500

262,000

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

C. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

C.

NOTE. Mean discharge for January and for Feb. 1 to 24 determined by gage heights scattered through 

period and decreased to a small extent on account of ice obstruction. Mean discharge Feb. 1 to 24 estimated 

at 160 second-feet.

SEVIEB BIVEB NEAB GUNNISON, UTAH.

This station, which, is located at the highway bridge on the road to 

Westview precinct, about 4 miles west of Gunnison, Utah, was 

established June 29, 1900.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 95

It is about three-fourths of a mile above the mouth of San Pitch 

River and below all other important tributaries.

An inclined staff gage is located just below the bridge; its datum 

remained unchanged until September 24, 1910, when a new gage was 

established at a datum 1 foot higher than that of the old gage.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge or by wading.

The relation between gage height and discharge is occasionally 

slightly affected by ice. The bed of the stream shifts somewhat 

during floods, but on the whole the records may be considered good.

Discharge measurements ofSevier River near Gunnison, Utah, in 1910.

Date.

Aug. 21

Sept. 24

24

Oct. 21

Dec. 13

Hydrographer.

G. H. Canfield.................. ...........................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feel.

79

78

79

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

50

138

137

97

104

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.48

3.68

3.68

3.14

3.22

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

70

390

404

223

258

NOTE. Gage height of measurement Aug. 21 referred to old datum; add 1 foot to reduce to new datum. 

Gage heights of measurements Sept. 24 to Dec. 13 referred to new datum; subtract 1 foot to reduce to old 

datum.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Sevier River near Gunnison, Utah, for 1910. 

[L. H. Lund, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2. ..............

3...............

4...............

a........:......

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

'll..... ..........

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.9

3.7

3.65

3.7

3.65

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.2

3.2

3.1

3.5

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.7

3 f|

Feb.

3.05

3.1

3.15

3.1

3.1

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

9 Q<;

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.1

3.15

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.25

3.3

3.3

Mar.

3.5

3.5

3.7

3.9

4 9

4.85

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.55

4.5

4.5

4.5

a f.

4.5

4.5

4

AK.

4.4

4.4

4

AK

4.5

4.5

4 1

4.6

4.45

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

Apr.

3.85

3.8

3.75

3.7

3.5

3.6

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.35

3.2

3.0

2.95

2.9

2.9

2.8

2.8

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.9

2.7

2.75

2

0

2.8

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.9

May.

3.05

3.2

3.1

2.9

2.95

2.9

2.8

2.9

2.7

2.8

2.9

2.7

2.65

2.7

2.6

2.5

2.7

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.3

2.3

2.05

1.4

1.6

2.0

1.7

1.6

1.6

1.6

June.

1.6

1.6

1.65

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.5

1 45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.35

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.25

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

July.

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.25

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.7

1.7

1.7

Aug.

1.8

1.8

2.0

1.95

1.8

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.7

1.6

2.45

1.9

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.55

1.55

1.55

1.5

1.5

1.45

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.35

1.35

1.35

1.3

Sept.

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.5

1.55

1.55

1.7

1.7

1.85

1.85

1.9

1.95

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.8

1.8

1.95

2.3

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.7*

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.5

2.45

2.35

Oct.

2.3

2.25

2.2

2.15

2.1

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.25

2,3

2.35

2.35

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.5

2.5

2.65

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.7

Nov.

2.9

3.5

3.1

2.8

2.75

2.75

2.6

2.55

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.5

Dec.

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.35

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.5

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.75

2.8

2.85

2.75

2.75

2.8

2.8

2

0

2.8

2.75

NOTE. A new gage was established Sept. 24, 1910, at a different datum, and subsequent gage heights 

have been reduced to the old datum.

The relation of gage height to discharge was probably unaffected by ice during January and February. 

Ice present Dee. 22 to 31.
96 SUBFACE WATEB SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, o/Sevier River near Gunnison, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...... ........

11...............

12............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16. ..............

17...............

18. ..............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27. ..............

28...............

29...............

30. ..............

31...............

Jan.

470

805

782

805

782

782

715

715

692

670

670

630

590

590

550

715

550

550

550

550

530

530

530

510

510

470

435

400

510

Feb.

530

550

570

550

ccn

470

470

470

470

490

510

510

510

470

510

510

550

550

570

con

con

590

590

610

630

Mar.

715

715

900

1,120

i i ^n

1 380

1,350

1 OflA

1,300

1,220

1,200

1,200

1,200

1,180

1,150

1,150

1,180

1,200

1,200

1,250

1,000

1 000

950

950

Apr.

875

850

828

one

715

760

71 K

670

ccn

KQft

510

AfUft

470

4°. i

435 A-IQ

4.1S

418

470

452

400

418

435

435

452

459

470

May.

530

CQA

550

470

AQf\

470

435

470

400

.JOE

470

400

OQO

400

qce

330

400

qnn

01 C

qnA

315

270

97ft

202

60

100

190

120

100

100

100

June.

100

100

110

inn

inn

inn

80

80

70

60

60

60

60

60

52

60

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

37

30

30

30

30

July.

30

30

30 '30

30

30in

30

30

30

30

30

OA

30

30

30

30

30

44

37

60

60

60

60

60

110

110

110

120

120

120

Aug.

140

i4n

140

120

120

inn

19ft

inn

165

120

120

120

100

on

on

90

80

80

70

70

60

60

60

52

52

52

44

Sept.

44

44

44

80

on

on

120

120

159

152

165

178

159

152

152

152

140

140

178

270

435

435

400

400

400

400

365

330

315

285

Oct.

270

255

240

OOQ

215

9n9

202

202

202

228

228

228

240

94n

255

270

285

285

300

300

300 °.15

315

315

330

330

365

400

400

400

Nov.

470

715

550

435

' 418

418

365

348

OOft

330

330

315

01 K

315

315

315

315

300

315

300

315

300

300

300

300

300

315

' 315

330

Dec.

330

330

330

330

330

330

300

300

285

240

240

94f>

255

240

240

330

382

382

382

382

380

380

370

370

360

360

350

350

350

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from discharge rating curve fairly well denned. Discharge Interpolated for days on which gage was not read. Discharge Dec. 22 to 31 estimated.

Monthly discharge ofSevier River near Gunnison, Utah, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 3,990 square miles.]

Month.

April.......................

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

805 

630 

1,410 

875 

590 

110 

120 

315 

435 

400 

715 

382

1,410

Minimum.

400 

470 

715 

400 

60 

30 

30 

44 

44 

202 

300 

240

30

Mean.

600 

537 

1,130 

554 

333 

60.2 

52 

108 

213 

282 

353 

326

379

Per 

square 

mile.

0.150 

.135 .283- 

.139 

.083 

.015 

.013 

.027 

.053 

.071 

.088 

.082

.095

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.17 

.14 

.33 

.16 

.10 

.02 

.01 

.03 

.06 

.08 

.10 

.09

1.29

Total in 

acre-feet.

36,900 

29,800 

69,500 

33,000 

20,500 

' 3,580 

3,200 

6,640 

12,700 

17,300 

21,000 

20,000

274,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. A. ' 

A. 

B.

BE AVER RIVER AT MINERS VILLE, UTAH.

This station, which is located about half a mile below the Beaver 

County bridge and about three-fourths of a mile northwest of Minersville, Utah, was established April 13, 1909. 
THE GBEAT BASIN. 97

The station is below all tributaries, Indian Creek, North Creek, and 

South Creek entering 10, 12, and 15 miles, respectively, above the 

station. The Minersville canal diverts all the normal low-water flow 

at a point about 2 miles above the station, at which the river is usually 

dry during several months in the summer.

Discharge measurements are made from a footbridge built for the 

purpose. An inclined staff gage is located just above the bridge. 

The gage datum has remained unchanged since the station was established.

The relation between gage height and discharge is not affected by 

ice nor by artificial control below. The section isi fairly permanent, 

and the records may be considered good.

The following discharge measurement was made by G. C. Baldwin:

December 16, 1910: Width, 26 feet; area, 27 square feet; gage height, 2.25 feet; 

discharge, 34 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Beaver Oretk at Minersville, Utah, for 1910. 

[Tus Gillins, observer.]

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7............... 

8............... 

9...............

10...............

u... ............

12............... 

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19............... 

20...............

21............... 

22............... 

23...............

24. .............

25............... 

26."..............

27...............

28............... 

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.0

4.7

9 O

2.6

2

0.

2 a

2.9 

2.85 

3.1 

3.1

2 a

2.55 

2.5

2.6

2.6

3.0

3.15

2.6

2.6 

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.7

2.65

2.7 

2.6

2.4

2.4 

2.4

2 A

9 4

Feb.

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.45 

2.4 

2.45

2.25

2.2

2.2 

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.2

2.3

2.25

2.2 

2.2

2.25 

2.25 

2.35

2

Q

2.3 

2.35

2.4

2.35

Mar.

2.4

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.45

2.45 

2.5 

2.5 

2.6

2.5

2.8 

2.65

2.65

1.45

2.15

' 1.0

1.4

1.25 

2.45

2.6 

2.7 

2.8

2.7

2.75

9 ft

2.65

2.85 

2.55

2.4

2.35

Apr.

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.2 

2.2 

2.2

2.1

2.2 

2.45

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.2 

2.2

2.2 

2.2 

2.25

2.4

2.5 

2.6

2.6

2.7 

2.9

2.7

May.

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.2

2.15

2.0

1.6 

1.0 

0.6

0.9

1.4 

1.5

1.3

0.6

-------

.......

June.

.::.:::

-------

---- 

.......

July.

.....::

.......

.......

.......

-------

Aug.

.......

-------

-----

.......

.......

Sept.

L......

-------

2.2

1.1

1.9

.......

Oct.

.......

1.75

1.55

1.55 

1.55

1.85 

1.85 

1.85

2.05

2.05 

2.05

2.15

2.15 

2-. 15

2.05

2.05

Nov.

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.15

9 1H

2.15

2.15 

2.15 

2.15 

2.15

2.15

2.15 

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2 

2.2

2.2

2.2 

2.2

2.2

2.2 

2.2

2.3

2.3 

2.3

2.3

Dec.

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3 

2.3 

2.3 

2.3

2.3

2.3 

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3 

2.3

2.3 

2.3 

2.3

2.3

2.3 

2.3

2.3

2.3 

2.3

2.3

2.3

NOTE. Channel dry May 16 to Oct. 16, with the exception of Sept. 14,15, and 19. 

43926° WSP 290 12 7 *
98 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Beaver Creek at Minersville, Utah, for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

la

in

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28

29...............

30...............

11

Jan.

368

608

107

68

68

68

107

100

138

93

62

57

68

68

122

146

68

68

57

57

57

80

74

80

68

47

47

47

47

47

Feb.

> 47

47

47

52

47

47

52

47

52

34

30

31

30

33

38

30OO

34

30

30

34

34

A1)

38

38

42

47

A<y

Mar.

47

47

57

57

57

52

52

57

57

68

57

93

74

74

0

26

0

0

0

52

68

80

93

80

86

93

74

100

62

47

42

Apr.

OQ

00

38

OQ

30

30

38

on

^ft

30

23

30

52

47

38

38

OQ

Oft

30

sn

sn

Ort

34

47

57

68

68

on

107

80

May.

68

57

57

30

26

17

June. July. Aug. Sept.

30

0

11

Oct.

4.0

.0

.0

.0

8.5

Q C

8.5

20

20

20

26

26

26

20

20

Nov.

20

20

20

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

30

30

30

sn

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

38

OQ

38

38

Dec.

38

38

38

38

38

38

38

38

OQ

38

38

38

38

38

38

38

OQ

38

38

38

38

40

38

38

38

38

38

38

38

38

38

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well defined. No discharge 

May 16 to Oct. 16, except on Sept. 14,15, and 19.

Monthly discharge of Beaver Creek at Minersville, Utah, for 1910.

Month.

March.............. ......... .....

May...............................................

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

608 

52 

100 

107 

68

30

26 

38 

38

608

Minimum.

47 

30 

0 

23 

0

0 

0 

20

38

0

Mean.

104 

39.6 

66.5 

43.2

8.2 

.0

.0

.0

1.4 

6.7 

28.8 

38.0

27.2

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

6,400 

2,200 

3,470 

2,570 

604

82 

412 

1,710 

2,340

19,700

Accuracy.

B. 

A.

A. 

A. 

D.

D. 

D. 

B. 

B.

THOUSAND SPRINGS CREEK BASIN.

THOUSAND SPRINGS CREEK NEAR TECOMA, NEV.

Thousand Springs Creek rises in the northeastern part of Elko 

County, Nev., in a range of mountains trending northeast to southwest, flows northeastward to its junction with Rock Springs Creek,
THE GBEAT BASIF. 99

then turns abruptly and flows southeastward approximately 25 miles, 

sinking into the sand west of Tecoma.

The' main source of water supply for the creek is the snow that falls 

on the mountainous upper part of the drainage area. Occasionally 

a thaw during the. winter or early spring causes flood stages in the 

creek, but the snow melts gradually, the dry soil absorbs the water, 

and little reaches the creek channel over the surface.

At the confluence of Thousand Springs Creek and Rock Springs 

Creek is a reservoir site which could be used to store water to irrigate some very good land.

The gaging station, which is located below the entrance of the 

canyon, three-fourths mile below the mouth of Rock Springs Creek, 

in the northwest corner of sec. 31, T. 42 N., R. 68 E., was established 

November 1, 1910.

Some of the spring flow is used for irrigation above the station, but 

most of the water returns to the creek.

An inclined staff gage fastened on the left bank was used until November 20, 1911, when a Friez automatic gage was installed at the 

same point.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable and car just below 

the gage; low-stage measurements are made by wading.

The relation between gage height and discharge is not affected by 

artificial control, but the water in the creek freezes during the winte^ 

sometimes even to the stream bed.

The section is fairly permanent. No high-water measurements 

have yet been made.

The following discharge measurement was made by G. H. Canfield:

November 1, 1910: Width, 3.5 feet; area, 0.63 square feet, gage height, 0.90 feet; 

discharge, 0.52 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Thousand Springs Creek near Tecoma, Nev.,for 1910.

Day.

1..............

2.. ............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

0.9

.7

.6

.95

Day.

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

10

20..............

Nov.

0.8

.85

.8

Dec.

0.95

.7

.7

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

97

28..............

29..............

on

31..............

Nov.

0.7

.85

.8

Dec.

0.7

.7

.6

SALTON SINK. 

SALTON SEA NEAR SALTON, CAL.

Salton Sink originally formed a part of the Colorado Desert, which 

extends northwestward almost 100 miles from the California-Mexico 

boundary line and comprises an area of nearly 2,000 square miles.
100 SUBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

This desert comprises two fertile valleys, one to the northwest of the 

sink, in Riverside County, known as the Coachella Valley, and the 

other to the southeast of the sink, in Imperial County, called the 

Imperial Valley. Salton Sea, which now partly fills the sink, lies 

between the two valleys, being partly in Riverside County and partly 

in Imperial County. It is about 160 miles southeast of Los Angeles, 

90 miles northwest of Yuma, and 50 miles north of Calexico. The 

longer diameter of the sea trends northwest and southeast. On 

December 31, 1908, its surface was 206 feet below mean sea level, its 

length was nearly 45 miles, its maximum width about 15 miles, its 

minimum width 9.5 miles, its maximum depth 67.5 feet, and its superficial area about 443 square miles.

During the high water of the summer of 1891 the Colorado overflowed into Salton Sink to such an extent as to endanger the Southern 

Pacific Railroad at its lowest point. In the summer of 1905, after a 

succession of winter and spring floods in Gila River followed by an 

exceptionally heavy summer flow in the Colorado, the flood into the 

sink was repeated on a much larger scale. The old river channel occupied by Alamo River was transformed into a deep, wide gorge, and 

another channel, now called New River, was formed. The flood did 

great damage to the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad, to the 

plant of the New Liverpool Salt Co. below Mecca, and to the ranches 

in the vicinity.

Gage-height records kept by the New Liverpool Salt Co. from 

November, 1904, to February 26, 1906, show the actual depth of the 

water above the lowest portion of the sink. February 23, 1906, the 

Government installed a gage at the same datum, about half a mile 

west of Salton railroad station and 3 miles southeast of the old Salton 

station. This gage was destroyed by waves. The Southern Pacific 

Co. had graduated a trestle bent across Salt Creek about 2£ miles east 

of Salton, using the company's datum; the zero of this gage is 273.5 

feet below mean sea level as determined from United States Geological 

Survey bench marks, or at an elevation of 280.3 feet below sea level 

according to the Southern Pacific Co.

Practically all the water received by Salton Sea enters through 

Alamo and New rivers, but chiefly through the former. These rivers 

run through Imperial Valley and are the drainage channels for the 

excess and waste water from the irrigation system and from the 

power plants.

The values in the following table have been reduced from the 

observed gage heights to show the depth of the Salton Sea above the 

zero of the gage.
THE GEEAT BASIN". 101

Daily depth, in feet, of Salton Sea near Salton, Gal., for 1910. 

[Benjamin C. Kadel, observer.]

Day.

1. ..............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

a...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14........... ...

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...... ........

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.45

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.4

Feb.

63.4

63.4

63.4

63.35

63.35

63.3

63.3

63.3

63.3

63.3

63.3

63.3

63.3

63.3

63.25

63.25

63.25

63.25

63.25

63.25

63.25

63.25

63.15

63.15

63.2

63.25

63.2

.......

Mar.

63.2

63.2

63.2

63.2

63.2

63.2

63.2

63.2

63.15

63.15

63.15

63.1

63.15

63.1

63.15

63.1

63.1

63.1

63.1

63.1

63.1

63.1

63.1

63,1

63.1

63.05

63.05

63.05

63.05

62.95

62.95

Apr.

62.95

62.95

62.95

62.95

62.9

62.95

62.85

62.9

62.9

62.9

62.85

ff> a

62.85

62.85

62.85

62.8

ff> a

62.8

CO Q

Pf> ft

62.8

62.75

62.75

62.75

62.75

62.75

62.7

ff> 1

62.7

62.65

May.

62.65

62.65

62.65

62.6

62.55

62.55

62.5

62.5

62,55

62.5

62.45

62.45

62.45

62.45

62.4

62.35

62.35

62.35

AO OK

62.35

62.25

62.25

62.25

62.25

62.25

62.25

62.25 fio o

62.2

62.2

62.15

June.

62.15

62.15

62.1

62.1

62.1

62.1

.62.05

62.05

62.05

62.05

62.0

61.95

61.95

'61.9

.61.8

61.75

61.75

61.75

61.75

61.75

61.75

61.7

61.65

61.6

61.65

61.55

61.55

61.55

61.55

61.5

July.

61.5

61.5

61.45

61.45

61.45

61.4

61.4

61.35

61.35

61.35

61.35

61.3

61.3

61.25

61.25

61.25

61.25

61.2

61.25

61.25

61.25

61.2

61.25

61.2

61.15

61.15

61.15

61.1

61.1

61.05

61.05

Aug.

61.05

61.05

61.05

61.0

61.0

60.95

60.95

60.9

60.85

60.85

60.8

60.85

60.8

60.7

60.7

60.7

60.65

60.6

60.55

60.55

60.55

60.5

60.5

60.5

60.45

60.45

60.45

60.45

60.4

60. .4

60.4

Sept.

60.4

60.4

60.35

60.3

60.25

60.2

60.15

60.05

60.0

59.95

59.9

59.9

59.9

59.85

59.85

59.8

59.8

59.8

59.8

59.8

59.75

59.75

59.75

59.75

59.75

59.75

59.75

59.7

59.7

59.7

Oct.

59.7

59.65

59.65

59.6

59.6

59.6

59.55

59.55

59.5

59.5

59.5

59.45

59.45

59.45

59.4

59.4

59.35

59.35

59.3

59.3

59.3

59.25

59.25

59.25

59.25

59.2

59.2

59.2

59.2

59.2

59.15

Nov.

59.15

59.15

59.15

69.1

59.1

59.1

59.1

59.05

59.05

59.05

59.0

59.0

59.0

59.0

59.0

59.0

59.0

59.0

58.95

58.95

58.95

58.95

58.95

58.9

58.9

58.9

58.9

58.9

58.85

58.85

Dec.

58.85

58.8

58.8

58.8

58.8

58.75

58.75

58.75

58.7

58.7

58.7

58.7

58.7

58.7

58.65

58.65

58.65

58.65

58.65

58.65

58.6

58.6

58.6

58.55

58.55

58.55

58.5

58.5

58.5

58.45

58.45

Monthly rise of Salton Sea near Salton, Gal., for 1904-1910.

Month.

1904.

1905.

January

February.......

April...........

May............

July............

September......

1906.

Maff>h

April...........

May............

July............

September _ ...

November...... 

December......

Monthly rise.

Feet. 

0.6

.2

1.4

1.6

.8

1.2

1.0

2

0

4.4

2.2

1.2 

1.4

1.6

2.9

1.1

1.8

2 1

5.6

8.6

15.4

8.6

2 9

.9

1.2

- .2 

1.2

Total 

rise.

Feet.

0.8

2.2

3.8

4.6

5.8

6.8

9 n

13.4

15.6

16.8

18.2

1Q S

22.7

23.8

25.6

28.3

33.9

A?) 1?

> 67.9

66.5

69.4

70.3

n

K

71.3 

72.5

Month.

1907.

April...........

May............

July............

ions

April...........

May............

July............

Monthly rise.

Feet. 

2.8

.7

- .1

- .3

- .5

- .4

- .2

- .3

- .7

- .4

- .5

- .3

.0

- .1

- .2

 .4

- .6

- .5

- '.5

- .6

- .8

- .7

- .3

- .2

Total

rise.

Feet. 

75.3

76.0

75.9

75.6

75.1

74.7

74.5

' 74.2

73.5

73.1

72.6

72.3

72.3

72.2

79 A

71.6

71.0

70.5

70.0

69.4

68.6

67.9

67.6

67.4

Month.

1909.

March

April...........

May............

June............

July............

1910.

Mftf f>h

April...........

May............

July............

Monthly rise.

Feet. 

0.0

- .15

- .25

- .3

- .4

- .4

- .6

- .05

- .5

- .55

- .55

- .25

.0

_ 2

- .25

- .3

- .5

- .65

- .45

- .65

- .7

- .55

_ q

 .4

Total 

rise.

Feet. 

67.4

67.25

67.0

66.7

66.3

65:9

65.3

65.25

64.75

64.2

63.65

63.4

63.4

63.2

62.95

62.65

62.15

61.5

61.05

60.4

59.7

59.15

58.85

58.45
102 STJBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

ALAMO RIVER NEAR BRAWLEY, CAL.

During 1908 discharge measurements were made on Alamo River 

at a highway bridge 3^ miles east of Brawley, CaL, in sec. 31, T. 13 S., 

R. 15 E., by H. R. Edwards, engineer for the New Liverpool Salt 

Co. 1 During 1909 measurements were made by engineers of the 

United States Geological Survey. On June 24, 1909, a continuous 

record of gage heights was commenced at this point. The staff gage 

is spiked vertically to a pile in the left abutment of the bridge. The 

datum of the gage has remained the same during the maintenance of 

the station. All discharge measurements prior to May 3, 1910, were 

made from the bridge. Beginning May 3, 1912, discharge measurements were made from a car and cable 100 feet below the bridge.

The data obtained at this station, together with those obtained 

on New River, show the amount of waste water reaching Salton Sea 

and are of value in connection with experiments being made by the 

United States Weather Bureau for determining the evaporation from 

Salton Sea.

Conditions for obtaining accurate discharge data are poor. The 

channel is constantly scouring or filling as the stage fluctuates. 

Both banks are high and well above overflow.

This station is maintained in cooperation with P. L. Sherman, jr., 

of Los Angeles, Cal.

Discharge measurements of Alamo River near Brawley, CaL, in 1910.

Date.

Jan. 9

Feh. 5

Sept. 16a

Oct. 16"

Dec. 18a

Hydrographer.

W.B.Clapp...... ........................................

G.C.Nohfe..... ..........................................

N.T.Shaw................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

68

46

34

40

43

30

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

256

67

50

132

134

103

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

7.10

4.00

4.30

5.80

5.80

5.30

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

1,030

98

95

395

436

288

a Measurement made from cable.

i These measurements were published in Water-Supply Paper U. S. Geol. Survey No. 249, p. 52, and 

No. 251, p. 46.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 103

Daily gage height, in feet, of Alamo River near Brawley, CaL, for 1910. 

[Mrs. Flora Helman, observer.]

Day.

1............... 

2...............

3............... 

4............... 

5...............

6............... 

7...............

8............... 

9............... 

10...............

11...............

12............... 

13............... 

14............... 

15...............

16...............

17............... 

18...............

19............... 

20...............

21............... 

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27............... 

28...............

29............... 

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.9 

4.9

4.75 

6.55 

6.9

7.0 

7.25

7.1 

7.05 

6.55

6.4

6.45 

5.9 

5.25 

5.15

4.75

4.45 

4.35

4.25

4.4

4.55 

4.65

4.95

4.85

4.95

4.8

4.45 

4.45

4.45, 

4.5

4.45

Feb.

4.35 

4.5

4.4 

4.35 

3.95

3.75 

3.7

4.25

3.8 

3.6

3.5

3.5 

3.4 

3.45 

3.35

3.4

3.4 

3.4

3.4

3.3 

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2 

3.25

Mar.

3.25 

3.2

3.2 

3.2 

3.2

3.2 

3.25

3.4 

3.25 

3.25

3.3

3.4 

3.5 

3.35 

3.25

3.3

3.35

3.4

3.45 

3.4

3.35 

3.4

3.45

3.6

3.5

3.55

3.8 

3.65

3.8 

3.85

3.8

Apr.

3.85 

3.8

3.9 

3.95 

3.8

3.7 

3.65

3.75 

3.7 

3.9

4.1

3.9 

3.9 

3.7

3.85

3.95

3.85 

4.0

3.75 

4.05

3.8 

4.0

3.8

3.85

4.0

4.0

3.85 

3.85

4.0 

4.35

May.

4.45 

4.5

4.4 

4.35 

4.0

3.9 

4.25

4.5 

4.4 

4.25

4.25

4.1 

4.15 

4.0 

4.3

4.4

4.25 

4.1

4.15 

4.15

4.0 

4.1

4.25

4.25

4.0

4.1

4.0 

4.2

4.3 

4.35

4.0

June.

4.1

4 25

4.2 

4.05 

4.0

4.2 

3.9

3.8 

3.95 

3.8

4.0

4.25 

4.0 

4.05 

3.8

3.8

3.85 

3.75

4.0

4.05

3.9

3.85

3.85

4.0

4.3

4.3

4.55 

4.7

4.85 

4.2

July.

4.3 

4.15

4.05 

4.2 

4.35

4.2 

4.1

4.3 

4.2 

4.15

4.1

3.95 

3.95 

4.05 

3.95

4.0

4.0

3.8

3.85 

3.85

3.9 

3.95

3.9

3.8

3.7

3.65

3.35 

3.3

Aug.

- - 

.......

..;..!.

.......

.......

.......

4.3

"£85"

4.15 

3.95

4.0

Sept.

4.15 

4.15

3.85 

3.9 

4.25

4.35

4.85

4.75 

4.5 

3.95

4.6

4.65 

5.05 

5.3

5.65

5.9

5.75 

6.15

5.75 

5.55

5.9

5.8

5.55

5.25

5.2

5.2

5.1 

5.4

5.2 

5.15

Oct.

5.1 

5.0

5.15 

5.65 

5.55

5.4 

5.1

5.45 

5.8 

5.65

5.6

5.6 

6.15 

6.55 

5.65

5.7

6.0 

6.05

6.2 

6.5

6.1

5.8

6.0

6.1

5.9

5.9

5.5 

5.3

5.0

5.7

6.1

Nov.

6.0 

6.0

6.1 

6.3 

6.6

6.1 

6.5

6.6 

6.0 

6.2

6.3

6.2 

6.2 

7.0 

7.0

7.0

7.0 

6.6

6.3 

6.4

5.8 

5.4

4.9

4.8

5.2

5.3

5.3 

5.0

5.2 

5.1

Dec.

5.2 

5.1

5.2 

5.2 

5.1

5.4 

5.1

4.9 

4.8 

5.1

5.0

4.9 

5.0

4.8 

5.2

5.2

5.5 

5.2

5.1 

5.5

5.1 

5.3

5.5

5.4

5.5

5.5 

5.4

5.5

5.2

5.4

. NOTE. From July 29 to August 24 the water level was below gage. On August 18 the observer stated 

that the gage height was about 3.5 feet.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Alamo River near Brawley, CaL, for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4. ..............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8. ..............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22

23...............

24...............

oe

26...............

27. ..............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

192

192

168

716

910

972

1,150

1,040

1,000

716

647

669

450

264

241

168

128

117

107

122

140

153

201

184

201

175

128

128

128

134

128

Feb.

117

134

122

117

82

68

64

107

71

58

52

52

46

49

44

46

46

46

46

44

41

41

41

41

41

41

36

38

Mar.

38

36

36

36

36

36

38

46

38

38

41

46

52

44

38

41

44

46

49

46

44

46

49

58

EO

55

71

61

71

74

71

Apr.

74

71

78

82

71

64

61

68

64

78

93

78

78

64

74

82

74

85

68

89

71

85

71

74

QC

85

74

74

85

117

May.

128

134

122

117

85

78

107

122

107

107

93

OK

85

112

122

107

04

98

98

85

93

107

107

ec

93

85

112

117

85

June.

93

107

102

89

85

102

78

71

82

71

85

107

85

89

71

71

74

68

85

89

78

74

74

85

112

112

140

160

184

July.

112

98

89

117

102

93

112

102

98

93

82

82

89

82

85

85

71

74

74

78

82

78

71

64

61

44

41

Aug.

74

98

82

85

Sept.

98

98

74

78

107

117

184

168

134

82

146

153

220

276

37ft

450

401

111

401

341

450

417

341

9fi4

o co

252

230

301

252

241

Oct.

230

210

241

370

341

301

230

314

417

370

355

355

541

716

370

385

484

502

561

691

wl

417

484

521

450

450

327

276

210

385

521

Nov.

484

484

521

604

740

521

691

740

484

561

604

561

561

972

079

972

972

740

604

647

417

301

192

175

o CO

276

276

210

252

230

Dec.

252

230

252

OCO

230

301

230

175

230

210

192

210

175

252

252

327

252

230

327

"MD

276

327

301 vyi

301

327

301

327

252

301
104 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Monthly discharge of Alamo River near Brawley, Cal., for 1910.

Month.

March . .

April....... ...... .................................

J&y........ .......................................

July....:..........................................

October...................... ..... ....

November. .................................... ...

The period ..................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,150 

134 

74 

117 

134 

184 

117

541 

716 

972 

327

1,150

Minimum.

107 

36 

36 

61

78 

68

74 

210

175 

175

Mean.

376 

61.8 

47.6 

77.2 

104 

94.2 

80.1 

63.5 

248 

405 

534 

259

197

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

23,100 

3,430 

2,930 

4,590 

6,400 

5,610 

4,930 

3,900 

14,800 

24,900 

31,800 

15,900

143,000

Accuracy.

B. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

D. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

NOTE. Discharge estimated July 29 to August 24 and August 26 to 27, to complete the annual 

discharge.

NEW RIVER NEAR BRAWLEY, CAL.

During 1908 discharge measurements were made at a wagon 

bridge over New River, 1£ miles west of Brawley, Cal., and in sec. 

31, T. 13 S., R. 14 E., by H. R. Edwards, engineer for the New 

Liverpool Salt Co. During 1909 measurements were made by engineers of the United States Geological Survey. On June 24, 1909, 

a continuous record of gage heights was begun at this point. The 

staff gage is spiked vertically to the third bridge pile from the right 

bank. The datum of the gage has remained the same during the 

maintenance of the station. At high stages discharge measurements 

are made from the bridge, but at medium and low stages measurements. During the later part of August, 1909, heavy rains in Imperial Valley caused a rise of New River which washed out the earth 

approaches to the bridge where measurements are made and completely changed the channel. Sufficient measurements have not 

since been made to define a rating curve, and no estimates of flow 

have therefore been made.

This station is maintained in cooperation with P. L. Sherman, jr., 

of Los Angeles, Cal.

The data obtained at this station, together with those obtained 

on Alamo River, show the amount of waste water reaching Salton 

Sea and are of value in connection with experiments being made by 

the United States Weather Bureau to determine the evaporation 

from Salton Sea.

The following dischaige measurement was made by wading 100 

feet above gage, by W. B. Clapp:

February 4, 1910: Width, 34 feet; area, 32 square feet; gage height, 4.80 feet; discharge, 40 second-feet.
THE GREAT BASIN. 105

Daily gage height, in feet, of New River near Brawley, C&l.,for 1910. 

[Herechell Darnell, observer.]

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

#5.. .... .........

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

5.1

5.0

5.0

5.0

4 9

d a

4.9

4.9

4.9

d a

A QC

4 95

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.8

4.85

4.85

4.8

4.9

4 9

4.9

4.8

4.8

4.8

d s

4.7

4.8

4.7

Feb.

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.75

4.75

4.65

4.75

4.8

4.8

d a

i a

4.7

4.8

4.75

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.75

4.8

4.7

4.65

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

Mar.

4.65

4.75

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.75

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.8

4.75

4.8

4.7

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.85

4.75

Apr.

4.75

4.8

5.4

5.5

5.0

5.1

4,9

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.8

4.85

4.7

4.8

4.7

4.8

4.85

5.0

5.0

5.4

4.9

4.7

4.7

4.9

5.0

4.95

5.3

5.3

May.

5.3

5.1

5.1

5.3

5.35

5.9

5.9

5.7

5.3

5.35

5.3

5.4

5.8

5.9

5.45

5.3

5.1

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.8

5.0

5.2

5.5

5.5

5.35

5.2

5.35

5.25

5.3

June.

5.2

5.1

5.0

5.3

5.25

5.0

5.15

5.25

5.35

5.45

5.45

5.4

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.5

5.85

6.0

5.85

5.65

5.45

5.25

5.35

5.25

5.4

5.3

5.2

5.15

5.r

5.3

July.

5

0

5.3

5.3

5.45

5.35

5 9

5.35

5.2

5.3

5.15

d a

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.8

Aug.

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.75

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.8

4.9

4.8

4.8

Sept.

4.9

4.9

5.0

4.9

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

5.05

5.4

5.5

5.55

5.65

5.55

5.45

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.25

5.25

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

"Oct.

5.25

5.35

5.4

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.2

5-2

5.0

4.9

4.9

4.9

5.0

4.9

4.9

4.8

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9 '4.9

5.0

5.1

5.2

Nov.

5.2

5.1

5.0

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.6

5.5

5.5

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.4

Dec.

5.5

5.4

5.8

5.6

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.5

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.3

5.3

5.4

5.6

5.4

5.3

5.2

5.2

5.3

5.3

5.4

5.4

5.5

5.6

5.5

5.5

OWENS :LAKE BASIN.

GENERAL FEATURES.

Owens Lake is a saline body of water in the central part of Inyo 

County; its area comprises about 75 square miles. Like Mono Lake, 

which lies 125 miles farther north and about 3,000 feet higher, it 

derives its water from the vicinity of Mount Lyell.

The lake is fed by Owens River, which rises among the high peaks 

of the Sierra east of Mount Lyell and directly opposite the headwaters 

of the San Joaquin, at an altitude of nearly 12,000 feet above sea 

level. It flows eastward into Long Valley, thence southeastward 

through Owens River canyon into Owens Valley, thence eastward 

and southward through the trough of the valley to Owens Lake, 

about 20 miles southeast of Mount Whitney. The total length of the 

river is about 125 miles 45 miles above the lower end of the canyon 

and 80 miles in Owens Valley.

The basin is long and comparatively narrow and its topography is 

varied. It comprises a rough east-side mountain slope 5 or 6 miles 

wide, a valley floor about 6 miles wide, and a west-side slope ranging 

from 6 to 10 miles or more in width. The west-side area is made up 

of a very rugged and precipitous mountain slope 4 or 5 miles wide,
106 SURFACE WATER STJPPLY? 1910,

and a sloping alluvial plain composed of delta-fan surfaces ranging 

from 1 to 5 miles in width and lying at the foot of the mountains and 

west of the western margin of the valley. Owens Valley is smooth 

and ranges in altitude from 3,600 feet at the south end to about 4,100 

feet at the north end. The crest of the east-side range of mountains 

averages about 6,000 feet higher than the valley floor. The west-side 

plain consists of a porous granitic alluvium of considerable depth, and 

ranges in altitude from about 4,000 feet at the western valley margin 

to about 6,000 feet at the foot of the mountains. It has a fairly uniform slope of 400 to 600 feet to the mile. The eastern slope of the 

Sierra is very steep and rugged, and ranges in altitude from about 

6,000 feet at the foot to 13,000 or 14,000 feet at the crest. The 

geologic formation is granitic.

The basin is rather poorly forested. The eastern slope is practically 

barren of vegetation, except in places a scanty desert growth. The 

western slope has a very slight soil covering and only a sparse timber 

growth, found chiefly along the watercourses. All the western slope, 

a large part of the eastern slope, and the central part of Owens 

Valley are included in national forests.

The only precipitation records available indicate that the meanannual precipitation in the valley is about 5 inches. On the Sierra 

slope precipitation probably- increases northward, and certainly 

increases with increase in altitude. ' On the higher slopes it may be 

40 inches or more and occurs almost entirely as snow.

Owens River has many tributaries. More than 40 lateral 

streams, many of them, however, comparatively small, drain a part 

of the eastern slope of the Sierra and enter the main stream from the 

west. The principal tributaries^from north to south, are as follows: 

Rock, Pine, Horton, McGee, Birch, and Bishop creeks, opposite the 

San Joaquin basin; Coyote, Baker, Big Pine, Birch, Tinemaha, 

Taboose, Goodale, Division, Sawmill (Eightmile), Thibaut, Oak, 

Pine, and Symmes creeks, opposite Kings River basin; and Shepard, 

Bairs (Moffett), George, Hogback, Lone Pine, Tuttle, Richter, Cottonwood, and Ash creeks, opposite Kern River basin. No drainage 

enters Owens River from the east except during the rare, exceptionally heavy rainstorms.

Nearly all the streams rise in glacial lakelets and marshes which 

lie near the crest of the Sierra and serve to a certain extent as storage 

reservoirs in regulating the flow.

The streams emerge from the mouths of their canyons upon the 

porous alluvial plain at the base of the Sierra, which is 1 to 5 miles 

in width and several hundred feet deep, and across which they flow 

to the Owens River channel in the trough of the valley. This belt 

of de*bris is the source of a large and important loss, part of which 

appears in numerous springs throughout the valley. Perhaps stronger
THE GBEAT BASIN. 107

evidence of the great loss by seepage is afforded by the broad belt 

of wet and somewhat boggy land which extends over a large part of 

the trough of the basin. Undoubtedly large quantities of water can 

be obtained by sinking wells within this area. Several artesian wells 

which have been sunk in the vicinity of Independence yield a strong 

flow and give convincing evidence of an artesian belt in the valley. 

With a view to the greatest ultimate utilization of the valley's water 

supply, the city of Los Angeles is conducting special investigations 

to determine the depth to and fluctuations in the ground-water plane 

and the rate of evaporation from free water surface and saturated 

gravels near Independence;1 also to determine the amount of precipitation on the alluvial plain at the base of the Sierra between the 

4,000 and 6,000 foot contours and the seepage losses of creeks crossing it.

Owens Valley is extensively cultivated and particularly adapted to 

stock raising. Numerous diversions are made for irrigation at different points on Owens River and tributaries, particularly hi the 

upper part of the valley. Considerable water is also used for irrigating meadow lands in Long Valley north of Owens River canyon, 

but it is returned to the river above the head of Owens Valley.

The basin affords many opportunities for power development. 

The fall is so great and the minimum flow of the stream is so large 

and so reliably constant that many thousands of horsepower could 

be developed. It is estimated that a minimum of more than 100,000 

horsepower could be obtained without storage, and this amount could 

be considerably more than doubled by utilizing all the possible storage. The Los Angeles Aqueduct, when completed, will have a 

capacity of 400 second-feet and a total fall of more than 3,000 feet 

from its intake in Owens Valley to its outfall in San Fernando Valley 

near the city, and will generate more than 100,000 horsepower. A 

full development of all the power opportunities in Owens River basin 

would probably^ yield more than 300,000 horsepower continuously.

The longest run-off record in Owens River basin extends back to 

1903, when stations were established on the main stream and on 

Rock and Pine creeks near Round Valley, and Bishop Creek near 

Bishop. The wettest year since that time was 1906 or 1907, and the 

driest 1905. The total flow during the wettest year was nearly 

double that during the driest.

In the fall of 1903 stations were established on five or six of the 

principal streams hi Owens Valley and on numerous diversion canals 

used for irrigation. After the city of Los Angeles had acquired its 

extensive holdings in the valley and had taken active steps to utilize 

the flow of Owens River and tributaries for a municipal water supply, 

many other stations were established at the request of and in cooperai See Water-Supply Paper U. S. Geol. Survey No. 294,1912.
108 SUEFACE WATEB SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.

tion with the city. Since tliat time all stations in Owens Valley have 

been maintained in cooperation with the city of Los Angeles, the city 

paying all field and maintenance expenses and the National Government furnishing and paying an engineer to do the work.

All stations in Owens Valley except those on Owens River are 

located near the western margin of the valley, and most of them are 

below the delta fans which extend eastward from the mouths of the 

canyons and are above all diversions. Almost without exception 

measurements are made from footbridges or by wading. The current is swift at almost every station, and the channel is subject to 

more or less change.

OWENS RIVER NEAR ROUND VALLEY, CAL.

This station, which is located 600 feet above the junction of Owens 

River and Rock Creek, in sec. 10, T. 6 S. ; R. 31 E., Mount Diablo 

base and meridian, was established August 3, 1903, at a footbridge 

100 feet above the present site, to which it was removed May 27, 

1907, as the original station had been destroyed on March 19 of that 

year.

No important streams enter above and Rock Creek is JJie first 

tributary below the station. No ditches take water above the gage, 

but several divert from the main river and its tributaries below the 

station, the first one being the Owens River canal, which heads 3 

miles below the mouth of Rock Creek. The drainage area above the 

station is approximately 450 square miles.

The gage, which is a vertical staff on the left bank, was not referred 

to the datum of the original gage.

Discharge measurements are made from a car and cable at the gage.

The channel is composed of rock and lava bowlders and changes 

little.

Discharge measurements of Owens River near Round Valley, Col., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 9

30

Apr. 21

May 11

June 24

July 11

Aug. 2

24

Sept. 17

Oct. 22

Nov. 18

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee..................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G.Wood...............................................

G. T . Peekema ..........:.................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

feet. 

34

34

34

35

35

35

35

34

34

34

34

34

Area of 

section.

* **;

73

73

81

88

87

83

71

69

72

71

70

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.56

2.12

2.20

2.40

2.53

2.43

2.32

2.07

2.02

2.02

2.03

1.08

Discharge.

Ste.-ft. 

352

218

242

300

348

312

o 288

201

' 175

183

189

164
THE GBEAT BASIN. 109

Daily gage height, in feet, of Owens River near Round Valley, Cal., for 1910. 

[L. L. Roberts, observer.]

Day.

1....... ........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6.........;.....

7...............

8...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

is

19...............

a>.... ...........

21...............

22. ..............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.6

2.5

2.4

2.3

2.1

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.0

Feb.

2.1

2.0

2.1

9 ft

2.r

9 ft

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2,1

2.1

2. is

2.1

2.1

Mar.

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.25

2.2

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.15 i'i

2.1

2.1

2.1

Apr.

2.1

2.15

2.1

2.15

2.1

2.15

2.2

2.15

2.2

2.1

2.2

2.15

2.2

2.15

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.35

2.4

2.35

May.

2.4

2.35

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.5

2.55

2.5

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.8

2.85

2.8

3.0

June.

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.2

3.25

3.2

3.3

3.15

3.2

3.1

3.15

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.7

2.6

2.55

2.5

2.5

July.

2.5

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.45

2.4

2.5

2.6

2.5

2.35

Aug.

2.35

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.0

2.2

2.15

2.1

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.1

Sept.

2.0

2.15

2.1

2.1

2.0

2.05

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.06

2.0

2.05

2.6

2.05

2.0

1 O

1.85

Oct.

1.95

1.95

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.05

2.1

2.0

2.6

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.0

2.1

Nov.

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.05

2.0

2.05

2.0

2.05

1.95

1.9

1.85

1.9

1.8

1.85

1.8

1.85

Dec.

1.9

1.9

2.0

1.9

1.95

1.85

1.85

1.9

1.95

1.95

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.95

2.0

1.95

1.95

 2.0

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Owens River near Round Valley, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1. ...... ........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27... ....... ..- ..

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

370

352

335

318

301

284

268

247 206-

192

177

177

177

177

177

177

177

177

177

192

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

192

177

Feb.

192

206

192

177

206

192

177

192

206

192

177

192

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

214

221

214

206

206

Mar.

221

228

236

236

236

236

236

252

244

236

252

244

236

236

236

236

236

236

236

221

206

214

221

214

206

206

206

206

206

206

206

Apr.

206

214

221

214

206

221

214

206

214

221

236

228

221

228

236

206

236

228

221

236

228

221

244

268

268

301

284

301

292

284

May.

301

292

284

292

301

301

301

318

326

335

352

344

335

352

370

370

370

370

388

405

405

405

423

441

441

441

460

450

441

478

517

June.

596

616

636

676

596

616

606

596

616

636

606

576

586

596

576

556

576

517

517

498

478

478

405

370

361

352

335

335

335

335

July.

335

318

301

310

318

301

310

318

310

301

301

301

301

301

310

318

301

310

318

310

301

310

318

310

301

318

335

370

352

335

284

Aug.

284

284

276

268

268

252

236

221

206

206

206

177

206

236

228

221

214

206

192

177

192

206

192

177

192

206

192

177

192

206

192

Sept.

177

199

221

206

206

206

192

177

184

192

177

177

177

177

177

184

192

184

177

184

192

184

177

184

192

184

177

164

151

139

Oct.

164

164

164

170

177

177

177

192

206

192

199

206

206

214

221

206

1O9

inn

206

- 177

177

177

184

1Q9

206

206

206

206

177

206

Nov.

177

192

206

192

177

192

184

177

184

192

184

177

184

192

177

164

151

145

139

145

151

139

127

133

139

135

131

127

139

145

Dec.

151

151

151

' 177

164

151

158

164

151

139

139

145

151

158

164

164

164

177

177

177

177

177

170

IRA.

170

177

170

164

164

170

177

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve well-defined above 180 second-feet 

and fairly well defined below. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not read.
110 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Owens River near Round Valley, Cal.,for 1910.

Month.

April..............................................

May...............................................

July...............................................

October. ..........................................

November. ........................... .

The year. .......................... .

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

370 

221 

262 

301 

517 

676 

370 

284 

221 

221 

206 

177

676

Minimum.

177 

177 

206 

206 

284 

335 

284 

177 

139 

164 

127 

139

127

Mean.

222 

201 

227 

237 

374 

519 

314 

216 

184 

192 

163 

163

250

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

13,600 

11,200 

14,000 

14,100 

23,000 

30,900 

19,300 

13,300 

10,900 

11,800 

9,700 

10,000

182,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

A. 

A., 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

OWENS BIVEB NEAB TINEMAHA, CAL.

This station, which is located at a basaltic knoll known as Charlies 

Butte, in the floor of the valley about 7 miles south of Tinemaha, in 

sec. 2, T. 11 S., R. 34 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, was regularly established September 20, 1906, but the city of Los Angeles 

had made frequent measurements since the beginning of 1906.

No water is diverted for some distance above and below this station. 

Tinemaha Creek is the first tributary above and Taboose the next 

below the station.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left bank; its datum has not 

been changed since the station was established.

Discharge measurements are made from a car and cable at the gage. 

When the discharge exceeds 1,800 second-feet, the river overflows the 

left b.ank and the station is inaccessible. At such times measurements are made from the county bridge near Citrus.

The channel is composed of sand and gravel and is somewhat 

shifting.

The record may be considered good.

Discharge measurements of Owens River near Tinemaha, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 11

Apr. 2

19

May 13

June 26

July 14

25 a

Oct. 24

Nov. 2

Dec. 23

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee..................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G. Wood...............................................

G . T. Peekema ............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do....................................................

Width.

Feel. 

89

85

53

57

86

56

58

47

46

87

87

88

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

243

154

66

80

133

93

90

63

66

158

181

206

s,

Feet. 

3.10

1.99

fi9

.93

1.58

1.09

1.21

.63

.68

2.16

2.38

2.64

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

620

313

QQ

152

265

181?

168

94

107

347

379

448

o Measurements made by wading.
THE GREAT BASIJsT. Ill

Daily gage height, in feet, of Owens River near Tinemaha, Cal., far 1910. 

Ray Bowers, observer.]

Day.

1....... ........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

u.. .............

12...............

13...............

14. ..............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.4-

5.1

5.75 4 t;

3.55

3.5

3.55

3.4

3.35

3.25

3.2

3.2

3.15

3.1

3.15

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.15

3.1

3.05

3.0

3.05

3.1

3.1

3.05

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

Feb.

2.9

9 if.

2 7

2

fi

2.75

2 Q

2 Q

2.9

2.9

2.85

2.85

2.9

O OK

2.8

2.75

2.7

2.65

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

Mar.

9 If.

2.8

2

QC

2

QC

2

0

2 QC

2.9

2.95

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.15

3.1

3.15

3.2

3.25

3.2

2 Q

2.6

2.5

2.45

2.4

2.35

2.35

2.4

2.25

2.1

2.0

Apr.

i Qt;

1 Q

i ft

1,7

1.6

1 45

1.3

1.15

1.0Qt;

1.0

1.1

1.0

If.

.7

.65

.6

.7

.7

.7

.75

.7

.65

.7

.75

.76

.7

.7

May.

0.8

.8

7e

7*

.7

.7

.7

.8

.95

1.0

1.0

Qt;

1.0

1.0

1.1

1.25

1.6

1.9

2.0

1 Q

2.0

1.95

1.95

2.0

2.2

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.5

2.65

2.8

June.

3.0

3.3

3

O

3.3

3.35

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.75

2.65

2.55

2.45

2

AK

<> P;

2.5

2.55

2.65

2.5

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.0

1.85

1.75

1.65

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

July.

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.3

1.25

i 9<;

1.25

1.2

1.15

1.0

1.0

1.05

1.05

1.1

1.05

1.0

1.0

1.35

1.85

2.25

2.45

2.3

2.8

2.85

2.5

2.25

2.1

2.0

2.1

1.9

1.7

Aug.

1.55

1 A.f.

1.35

1.25

1.15

1.1

1.1

1.05

1.0

on

.9

.85

.8if.

.75

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.65

.55

.5

.55

.65

1.2

1.0

.75

.7

.7

.65

Sept.

0.65

.65

65

.65

.65

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.55

.55

.55

.55if.

.65

.6

.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

.75

.75

.8

.8

.75

.75

.75

.8

Oct.

0

0

.85

1.0

1.1,

1.15

1 9

i OP;

1.3

1.35

1.35

1.35

1.3 i f.

1.6

1 Q

2

ftC

9 IF.

2.2

2.1

2.05

2.1

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.25

2.25

2.25

Nov.

2

*>e

2

oe

2.25

2.25

2

O

2

O

2

0

2.35

2.4

2 A

2 A

' 2.4

2:4

2

e

*> F.

2

e

9 AR

2.45

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.45

2.5

2.5

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.5

Dec.

2

KE

2.55

2 ft

2 AC

2 7

2.7

2 7

2.7

2.7

2 7

2 7

2.7

2

7K

2 7

2 fifi

2

CK

2.55

2.55

2.6

2.6

2.65

2.7

2.65

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.55

2.6

2.5

2.55 9 t;

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Owens River near Tinemaha, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1.... ...........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6............... 7...........:...

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19. ..............

20...............

21. ..............

22...............

23...............

24....:..........

25...............

26...............

28...............

29................

30...............

31...............

Jan.

910

1,120

1,320

939

679

666

679

R49

630

606

eCW

594

582

570

582

VtA

594

594

582

570

558

547

558

570

570

558

547

547

547

547

547

Feb.

524

480

458

491

524

524

524

524

513

513

524

513 t;n9

401

480

469

480

480

480

480

480

480

4 on

480

480

480

480

Mar .

491

502

513

513

502

513

524

536

547

547

F.7A

594

594

582

twn

582

594

606

K(\d

458

436

426

415

396

396

415

384

353

334

Apr.

324

315

296

277

259

232

205

180

155

148

14/1

155

171

155

140

118

110

102

95

110

110

110

118

110

102

110

118

118

110

110

May.

12*

125

118

118

110

110

110

125

148

155

155

148

155

155

171

196

259

315

334

315

334

324

324

334

373

415

394

394

436

469

502

June.

547

618

618

618

630

547

537

524

491

469

426

426

436

436

447

469

436

415

QQ.J.

373

334

306

286

268

241

241

241

241

241

July.

241

241

223

205

196

196

196

188

180

155

155

163

163

171

163

155

155

214

306

384

426

394

502

513

436

384

353

334

353

315

277

Aug.

250

232

214

196

180

171

171

163

155

148

140

132

125

118

118

118

118

110

110

110

102

88

82

88

102

188

155

118

110

110

102

Sept.

102

102

102

102

102

Qf;

95Qt;

Qt;

95

88

QQ

88

88

118

102

95

110

110

110

110

118

118

118

125

125

118

118

118

I9t;

Oct.

125

132

155

171

180

188

196

9ft^

214

214

214

205

241

259

315

344

363

373

353

353

363

373

373

363

363

373

373

384

384

384

Nov.

384

384

384

384

394

394

394

Af\A

416

415

41 f.

415

415

436

436

436

426

426

426

41 F.

415

415

426

426

436

436

426

415

415

436

Dec.

447

447

458

469

480

480

480

480

480

480

480

AQ(\

491

480

468

447

447

447

458

458

469

' 480

469

458

458

458

447

458

436

447

436

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a fairly well-defined discharge rating curve.
112 SUKFACE WATEK SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Owens River near Tinemaha, Cat., far 1910.

Month.

April..............................................

July..............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,320 

524 

606 

324 

502 

630 

513 

260 

125 

384 

436 

491

1,320

Minimum.

547 

458 

334 

95 

110 

241 

155 

82 

88 

125 

384 

436

82

Mean.

650 

494 

503 

160 

250 

424 

269 

139 

106 

286 

415 

464

346

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

40,000 

27,400 

30,900 

9,520 

15,400 

25,200 

16,500 

8,550 

6,310 

17,600 

24,700 

28,500

251,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

OWENS RIVER NEAR LONE PINE, CAL. \ '

This station, which is located at the highway bridge on the road 

from Lone Pine to the Mount Whitney station on the Nevada & California Railroad, 2J miles northeast of Lone Pine, in sec. 23, T. 15 S., 

E. 36 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, was established June 12, 

1908.

No water is diverted in the vicinity of the station, and no important tributaries enter the stream for some distance above the bridge.

The gage is a vertical staff attached to the bridge; its datum has 

not been changed since the station was established.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge.

Both banks are low and overflow at flood stages. The channel is 

sandy but fairly permanent. The record may be considered good.

Discharge measurements of Owens River near Lone Pine, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 2

22

Apr. 12

May 5

24

July 21

Aug. 16

26a

26

22«

Oct. 27

Nov. 30

Hydrographey.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H. Lee... ...............................................

.....do.....................................................

F.G. Wood.. ...................................... ..j....

G. T. Peekema. ...........................................

.....do.....................................................

T.G. Wood.................................. .............

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet.

7Q

79

63

52

72

58

59

56

65

73

53

55

 78

81

Area of 

section.

*$,

295

97

76

156

115

149

61

49

67

56

59

202

231

Gage

height.

Feet. 

6.35

6.50

4.25

3.90

4.85

4.53

4.92

3.68

3.53

3.52

3.69

3.70

5.25

5.70

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

608

637

175

129

306

217

OCK

87

76

69

85

91

325

392

o Measurement made by wading.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 113

Daily gage height, in feet, of Owens River near Lone Pine, Cal., for 1910. 

[G. F. Marsh, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4... ............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13............... 14.;.............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25. ..............

26...............

27. ..............

28. ..............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

7.5

7.7

8.5

9.1

10.2

8.7

8.2

8.1

7.3

7.3

7 o

7 9

7.1

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.05

7.1

7.05

7.0

7.0

7.0

6.95

6.9

6.9

6.85

6 OK

6.8

6.8

6.7

6.7

Feb.

6.1

5.9

6.0

6.2

6.3

6.4

6.5

6.5

6.4

6.1

6.0

6.1

6.1

fi 9

6.3

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.4

6.3

fi 9

6.1

6.1

6.1

6.05

6.0

6.0

6.0

Mar.

5.95

6.0

6.0

6.1

6.15

6.2

6.2

6.3

6.35

6.4

6.45

6.45

6.45

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.55

6.5

6.5

fi i

6.5

6.2

5.0

5.9

5.8

5

0

5.8

5.8

5.6

5.4

Apr.

5.1

5.0

5.0

5.1

5.0

5.0

4 9

4.8

4.7

4.5 4.5'

4.3

4 1

4.1

4.1

4.05

4.05

4 0 '

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3 Q

3

Q

3.9

3 d

May.

3 Q

3 Q

3.85

3.8

3.85

0 QE

3

QC '4.0

4.0

4.85

4.1

4.05

d n

4.0

4.0

3 95

4.0

4.1

A 9

4.6

4.9

4.9

4.95

4.9

5.0

5.0

5.1

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

June.

5.5

5

0

6.0

6.1

6.2

6.5

6.4

6 9

6.0

5.4

5.6

5.5

5.45

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.6

5 9

5.0

4.8

4.7

4.5

4.5

d AS

4.4

4.4

July.

4 45

4 45

A. AH

4.5

4.5

A. 1

4 55

4.5

4.45

4.45

4.4

4.4

d 9

4.1

4.0

4.0

A. n

3 95

4.1

A. 9

4.5

4 Q

5.0

5.2

5.4

5.6

5.0

5.0

4.9

4.5

4.45

Aug.

4 4

4.35

4.35

4.4

4.35

4.1

4 1

A ft

S Q

3.95

3.8

3 OK

3.55

3.6

3.65

3

fi

3.6

3.55

3.6

3.65

3.6

3 AC

3.6

3.55

3.55

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.65

3.7

Sept.

1 7

1 7

3.75

1 7

3 7

3 7

3 7

3 7

3.65

" 3 7

3 7

3

fiC

3.6

3.65

3.75

3.65

3.65

3.6

3.65

t 7

3.75

3 7

3.75

3.75

3.75

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.75

3.8

Oct.

3

0

3

0

3.85

3.8

3.85

4.0

4.05

4.2

4.25

4.3

4.35

4.4

4.45

4.5

4.5

4.9

5.05

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.35

5.4

5.35

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.25

5.3

5.35

i 5.35

5.35

Nov.

5.35

5.35

5.35

5.4

5.4

5

AK

5.5

5.55

5.6

5.6

5.65

5.65

5.7

5.7

5.75

5.75

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

Dec.

5.7

5.7

5.75

5.85

S o

5

QC

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.95

5 95

5.95

5.95

6.0

6.05

6.05

6. OS

6.05

6.0

6.0

5.95

5.95

5.9

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Owens River near Lone Pine, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7.. .............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14. ..............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31..... ....... ...

Jan.

812

ftfi!

1,070

1,260

1,770

1,130

QOQ

963

7fi4

7fi4

764

741

718

695

695

695

706

71ft

706

695

695

695

fiRid

672

672

660

660

649

649

626

626

Feb.

500

462

481

520

540

wi

582

582

561

500

4ai

500

500

520

540

582

582

582

561

540

500

500

500

490

AQ-\

AQ-t

-iai

Mar.

472

481

481

500

510

520

eon

540

550

561

572

572

572

582

582

582

582

593

582

582

582

582

520

297

462

113

443

443

443

405

368

Apr.

314

297

297

314

297

297

263

246

213

213

181

150

150

150

142

142

135

135

135

135

135

121

121

121

121

121

121

121

121

May.

121

121

114

107

114

128

128

135

135

172

150

142

135

135

135

128

135

150

165

229

280

280

288

280

297

297

314

314

332

350

368

June.

386

443

481

500

520

582

561

520

481

368

405

386

377

368

368

368

386

386

368

368

405

332

297

263

246

213

213

205

197

197

July.

205

205

205

213 '213

213

^221

213

205

205

197

197

165

150

135

135

135

128

150

165

213

280

297

332

368

405

297

297

280

213

205

Aug.

197

188

188

197

188

150

150

135

121

128

107

114

74

80

86

80

80

74

80

. 86

80

86

80

74

74

80

80

80

80

86

93

Sept.

93

93

100

93

93

93

93

93

86

93

93

86

80

86

100

86

86

80

86

93

100

93

100

100

100

107

107

107

100

107

Oct.

107

107

114

107

114

135

142

165

173

181

189

197

205

213

213

280

306

314

332

350

359

368

359

350

350

350

341

350

359

359

359

Nov.

359

359

359

368

368

377

386

396

405

405

414

414

424

424

434

434

424

424

424

424

424

424

424

424

 424

424

424

424

424

424

Dec.

424

424

434

452

462

4W

481

481

481

481

481

481

481

481

481

481

481

472

472

472

472

481

490

490

490

490

48J.

481

472

472

462

NoTE. Daily discharge determined from a well-defined discharge rating curve. 

43926° WSP 290 12 8
114 STJBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Owens River near Lone Pine, CaL, for 1910.

Month.

March... .....

April..............................................

May...............................................

July...............................................

August ............................................

September. ... .....................................

December. . .......................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,770 

582 

593 

314 

368 

582 

405 

197 

107 

368 

434 

490

1,770

Minimum.

626 

462 

297 

121 

107 

197 

128 

74 

80 

107 

359 

424

74

Mean.

800 

522 

514 

186 

199 

373 

221 

110 

94.2 

253 

409 

473

346

Run-off 

(total in

acre-feet).

49,200 

29,000 

31,600 

11,100 

12,200 

22,200 

13,600 

6,760 

5,610 

15,600 

24,300 

29,100

 250,000

Accuracy.

A. 

A. 

B. 

A. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B.

BOCK CREEK NEAR BOUND VALLEY, CAL.

This station, which is located at a footbridge on the Bishop and 

Long Valley road about two-thirds mile above the mouth of the creek, 

in sec. 9, T. 6 S., R. 31 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, was 

established August 3, 1903, at the wagon bridge 400 feet farther 

upstream, and was removed to the present site in July, 1906.

Pine Creek, the principal tributary of Rock Creek, enters below 

the station. A number of small ditches divert water above the station. The drainage area above the mouth of Rock Creek canyon is 

approximately 46 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left bank.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge.

The channel is composed of sand and cobblestones and shifts somewhat. The record may be considered good up to October 14; after 

this date the discharge was computed by the indirect method for 

shifting channels and the record is fair.

Discharge -measurements of Rock Creek near Round Valley, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 9

30

Apr. 21

May 11

July 11

24

Sept. 18

Oct. 22

Nov. 18

Dec. 31

Hydrographer.

R. E . Haines ..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H. Lee.... ..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G.Wood...............................................

G. T. Peekema............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................:...............................

.....do............................ ............ ...........

Width.

Feet. 

15

14

15

16

16

16

16

15

15

16

16

16

Area of 

section.

**i.

14

16

OQ

25

oe

OO

19

15

21

18

10

,».

Feet. 

1.27

I ns

1.18

1.69

1.80

1 7S

1.60

1.42

1.13

1.52

1.38

1 1R

Discharge.

Sec.-ft.

31

23

28

52

58

56

43

37

25

35

29

on
THE GEEAT BASIN. 115

Daily gage height, in feet, of Rock Creek near Round Valley, Cal.,for 1910. 

[L. L. Roberts, observer.]

Day.

1............... 

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6. .............. 

7...............

8. ..............

9

10...............

11...............

12...............

11

14...............

15...............

16...............

17............... 

18...............

19. ..............

20...............

91

22...............

23...............

24

25. ..............

26...............

27............... 

28...............

29...............

30............... 11

Jan.

1.9

1.9

1.8

"i.'e"

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.55

1.6

1.55

1.6

1.65

Feb.

"i.'es"

1.6

1.65 

-----

1.7

1.65

1.6

1.5

1.4 

1.4

1 Q

1 <l

1.3

1.3

1.3 

1 11

Mar.

1.35

1.4

1.4

1.35 

1.3

1.3

1.25 

1.2

1.2

1.25

1.2

1.2

1.2

.......

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

Apr.

1.1

1.15

1.1 

1.15

1.1

1.15 

1.15

1.1

1.15

1.1

1.2

1.2

1.25

1.2

1 i

1.35

1.4

1.35 

1.35

i i

May.

1.3

1.3

1.35 

"i.~35~

1.4

1.35 

1.45

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.55

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.9

June.

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.3 

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.1

2.0

2.1 

1.9

1.9

1.7

1.7

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.45

1.4

July.

2.3

2.1

2.15 

2.0 "

2.0

1.8

1.75

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.6

1.65

1.6

1.65 

1.6

1 65

1.5

Aug.

"'l.55'

i.5

1.5

"i.'i"

1.35

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.3 "i.T"

i.4

1.4

1.5

1.4

"i."35~

Sept.

1.35

1.35

1.25

1.2

1.1

1.15 

1.1

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.05

1.0

i.i 1.1

Oct.

1.15

1.2

1.2

"i.~2"

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

"i."45'

1.5

1.4

1.45

1.45

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

Nov.

1.4

1.45

1.4 

1.4

1.35

1.4

1.45

1.4

1.35

1.35

1.3

1.35

1.3

1.35

"i.'s"

1.35

Dec.

1.35

1.35

1.4

1.4

1.45

1.4 

1.46

1.4

1.4

1.35 

1.35

1.3

1.35

1.35

1.4

"i."35

1.35

1.4

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Rock Creek near Round Valley, Cal.,J6r 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27. ..............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

63

63

63

60

57

52

46

44

41

38

36

36

36

36

36

36

36

38

41

41

41

/to

43

11

46

4A

43

44

46

48

49

Feb.

49

49

47

46

49

50

51

51

51

50

49

48

46

44

41

38

ifi

36

14

19

19

19

19

19

19

oo

19

34

Mar.

34

35

36

36

35

34

' 32

32

30

29

27

27

27

28

29

28

97

27

97

27

97

97

97

97

97

27

97

27

27

27

Apr.

23

24

25

24

23

25

24

23

24

25

25

24

23

24

25

23

27

27

97

28

90.

97

30

19

14

Ifi

14

14

oo

19

May.

32

32

32

33

34

34

14

36

35

14

38

37

36

38

41

41

41

42

41

'46

46

AR

48

51

51

51

57

57

57

60

63

June.

81

84

87

94

. 87

81

81

81

81o-f

80

78

76

74

71

68

74

63

63

57

51

51

41

Qfi

°.fi

36

38

37

36

62

July.

87

80

74

76

78

-68

68

68

62

57

56

54

CO

40.

49

49

49

4Q

49

47

46

48

4Q

47

46

48

40

46

47

49

41

Aug.

42

43

42

41

41

38

36

35

34

35

36

36

14

32

32

32

34

36

36

ifi

36

36

38

41

on

36

QK

34

14

34

14

Sept.

34

34

34

29

28

27

25

23

24

25

23

24

25

OK

25

25

25

24

91

23

OQ

21

19

20

21

OA

10

21

91

23

Oct.

25

26

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

30

32

36

38

40

Q7

35

ifi

36

30

oe

32

DO

32

14

34

34

34

34

34

Nov.

30

31

32

31

30

30

29

28

29

30

11

32

31

30

9Q

28

28

29

26

97

OQ

97

26

97

28

97

27

26

28

28

Dec. ,

29

29

29

31

31

31

32

14

33

32

14

33

19

32

32

31

in

30

9O

28

9Q

in

30

30

32

33

32

31

31

32

33

NOTE. Daily discharge Jan. 1 to Oct. 14 determined from a well-defined discharge rating curve; Oct. 15 

to Dec. 31 indirect method for shifting channels used. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was 

not read.
116 SUEFACE WATBE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Rock Creek near Round Valley, Gal., for 1910.

Month.

May

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

63 

51 

36 

36 

63 

94 

87 

43 

34 

40 

32 

34

94

Minimum.

36 

32 

27 

23 

32 

36 

41 

32 

19 

25 

26 

28

19

Mean.

44.8 

41.2 

29.2 

27.1 

42.8 

65.5 

56.0 

36.4 

25.3 

31.6 

28.8 

31.1

38-3

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

2,750 

2,290 

1,800 

1,610 

2,630 

3,900 

3,440 

2,240 

1,510 

1,940 

1,710 

1,910

27,700

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C.

PINE CREEK NEAR ROUND VALLEY, CAL.

This station, which is located at a footbridge about 300 feet above 

the highway bridge on the road from Bishop to Long Valley, in sec. 

9, T. 6 S., R. 31 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, was originally 

established August 3, 1903, at a point about 100 feet above the 

mouth of the creek and 150 feet below the bridge, and was reestablished at the new site May 13, 1908.

Considerable water is diverted from the creek above the gaging 

station, and the water which passes the station is that which flows 

directly into Rock Creek. The drainage area above the mouth of 

 Bereluin Canyon is approximately 32 square miles.

The present gage is a vertical staff on the left bank. The original 

gage datum has not been maintained.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge. The daily 

variation in stage of this creek during high water is large, owing to the 

effect of warm days and cool nights on the snow in the headwater 

region, but an attempt was made to record gage heights representing 

the mean for the day.

The channel is composed of lava rock and sand and is fairly 

permanent.

The discharge rating curve is fairly well defined, and the record 

may be considered fair.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 117 

Discharge measurements of Pine Creek near Round Valley, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 9

30

Apr. 21

Aug. 3

24

July 11

Sept. 18

Oct. 22

Nov. 18

Dec. 21

Hydrographer.

R.E.Haines. .............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee................. ................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G. Wood.................................. ..............

C. H. Lee. ................................................

G T* "Ppolmm a

....do......................................................

....do......................................................

....do......................................................

Width.

' Feet. 

9.6

9,8

10

10

12

11

10

12

10 .

10

10

10

Area of 

section.

Sq.feet. 

12.8

1^1 9

15

14.4

25

16

14

21

12 7

13

13.2

13

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.58

3.60

3.81

3.72

4.50

3.95

3.80

4.20

3.60

3.60

3.63

 3.60

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

4.3

d Q

13

9.2

65

20

11

42

i Q

4.9

5.4

4.7

Daily gage fieight, in feet, of Pine Creek near Round Valley, Cal., for 1910. 

[L. L. Roberts, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4............... 

5...............

6............... 

7............... 

8...............

9...............

10...............

11.. ...... ...... .'

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20............... 

21...............

22...............

23............... 

24...............

25............... 

26...............

27...............

28............... 

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.9

3 0

"3.: 7" 

"3.7"

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3 7

3 A

3.65

3.6

3.7

3.7

"3." 65"

3.7

Feb.

3.6

3.6

3.65

"3.T"

* 3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.6'

3.6

3.6 

3.65

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

Mar.

3.6

3.65

3.6

3.6 

3.55 

3.6

3.58

3.55

3.55

3.55

3.6

3.5

3.55

3.5

3.55

3.5

3.5

"3." 4"

3.6

3.4

Apr.

3.4

3.45

"3.1" 

3.4 

"3.T"

3.45

3.55

3.5

3.55

3.7

3.8

3.7

3.8 

3.81

3.65 "3.7"

3.75 

3.8

3.9

4.0

3.8

May.

3.75

3.75

"3." 85"

"3." 85" 

3.9

4.0

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.45

4.6

4.7 "i's"

4.8

4.9

5.3

June.

5.6

5.7

5.8 

5.7

5.6

5.6

5.5

5.7

5.6

5.7

5.4

5 4

5.2

5.2

5.0 

4.8

4.5 

4.7

4.7

July.

4.4

4.2 "4.3"

4.15 

"4." 15

4.1

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.15

4.15

4.15

4.15

4.2

4.2

4.25

4.2

3 95

3.9

Aug.

3.95

3.9 

3.8

"Y.e"

3.55

3.65

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.6

3.65

"3." 7"

3.7

3.65

3.7

Sept.

3.7

3.65

3.6 

3.6 "s.'e"

3.65

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.5

3 45

3.45

3.4

3.45

3.4

"3." 45"

3.4

Oct.

3 45

3.4

"S.h" 

"3." 45"

3.5

3.45

3.55

3.5

3.55

3.55

3.6 

3.55

3.55

3.6 

3.65

3.6 "i'e"

3.55

3.6

Nov.

3.5

3

C

'3.4"

3.4 

"T.35"

3.45

3.4

3.5

3.55

3.6

3.55

3.6

3.6

3.6

"s.'ss"

3.6

Dec.

3.6

3.65

3.65 

3.55 "s.'e"

3.55

3.65

3.55

3.6

3.55

3.6

3.55

3.6

"3.T

3.6

3.6 

3.6

3.6
118 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Pine Creek near Round Valley, Cal.,for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

17

17

17

12

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

6.4

4.8

5.6

6.4

5.6

4.8

6.4

8

8

8

7.2

6.4

7.2

8

Feb.

6.4

4.8

4.8

4.8

6.4

7.2

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

^ 8

8

6.4

4

O

4.8

4.8

4.8

6.4

5.6

4

O

4.8

4.8

4.8

4

O

4.8

Mar.

4

0

'5.6

6.4

4.8

4.8

4.8

3.8

4.8

4.4

3.8

3.8

3.8

3

O

4.3

4.8

3.8

2

O

3.3

3.8

3

5

2.8

3.3

3

0

3

0

2.8

2.8

2

0

2.2

1.5

4.8

1.5

Apr.

1.5

1.8

2.2

1.8

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.8

2.2

3.8

3.3

2.8

3.3

3.8

8

12

10

8

12

12

6.4

7.2

8

10

12

17

24

17

12

May.

10

10

10

12

14

14

14

17

20

24

39

43

47

52

57

57

68

65

62

80

86

Q9

OS

105

105

105

118

125

132

156

182

June.

239

248

258

277

258

239

230

220

230

239

230

220

239

258

248

239

258

201

201

182

164

164

loo

105

68

92

QO

86

80

68

July.

5747'

39

43

47

35

35

35

33

31

39

31

31

31

33

35

35

35

35

35

35

37

10

39

39

41

43

39

30

20

17

Aug.

18

20

18

17

12

8

4.8

4.3

3.8

4.8

6.4

8

8

8

7.2

6.4

5.6

4.8

4.8

4.8

5.6

6.4

7.2

8

8

8

7.2

6.4

7.2

8

8

Sept.

8

7.2

6.4

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

5.6

6.4

4.8

4.8

4.8

3.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

. 2.5

2.2

2.2

2.2

1.8

1.5

1.8

2.2

1.8

1.5

1.8

2.2

1.5

Oct.

2.2

1.8

1.5

2.2

2.8

2.5

2.2

2.5

2.8

2.5

2.2

2.8

3.8

2.8

3.3

3.8

3.8

3.8

4.3

4.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

4.3

4.8

6.4

4.8

4.8

4.8

3.8

4.8

Nov.

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.2

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.2

1.5

2.2

1.8

1.5

2.2

2.8

3.3

3.8

4.8

4.3

3.8

4.3

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

5.0

5.3

5.5

3.8

4.8

Dec.

4.8

5.6

6.4

6.4

4.8

3.8

4.3

4.8

4.3

3.8

6.4

4.8

3.8

4.3

4.8

4.3

3.8

4.8

4.3

3.8

4.3

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve well defined between 5 and 240 secondfeet. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not read.

Monthly discharge of Pine Creek near Round Valley, Cal.,for 1910.

Month.

February... . ......................................

April..............................................

May...............................................

June ...............................................

July...............................................

September. ........................................

October. ..........................................

December .........................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

17 

8 

6.4 

24 

182 

277 

57 

20 

8 

6.4 

5.5 

6.4

277

Minimum.

4.8 

4.8 

1.5 

1.5 

10 

68 

17 

3.8 

1.5 

1.5 

1.2 

3.8

1.2

Mean.

8.38 

6.17 

3.78 

7.00 

65.1 

192 

36.2 

8.22 

3.65 

3.49 

3.36 

4.72

28.4

Run-off 

(total in 

acra-feet).

515 

343 

232 

417 

4,000 

11,400 

2,230 

505 

217 

215 

200 

290

20,600

Accuracy.

000000000000

BISHOP CHEEK NEAR BISHOP, CAL.

This station, which is located at the wagon bridge on the Bishop 

road, about 4 miles southeast of Bishop and 2 miles below the mouth 

of Bishop Creek canyon, in sec. 9, T. 7 S., R. 32 E., Mount Diablo 

base and meridian, was established August 10, 1903.

The North Hillside, South Hillside, and Power canals head above 

the station. The amount of water in these canals, which is included
THE GEEAT BASIN. 119

in the total discharge given in the list of discharge measurements, is 

dependent on the stage of the creek. No attempt has been made to 

estimate the amount diverted by the canals. The drainage area above 

the mouth of Bishop Creek canyon is approximately 63 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank at the bridge.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge at the gage.

On June 25, 1909, the Nevada-California Power Co.'s equalizing 

dam at intake No. 2 went out and the bridge was carried away. The 

gage was left intact, but it was removed August 15, 1909, in building 

a new bridge. The bridge was completed August 23, and a new gage 

put in August 31 at approximately the original datum.

Both banks of the stream are high and the current is swift. The 

channel is rocky and is fairly permanent.

The 1910 discharge rating curve is fairly well denned and the results 

may be considered good.

Discharge measurements of Bishop Creek and canals near Bishop, Cal., in 19iO.

Date.

Mar. 8 

29 

Apr. 20 

May 10 

June 24 

July 11 

Aug.J

Sept. 17 

Oct. 21 

Nov. 17 

Dec. 20

Hydrographer.

'R.'&.'Baixaa. .............................................

.....do........ .............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H. Lee.... ..............................................

.....do.....................................................

Lee and Wood... ..........................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.22 

1.74 

2.30 

2.55 

2.10 

2.30 

1.98 

2.00 

1.60 

2.00 

1,72 

1.72

Discharge.

Creek.

Sec.-ft. 

118 

56 

130 

168 

97 

112 

86 

88 

43 

90 

58 

47

Canals.

Sec.-ft. 

2.9 

11 

4 

13 

32 

51 

46 

33 

22 

13 

9.5 

14

Total.

Sec.-ft. 

121 

67 

134 

181 

129 

163 

132 

121 

65 

103 

68 

61
120 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Bishop Creek near Bishop, Cal.,for 1910. 

[C. R. Beal, A. F. Kirkpatrick, observers.]

Day.

1..... ..........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26

27....... ......

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.1

2.05

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.15

2.05

2.1

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.05

1.95

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.95

2.0

1.9

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

Feb.

1.9

1.85

1.9

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.95

1.75

1.95

1.9

1.95

1.85

1.9

1.8

2.0

1.85

1.9

1.85

2.0

1.9

2.0

1.9

2.1

1.9

2.0

2.1

2.1

2.0

Mar.

2.25

2.1

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.2

9 "1

2.25

2.4

2.3

2.5

2.4

2.5

2.4

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.4

2.3

2.35

2.3

2.3

2.1

2.0

1.9

2.0

Apr.

1.9

2.0

1.8

1 OK

1.6

1.85

1.75

1.85

1.8

1.95

1 9

1.75

1.55

1.85

1.8

1.8

1.85

2.15

1.95

2.05

2.1

2

QK

2.5

2.25

1 95

2.55

2.5

2.35

1 a

2.25

May.

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.0

1.8

2.1

2.15

2.1

2.3

2.5

2.3

2.55

2.0

2.3

3.5

3.2

2.9

3.25

3.5

3.3

2.6

3.25

3.2.

3.0 Q 1

2.5

2.4

2.7

2.6 2.8-

2.6

June.

2.75

2.65

2.65

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.2

2.55

2.5

2.2

2.4

2.2

2.0

2.3

1.8

2.1

2.f

1.95

2.1

2.25

1.85

2.0

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.45

2.4

2.5

2.4

July.

2.4

2.4

2.6

2.65

2.35

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.25

2.25

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.05

2.15

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.2

2.2

2.7

4.0

3.9

2.2

2.1

1.95

1.8

2.2

2.1

1.9

1.8

Aug.

2.1

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.0

1.9

1.7

1.9

2.25

2.1

2.0

2.15

2.0

1.8

1.95

1.95

1.95

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

3.9

2.2

2.2

1.8

2.0

2.0

1.95

2.1

Sept.

2.0

1.4

1.2

1.8

1.7

1.8

1.75

2.0

2.0

1.6

1.5

1.4

1.75

1.5

1.7

1.7

1.2

1.8

1.7

1.5

1.4

1.55

1.6

1.5

1.6

1.4

1.65

1.4

1.75

1.75

Oct.

1.55

1.35

1.4

1.8

1.45

1.85

1.7

1.75

1.8

1.8

1.7

1.7

1.35

1.6

1.65

1.75

1.55

1.7

1.65

1.7

1.75

1.85

1.65

1.7

1.65

1.7

1.75

1.85

1.7

1.7

1.65

Nov.

1.7

1.6

1.8

1.7

1.7

1.4

1.7

1.55

1.75

1.6

1.95

1.8

1.75

1.8

1.75

1.65

1.75

1.6

1.8

1.6

1.8

1.6

1.8

1.5

1.8

1.65

1.8

1.75

1.8

1.55

Dec.

1.75

1.8

1.8

1.45

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.45

1.8

1.6

1.75

1.8

1.85

1.8

1.6

1.85

1.6

1.9

1.8

1.9

1.85

1.5

1.6

1.75

1.3

1.8

1.75

1.8

1.6

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bishop Creek near Bishop, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...^.. .........

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23....... J.......

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

97

91

97

97

110

117

91

97

85

97

85

85

85

91

79

73

73

73

79

85

73

85

73

73

73

73

73

73

73

73

73

Feb.

73

68

73

85

85

73

79

57

79

73

79

68

73

62

85

68

73

68

85

73

85

73

97

73

85

97

97

85

Mar.

117

97

124

124

110

124

124

124

124

110

154

117

138

124

154

138

154

154

138

138

124

138

124

131

124

124

97

85

73

85

Apr.

73

85

62

68

43

68

57

68

62

79

73

57

<w

68

62

62

68

104

79

91

.07

131

154

117

70

162

154

131

62

117

May.

138

124

110

85

62

97

104

97

124

154

124

162

85

124

359

291

228

302

359

313

171

302

291

248

269

154

138

189

171

208

 171

June.

198

180

180

138

154

154

154

110

162

154

110

138

110

85

124

62

97

97

79

97

117

68

85

97

110

110

144

138

154

138

July.

138

138

171

180

131

97

110

110

117

117

124

110

110

91

104

85

97

89

110

110

189

477

453

110

97

79

62

110

97

73

62

Aug.

97

85

85

85

85

97

85

73

52

73

117

97

85

104

85

62

79

70

79

85

85

85

 85

453

110

110

62

85

85

79

97

Sept.

' 85

28

17

62

52

62

57

85

85

43

35

28

57

35

52

52

17

62

52

35

28

39

43

35

43

28

48

28

57

57

Oct.

39

25

28

62

32

68

52

57

62

62

52

52

25

43

48

57

39

52

48

52

57

68

48

52

48

52

57

68

52

52

48

Nov.

52

43

62

52

52

28

52

39

57

43

79

62

57

62

57

48

57

43

62

43

62

43

62

35

62

48

62

57

62

39

Dec.

57

62

62

32

62

62

62

62

57

32

62

43

57

62

68

62

43

68

43

73

62

73

68

35

43

57

22

62

57

62

43

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well denned between 40 and 

170 second-feet. Curve not well defined above 200 second-feet.
THE GREAT BASIN. 

Monthly discharge of Bishop Creek near Bishop, Cal., for 1910.

121

Month.

March.. . ...........................................

April. .............................................

May..............:................................

July...............................................

October ...........................................

November. ........................................

December. . .......................................

The year. ...................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

117 

97 

154 

162 

359 

198 

477 

453 

85 

68 

79 

73

477

Minimum.

73 

57 

73 

39 

62 

62 

62 

52 

17 

25 

28 

22

17

Mean.

83.9 

77.5 

124 

85.7 

186 

125 

134 

97.6 

46.9 

50.2 

52.7 

55.3

93.4

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

5,160 

4,300 

7,620 

5,100 

11,400 

7,440 

8,240 

6,000 

2,790 

3,090 

3,140 

3,400

67,700

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

NOTE. Estimates do not include the amounts diverted by irrigating canals above the station. 

BAKER CHEEK NEAR BIG PINE, CAL.

This station, which is located at a point about 150 feet below the 

bridge on Millpond road and about 3 miles west of the town of Big 

Pine, was established February 20, 1908.

No observations of gage heights were made during 1910.

The staff gage is at the footbridge from which the following discharge measurements were made during 1910:

Discharge measurements of Baker Creek near Big Pine, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 10

Apr. 1

22

May 12

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee... ..............................................

Width.

Feet. 

3.6

3.7

4.6

5.0

5.3

Area of 

section.

* $«

3.8

6.6

3.9

4 9

3.5

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

0.05

.00

.60

.00

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

11

9.1

25

9.9

7.9

2.9

a Made at road crossing above diversion. v 

BIG PINE CHEEK NEAR BIG PINE, CAL.

This station, which is located at a footbridge about 2 miles southwest of Big Pine, in sec. 26, T. 9 S., R. 33 E., Mount Diablo base and 

meridian, was originally established December 5, 1903, at a point 

about 3 miles southwest of Big Pine, where the creek issues from the 

foothills, and was moved to the present site about half a mile farther east on October 29, 1907. No record of gage heights was kept 

from January 1, 1906, to May 22, 1908.

Water is diverted both above and below the station for irrigation. 

The drainage area above the mouth of the canyon is about 27 square 

miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank.
122 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAKT X.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge near the 

gage.

The channel, which is composed of gravel and bowlders, is somewhat shifting.

The 1910 discharge rating curve is fairly well defined and the 

record may be considered good.

Discharge "measurements of Big Pine Creek near Big Pine, CaL, in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 10

Apr. 1

22

July 13

Aug. 1

22

Oct. 21

Nov. 19

Dec. 22

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee.................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

10

10

10

11

12

14

15

12

11

11

11

11

Area of 

section.

8* ft.

23

22

26

29

32

38

36

29

26

22

19

19

Gage

Feet.

2.72

2.67

2.98

3.23

3.42

3.82

3.77

3.50

3.03

2.80

2.63

2.50

Discharge.

8et.-fi. 

20

18

33

50

69

106

100

73

41

25

16

12

Daily gage height, in feet, of Big Pine Creek near Big Pine, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Mrs. M. L. Gaylord and Hugh Fisher, observers.]

Day.

l..... v ........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.6

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.7

Feb.

9 7

""2." 7"

2.6

2.6

9 ft

2.6

9 7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.6

9 ft

Mar.

2.6 "Ye"

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

Apr.

2.7

2.7

2.7

2 7

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.9

2.9

3.0

3.2

3.2

3.3

May.

3.1

3.1

** 1

3.1

3.2

3.2

3 9

3.2

3.4

3.4

3.4

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

June.

3.9

""4."2"

3.6

3.6

3.8

4.0

3.7

3.4

3.4

3.6

3.4

3.6

July.

3.7

3.4

3.6

3.8

3.8

3 d

3.7

4.8

3.9

3.8

4.2

^ Q

3.8

Aug.

3.7

"l-T

3.8

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.3

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.4

3.3

Sept.

8.25

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.05

3.05

2.9

2

0

2.9

2.95

3.0

2.9

2.9

Oct.

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.85

2.9

2.9

2.85

2.8

2.85

2.85

2.8

2.7

2.75

Nov.

2.7 "iT"

2.65

2.6

2.6

2.65

2.6

2.7

2.65

2.6

2.55

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Dec.

9 H

"2.T

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.45

2.5

2 A

2.5

2.45

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.55
THE GREAT BASIN. 123 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Big Pine Creek near Big Pine, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28>,. ............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

30

25

20

20

20

20

20

20

18

16

17

19

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

Feb.

20

20

20

18

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

17

19

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

18

16

16

16

16

Mar.

16

16

16

18

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

Apr.

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

21

23

24

24

24

24

24

26

27

29

29

29

32

35

40

44

49 49

49

53

57

May.

49

42

42

JO

JO

42

42

42

46

49

49

49

49

49

49

49

66

66

66

66

66

96

127

127

127

127

' 127

127

127

127

121

June.

115

134

154

131

107

84

84

84

94

104

112

120

127

110

94

80

66

66

66

66

66

75

84

84

84

75

66

75 ^84

87

July.

91

94

84

75

66

75

84

94

104

104

104

104

110

115

104

94

147

199

252

184

115

110

104

120

138

154

134

115

110

104

99

Aug.

94

94

94

QQ

104

99

94

94

94

94

89

84

88

75

75

75

75

66

57

70

84

84

84

84

84

80

75

70

66

62

57

Sept.

55

53

51

49

46

42

42

4242'

42

42

42

40

38

38

38

34

29

26

24

26

29

30

32

34

35

32

29

29

29

Oct.

9Q

29

29

29

29

29

29

29

29

28

26

28

29

29

29

28

26

25

24

25

26

26

26

25

24

22

20

21

22

21

20

Nov.

20

18

16

17

18

17

16

16

16

17

18

17

16

18

20

19

18

17

16

15

14

14

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

Dec.

13

14

16

14

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

12

11

12

13

11

10

11

13

12

11

12

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

14

14

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve well defined below 120 second-feet 

and fairly well defined above. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not read.

Monthly discharge of Big Pine Creek near Big Pine, Cal., for 1910.

Month.

May...............................................

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

35 

20 

20 

57 

127 

154 

252 

104 

55 

29 

20 

16

252

Minimum.

16 

16 

16 

20 

42 

66 

66 

57 

24 

20 

13 

10

10

Mean.

26.0 

18.1 

19.5 

29.7 

74.0 

92.6 

116 

82.1 

37.3 

26.2 

15.9 

12.7

46.1

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

1,600 

1,010 

1,200 

1,770 

4,550 

5,510 

7,130 

5,050 

2,220 

1,610 

946 

781

33,400

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

BIRCH CHEEK NEAR TINEMAHA, CAL.

This station, which is located at a point near Peterson's ranch 

house, about 1 mile west of Fish Springs schoolhouse, and about 8 

miles south of Big Pine, in sec. 16, T. 10 S., K. 34 E., Mount Diablo 

base and meridian, was established June 14, 1905, discontinued 

December 9, 1905, and reestablished December 7, 1906.
124 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAST X.

No water is diverted above or near the station. The drainage area 

above the mouth of the canyon is approximately 7 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left bank.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge at the gage.

The bed of the stream consists of coarse gravel and sand and shifts 

somewhat. Both banks are low but not subject to overflow. The 

current is swift at all stages.

The estimates of daily discharge for 1910 were prepared by the 

indirect method for shifting channels and from rating tables covering 

short periods. The record may be considered fair.

Discharge measurements of Birch Creek near Tinemaha, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 7

28

Apr. 23

May 9

July 13

Aug. 1

22

Sept. 16

Oct. 20

Nov. 16

Dec. 19

Hydrographer.

R. E. Haines..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H. Lee..................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G. Wood... ............................................

G. T. Peekema. ............................... .............

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

4.6

4.8

5.0

4.6

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.3

5.2

5.6

5.4

5.4

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

3.7

3.8

4.2

4.0

4.6

6.2

5.4

5.1

4.4

3.8

3.9

4.0

height.

Feet. 

0 28

.27

.36

.33

.46

.62

.58

.52

.36

.30

30

.33

Discharge.

Sec.-/*. 

5.3

d Q

8.4

6.9

12

21

19

13

5.7

3.4

3.4

3.7

Daily gage height, in feet, of Birch Creek near Tinemaha, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Jessie Burdick and A. Clendenen, observers.]

Day.

1........ .......

2...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9............... 10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24............... 

25...............

26.:.............

27...............

28...............

29................

30...............

31........ .......

Jan.

0.8

.7

.7

.4

.4

.4

.6

.4

.4

.3

.4

.4

.4

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

.4

.4

.5

.4

.5

.4 

.4

.3

.4

.4

.4

.4

Feb.

0.4

.4

.5

.4

.4

.5

.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.4

.4

.3

.3

.4

.4

.3

.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3 

.4

.4

.3

.4

Mar.

0.4

.3

.4

.4

.4

.3

.3

.3

.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.4

.3

.3

.4

.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.4

.4 

.3

.3

.3

.3

.4

.3

Apr.

0.3

.3

.3

.4

.3

.3

.4

.4

.5

.5

.4

.4

.3

.3

.4

.3

.4

. .4

" .5

.4

.4

.4 

.4

.4

.3

.4

.4

May.

0.4

.4

.4

.4

.3

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.5

.5

.5

.5

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.5

.5

.5 

.5

.5

.5

.7

.8

g

June.

0.8

.8

.8

.7

.7

.6

.6

.6

.6

.7

.7

.7

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.5

.5

.5

.5

.6

.5

.6

.6

.7

.6

July.

0.6

.5

.6

.5

.5

.5

.6

.5

.6

.5

.6

.6

.7

.6

.6

.6

.6

1.05

1.1

.8

1.0

.6

.7

.6

.7

.6

.7

.6

.7

.6

- .6

Aug.

0.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.5

.5

.5

.5

.3

.5

.5

.5

.5

.51

.65 

.54

.50

50

.60

.55

.45

4.H

Sept.

0.44

.45

.45

.35

.40

.37

.41

.34

.38

.32

.30

.30

.35

.30

.40

.40

.40

.30

.30

.31

.30

.10

.30

.30 

.30

.10

.30

.11

.25

.30

Oct.

0.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.45

.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3 

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

Nov.

0.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3 

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

Dec.

0.3

.3

.3

.4

.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

q

.35

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.35

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3 

.4

.35

.3

.3

.3

.35

.3
THE GEEAT BASIN. 125 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Birch Creek near Tinemaha, Cal.,for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16. ..............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21. ..............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

33

OR

26

Q <\

9

K

Q 1

20

9

C

9

E

6

9

K

9

E

9

E

14

14

14

14

14

9 5

Q <\

14

9

C

14

9 5

9.5

6

9

t

9 5

6

Q ^

9

K

Feb.

9.5

 9.5

14

9

K

9.5

14

9.5

6

6

6

6

9.5

9

K

6

6

9

K

9.5

6

9

E

6

6

6

6

6

9

C

9.5

6

Q 1

Mar.

9

K

6

Q t

Q (^

9

K

6

6

6

& K

6

6

6 '

6

9 5

6

6

9 5

9.5

6

6

6

6

9

K

9 5

6

6

6

6

9

K

6

6

Apr.

6

6

6

6

6

9 5

6

6

9 5

9 5

14

14

9.5

9.5

6

6

9

K

6

9

K

9.5

14

9.5

9 5

9

K

9.5

6

9

K

6

9

K

9

K

May.

Q *\

9

E

9.5

9

t

6

9

E

9 5

9.5

9

E

9

K

9

K

9 5

14

14

14

14

9 5

9

E

9 5

& E

9

E

14

14

14

14

14

14

20

26

no

Af\

June.

33

OQ

QO

26

26

20

20

20

20

26

26

26

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

14

14

14

14

20

14

20

20

1 26

20

July.

20

14

<v\

14

14

14

20

14

on

14

20

20

26

20

20

20

20

50

fU

oq

47

20

26

20

26

20

26

20

26

20

<v\

Aug.

10

19

19

19

18

18

IQ

18

18

17

17

17

14

14

14

14

5

13

IQ

13

to

to

21

14

to

12

18

15

9

K

9 5

Sept.

9

9

K

9

K

K O

7

c; o

7.5

A Q

6.3

4.2

3.5

3.5

<\ 9

3.5

7

7

7

3.5

3.5

3

D

3.5

.5

3.5

3.5

3

E

.5

3.5

.6

2

K

1 <\

Oct.

3.5

3

e

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5 3 <\

3.5

3.5

3.5

3

E

 > C

3.5

9.5

7

3

K

3.5

3.5

3

K

3.5

3

C

3.5

3.5

3.5

3

E

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

Nov.

7

3.5

3

K

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

Q C

3.5

3.5

3.5 * 1

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3

E

3.5

3.5

 > E

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3

K

3.5

3.5

3

C

3.5

Dec.

3.5

3

E

" 3.5

7

7

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

5.2

3

K

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

5.2

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

7

5.2

3.5

3.5

3.5

5.2

3.5

NOTE. Daily discharge determined as follows: Jan. 1 to Aug. 1, from a discharge rating curve well 

denned below 45 second-feet; Aug. 2 to 21, by indirect method for shifting channels; Aug. 22 to Dec. 31, 

from a rating curve fairly well defined between 3 and 17 second-feet.

Monthly discharge of Birch Creek near Tinemaha, Cal.,for 1910.

Month.

May...............................................

June ..............................................

July...............................................

Discharge to second-feet.

Maximum.

33 

14 

9.5 

14 

40 

33 

54 

21 

9.5 

9.5 

7 

7

54

Minimum.

6 

6 

6 

6 

6 

14 

14 

5 

.5 

3.5 

3.5 

3.5

.5

Mean.

12.3 

8.20 

7.24 

8.55 

13.5 

21.5 

23.2 

15.3 

4.72 

3.81 

3.62 

4.06

10.5

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

756 

455 

445 

509 

830 

1.280 

1,430 

941 

281 

234 

215 

250

7,630

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

G. 

C. 

C. 

C.

TINEMAHA GREEK NEAR, TINEMAHA, CAL.

This station, which is located at a point near Peterson's ranch 

house, about 1 mile west of Fish Springs schoolhouse and 8 miles south 

of Big Pine, in sec. 21, T. 10 S., R. 34 E., Mount Diablo base and 

meridian, was established December 7, 1906.
126 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

No water is diverted above or near the station. The drainage area 

above the mouth of the canyon is approximately 5.2 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge at the gage.

The channel is composed of gravel and shifts somewhat.

The estimates of daily discharge for 1910 were prepared by the 

indirect method for shifting channels. The record may be considered 

fair.

Discharge measurements of Tinemaha Creek near Tinemaha, CaL, in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 7

28

Apr. 23

May 9

June 23

July 13

Aug. 1

22

Sept. 16

Oct. 20

Nov. 16

Dec. 19

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H.Lee...... ...........................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G. Wood ...............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

9

5.5

5.8

6.5

10

10

10

9.7

8.8

8.8

8.5

8.5

Area of 

section.

SHS

7

6.7

8.5

7.8

9.6

8

6.4

4.9

4.1

4

3.8

Gage 

height

Feet. 

0.75

.72

.72

.86

1.10

1.20

1.18

1.03

.84

.73

.68

.70

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

6.1

4.8

4.4

8.5

18

24

19

13

7.9

5.4

5

4.5

Daily gage height, infect, of Tinemaha Creek near Tinemaha, CaL, for 1910. 

[Jessie Burdick and C. A. Clendenen, observers.]

Day

1..... .......... 

2...............

3...............

4...............

5. ..............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9. ..............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16. ..............

17...............

18. ..............

19. ..............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25. ..............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31

Jan.

1.2 

1.0

.9

.8

.8

.9

.8

.9

.8

.9

.9

.9

.9

1.0

.9

1.0

.9

.9

.8

.9

.9

.8

.9

.9

.8

.9

.9

.8

.9

.9

Feb.

0 8 

9

1 0

9

9

8

8

9

8

8

8

9

8

8

8

9

9

8

9

8

8

8

8

9

8

9

8

9

Mar.

09

8

9

9

8

8

8

8

9

8

8

8

8

8

7

7

8

9

8

8

8

8

8

9

8

8

8

8

7

7

7

Apr.

.......

0 7

7

7

8

7

7

8

8

9

1 0

9

8

8

7

8

9

8

9

8

9

8

8

9

8

8

7

8

8

May

0.9

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.9

.9

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.7

June

1.7 

1.7

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.2

1.3

1.2

July.

1.3 

1.2

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.1

1.1

1.2

1.1

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.75

1.7

1.5

1.7

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.4

1.2

1.3

1.2

1.3

1.2

1.3

Aug.

1.2 

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.1

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.1

1.05

1.11

1.0

1.1

1.15

1.2

1.0

1.05

1.05

Sept.

1.05 

1.0

1.05

.85

1.0

.9

1.05

.85

1.0

1.0

.9

.8

.85

.8

.9

 .9

.9

.85

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

Oct.

0.8 

.8

.75

.8

.8

.75

.8

.75

.8

.75

.7

.8

.8

.7

.85

.8

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

.7

.7

.7

.75

.7

.7

.7

.75

.7

Nov.

0.7

.7

.7

.7

.65

.7

.65

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

Dec.

0.7-.7

.7

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.8

.75

.8

.8

.85

.9

.85
THE GREAT BASIN. 127 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Tinemaha Creek near Tinemaha, Cal.,/or 1910.

Day.

1...... .........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9. ..............

10...............

11...............

12. ..............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19. ..............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

on

31........ .......

Jan.

90 A.

14.5

10.9

7.6

7.6

7.6

IA Q

7.6

10.9

7.6

10.9

10.9

10 9

in Q

14.5

10.9

14.5

10 9

10.9

7.6

10.9

10.9

7.6

10.9

10.9

7.6

in Q

W Q

7.6

10.9

10.9

Feb.

7.6

IA Q

14.5

10.9

10.9

7.6

7.6

in Q

7.6

7.6

7.6

10.9

7.6

7.6

7.6

10.9

10.9

7.6

10.9

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

10.9

7.6

10.9

7.6

10.9

Mar.

10 9

7.6

IA Q

IA Q

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

10.8

7.6

7.6

7.4

7.4

7.4

4.6

4.6

7.4

10.6

7 9

7 9

7.2

7.2

7 9

10.4

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

4.3

4.3

4.3

Apr.

4 Q

4 2

4 2

4 2

4

O

6

0

4 2

4.2

6

0

6

0

9

0

13.3

Q 8

6.7

6.7

4.1

6.7

Q ft

6.6

9 7

6.6

9.6

6.5

6.5

9 7

6.5

6.5

4.0 6=6'

6.6

May.

9 7

6.6

6.6

6.7

9

0

9

0

ID 0

1q q

1q q

IQ 4

 Iq 1

13.4

13.5

13.5

10 C

IQ *

13.6

13.6

13.6

17.5

21.6

21.6

21.6

91 ft

oe Q

on o.

34.8

45

June.

4^

4C

39 4

39 4

34.8

°kft O

OK O

9K Q

OK Q

OY\ c

o.c o

O.K 9

«5A ft

9fi 9

Oft 9

00 f\

99 ft

99 ft

18.0

18.0

ift A

ID A

99 *>

22.2

27.0

22.4

' 97 4

22.8

July.

97 ft

oo 9

9°, 9

1ft ft

19 0

15.0

1Q 9

IQ °.

90 a

19 6

23.8

24.0

OO A

oo 7

23.6

23.4

23.2

48 6

46 4

35.6

45 0

30.3

on Q

OR O

29.5

20.7 24 8

Oft A

94 ft

20.2

24.4

Aug.

IQ ft

19 8

IQ ft

94 ft

1 c 7

W ft

15.7

1 c 7

1 c 7

1 c 7

15.7

15.7

15.7

1 c 7

1 c 7

IP; 7

IP; 7

1 c 7

15.7

15.7

12.0

15.7

IQ 7

15.7

19 1

15.8

17 O

20.0

12.3

14.3

14.3

Sept.

14.4

19 P;

14 P;

7.7

19 ft

9 4

14.7

7

Q

lq A

10 A

9 ft

6.5

8 A

 6.7

9

0

9.8

9.8

8

0.

6.8

6.8

6.8

6 0

6 9

6 Q

6 Q

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

Oct.

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

5.6

7.0

5.7

4.4

7.1

7.1

4.5

8 O

7.3

5.9

4.6

4 7

4.7

4.7

6.1

4 7

4.8

4.8

6.2

4 Q

4 Q

5.0

6.4

5.0

Nov.

5.1

5.1

5

O

S o

3 Q

* 9

3 Q

5

0

5

0

5

0

5 4

6 4

5.4

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.4

* 4

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.1

5.1

5.1

Dec.

5.0

5.0

5.0

6.3

6

0

4 9

4 Q

4 9

4 9

4

Q

4.8

4.8

3.5

3

e

3.5

3.4

3 4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

7.0

5.6

7.0

7.0

8.6

10.2

8.6

NOTE. Dally discharge determined by indirect method for shifting channels.

Monthly discharge of Tinemaha Creek near Tinemaha, Cal.,for 1910.

Month.

April..............................................

May...............................................

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

22.4 

14.5 

10.9 

13.3 

45 

45 

48.6 

24.0 

14.7 

8.2 

5.5 

10.2

48.6

Minimum.

7.6 

7.6 

4.3 

4.0 

6.6 

18 

15 

12.0 

6.5 

4.4 

3,9 

3.4

3.4

Mean.

10.7 

9.14

7.53 

6.74 

15.6 

27.4 

25.9 

16.2 

9.04 

5.82 

5.20 

5.10

12.1

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

658 

,508 

463 

401 

059 

1,630 

1,590 

996 

538 

358 

309 

314

8,720

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

C.

TABOOSE CREEK NEAR ABERDEEN, 1 CAL.

This station, which is located at a point on the crossing of the upper 

main highway about 4 miles northwest of Aberdeen, in sec. 16, 

T. 11 S., R. 34 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, was established 

August 20,-1906, about one-half mile west of the point of crossing 

of the lower main highway 2 miles northwest of Aberdeen railway 

station and about 15 miles north of Independence. It was removed 

to the present site on February 25, 1907. Discharge measurements 

had been made at the original site from the first of 1906.

i Formerly known as Tibbetts.
128 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

No water is diverted above or near the station. The drainage 

area above the mouth of the canyon is about 7 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left bank. On March 7, 1910, its 

datum was lowered 1 foot. All gage heights for 1910 are referred to 

the new datum.

The channel is composed of shifting sand.

The estimates of daily discharge for 1910 were prepared by the 

indirect method for shifting channels and from rating curves covering 

short periods of time.

Discharge measurements of Taboose Creek near Aberdeen, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 7

28

Apr. 23

May 9

July 13

22

Sept. 16

Oct. 20

Nov. 16

Dec. 19

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee..................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

F.O.Wood.... ...........................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

6.5

6.5

6/9

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

6.6

6.8

6.1

6.4

Area of 

section.

*Ho

3.4

4.1

4.4

4.8

5.4

4.2

4.4

3.1

3.1

2.6

2.8

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

0.90

.95

1.05

1.16

1.11

1.19

1.10

.98

.81

.86

.79

.79

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

2.2

3.6

4.7

5.3

9.0

11

8.3

5.8

3.8

2.9

3.0

3.0

NOTE. All gage heights refer to datum 1 foot lower than that previously maintained.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Taboose Creek near Aberdeen, Cal., for 1910. 

[Ray Bowers, observer.]

Day.

1.... ...........

2...............

3...............

4.... ...........

5...............

6. ..............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15. ..............

16. ..............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26. ..............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

0.95

1.9

.95

.95

.95

.9

.9

.9

Feb.

0.9

.9

.9

.9

.95

.9

.9

.-9

Mar.

0.9

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

.95

Apr.

0.95

.95

95

1.00

.98

.98

1.00

1.10

1.10

May.

1.1

1.1

1.15

1.1

1.2

1.15

1.25

1.25

1.4

June.

1.35

1.4

1.25

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.15

1.2

1.2

July.

1.15

1.1

1.15

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.2

1.2

Aug.

1.2

1.1

.1.1

1.05

1.0

.95

1.0

.95

.95

Sept.

0.9

.85

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

Oct.

0.8

.8

.8

.9

.85

.9

.85

.8

.8

Nov.

0.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

Dec.

0.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

NOTE. Gage datum lowered 1 foot Mar. 7. All gage heights for 1910 are referred to new datum.
THE GREAT BASIN. 129 

""Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Taboose Creek near Aberdeen, Cal,,for 1910.

Day.

1....... ........

2...............

3.. .............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21... ........

22...."!..........

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

 

3

3

3

5

10

15

30

15

5

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Feb.

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

3

3

3

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Mar.

2

2

2

2

3

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

3

3

3

3

3

Apr.

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

May.

5

5

5

5

4

4

4

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

6

7

7

7

6

6

7

8

9

9

10

10

11

12

13

15

June.

15

14

13

14

14

15

14

13

19

11

11

12

13

13

12

11

11

11

11

11

10

10

9

10

10

11

11

11

11

11

July.

11

10

10

10

g

8

8

8

g

10

10

10111111

11111111

12

13

14

13

12

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

Aug.

11

11

10

9

8

8

8

8

7

7

7

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

5

5

Sept.

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Oct.

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

4

4

4

4

4

4

3

3

4

4

4

4

4

3

3

3

3

3

Nov.

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Dec.

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

NOTE. Daily discharges determined as follows: Jan. 1 to Apr. 24, from a poorly defined discharge ratine 

curve; Apr. 25 to June 22, by indirect method for shifting channels; June 23 to Dec. 31, from a fairly wefl 

denned curve; discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not read.

Monthly discharge of Taboose Creek near Aberdeen, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 13.9 square miles.]

Month.

February. ........................

March............................

April.............................

May..............................

July..............................

December. ........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

30 

3 

4 

5 

15 

15 

14 

11 

4 

4 

3 

3

30

Minimum,

2 

2 

2 

3 

4 

9 

8 

5 

3 

3 

3 

3

2

Mean.

4.61 

2.11 

3.52 

3.97 

7.06 

11.8 

10.7 

6.97 

3.23 

3.35 

3.0 

3.0

5.30

Per 

square 

mile.

0.332

.152 

.253 

.286 

.508 

.849 

.770 

.501 

.232 

.241 

.216 

.216

.381

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.38 

.16 

.29 

.32 

.59 

.95 

.89 

.58 

.26 

.28 

.24 

.25

5.19

Total In

acre-feet.

283 

117 

216 

236 

434 

702 

658 

429 

192 

206 

179 

184

3,840

NOTE. Estimates only approximate. It has been stated -that about half the discharge of Taboose 

Creek at the mouth of the canyon is lost by seepage between the canyon and the gaging station. Hence 

discharge per square mile and run-off depth in inches do not apply uniformly to the basin as a whole.

43926° wsp.290 12 9 *
130 SURFACEf WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

GOODALE CHEEK NEAR ABERDEEN, 1 CAL.

This station, which is located at the point where the stream leaves 

the foothills, about 13 miles north of Independence, 4 miles west of 

Aberdeen railway station, and one-fourth mile west of the upper road 

crossing in sec. 16, T. 11 S., R. 34 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, 

was established September 20, 1906.

No water is diverted above or near the station. The drainage area 

above the mouth of Goodale Creek canyon is about 5 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left bank. On March 7, 1910, 

the datum was lowered 1 foot; all gage heights for 1910 are referred 

to the new datum.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge at the gage.

The channel is composed of sand and shifts somewhat. There is 

but one channel at all stages and the current is swift.

The two discharge rating curves used for 1910 are fairly well 

defined and the record may be considered fairly good.

Discharge measurements of Goodale Creek near Aberdeen, Col., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 7

28

Apr. 23

May 9

July 13

Aug. 1

22

Oct. 20

Nov. 16

Dec. 19

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G. Wood...............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

<6.2

5.2

5.6

5.9

6.0

5.5

5.8

5.3

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.7

Area of 

section.

S«.ft

3.2

3.8

4.0

3.6

3.4

3.0

2.3

2.4

2.2

2.2

2.2

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.10

1.02

1.18

1.19

1.20

1.20

1.10

1.02

.99

.97

,95

.94

Discharge.

Sec.-fl. 

4.0

3.3

6.0

6.8

8.5

9.5

5.5

4.1

3.7

3.2

3.1

2.9

NOTE. All gage heights refer to a datum 1 foot lower than that previously maintained.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Goodale Creek near Aberdeen, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Ray Bowers, observer.]

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5..... ..........

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11............... 

12...............

13...............

14...............

Uf.... ..........

Jan.

1.1

1.2

1.05

1.05

Feb.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Mar.

1.05

1.1

1.1

1.1

Apr.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.05

1.05

May.

1.2

1.15

1.15

.......

1.2

June.

1.3

1.3

1.25

1.3

July.

1.15

1.1

1.2

1 9

i.2

Aug.

1.1

1.1

1.1

"i.'os"

i.os

Sept.

1.0

1.0

.95

"i.'o"

.......

Oct.

1.0

1.0

1.0

'""r

1.0

Nov.

0.95

.95

.95

.95

Dec.

O ne

.95

""."95

-

......

i Formerly known as Tibbetts.
THE QBE AT BASIN. ' 131 

Daily gage height, in feet, ofGoodale Creek near Aberdeen, Col., for 1910 Continued.

Day.

16. ..............

17. ..............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25.. .............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29... ...A.......

30...............

31...............

Jan.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Feb.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Mar.

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.0

Apr.

1.1

1.15

1.18

1.2

1.2

May.

1.25

1.2

1.25

1.25

1.3

June.

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

July.

,

1.2

1.2

1.15

1.15

Aug.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Sept.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Oct.

1.0

.97

1.0

OS

(IS

QK

Nov.

.95

(IS

95

OS

.95

Dec.

.95

QE

OR

QK

OK

NOTE. Gage datum lowered 1 foot on Mar. 7. All 1910 gage heights refer to new datum.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, ofGoodale Creek near Aberdeen, Cal.,for 1910.

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.9

5.6

6.2

6.9

5.8

4.7

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.4

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

Feb.

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

...V...

Mar.

3.2

3.3

3.5

3.8

4.0

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

3.9

3.6

3.4

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

Apr.

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.3

3.5

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.8

4.0

4.2

4.6

4.9

f, 9

5.6

6.4

6.6

6.9

6.9

6

n

6.9

6.9

6.9

May.

6.9

6.9

6.6

6.2

5.9

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

S Q

6.2

6.6

6.9

7.9

8.9

10-0

9.2

8.4

6.9

7.9

8.9

10.0

10.0

10.0

in Q

11.8

12.6

13.5

June.

18.5

13.5

13.5

13.5

13.5

12.9

12.4

11.8

11.2

12.0

12.7

13.5

12.4

11.3

10.2

9 n

9.0

9 0

9.0

9.0

9.0

9 0

9.0

' 9.0

9.0

Q n

Q n

9.0

9.0

July.

8.4

7.9

7.3

6.9

6.4

6.0

5.6

6.4

7.3

8.2

& n

9 0

9.0

9.0

9 0

9 0

9 0

9.0

a n

9 0

9 0

9.0

8.4

7.9

7.3

7.3

7.3

7.3

7.3

6.7

6.2

Aug.

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5-6

5.2

4 Q

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.3

4.1

3.9

3.7

3.7

3 7

317

3 7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3 7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

Sept.

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.4

3.2

3.1

3.3

3.5

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

Oct.

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.4

3.3

3.7

3.5

3.3

3.1

3.1

3.1

3 1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

Nov.

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

Dec.

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two fairly well-defined discharge rating curves, one applicable 

Jan. 1 to May 30 and tne other June 1 to Dec«31. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not 

read.
132 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Monthly discharge ofGoodale Creek near Aberdeen, Cat., for 1910.

Month.

May...............................................

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

6.9 

3.1 

4.2 

6.9 

13.5. 

13.5 

9.0 

5.6 

3.7 

3.7 

3.1 

3.1

13.5

Minimum.

3.1 

3.1 

3.1 

3.1 

5.6 

9.0 

5.6 

3.7 

3.1 a.i

3.1 

3.1

3.1

Mean.

3.80 

3.10 

3.77 

4.54 

8.02 

10.9 

7.87 

4.49 

3.63 

3.50 

3.10 

3.10

4.99

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

234 

172 

232 

271 

493 

649 

4S4 

276 

216 

215 

184 

191

3,620

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

DIVISION CHEEK NEAR INDEPENDENCE, CAL.

This station, which is located at a point about 200 feet above the 

lower intake of the power canal of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, in sees. 

4 and 5, T. 12 S., R. 34 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, was 

originally established January ,10, 1906, at a point on the upper road 

crossing, about 1£ miles west of the Eickey ranch house and about 10 

miles north of Independence, and was removed to its present site 

May 9, 1908.

When the upper aqueduct power plant was put into operation in 

April, 1909, gage-height observations were discontinued on account 

of the variable amount of water diverted, and discharge measurements were made during periods of steady load.

Discharge measurements of Division Creek near Independence, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Feb. 24

Mar. 16

May 18

June 26 6

July 136

266

Sept. 16

Oct. 20e

Nov. 16d

Dec. 30«

Hydrographer. Si

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.........................................:...................

C. H. Lee..........................................................

.....do.............................................................

F. G. Wood.......................................................

G. T. Peekema ....................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

Width.

Feet. 

6.1

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.5

5.5 PL i

5.8

5.9

7.5

6.0

7.0

Area of 

section.-

Sq.ft.

c r

5.1

4.9

5.5

4.6

3.9

4.0

4.6

4.2

3.9

5.6

3.3

Discharge,

Sec.-ft. 

9.5

a 7. 7

8.8

8.2

9.0

7.1

6.8

6.9

7.6

6.9

7.2

9.1

5.6

a Owing to change in load at power house 2.6 second-feet had to be added to measurement. The 7.7 

second-feet represents normal conditions on this date. 

6 Made at Los Angeles Aqueduct power house No. 2. 

eMade by wadtog 300 feet below power plant No. 1; plant running. 

A Made 100 feet below power pjanl; No. 2; plant running. 

* Made at road crossing .near lower power nouse; plant running.
THE GREAT, BASIN. 133

SAWMILL CREEK 1 NEAR INDEPENDENCE, CAL.

This station, which is located at a point on the upper road crossing 

about 300 feet beyond the Eightmile ranch and about 8 miles north 

of Independence, in sec. 9, T. 12 S., R. 34 E., Mount Diablo base and 

meridan, and above all diversions, was established September 20, 

1906.

The gage was destroyed in the early part of 1907 and was not 

replaced.

The following discharge measurements were made during 1910:

Discharge measurements of Sawmill Creek near Independence, Cal., in 1910.

Date. "

Feb. 24a

Mar. 16

27

May 18

July 14

Sept. 6

Oct. 106

Nov. lie

Dec. 9«

30«

Hydrographer.

R. E.Haines...... ................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

G. T. Peekema ....................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

.....do.............................................................

Width.

Feet. 

6.0

7.0

4.4

6.0

6.0

6.5

6.0

6.0

5.4

4.0

4.3

4.5

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

3.6

3.6

3.0

3.6

3.2

3.2

2.8

2.8

3.8

2.7

2.6

2.7

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

6.1

6.6

4.5

5.7

5.5

5.8

4.2

4.9

4.6

5.0

4.2

4.3

o Made near mouth of canyon.

6 Made J mile below mouth of canyon.

e Made 2 mites above Eightmile ranch.

NOTE. Except as indicated, all measurements were made at regular location.

OAK CREEK NEAR INDEPENDENCE, CAL.

This station, which is located above and about three-fourths of a 

mile west of Bell's flour mill in sec. 2, T. 13 S., R. 34 E., Mount 

Diablo baseband meridian, was originally established June 15, 1905, 

about 1 mile west of Old Fort Independence. On October 1, 1906; 

the station was removed to Bell's flour mill, about 4 miles northwest 

of Independence, and this site was in turn abandoned, in favor of 

that now in use, on April 19, 1907.

No water is diverted above or near the station. The drainage area 

above the mouth of the canyon is approximately 15.4 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge at the 

gage.

The channel is composed of sand and gravel and shifts somewhat.

The 1910 rating curve is fairly well defined and the record may be 

considered fairly good.

i Called Eightmile Creek in the 1906 report.
134 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Disgorge measurements of Oak Creek near Independence, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Feb. 26

Mar. 17

Apr. 7

28

May 19

19

Aug. 8

Sept. 7

28

Oct. 12

Nov. 10

Hydrographer.

.....do....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H.Lee. ................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G. Wood... ............................................

.....do...................:............................-....

.....do........ ............................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

14

15

15

16

15

16

1616'

 16

15

15

15

15

15

Area of

section.

**£

9.9

11

14

13

14

14

17

12

9.3

. 8.9

9.3

8.5

9.3

&,

Feet. 

0.61

.61

.64

.84

.85

.88

.83

1.03

.71

.61

.57

.60

.58

.58

Discharge.

Sec.-/*. 

11

11

11

24

25

26

23

49

14

11

7.6

8.7

7.2

8.0

Daily gage height, infect, of Oak Creek near Independence, Cal., for 1910. 

[A. N. Bell, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

4...............

6...............

7...............

8................

9............... 

10...............

11............... 

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16............... 

17............... 

18...............

19............ .

20...............

21...............

22. ..............

23............... 

24...............

25...............

26............... 

27...............

28............... 

29. ..............

30. .............. 

31...............

Jan.

"6." 65"

"""."65"

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65 

""."65"

.65

.65

.65

""."65"

""."65"

Feb.

0.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.60

""."eo"

.60

.60

.60

.61 

.60

Mar.

0.60

.60

.65

.65

.65

.65

.63 

.61

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

Apr.

0.63

.63 

.63

.65

.68

.70

.70

.70 

"".71

7Q

.73

""."75"

.82

.84 

.82

May.

"o.'so"

""."75"

7S

.79 "".87"

""."83"

.90

""."87"

"".87"

on

""."93"

.90

""."95"

"Too"

"i.'os"

June.

1.08

1.02

.92

.95

.98

.98

.95 

.90

.85

.88

.87

.85

.85

""."85"

July.

0.90

so"

.90

.82

""."89"

.82

""."87" 

1.15

1.05

""."96"

.85

.84

.82

Aug.

0.80

.79

.75

.71

""."76"

""."76"

.69

""."es"

""."65"

.67

""."65"

.65

.64

Sept.

0.62

""."62"

""."ei"

.60

.59

""."si"

.58

.60

"".'eo'

en

.60

.58

.60

.58

Oct.

0.56

.55

.58

.59

60

.62

.60 

""."58"

.58

.58

.60

""."59"

.58

Nov.

0.60

""."58"

""."eo"

.60

"".58

"""."eo"

.60

"".58

""."eo"

.59

.55

.58

.59

.56

Dec.

"6." 60

""."eo

VT

""."eo

""."58

54

""."52 

""."56

.52

"".57

"".58

""."55

""."eo
THE GREAT BASIN. 135 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Oak Creek near Independence, Cal.,for 1910.

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

Feb.

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2*

12.2

12.2

11.1

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10.4

10

10

Mar.

10

10

10

10

11.1

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

11.8

11.4

10.4

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

12.2

11 9

Apr.

11.7

11.4

11.4

11.4

11.4

11.8

12.2

12.9

13.6

14.0

14.5

14.5

14.5

14.5

14.5

14.5

14.8

15.2

15.8

16.4

16.4

16.4

17.1

17.8

20.4

23

24

25

23

22

May.

22

21

21

19

17.4

18

19.6

20.3

24

27

26

24

26

28

30

28

97

97

27

28

30

31

33

34

SO

34

37

40

44

48

S3

June.

58

55

51

48

40

33

34

36

37

39

41

41

41

41

39

37

30

29

28

27

26

28

27

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

July.

28

30

30

29

29

29

30

27

23

25

27

29

27

25

23

25

27

74

64

53

47

41

35

30

28

26

25

25

24

23

22

Aug.

22

21

20

20.3

18

17

16

14.6

14.2

13.9

13.9

13.9

13.6

13.4

13.2

13.0

12.9

12.1

11.3

11.6

12.0

12.3

11.8

11.3

11.3

11.3

11.2

11.1

11.0

10.8

10.2

Sept.

9.7

9.7

9.7

9.4

.9.2

9.0

8.7

8.5

8.3

8.2

8.1

7.9

7.9

7.9

8.3

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.5

8.3

8.5

8.7,

8.4

8.1

7.9

8.3

8.7

8.3

7.9

Oct.

7.5

7.4

7.2

7.1

6.9

6.7

7.3

7.9

8.0

8.1

8.3

8.5

8.7

9.2

9.7

8.7

8.3

7.9

7.9

7.9

; 7.9

. 7.9

7.9

8.3

8.7

8.5

8.3

8.1

8.0

7.9

8.3

Nov.

8.7

8.3

7.9

8.3

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.3

7.9

8.3

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.3

7.9

8.3

8.7

8.5

8.3

7.5

6.7

7.1

7.5

7.9

8.1

8.3

7.7

7.1

Dec.

7.6

8.1

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.1

7.5

7.9

8.3

8.7

8.3

7.9

7.1

6.3

6.0

5.7

5.5

6.3

7.1

6.3

5.5

6.2

6.8

7.5 7.6"

7.8

7.9

7.3

6.7

7.7

8.7

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two fairly well-defined discharge rating curves, one applicable 

Jan. 1 to Apr. 26, and the other Apr. 28 to Dec. 31. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage was not 

read.

Monthly discharge of Oak Creek near Independence, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 26.9 square miles.] '

Month.

May........................

June.......................

July........................

August .....................

October. ...................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

12.2 

12.2 

12.2 

25 

53 

58 

74 

22 

9.7 

9.7 

8.7 

8.7

74

Mininmm.

12.2 

10.0 

10.0 

11.4 

17.4 

26 

22 

10.2 

7.9 

6.7 

6.7 

5.5

5.5

Mean.

12.2 

11.1 

11.8 

16.3 

28.8 

34.9 

31.6 

13.9 

8.56 

8.03 

8.17 

7.37

16.1

Per 

square 

mile.

0.454 

.413 

.439 

.606 

1.07 

1.30 

1.18 

.517 

.318 

.299 

.304 

.273

.596

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.52

.43 

.51 

.68 

1.23 

1.45 

1.36 

.60 

.35 

.34 

.34 

.31

8.12

Total in 

acre-feet.

750 

616 

726 

970 

1,770 

2,080 

1,940 

855 

509 

494 

486 

453

11,600

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.
136 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

LITTLE PINE CHEEK 1 NEAR INDEPENDENCE, CAL.

This station, which is located about 300 feet above the city waterworks and 1 mile west of Independence, in sec. 18, T. 13 S., R. 35 E.^ 

Mount Diablo base and meridian, was established August 20, 1906, 

replacing the station at the' city waterworks which was established 

June 15, 1905, and destroyed in June, 1906.

No water is diverted above the gage. The town of Independence 

diverts about 0.5 second-foot of water 100 feet below the station. 

The drainage area above the mouth of the canyon is approximately 

8.4 square miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left bank at the footbridge from 

which discharge measurements are made.

Both banks are high and rocky and not likely to overflow. The 

bed of the stream is rough and the current is swift. The channel, 

which is composed of bowlders and gravel, shifts somewhat.

The discharge rating curves for 1910 are well defined and the 

Records may be considered good.

Discharge measurements of Little Pine Creek near Independence, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Feb. 20

Mar. 18

29

May 20

July 14

18

Aug. 8

Sept. 7

28 Oct: 19

Nov. 13

Dec. 8

Hydrographer.

.....do...:.........................................,.......

.....do.....................................................

.....do.......... ..........................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee.................................................

..... do.... ................................................ .

.....do....!................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G.Wood...............................................

G. T. Peekema. ...........................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

10

12

12

12

12

12

13

13

12

11

12

12

12

12

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

5.4

6.2

6.6

10

12

12

11

17

9

6.1

5.6

6.4

6.2

6.0

Gage

Feet. 

0.18

.25

.27

.53

.68

.68

.65

1.10

.51

.33

.28

.29

.28

.25

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

4.6

6.2

6.7

22

32

32

25

71

15

6.8

4.9

5.8

4.9

4.0

1 Locally known as Independence Creek.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 137

Daily gage height, in feet, of Little Pine Creek near Independence, Cal., for 1910. 

[Le Roy Eoeper, observer.]

Day.

1... ............ 

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7.. ............. 

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15............... 

16...............

17............... 

18...............

19...............

20...............

21............... 

22...............

23............... 

24...............

25...............

26...............

27............... 

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

0.4

.4

.35

.35

.35

.35

VI

.35

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

Feb.

0.25

.3

.3

.25

.25

.25

.25

.3

.25

.3

.3

.18

.35

.....:.

Mar.

0.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.3 

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

OE

Apr.

"6."25"

.25

.35

OR

.35

.35

OR

.35

""."35"

.45

""."55"

""."55"

.55

""."55"

.53 

.55

May.

0.55

.55

.55

.55

.6

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.68

.7

.75

.85

.85

June.

"6.' 95'

.95

.95

"".'95'

.95

.95

.95

.85

........

.75

.68 

.7

""."65"

.65

'".'75"

"".s"

July.

0.75

.75

.7

.55

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65 

1.10

1.0

.85

.85

.75

.7

.65

Aug.

"o.'e"

.6

.6

"".51

.50

.50

.48

.48

.46

""."44"

.43

"".'is"

.44

.42

.41

""."42"

Sept.

0.38

.44

.36

.40

.32

.32

.30

.40

.32

.33

.29

.31

.28

.30 

.28

.26

Oct.

0.3

.25

.25

.25

.3

.3

.3

.35

.3

.3

.3

.......

.3

.3

.25

.3

Npv.

"6." 25"

.3

.3

""."3"

.25

.25

.3

.25

.......

.25

.......

.......

.25

""25"

""25"

Dec.

"6." 25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.25

.2

.25

.25

.25

""."2"

""."25

.3

"".2

""."25

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Little Pine Creek near Independence, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

O

i::::::::::::::: 4............:..

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

13

13

13

12

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

8

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5 '6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

Feb.

6.5

6.5

6.5

7.2

8.0

8.0

8.0

7.2

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

7.2

8.0

7.2

6.5

7.2

8.0

8.0

8.0

8.0

8.0

4.6

10.0

8.0

Mar.

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

G.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

7.2

8.0

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

Apr.

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

8.0

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

13

16

19

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

21

22

May.

22

99

22

22

22

99

22

24

26

28

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

32

34

36

38

41

43

45

48

48

48

50

52

June.

54

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

52

48

45

43

41

38

32

34

32

30

30

30

34

38

40

43

July.

38

38

38

36

34

28

22

26

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

71

59

52

44

44

44

39

34

34

34

32

30

28

26

Aug.

23

21

21

21

21

21

18

15

15

14.5

14.5

13.5

13.5

13.0

12.5

12.2

11.8

11.5

11.0

11.8

12.7

13.5

11.5

11.2

11.0

10.8

10.5

10.0

10.2

10.5

9.5

Sept.

8.7

10.1

11.5

9.7

7.9

8.7

9.5

7.9

6.3

6.3

6.3

5.9

5.5

7.5

9.5

7.9

6.3

6.5

6.7

6.0

5.2

5.6

5.9

5.4

4.9

5.2

5.5

4.9

4.3

4.9

Oct.

5.5

4.8

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.8

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

6.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

4.8

4.0

4.8

5.5

Nov.

4.8

4.0

4.8

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

4.8

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.8

5.5

4.8

4.0

4.8

5.5

4.8

4.0

4.8

5.5

5.5

5.5

4.8

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

Dec.

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.2

2.5

3.2

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.2

2.5

3.2

4.0

4.8

5.5

4.0

2.5

8.2

4.0

4.0

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two fairly well-defined discharge rating curves, one applicable 

from Jan. 1 to July 18, and the other from July 19 to Dec. 31. Discharge interpolated for days of missing

gage frfistpi hftlirVitsj heights.
138 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.

Monthly discharge of Little Pine Creek near Independence, Col., for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 21.4 square miles.]

Month.

January. . ..................

February. ..................

April.......................

May.............:..........

July........................

October. ...................

The year. ............

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

13 

10 

8 

22 

52 

56 

71 

23 

11.5 

7.5 

5.5 

5.5

71

Minimum.

6.5 

4.6 

6.5 

6.5 

22 

30 

22 

9.5 

4.3 

4.0 

4.0 

2.5

2.5

Mean.

8.60 

7.22

6.57 

13.6 

32.8 

46.4 

35.5 

14.1 

6.88 

5.25 

4.74 

3.80

15.5

Per 

square 

mile.

0.402 

.337 

.307 

.635 

1.53 

2.17 

1.66 

.659 

.321 

.245 

.221 

.178

.724

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.46 

.35 

.36 

.71 

1.76 

2.42 

1.91 

.76 

.36 

.28 

.25 

.21

9.83

Total in 

acre-feet.

529 

401 

404 

809 

2.020 

2,760 

2,180 

867 

409 

323 

282 

234

11,200

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

SHEPARD CREEK NEAR THESE, CAL.1

No regular gaging station has been maintained on Shepard Creek. 

All measurements were made at a point about 3 miles east of the 

mouth of the canyon, in sec. 9, T. 14 S., R. 35 E., Mount Diablo 

base and meridian, and above all diversions.

Discharge measurements of Shepard Creek near Thebe, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Feb. 25

Mar. 15

26

May 17

June 21

July 16

Aug. 11

29

Sept. 30

Oct. 31

Dec. 7

Hydrographer.

R. E.Haines.. ...........................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

C. H. Lee................................................

F. G. Wood.... ..........................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

North 

Branch 

discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

1.7

2.1

0

1.4

6.9

9.6

3-7

3.6

.8

2.1

2.0

1.2

South 

Branch 

discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

0

0

2.5

5.2

4.5

3.3

15.2

8.6

7.2

1.4

1.8

1.3

Total 

Shepard 

Creek discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

1.7

2.1

2.5

6.6

11.4

12.9

18.9

12.2

8.0

3.5

3.8

2.5

NOTE. The discharge past the regular gaging station was determined by adding together the measured 

discharge of the North and South Branches. Measurements on these were made at several sections.

BALES CREEK 2 NEAR THEBE, CAL.

No regular gaging station has been maintained on-Bairs Creek. 

All measurements were made at a point about 3 miles east of the 

mouth of the canyon, in sec. 16, T. 14 S., R. 35 E., Mount Diablo base 

and meridian, and above all diversions.'

Described in the 1906 report as near Independence. a Called Moflett Creek in the 1906 report.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 

Discharge measurements ofBairs Creek near Thebe, Cal., in 1910.

139

Date.

Feb. 25

Mar. 15

26

May 17

June 21

July 16

Aug. 11

29

Sept. 30

Oct. 31

Dec. 7

Hydrographer.

R.E.Haines.. .....................................................

.....do..............................................................

.....do..............................................................

.....do..............................................................

C. H. Lee..........................................................

.....do..............................................................

F. G. Wood........................................................

.....do..............................................................

G. T. Peekema. ....................................................

.....do..............................................................

.....do..............................................................

Width.

Feel. 

1.9

2.0

1.9

5.5

8.0

5.6

6.2

6.1

5.6

2.0

2.2

3.5

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

1.3

1.3

1.2

3.6

7.0

4.1

3.4

2.7

2.3

.95

.92

1.4

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

0.14

.26

.12

1.9

8.6

4.8

3.3

1.6

1.0

.38

.35

.61

NOTE. Measurements made by wading at various sections.

GEORGE CREEK NEAR THEBE, CAL.1

A gage has been placed on George Creek at a point about 1 mile 

west of the road from Independence to Lone Pine, in sec. 27, T. 14 S., 

R. 35 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian.

No water is diverted above the gage.

No gage height record is available, but the following discharge 

measurements were made near the gage during 1910.

Discharge measurements of George Creek near Thebe, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Feb. 25

Mar. 15

26

May 17

June 21

July 16

Aug. 11

29

Oct. 31

Dec. 7

Hydrographer.

.... .do. ....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C. H. Lee.................................................

F. G. Wood... ............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

G. T. Peekema. ...........................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

7.8

7.8

7.9

9.0

10

9.0

9.0

9.0

8.8

8.8

9.0

8.5

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

3.3

4.5

4.1

6.9

8.2

7.4

7.0

5.8

6.0

4.7

5.4

4.2

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

0.53

.65

.61

.94

1.00

1.00

.95

.76

.68

.83

.70

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

1.1

3.0

2.4

11

16

13

11

6.4

5.6

3.2

4.9

2.6

LONE FINE CREEK NEAR LONE FINE, CAL.

This station, which is located at a point about three-fourths of a 

mile west of the town of Lone Pine and about 500 feet above the 

division boxes on the creek, in sec. 29, T. 15 S., R. 36 E., Mount 

Diablo base and meridian, was established September 25, 1906.

No water is diverted above the station.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left bank at the footbridge, 

from which disctharge measurements are made.

The drainage area above the mouth of the canyon is about 12 

square miles.

i Described in the 1906 report as near Independence.
140 SUBFACE WATEB SUPPLY, 1910, PAST X.

Both banks are high and rocky and not subject to overflow. The 

channel is composed of gravel and bowlders and shifts somewha^ at 

high stages. The records may be considered good.

Discharge measurements of Lone Pine Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 2

22

Apr. 12

May 3

24.

June 28

July 21

Aug. 16

Sept. 3

22

Oct. 27

Nov. 30

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do...............................-................'....

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H. Lee... ...............................................

.....do............ .........................................

F. G. Wood...............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

..... do........ ........... ..................................

Width.

Feet.

7.2

7.2

7.3

7.3

8.0

8.0

9.4

7.8

7.6

7.9

7.3

7.2

Area of 

section*

Sq.ft. 

6.3

6.8

7.2

9.3

13

13

16

10

9.5

10

8.9

6.8

height.

Feet. 

1.90

1.94

2.03

2.32

2.72

2.68

3.10

2.50

2.39

2.42

2.23

2.01

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

5.5

6.5

8.2

15

30

30

47

18

14

15

9.3

5.8

Daily gage height, in feet, of Lone Pine Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., for 

[ 8. A. Qallaher, observer.]

1910.

Day.

1.... ...........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13.... ........... 

14..............

15...............

16............... 

17............... 

18...............

19...............

20......... ......

21............... 

22............. .

23...............

24..........

25...............

26...............

27............... 

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.0

2 A

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.9

1 Q

"'2.0

1.9

"i o"

1.9

Feb.

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.1

1 Q

1.9

1.9

1.9

Mar.

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

""i"6"

'"2.0

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.9

Apr.

1.9

1 O

2.0

2.0

2.05

2.05 

2.......

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.3

May.

2.3

2.35

2.35

2.5

2.5

"9 ft"

2.65

2.65

2.65

3.1

June.

3.0

2.95

2.95

2.9

"2." 75"

"i'e"

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

July.

2.6

2.5

2.6

2.6

"2. 65"

"2." 65"

3.05

2.95

3.0

2.8

Aug.

2.75

2.7

2.65

2.6

"iT"

"2." 5"

2.45

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.55

2.55

Sept.

2.35

2.35

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.75

"~2.~45"

2.3

"2." 25"

Oct.

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.35

2.2

2.2

"2.2"

2.25

"2.3,"

2.2

Nov.

2.1

2.05

2.0

2.6

2.0

2

. ......

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

Dec.

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2

......

2.1

2.1

2.0

2.0
' THE GEEAT BASIN. 141 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Lone Pine Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

6.9

6.3

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

6.3

6.9

7.5

6.9

6.3

5.8

 5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

Feb.

7.0

8.2

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

9.5

10.3

11.1

12.0

11.1

ltf.3

9.5

8.2

7.0

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

Mar.

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

6.3

6.9

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

6.9

6.3

5.8

5.8

5.8

5

0

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

Apr.

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

6.3

6.9

7.5

7 5

7 >;

7.5

7.8

8.1

8.5

8.5

8.5

8.5

9.0

Q 5

10.3

11.1

12.0

10 n

14.0

15.0

16.2

17.3

18.5

17.3

16.2

xS.O

May.

15.0

15.0

15.0

15.6

16.2

16.8

16.8

16.8

16.8

18.5

20

22

22

22

22

23

25

26

26

28

28

28

28

28

oe

28

28

34

40

47

45

June.

44

42

41

40

40

40

40

40

30

39

38

36

OA

32

30

28

26

26

26

26

26

oe

26

26

26

Ofi

26

26

26

oe

July.

26

26

25

23

22

23

25

26

' 26

26

26

27

27

28

28

28

28

32

36

40

45i"*

41

39

40

41

42

37

32

31

30

Aug.

30

29

28

27

26

25

25

24

23

23

22

22

22

22

21

19

18.0

17.4

16.8

16.2

16.8

17.4

18.0

18.0

 to n

18.0

18.0

19.0

20

9O

16.4

Sept.

12.8

12.8

12.8

12.8

12.2

11.6

11.0

10.2

9.4

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

15.4

22

29

26

24

22

20

. 18.1

16.2

14.4

12.7

11.0

10.6

10.2

9.8

9.4

9.0

Oct.

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.0

7.4

6.8

8.8

10.8

12.8

11.4

10.0

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

8.7

9.0

9.4

9

0

10.2

10.6

11.0

10.2

9.4

8.7

Nov.

8.0

7.4

6.8

6.6

6.4

6.2

5.9

5.7

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

Dec.

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.9

6.3

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.3

5.9

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two discharge rating curves both fairly well defined, one applicable from Jan. 1 to July 21 and the other from July 22 to Dec. 31. Discharge interpolated for days on 

which the gage was not read.

Monthly discharge of Lone Pine Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., for 1910.

Month.

January ............................................

April..............................................

May...............................................

July................................................

October. ..........................................

The year ....................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

7.5 

12.0 

7.5 

18.5 

47 

44 

45 

30 

29 

12.8 

8.0 

6.8

47

Minimum.

5.8 

5.8 

5.8 

5. -8 

15 

26 

22 

16.2 

8.7 

6.8 

5.5 

5.5

5.5

Mean.

6.39 

8.04 

6.29 

10.4 

24.5 

32.2 

31.3 

21.2 

14.0 

9.23 

5.80 

5.87

14.6

Run-off 

(total in 

acre feet).

393 

447 

387 

619 

1,510 

1,920 

1,920 

1,300 

833 

568 

345 

361

( 10,600

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C.

TUTTLE CHEEK NEAR LONE PINE, CAL.

This station, which, is located about 2 miles southwest of Lone Pine, 

in sec. 32, T. 15 S., K. 36 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, at 

the point where the stream leaves the foothills and enters the valley, 

was established January 1, 1906.
142 SI7EFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank at the footbridge 50 

feet above the division box which controls the water diverted from 

this stream.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge.

The drainage area above the mouth of the canyon is approximately 

7.8 square miles.

As the channel is continually shifting, the estimates for 1910 have 

been prepared by the indirect method. The record is rated as 

approximate.

Discharge measurements of Tuttle Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 2

22

AT\F 99

24

July 21

Aug. 16

Sept. 3

22

Oct. 27

Nov. 30

Hydrographer.

.....do....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H.Lee.. ................................................

.....do.....................................................

F. G. Wood............. ..................................

.....do.....................................................

G.T.Peekema. ...........................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

Area of 

section.

*->N

4.2

4.2

5i2

5.9

6.2

7.3

5.6

4.9

6.6

5.1

4.7

Gage

height.

Feet. 

1.10

1.09

i no

1.22

1.29

1.33

1.41

1.32

1.33

1.33

1.30

1.29

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

5.5

5.3

5.6

6.1

8.7

11

13

8.8

8.5

10

6.4

6.8

Daily gage height, in feet, of Tuttle Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., for 1910. 

[S. A. Gallaher, observer.]

Day.

1......... ......

3.. ...... ........

5...............

6...............

7.. .............

10...............

11...............

12..... .........

13...............

14............... 

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

10

20

21...............

99

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.3

1.3

Feb.

1.4

1.4

1.4

i-5

"Yi"

1.3

1.1

1.1

1.1

Mar.

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.1

' i.i

1.2

1.2

1.1

1.2

Apr.

1.2

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.1

1.0

i.6

1.4

1.4

1.2

1 ^

May.'

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.-2

........

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

June.

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.35

1.35

1.3

1.3

1.3

July.

i.§

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.35

1.35

1.4

i.4

1.6

1.4

Aug.

1.4

1.4

1.35

1.35

1.35

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

Sept.

1.35

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.35

1.35

1.3

1.3

Oct.

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

Nov.'

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

~"i.~3'

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

Dec.

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

"Ts

1.3

1.3

1.3

i.3

1.3
THE GREAT BASIN. 143 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Tuttle Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21......*.......

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

6

7

8

10

12

11

9

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

9

10

12

13

15

16

16

16

16

14

13

12

12

12

12

Feb.

13

14

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

18

19

20

1Q

17

16

15

14

12

10

8

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Mar.

6

6

6

6

6

5

5

4

5

5

6

6

6

6

7

7

8

7

5

8

7

7

6

7

7

8

8

8

Apr.

8

ia1219

12

19

19

12

12

10

8

6

5

5

4

8

12

16

6

11

16

13

10

7

8

8

May.

8

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

7

8

9

9

9

10

19

13

13

June.

13

10

10 '

13*

10

13

10

1^

10

13

1^

13

10

13

13

12

12

12

12

12

11

11

10

10

10

10

10

11

10

10

July.

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

101111

111111

12

13

13

13

12

12

15

18

21

18

1 f\

12

12

Aug.

12

12

12

1 0

12

11

11

10

10

10

10

10

10

10 10

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

Sept.

9

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

9

10

12

11

11

10

10

10

10

10

9

9

9

8

8

8

8

Oct.

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

6

6

6

6

6

Nov.

6

6

6

6

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

Dec.

7

7

7

7

'77

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Note. Daily discharge determined by the indirect method for shifting channels. Discharge interpolated for days on which gage heights were not recorded.

Monthly discharge of Tuttle Creek near Lone Pine, Cal., for 1910.

March....... ...... ...... ..

May......................................................

June .....................................................

July......................................................

The year. ..........................................

Discha

Maximum.

16

20

8

16

13

13

21

12

12

8

7

7

21

rge in seconc

Minimum.

6

6

4

4

6

10

9

8

8

6

6

6

4

-feet.

Mean.

10.7

12.7

6.13

8.97

7.94

11.9

11.9

9.39

8.90

7.29

6.87

6.61

9.08

Run-off

acre-feet).

658

705

377

534

488

708

732

577

530

448

409

406

6,570

NOTE. Estimates only approximate.
144 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

COTTONWOOD CHEEK NEAR OLANCHA, CAL.

Cottonwood Creek discharges into Owens Lake.

The gaging station, which is located at a point 100 feet above the 

head of the diversion pipe of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, in sec. 21, 

T. 17 S., R. 36 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, was established 

September 9, 1908, replacing the station established September 26, 

1906, at a point about one-fourth mile above the crossing of the 

Los Angeles Aqueduct and about 15 "miles south of Lone Pine.

No water is diverted above the station; just below the station the 

Los Angeles Aqueduct diverts water for the development of power. 

The drainage area above the mouth of the canyon is about 42 square 

miles.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank 500 feet below the 

footbridge from which discharge measurements are made.

The channel is composed of sand and gravel and is somewhat 

shifting. Both banks are high and rocky and the current is swift at 

all stages.

The discharge rating curve is fairly well defined and the record may 

be considered good.

Discharge measurements of Cottonwood Creek near Olancha, Cat., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 3

23

Apr. 13,

Irfav A.

25

July 22

A tiff 17

Sept. 2

20

Oct. 28

Hydrographer.

.....do......................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H. Lee.. ................................................

F. G. Wood...............................................

...... do............ .........................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feel. 

11

11

15

16

17

15

15

13

14

16

15

17

Area of 

section.

S?./,a

15

19

30

32

21

18

14

14

16

16

16

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.53

1.80

2.00

2.58

2.50

1.85

1.79

1.52

1.43

1.57

1.50

1.41

Discharge.

Sec.-/*. 

13

22

30

73

67

27

20

13

12

15

14

11
THE GBEAT BASIN. 145

Daily gage height, in feet, of Cottonwood Creek near Olancha, Gal., for 1910. 

[Sam Robinson, observer.]

Day.

1..... ..........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9. ..............

10...............

11...............

12. ..............

13...............

14. ..............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28. ..............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

1.7

1.6

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

Feb.

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

Mar.

1.45

1.5

1.5

1.55

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.65

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.75

1.7

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.05

1.65

1.7

1.55

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.6

Apr.

1.65

1.7

1.7

1.75

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.85

1.85

1.9

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.2

2.25

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.6

2.65

2.7

2.~8 2.75

2.8

2.7

2.7

May.

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.35

2.3

2.5

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6 «

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

June.

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

July.

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.75

1.75 1-.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

2.0

1.9

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.85

2.1

1.9

1.85

1.8

Aug.

1.75

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.65

1.65

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.55

1.55

1.55

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.45

1.45

Sept.

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.35

1.35

1.35

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

3.0

1.9

.1.7

1.65

1.6

1.55

1.55

1.55

1.55

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

&9t.

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1:45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.45

1.4

1.45

1.3

1.4

1.3

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

Nov.

1.5

1.45

1.45

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.5

1.15

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.35

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

Dec.

1.4

1.35

1.4

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

,1.5

1.5

1.5

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Cottonwood Creek near Olancha, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1. ..............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6. ..............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11............. .

12...............

13...............

14...............

15. ..............

16. ..............

17...............

18. ..............

19. ..............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26. ..............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

18

15

13

15

15

18

18

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

11

13

13

11

13

13

13

Feb.

13

11

11

11

13

13

13

11

13

12

12

12

12

12

12

11

11

11

11

11

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

Mar.

12

13

13

14

15

15

15

16

18

18

IS

18

18

20

18

20

20

20

20

21

21

20

16

16

18

14

18

18

18

18

15

Apr.

16

18

18

20

21

21

21

23

23

25

30

30

30

30

30

36

42

46

49

57

65

65

75

80

86

92

97

97

86

86

May.

86

86

75

53

49

65

75

75

- 75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

65

65

65

65

61

61

61

61

57

57

57

57

57

57

57

June.

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

57

49

49

46

42

42

42

42

42

42

36

30

30

30

30

30

25

25

25

23

23

23

23

July.

21

21

21 ' 20

20

20

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

16

16

16

16

30

25

21

21

21

20

18

18

18

23

36

25

23

21

Aug.

20

18

18

18

18

16

16

15

15

15

14

14

14

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

11

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

12

12

Sept.

12

11

11

11

11

11

11

10

10

10

9

9

9

9

121

25

18

16

15

14

14

14

14

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

Oct.

13

13

13

13

12

12

12

12

12

11

12

9

11

9

13

13

15

18

13

13

15

15

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

Nov.

13

12

12

13

13

11

9

11

11

11

11

11

13

13

11

9

9

13

6

9

11

11

11

9

10

9

9

9

9

9

Dec.

11

10

11

9

11

13

13

13

11

13

13

9

9

9

9

9

9

11

11

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

12

11

11

11

11

NOTE. Daily discharges determined from a discharge rating curve well denned above 10 second-feet. 

43926° WSP 290 12 10
146 SUEPACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Cottonwood Creek near Olancha, Cal., for 1910.

jff Month.

April ..............................................

May...............................!...............

July...............................................

Th©- vear '

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

18 

13 

21 

97 

86 

65 

36 

20 

121 

18 

13 

13

121

Minimum.

11 

11 

12 

16 

49 

23 

16 12 s 

9 

9 

6 

9

6

Mean.

11.9 

17.2 

47.2 

66.7 

42.0 

20.4 

14.3 

16.2 

12.8 

10.6 

11.3

23.8

Run-off

(total in 

acre-feet).

873 

661 

1,060 

2,810 

4,100 

2,500 

1,250 

879 

964 

787 

631 

695

15,800

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

ASH CHEEK NEAR OLANCHA, CAL.

Ash Creek discharges into Owens Lake.

The gaging station, which is located at a point just above the forks 

of the creek near the mouth of the canyon, about 16 miles south of 

Lone Pine, in sec. 11, T. 17 S., R. 36 E., Mount Diablo base and 

meridian, was established April 15, 1907.

No water is diverted above or near the station. Observations of 

gage heights have been discontinued, but discharge measurements were 

made during 1910.

Discharge measurements of Ash Creek near Olancha, Cal., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 3

23

Apr. 13

25o

July 22»

Aug. 17

Sept. 2

21

Oct. 28

Hydrographer.

R. E . Haines ..............................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

C.H.Lee.. ................................................

F. G. Wood......... ......................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

6.1

£ >7

7.3

9.0

7.3

6.5

7.1

6.6

6.8

7.1

7.2

6.3

Area of 

section.

^ l

4.6

7.7 is

6.4

3

A

6.5

5.1

4.5

5.6

6.7

3 7

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.38

1 40

1.87

2.15

1.66

2 ft1

1.80

1 on

2 fto

1.61

Discharge.

See. -ft. 

3.5

4.0

4.7

16

11

9 Q

1 Q

, 1.5

1.2

1 Q

1.9

1.7

« Made by wadng 20 feet above footbridge.

6 Possible backiater effect from dfibris lodged below gage section during high water of July 18-19,1910.

e Brush dam jw below measuring section removed.

MONO LAKE BASIN. 1

GENERAL FEATURES.

Mono Lake lies at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada in eastcentral California, within a few miles of the California-Nevada boundary. The western rim of its drainage area, formed by the crest line of

1 Abstracted from Russell, I. C., Quaternary history of Mono Valley, Cal.; Eighth Ann. Kept. U. S. GeoL 

Survey, pt. 1,1889, pp. 269-270, 287-288. «
THE GBEAT BASIN. 147

the Sierra, coincides for 36 miles with the western margin of the Great 

Basin.

The lake is 6,412 feet above the sea. The lowest pass in the serrate mountain crest along its western border is 3,000 feet above its 

surface. The highest peaks that overshadow it rise more than 6,000 

feet above the level of the lake. The eastern portion of the basin 

partakes of the character of the arid region of interior drainage, and 

includes valleys covered with sagebrush and rugged mountain slopes, 

but scantily clothed with cedar and pinon. Over this portion no 

running water can be found during the greater part of the year. 

That it is not really a desert is shown by the fact that among the 

clumps of sagebrush it produces nutritious bunch grass in sufficient 

abundance to afford pasturage for a few cattle and horses.

The southwestern border of the basin includes magnificent mountains that are clothed in favored places with forests of pine. The 

highest peaks reach far above the timber line and bear a varied.and 

beautiful alpine flora.

The lake derives the principal portion of its water supply from the 

creeks that descend the eastern slope of the Sierra and empty into it 

from the south and west. Supplementing the surface drainage are a 

number of springs, some of which are of considerable size.

The creeks tributary to Lake Mono are of clear water and flow 

through channels excavated for the most part in granite and metamorphosed sediments, but near their mouths they have eroded small 

gorges through material deposited during previous high-water stages 

of the lake. No chemical analyses of these waters have been made, 

but they undoubtedly hold a small percentage of mineral matter in 

solution which is left when evaporation takes place.

Most of the springs of the basin are either in the bottom of the lake 

or near its shores, and they are most numerous near the base of the 

mountains, which lie close to the western shore. Only three of those 

that rise on the land have a temperature noticeably above the normal. The character of most of those rising in the bottom of the lake 

is uncertain. Some of them reveal their presence in cold weather by 

the vapor to be seen on the lake surface above them, and are thus 

known to be thermal. None of the springs of the basin are highly 

charged with mineral matter, but, on the contrary, some of the more 

copious are remarkable for their purity.

BUSH CHEEK NEAR MONO LAKE, CAL.

Rush Creek rises on the east slope of Mount Lyell (altitude, 

13,090 feet above sea level), and flows in general northeastward 

into Mono Lake. To the south, on the opposite side of the Sierra 

Nevada divide, lie the headwaters of the North and Middle forks
148 SUEFACE WATBE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

of San Joaquin River; to the west and north are the headwaters 

of Merced and Tuolumne rivers.

Lakes are numerous in this basin, the more important being 

Marie Lake (altitude, 10,750 feet), Gem Lake (altitude, 9,030 feet), 

Silver Lake (altitude, 7,212 feet), Grant Lake (altitude, 7,060 feet), 

June Lake (altitude, 7,631 feet), Alger Lake (altitude, 10,500 feet), 

and Walker Lake (altitude, 7,926 feet). Gem, Silver,"and Grant 

lakes lie in the course of the stream. At several of these lakes 

considerable storage could be developed, but no work has yet been 

done.

The principal tributaries, Reversed, Parker, and Walker creeks, 

are small streams and of little value without storage. No water 

power has been developed on this stream. In a distance of less 

than one-half mile above the mouth of Reversed Creek there is a 

total fall of 1,100 feet. The drainage area above is small, but storage 

could be developed at Gem Lake.

The rocks throughout the basin are principally granite and blue 

schist. The forest is thin and contains only a small amount of 

merchantable timber, chiefly yellow pine. The uncultivated valley 

land is covered with sagebrush. The soil is composed of volcanic 

ash and sand and requires a large amount of water for irrigation. 

As the tillable area lies 6,500 to 7,000 feet above sea level the growing 

season is short and the crops are restricted to the hardier grains 

and hay. About 300 acres are now irrigated from the main stream 

and its tributaries.

Gold, silver, and copper have been found in this area, but not in 

paying quantities.

The gaging station, which is located in the NE.f sec. 13, T. 1 N.., 

R. 26 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, at the highway bridge 

8 miles southeast of Mono Lake post office, one-fourth mile above 

the mouth of the creek, was''established November 16, 1910.

The gage is a vertical staff fastened to a cottonwood tree on the 

right bank 3 feet above the bridge from which discharge measurements are made.

The channel is composed of sand and gravel and may shift at 

high stages.

The station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. McGlashan by wading 15 feet below bridge:

November 16, 1910: Width, 26 feet; area, 23 square feet; gage height, 2.82.feet; 

discharge, 41 second-feet.
THE GBBAT BASIN". 149

Daily gage height, in feet, of Rush Creek near Mono Lake, Cal.,for 1910. 

[J. B. Anderson, observer.]

Day.

1.. ............

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6.. .... .......

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

2.90

2.90

2.85

Day.

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19..............

20..............

Nov.

2.82

Dec.

2.92

2.95

3.00

3.00

2.90

Day.

21..............

22..............

23. .............

24. .............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30. .............

31..............

Nov. Dec.

2.98

2.80

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.80

LEEVINING CHEEK NEAR MONO LAKE, CAL.

Leevining Creek has its source at the glacier on the east slope 

of Conness Mountain (altitude, 12,556 feet above sea level), and 

flows in general easterly to Mono Lake. Rush Creek drains the 

adjoining area on the south. The basin, like that of Rush Creek, 

contains several lakes at which excellent storage reservoirs may be 

developed. The most important of these is Saddlebag Lake, 10,051 

feet above sea level. Below'are Tioga and Ellery lakes.

No water power has been developed on the stream except near 

the mouth, where a small plant furnishes power for domestic uses. 

Several power sites, however, have been filed upon. Immediately 

below Ellery Lake the creek falls a thousand feet in a distance of 

half a mile.

Throughout the basin there is good merchantable timber with 

little underbrush.

Agriculture is practically restricted to the land adjacent to Mono 

Lake. The soil is composed of volcanic ash and sand and requires 

a large amount of water for irrigation. x

The gaging station, which is located 4 miles south of Mono Lake 

post office, at the ranger's camp in the SE. | SE | sec. 17, T. 1 N., 

R. 26 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, Mono Lake National 

Forest, was established November 17, 1910.

Warren Creek, the most important tributary, enters about 5£ 

miles above the station and 8J miles above Mono Lake. Less 

than 100 acres are irrigated in the small valley above the ranger's 

camp. Practically the entire low-water flow is used for irrigation 

near the mouth of the creek. l

The gage is a vertical staff fastened to a Cottonwood tree on the 

left bank, 250 feet below the ranger's camp.

Discharge measurements are made by wading.

The channel is composed of gravel and small bowlders. Both 

banks are high and will not overflow.
150 SUBFACE WATBE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. McGlashan by wading 500 feet above gage:

November 17, 1910: Width, 22 feet; area, 25 square feet; gage height, 2.16 feet; 

discharge, 22 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Leemning Creek near Mono Lake, Cal.,for 1910. 

[William J. Clarke, observer.]

Day.

1.. ............

2..............

3..............

M. .............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

2.13

2.12

2.11

2.12

2.22

2.20

2.20

2.19

2.18

9 91

Day.

11..............

12.............. 11

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18

19

20..............

Nov.

2.16

2.16

2.11

2.13

Dec.

2.22

2.21

2.15

2.20

2.18

2.15

2.11

2.15

2.21

9 11

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26.:............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

2.16

2.12

2.15

iii

2.15

2.15

2.12

2.13

2.13

-

Dec.

2.15

2.16

2.16

' 2.15

2.13

2.15

2.61

2.90

2.70

2.11

2.60

NOTE. Nov. 26, creek full of slush ice. Relation of gage height to discharge affected by ice Dec. 19, 

27-30.

WALKER LAKE BASIN.

GENERAL FEATURES.

Walker Lake, which next to Pyramid Lake is the most picturesque 

and attractive of the desert lakes of Nevada, lies in the northern part 

of Esmeralda County. It is supplied entirely by Walker River, which 

enters at its north end.

As one of the lakes of the region occupied by glacial lake Lahontan, 

it was described by Russell 1 as follows:

The lake is 25.6 miles in its longer, or north and south axis, and has an average 

width of between 4.5 and 5 miles. Its area is 95 square miles. * * * Over a 

large area in the central and western portions it has a remarkably uniform depth of 

224 feet; but as a rule the depth increases as one approaches the western shore, which 

is overshadowed by rugged mountains. The bottom throughout the central portions 

is composed of fine tenacious mud, which in many places is black in color and has the 

odor of hydrogen sulphide. Coarser deposits, consisting of sand and gravel, mingled 

with the empty shells of Pyrgula and Pompholyx, etc., were found only in the immediate neighborhood of the shore. * * *

As in the case of the other lakes in the Great Basin situated at an elevation of less 

than 5,000 feet, the shores of Walker Lake are totally lacking in arboreal vegetation 

except at the river mouth and are clothed only with desert shrubs. At the northern 

end, and following the immediate shores of Walker River for many miles, are luxuriant cottonwood groves, together with, willow banks and meadow lands. * * *

The waters at a distance from the river mouth are of a clear deep blue, changing to 

a bright green tint near the shore, as in Pyramid Lake. They are charged with 

saline matter to such an extent that carbonate of lime is now being deposited.

1 Kussell, I. C., Geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada: Mon. 

U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 11,1885, pp. 69-70.
THE GEE AT BASIN". 151

Walker River, the inflowing stream, rises on the eastern slope of 

the Sierra Nevada in two main branches whose basins are separated 

by a group of mountains known as the Sweetwater Range. The 

East Fork of Walker River receives the drainage from the eastern 

slope of the Sweetwater Range and from the western slope of the 

Walker River Range; the West Fork flows at the base of the main 

range of the Sierra Nevada. From the union of the forks, near 

Yerington, the river flows sluggishly northward, passing through the 

fertile Yerington Valley (Mason Valley) to a point east of Wabuska, 

where it turns to the east and southeast? and 50 miles beyond the 

forks enters Walker Lake; length of the river from Walker Lake 

to the junction of Virginia and Green creeks, which form the East 

Walker, 120 miles, in which distance the total fall is 2,400 feet; fall 

in the 50 miles below the junction of the East and West Walker, 

about 400 feet.

The basin contains but three important valleys Antelope Valley 

on the West Fork; Smith Valley, a fertile tableland presenting ample 

opportunity for reclamation, also under the West Fork; and Yerington 

Valley, which .takes its water from the two forks. Only recently have 

the water rights in this last-named valley been adjusted. The minimum flow is not sufficient to supply the demand during the summer 

months, although excellent reservoir sites near the headwaters of the 

forks are available for storing the flood waters for use during the dry 

season. The snowfall in the winter months is very heavy, giving 

assurance of an ample supply for reservoirs.

No irrigation projects are at present being constructed, but surveys 

have been made by the Reclamation Service to show the feasibility 

of such projects. A line of levels run by the Reclamation Service 

from a point above Yerington to Carson River near Towle's ranch 

shows that water can fye easily diverted by gravitation from the Walker 

River to the Carson River. The opportunities for power development 

afforded by both forks are as yet undeveloped by private companies 

because of the small demand for power near the rivers. Power 

development from the main stream is not feasible.

EAST WALKER RIVER NEAR MASON, NEV.

This station, which is located at the highway bridge, 7 miles above 

Mason, in the S.'i NE. J sec. 26, T. 12 N., R. 25 E., Mount Diablo 

base and meridian, was established November 21, 1910.

The East Walker unites with the West Walker about 2£ miles 

below the gage. Practically the entire low-water flow is used for 

irrigation above the station.

The vertical staff gage is on the left bank. Discharge measurements are made from the bridge 100 feet above the gage.

Both banks are high and will not overflow. The bed of the stream 

is composed of sand and fine gravel and will shift somewhat.
152 StTBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.-

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. McGlashan:

November 21, 1910: Width, 43 feet; area, 47 square feet; gage height, 3.94 feet; 

discharge, 96 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of East Walker River near Mason, New., for 1910. 

[Mrs. J. H. Hillbun, observer.]

Day.

1. .............

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

3.7

3.72

3.75

3.8

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.95

3.9

Day.

ii.:............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

1Q

20..............

Nov. Dec .

3.9

4.05

4.0

3.95

1 O

3.9

3.8

3

0

3 7

3.8

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

9Q

30..............

31..............

Nov.

3.94

3.95

3.95

3.90

o on

3.85

a3.64

3.62

3 64

3.65

Dec.

4.05

4.0

3.95

3.96

4.15

4.15

63.8

3.65

3.65

3.6

3.65

Water turned into canal just above station. *> Freezing.

WALKER RIVER AT MASON, NEV.

This station, which is located at the highway bridge at Mason, in the 

SW. | sec. 33, T. 13 N., R. 25 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, 

about 4^ miles below the junction of the East and West Walker 

rivers, was established November 21, 1910, to determine the amount 

of water available for irrigation in Mason Valley.

The gage is a vertical staff fastened to the second pile bent from the 

right end of the bridge.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge.

The channel, which is composed of sand and fine gravel, is straight 

for some distance above and below the station. The bed is constantly shifting, but it is believed that the flow is fairly well controlled. 

The banks are of equal height and will not overflow except during 

exceptional floods.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. 

McGlashan:

November 21, 1910: Width, 101 feet; area, 134 square feet; gage height, 4.44 feet, 

discharge, 240 second-feet.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 153

Daily gage height, in feet, of Walker River at Mason, Nev.,for 1910. 

[T. T. Kelley, observer.]

Day.

1. .............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

9.. ...........

10..............

Nov. Dec.

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.45

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

Day.

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17.............. is

19..............

20..............

Nov. Dee.

4.5

4.4

4.3

4.3

4.3

A Q

4.3

4.25

Day.

Z\.. ............

oo

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

9ft

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

4.44

4.45

4.45

4.4

4.45

4.4

4.3

4.3

4.4

Dee.

4.3

4.3

A 9

'4.3

4.35

<i i

A 3

4.15

4.0

4.1

NOTE. Ice along bank of river Dec. 16-18 and 27-31.

ROBINSON, CHEEK NEAR BRIDGEPORT, CAL.

Robinson Creek rises on the eastern slope of the Sierra in Mono 

County, Cal., and flows northeastward, passing through Twin Lakes 

to its junction with the East Fork of Walker River 2 miles north, of 

Bridgeport-. Its principal tributary is Buckeye Creek. 

. This station, which is located at the mouth of the canyon, 5| miles 

southwest of Bridgeport, in the SW. £ NW. 1 sec. 15, T. 4 N., R. 24 E., 

Mount Diablo base and meridian, in the Mono National Forest, was 

established November 18, 1910.

Lower Twin Lake is about 3 miles above the station and the junction 

with Buckeye Creek is 5 miles below. No water is diverted above the 

gage. The low-water flow is entirely used for irrigation in Bridgeport 

Valley. Twin Lakes is an excellent reservoir site. At the present 

time this storage is only partly developed.

The gage is a vertical staff fastened to a pine tree on the left bank 

near the site of an old sawmill.

Discharge measurements are made by wading near the gage.

Both banks are high and will not overflow. The channel is composed of gravel and small bowlders.

The station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. 

McGlashan by wading 150 feet above gage:

November 18, 1910: * Width, 8 feet; area, 6.1 square feet; gage height, 2.28 feet; 

discharge, '6.1 second-feet.

i Water undoubtedly being stored at Twin Lakes.
154 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Robinson Creek near Bridgeport, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Henry W. Atcheson, observer.]

Day.

1. .............

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

2.33

2.28

2.30

Day.

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19..............

20..............

Nov.

2.28

Dec.

2.29

2.25

Day.

21..............

22. .............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29............ .

30..............

31..............

Nov.

2.25

2.31

2.22

Dec.

2.20

2.25

NOTE. Slight ice noted by observer Nov. 26 and 30 and Dec. 21 and 31.

BUCKEYE CHEEK NEAR BRIDGEPORT, CAL.

This station, which is located at the mouth of the canyon, onehalf mile below Hot Springs, 4^ miles southwest of Bridgeport, in the 

SE. 1NW. i sec. 3, T. 4 N., R. 24 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, 

in the Mono National Forest, was established November 18, 1910.

Eagle Creek enters about 1 mile above and Buckeye Creek joins 

Robinson Creek about 4 miles below the station. This stream is 

largely used for irrigation, but no water is diverted above the station.

The gage is a vertical staff fastened to a large cottonwood tree on 

the left bank about one-half mile above the mouth of the canyon.

Discharge measurements are made by wading near the gage.

The right bank is high, but the river overflows the left bank for a 

short distance at flood stages. The channel, which is composed of 

gravel and bowlders, is rough. The current is swift at medium and 

high stages.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. McGlashan by wading about 25 feet above the gage:

November 18, 1910: Width, 21 feet; area, 20 square feet; gage height, 2.79 feet; 

discharge, 27 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Buckeye Creek at Bridgeport, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Henry W. Atcheson, observer.]

Day.

1. .............

2..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

g

10..............

Nov. Dec.

2

00

2.80

2.90

Day.

11..............

12..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19

20..............

Nov.

9 7Q

Dec.

2.60

2.72

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

2.82

2.85

2.71

Dec.

2.82

........

2.90

NOTE. Nov. 26, thin ice near shore, slush ice flowing; Nov. 30 and Dec. 21, some ice present; Dec. 31, 

heavy slush ice flowing.
THE GEE AT BASIN. 155

CARSON SINK BASIN*

GENERAL FEATURES.

Carson Sink lies in Churchill County, Nev., in the northern part 

of Carson Desert. During the winter and spring it receives a considerable supply of water from both Humboldt and Carson rivers 

and becomes a shallow, playa lake from 20 to 25 miles long and 14 

miles broad. In arid summers the w.ater supply fails and the lake 

evaporates to dryness, and as desiccation becomes more intense the 

salts impregnating the lake beds are brought to the surface and form 

an efflorescence several inches in thickness. In October, 1881, the 

sink was a broad, mud-colored plain, covered in places with a white 

alkaline crust that looked like patches of snow. In 1908 Carson 

Sink was mapped by the topographers of the United States Geological 

Survey as a permanent water body, 12 miles long by 12 miles miles 

broad, receiving; Carson River on the south. The drainage line from 

Humboldt Lake to the sink was marked as an intermittent river.

CARSON RIVER BASIN. 

GENERAL FEATURES.

Carson River- is formed by its East* and West forks, which rise in 

the extreme eastern part of California and flow northeastward to 

their union near the town of Gardnerville, Nev. From this point 

the river flows northward to Empire, Nev., where it turns to the east 

and finally disappears into Carson Sink. It is about 160 miles long 

to the head of the East Fork, and its total fall is about 6,400 feet. 

In the 108 miles below the forks the fall is about 900 feet.

The principal tributaries of the East Carson are Silver King, Wolf, 

Silver, Markleeville, and Leviathan creeks. These streams drain a 

rough, mountainous country, ranging in altitude from 5,000 to 11,000 

 feet above sea level. Good storage sites exist on all the important 

tributaries. The reservoir sites in Pleasant Valley and on Silver 

Creek have been partly developed.

The area drained by the West Carson is not so large as that of the 

East Carson and its altitudes are, in general, lower. By constructing 

a reservoir at Hope Valley a large amount of power may be developed 

in the West Carson Canyon.

The soil throughout the Carson and Dayton valleys is very porous 

and its irrigation requires a large amount of water. The low-water 

flow is sufficient to reclaim only a small portion of the land. The 

irrigated acreage may, however, be greatly increased by constructing 

reservoirs on the headwaters to store the spring floods.

i Called East Carson River above mouth of Markleeville Creek.
156 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

EAST CARSON RIVER NEAR MARKLEEVILLE, CAL.

This station, which is located at Hangman's Bridge, 2 miles east 

of Markleeville, in the NE. i sec. 27, T. 10 N., R. 20 E., Mount Diablo 

base and meridian, was established November 13, 1910.

Indian Creek enters 100 feet above and Markleeville Creek 1J miles 

below the station. All water diverted above Hangman's Bridge is 

used for power development. The discharge, as measured at this 

station, represents the natural run-off, except that the low-water flow 

during the irrigation season is augmented by a small amount of water 

stored on Silver Creek. Practically the entire low-water flow of the 

East and West Carson is used for the irrigation of Carson Valley.

The gage is a vertical staff bolted to the solid rock on the right 

bank 75 feet below the bridge.

At low and medium stages discharge measurements are made by 

wading; high-stage measurements are made from a car and cable 

about 3 miles above the gage.

The channel is composed of gravel and small bowlders and appears 

permanent. Both banks are high and will not overflow.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. McGlashan by wading about 150 feet below Hangmans Bridge:

October 11,1910. Width, 47 feet; area, 59 square feet; gage height, 1 2.59 feet; discharge, 59 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of East Carson River near Markleeville, Col., for 1910.

[EL. W. Jones, observer.]

Day.

1. .............

2..............

3.............. 

4..............

5..............

6..............

7. .............

a..............

9...............

10..............

Nov.

........

Dec.

2.55

2.58

3.18 

2.60

2.50

2.70

2.72

2.74

2.75

2.86

Day.

H.. ............

if::::::::::::::

14..............

151.............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19..............

20..............

Nov.

2.60 

2.62 

2.60

2.58 

2.58 

2.61 

2.30 

2.42

Dec.

2.90

2.80

2.70 

2.51 

2.50

2.45 

2.51 

2.47 

2.60 

2.82

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

2.60 

2.60, 

2.61 

2.67

2 fi9

2.40 

2.55 

2.53 

2.55 

2.50

Dee.

2.5l 

2.56 

2.60 

2.64

2.47 

2.60 

2.40 

2.40 

2.30 

2.30

NOTE. Nov. 20, mush ice running; Nov. 26, Ice at gage; Dec. 3, almost continuous rain 18 hours previous 

to reading of gage; Dec. 5,14,17, mush ice running; Dec. 26, ice at gage.

EAST FORK OF CARSON RIVER NEAR OARDNERVILLE, NEV.

This station, which is located at Horseshoe Bend, in the NW. J sec. 

13, T. 11 N., R. 20 E., about 9 miles south of Gardnerville, Nev., was 

established October 17, 1900, at Rodenbah's ranch, about 5 miles 

southeast of Gardnerville, was removed to the present site (3 miles

i Gage height determined Nov. 13 from reference point.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 157

above the old station) on March 27, 1908, and was abandoned 

December 26, 1910. It was below all tributaries and above all 

diversion ditches. 

The station was equipped with an inclined staff gage and a cable 

and car from which discharge measurements were made.

The relation between gage height and discharge was probably not 

affected by ice during 1910.

The section is permanent, conditions are favorable, and results 

are good.

This station was maintained by the United States 'Reclamation 

Service.

Discharge measurements made by Stone & Webster Engineering 

Corporation have been furnished to the United States Geological 

Survey.

Discharge measurements of East Fork of Carson River near Gardnerville, Nev., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 29..

Apr. 26. .

21..

July 19..

26..

Sept. 28.

Dec. 12..

Hydrographer.

.....do.........................................................

.....do.........................................................

.....do.........................................................

.....do.........................................................

D. S. Stuver ..................................................

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

105

283

185

135

110

69

64

65

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.20

4.93

3.92

3.31

3.10

2.71

2.50

2.68

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

385

1,460

850

504

370

184

89

154

Daily gage height, in feet, of East Fork of Carson River near Gardnerville, Nev., for 1910.

[H. M. Everett, observer.]

Day.

!.........>.....

2...............

3...............

4...............

6...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9............... 

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16..............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20..............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24. ..............

25...............

26............... 

27...............

28. ..............

29...............

30..............

31...............

Jan.

3.0

3.0

, 2.8

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7 

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

3.5

3.7

2.8

2.7

2.7 

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.8

Feb.

0 0

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8 

2.8

2 0

2.9

2.7

2.7

2

*7

2 7

2.7

2.7

2 7

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2

0

2.S 

2.8

3.5

Mar.

3

0

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4 

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.6

3.4

3.4

3.4

4.3

4.5

4.2

3.9

3.8

3.5

3.3

3.2

3.2 

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.3

Apr.

3 q

3.3

3.3

4.0

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.2

4.0

4.1

3.7

^ o

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.5

4.7

4.8

5.0

4.6

4.7

4.7

4.9

5.0

5.1 

5.2

5.1

4.5

4.3

May.

4 1

4.1

4.0

4.0

3.7

3 Q

4.3

4.6

5.0 

5.5

4.8

4.6

A K

4.5

4.7

4 6

1 O

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.6

4.8

4 O

5.6

4 %

4.6

4 O

A o

4 Q

5.0

5.1

June.

5.1

4.9

4.6

4.4

4.1

4.3

4.0

3.9

3.9

3.7

3.8

3.9

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3 

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.2

July.

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.0

3.0

3.0 

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.7

3.25

3.0

3.25

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.8

2.75

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.6

Aug.

2.6

2.55

2.5

2

K

2.5

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45 

2.45

2.45

2.45

9 At,

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2 dj?

2.46

2.45

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Sept.

2

E

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.55

2.6

2.6

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Oct.

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Nov.

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.S

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5 

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

Dec.

o ee

2.55

2.9

2.9

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.6 

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55
158*

SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge in second-feet of East Fork of Carson River near Gardnerville, Nev.,

for 1910.

Pay.

1.... ...........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

9...............

10. ..............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14.........--.-..

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

10

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

290

290

200

160

160

160

160

160

JL60

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

160

546

660

200

160

160

160

160

160

200

200

Feb.

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

245

160

160

160

160

160

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

546

Mar.

390

390

390

390

546

493

493

493

493

493

493

600

493

493

493

1,030

960

720

440

390

390.

390

390

i 

Apr.

440

440

440

493

840

1,030

1,170

960

Qflrt

660

780

1,170

1,310

1,380

1,540

1,310

1,460

1,540

1,620

1,620

1,170

1 

' 030

May.

900

900

840

840

660

780

1,030

1,240

1,540

1,940

1,380

1,240

1,170

1,170

1,310

1,240

780

1,170

1,170

1,170

1,240

1,380

2,020

1,170

1,240

1,460

1,460

1,460

1,540

June.

1, 620

1,460

1,240

1,100

900

1,030

840

780

780

660

720

780

720

720

660

600

600

546

493

440

440

440

440

440

390

390

July.

390

340

340

340

340

340

290

290

290

245

245

245

200

200

160

160

160

415

415

290

245

245

200

180

160

160

160

123

123

Aug.

123

106

90

90

90

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

75

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

Sept.

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

106

123

123

106

106

106

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

_Oct.

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

Nov.

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

90

106

106

106

106

Dec.

106

106

245

245

200

160

160

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

123

106

106

106

106

106

106

on

90

90

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well defined for all stages. Discharge Dec. 27-31 estimated.

Monthly discharge of East Fork of Carson River near Gardnerville, Nev., for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 361 square miles.]

 Month.

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

660 

546 

1,170 

1,700 

2,020 

1,620 

415 

123 

123 

90 

106 

245

2,020

Minimum.

160 

160 

390 

440 

660 

390 

123 

75 

90 

90 

90 

o90

75

Mean.

202 

206 

534 

1,070 

1,240 

703 

252 

82.4 

94.3 

90.0 

92.1 

128

392

Per 

square 

mile.

0.560 

.571 

1.48 

2.96 

3.43 

1.95 

.698 

.228 

.261 

.249 

.255 

.355

1.09

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.65 

.59 

1.71 

3.30 

3.95 

2.18 

.80 

.26 

.29 

.29 

.28 

.41

14.71

Total in 

acre-feet.

12,400 

11,400 

32,800 

63,700 

76,200 

41,800 

15,500 

5,070 

5,610 

5,530 

5,480 

7,870

283,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

Estimated.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 159

CARSON EIVEE AND BEUNSWICK MILL POWEE CANAL NEAR EMPIRE,

NEV.

This station, which is located at the county bridge at Brunswick 

Mill, one-fourth mile below the diversion dam of the Brunswick Mill 

Power Co. and 2 miles below Empire, Nev., was originally established 

October 21, 1900, at a point three-fourths of a mile east of Brunswick 

Mill and 2£ miles east of Empire, Nev. The original gage was 

washed out by a flood March 19, 1907. On April 12, 1907, a new 

gage was installed on the crest of the diversion dam of the Brunswick 

Mill canal, 1^ miles below Empire and 6 miles east of Carson City, 

Nev. Only one measurement was referred to this gage, and elevation of the gage datum was not referred to the crest of the dam, 

therefore the daily discharge can not be computed from this time until 

June 7, 1907, when a new gage was installed at the present site.

An inclined gage is located under the bridge. All gage heights 

since June 7, 1907, refer to the same datum.

Discharge measurements are made from a car and cable located 

just above the highway bridge.

The power canal of the mill has diverted water past the gage on 

the river since April 12, 1907, so its discharge must be added to give 

the total. As records have been kept on the canal only since April 

13, 1908, the total flow of the river prior to that time can be estimated 

only approximately. The power is now used to pump water for 

irrigation, although formerly it was used to run a stamp mill. The 

station on the canal is at the bridge crossing the canal directly opposite the cable in the river.

The records at this point show the discharge of the river below the 

Gardnerville Valley and above the Dayton Valley, and are of value 

to the United States Reclamation Service in connection with the 

Truckee-Carson project and to the State engineer of Nevada in the 

adjustment of water rights.

The relation between gage height and discharge is at times affected 

by ice, but was probably not so affected during the winter of 1910.

Good results have been obtained at the station- on the river, but 

the gage in the canal is within the influence of backwater from the mill 

and is not always an index of the discharge. Determinations of discharge for the canal are therefore only approximate. 

, This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

 Reclamation Service.
160 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Discharge measurements of Carson River near Empire, Nev., for 1910.

Date.

Mar. 30

Dec. 13

Hydrographer.

F. C. Schafer..............................................

Width

Feet. 

121

24

116

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

412

36

235

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

5.10

2.72

4.14

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

563

26

253

o Made by wading 100 feet below dam.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Carson River near Empire, Nev., for 1910. 

[John Lloyd and D. I. Patterson, observers.]

Day.

1...............

2.. .............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

5.7

5.6

5.0

4.0

3.6

4.2

4.9

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.3

4.0

4.0

4.3

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.6

4.9

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.9

4.9

4.9

Feb.

4.9

4.8

4.6

4.4

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.4

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.7

4.9 f; o

5.8

5.4

5.0

5.0

5.3

5.5

5.3

5.2

5.1

5.2

5.4

5.2

4.9

4.9

Mar.

5.1

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.4

5.4

5.3

C 0

5.3

5.5

G.O

6.2

5.9

5.6

5.5

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.0

5.0

Apr.

5.0

5.1

5.2

6

0

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.6 f; o

5.9

5.9

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.5

5.6

5.9

6.1

6.3

6 4

6.2

6 9

6.3

6.3

6.4

6.5

6.6

6.7

6.4

May.

6.0

5.9

5.8

5.8

5.6

5.5

5.4

5.5

5.7

6.2

6.4

6.3

6.2

6.1

6.1

6.2

6.1

5.9

5.9

C Q

C Q

5.9

6.0

6.1

6 2

6.1

6.0

6.1

6.1.

6.2

fi 9

June.

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.7

5.6

5.4

5.3

5.1

4.9

4.9

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.8

4.7

4.7

4.7

4.6

4.5

4.4

4.3

4.2

4.2

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.2

3.9

3.9

July.

3.8

3.7

3.6

' 3.6

3.5

3.4

3.2

3.2

3.1

3.2

3.1

3.1

2 9

2 Q

2.9

2.9

2

O

2.8

3.6

3.8

4.3

4.0

3.6

3 A

3 A

3.2

3.1

3 A

3.0

2.9

3.0

Aug.

3.0

2.9

2.8

2.9

2

O

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.5

.2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

9 <*

9 1

2.3

2

Q

2.3

2

Q

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

Sept.

2.3

2.3

2.3

9 **

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2

K

2.4

0 A

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Oct.

2.5

2.5

2,5

2.5

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.8

2.9

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.9

3.0

3.0 <* 1

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.2

Nov.

3.2

3.0

3.1

^ 1

3.1

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.3

3.5

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.4

3 A

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

Dec.

3.5

3.6

3.7

3 Q

4.1

4.0

3.9

3.8

3.9

3.9

4.0

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.4

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.1

3.0

3.2

3.3

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Carson River near Empire, Nev., for 191-0.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12................

13...............

14...............

15...............

 Jan.

864

805

521

219

134

268

482

320

320

320

293

219

219

293

293

Feb.'

482

445

379

320

268

268

268

320

379

348

348

411

489

985

924

Mar.

563

606

606

606

651

651

651

651

606

651

651

651

651

699

699

Apr.

521

563

606

606

606

651

699

7cn

80S

985

985

985

805

805

805

May.

1,050

985

924

924

805

699

7KT»

864

1 190

1 ^4n

1 260

l'l90

M20

1.120

June.

1,050

1,050

1,050

864

805

651

CCQ

J5J9

482

521

eoi

AAK

411

July.

174

153

134

134

116

QQ

70

70

CO

70

SIS

68

39

QQ

39

Aug.

48

39

31

39

31

31

24

24

18.5

18.5

14

14

14

14

14

Sept.

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

10.5

Oct.

14

14

14

14

18.5

18.5

18.5

18.5

24

24

9J.

24

^1

31

39

Nov.

70

48

58

58

sis

39

48

48

58

70

70

70

84

116

134

Doc.

116

196

243

219

IDA

174

196

91 0

243

243

91 Q

219
THE GREAT BASIN. 161 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Carson River near Empire, Nev., for 1910 Continued.

Day.

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31..............

Jan.

320

348

293

293

293

320

320

320

379

482

°.7Q

*>AQ

348

AS?)

-1S9

4£9

Feb.

fiQQ

521

521

651

750

651

606

563

606

699

606

AOn

482

Mar.

651

606

651

750

1,050

1,190

985

. 805

750

699

651

661

606

606

521

521

Apr.

750

805

985

1,120

1 9fiO

1,340

1,190

1 190

1 9fiO

1,260

1 340

l)420

1,500

1,580

1 ' 340

May.

1 190

l)l20

985

QSf>

985

985

985

1,050

1,120 i ion

1,120

1,050

1,120

1,120

1,190

1,190

June.

411

411

379

348

320

293

268

268

OJQ

91 Q

91 Q

91 Q

268

196

July.

3911

11

174

293

219

134

QQ

OQ

70e-o

48

48

TO

48

Aug.

10.5

10.5

10.5

10.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

Sept.

14

18.5

14

14

14

14

14

14

10.5

10.5

14

14

14

14

14

Oct.

OQ

48

48

48

39

48

48

68

70

58

58e-o

68

58

58

70

Nov.

134

116

116

OQ

OQ

99

99QQ'

99

99

116

116

116

116

Dec.

196

IQfi

DQ

84

QQ

116

116

QQ

116

116

99

58

48

70

84

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve, fairly well defined below 1,200 secondfeet. Discharge of the power canal should be added to that of the river station to ascertain total discharge 

of river.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Brunswick Mill power canal near Empire, Nev., for 1910.

[D. I. Patterson, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

10. ..............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

1<S

16...............

17...............

18...............

10

20... .............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

97

28...............

29...............

30...............

11

Jan.

3.0

9 Q

2 9

3 n

3.0

3 A

3.0

3.0

3

(\ 3.'0

3.0

3.2

3.6

3.0

9 7

2.7

2.7

9 7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.7

2 7

2.7

9 &

2.8

2

0

Feb.

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.8

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3 n

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

Mar.

q n

3.0

3

f\

3.0

3.0

3 n

3.0

^ n

q n

3 n

3

n

3.0

3 n

3.0

^ n

^ n

3 n

3.0

3.2

3.2

i n

3.0

^ n

q n

3.0

3 n

^ n

q n

Apr.

q n

3.0

3

f\

q n

3.0

i n

3.1

3.2

3.3

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.8

3.8

3.8

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4 0

4.0

4.1

4.1

4.0

May.

4.0

4.0

3 O

°. Q

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

q Q

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4. 0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

June.

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.2

July.

3.6

3.9

3.7 i d.

3.0

3.0

2.8

Aug. Sept. Oct.

1.7

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.9

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

Nov.

2.9

2 0

2.3

2.4

2 7

2.2

2.2

2.4

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.6

2.8

2.9

3.0

3. Of

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.1

Dec.

NOTE. No water running in canal June 26 to July 19, July 27 to Sept. 24, and Nov. 14 to 18.

NOTE. Relation of gage heights to discharge affected by backwater caused by the closing of gates about 

800 feet below the gage; records therefore afford merely an approximate index of true values. Gage heights 

from Jan. 1 to June 17 probably a fairly accurate index of discharge.

Gage readings discontinued after Nov. 26.

43926° WSP 290 12 11
162 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Brunswick Mill power canal near Empire, Nev., for

1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

82

78

78

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

88

102

82

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

72

75

72

72

72

75

75

75

Feb.

75

75

72

RO

OQ

69

ftQ

CQ

69

CQ

69

RO

75

82

82

82

82

82

82

. 82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

Mar.

82

82

S9

82

fi9

82

89

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

88

92

88

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

82

Apr.

82

82

82

82

82

82

85

88

92

116

116

116

102

102

102

102

109

109

109

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

120

120

116

May.

116

116

112

112

ina

109

ina

109

113

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

116

June.

116

116

116

112

119

112

109

109

109

109

109

109

109

105

102

102

102

QQ v

99

96

96

88

88

88

88

0

0

0

0

0

July.

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

102

112

105

95

82

82

75

0

9

0

0

Aug.

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Sept.

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Oct.

41

fiO

72

72

72

72

75

75

75

69

75

75

78

82

82

78

78

78

78

78

78

NOT.

78

50

59

62

72

56

^fi

62

62

66

66

66

69

0

0

0

0

0

75

78

82

82

82

82

82

85

Dec.

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a rating curve based on discharge Jjaeasurements made during 

1909, which are affected by backwater. The figures are subject to large error and should be used with 

caution. No water flowing in canal June 26 to July 19, July 27 to Sept. 24, and Nov. 14 to .18. Discharge 

estimated Sept. 25 to Oct. 10 and Nov. 27 to Dec. 31. (See monthly discharge table.)

Monthly discharge of Carson River and Brunswick Mill power canal near Empire, Nev.,

for 1910.

[Drainage area, 988 square miles.]

Month.

April..................

July...................

The year. .......

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

864 

985 

1,190 

1,580 

1,340 

1,050 

293 

48 

18.5 

70 

134 

243

1,580

Minimum.

134 

268 

521 

521 

699 

196 

31 

7.5 

7.5 

14 

39 

48

7.5

Mean.

370

517 

687 

984 

1,040 

479 

92.7 

16.3 

10.8 

38.4 

88.9 

153

372

Power 

canal, 

mean.

77.5

76.7 

82.7 

104 

115 

86.7 

21.1 

0.0 

3.00 

54.9 

60.4 

86.1

63.9

Total 

mean.

448 

594 

770 

1,090 

1.160 

566 

114 

16.3 

13.8 

93.3 

149 

239

436

Per 

square 

mile.

a 453 

.601 

.779 

1.10 

1.17 

.572 

.115 

.016 

.014 

.094 

' .151 

.242

.441

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

a 52

.63 

.90 

L23 

1.35 

.64 

.13 

.02 

.02 

..11 

.17 

.28

6.00

Total in 

in acrefeet.

27,500 

33,000 

47,300 

64,900 

71,300 

33,700 

7,010 

1,000 

821 

5,740 

8,870 

14,700

316,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

B. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

C.

NOTE. Totals represent combined discharge of river and power canal. The canal records should be considered approximate, but the records of the river are reliable. The total run-off at the river station is 

269,000 acre-feet; that of the power canal is 47,000 acre-feet.

Discharge of power canal Sept. 25-30, estimated at 15 second-feet; Oct. 1-10, estimated at 15 secondfeet; Nov. 27-30, estimated at 85 second-feet.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 163

CAESON RIVER NEAR HAZEN, NET.

This station, which is located about 8 miles south of Hazen and 

about 1,500 feet above Truckee canal chute, in the SE. J sec. 33 T. 

19 N., R. 26 E., was established January 12, 1908, and abandoned 

December 5, 1910.

The Lahontan dam, under construction at this point by the 

United States Reclamation Service, will impound about 300,000 

acre-feet of water and conserve the flood waters of the Carson and 

also the water delivered by the Truckee canal.

To avoid the effect of backwater from the canal chute the gage 

was moved upstream on April 28, 1908. Gage heights prior to that 

time are of no value and have not been published.

Discharge measurements are made by wading and from the cable, 

which is about 1,500 feet upstream from the chute at the end of the 

canal. An inclined gage is located on the left bank just below the 

cable.

The plotting of the discharge measurements indicates some shift 

in the channel. A fairly well-defined discharge rating curve has 

been developed, however. The 1908 gage heights are given in 

Water-Supply Paper 250, page 128.

This station was maintained by the United States Reclamation 

Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by wading by 

F. C. Schafer:

August 23, 1910: Width, 8 feet; gage height, 1.35 feet; discharge, 1.1 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Carson River near Hazen, Nev.,for 1910.

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6............... 

7...............

8...............

9............... 

10...............

11...............

12................

13............... 

14.....1......... 

15...............

16...............

17...............

18............... 

19............... 

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

Jan.

3.25

3.5

3.6

3.3

3.3

3.6 

3.95

4.2

4.3

4.15

3.95

4.8

3.85 

3.6 

3.55

3.25

3.5

3.55 

3.5 

3.5

3.2

3.05

3.15

3.25

3.5

Feb.

3.4

3.65

3.7

3.5

3.65

3.5 

3.45

3.4

3.05 

3.25

3.25

3.3

3.6 

3.75 

4.1

4.15

3.8

3.7 

3.55 

3.75

3.75

3.75

3.6

3.6

3.55

Mar.

3.45

3.45

3.55

3.6

3.55

3.6 

3.65

3.6

3.55 

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6 

3.65 

3.7

3.7

3.65

3.6 

3.6 

3.7

4.0

4.25

4.0

3.85

3.8

Apr.

3.45

3.45

3.5

3.55

3.55 

3.6

3.65

3.65 

3.75

3.9

3.95

3.95 

3.75 

3.75

3.8

3.7

3.75 

3.9 

4.1

4.25

4.35

4.15

4.2

4.3

May.

4.35

4.1

4.0

3.9

3.85

3.8 

3.65

3.6

3.6 

3.75

4.15

4.3

4.2 

4.1 

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.2 

3.95 

3.95

3.95

3.9

3.9

3.95

4.05

June.

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.8 

3.6

3.5

3.4 

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3 

3.3 

3.15

3.15

3.15

3.1 

3.05 

.3.05

3.0

2.95

2.9

2.85

2.75

July.

2.6

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.35 

2.35

2.35

2.3 

2.2

2.15

2.1

2.0 

2.0 

1.95

1.9

1.85

1.8 

1.75 

1.75

1.75

1.75

2.4

2.35

2.25

Aug.

1.9

1.85

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.75 

1.7

1.7

1.7 

1.65

1.'65

1.55

1.55 

1.45 

1.4

1.4

1.35

1.35 

1.35 

1.35

Sept.

.......

.......

.......

-- - 

Oct.

1.65 

1.7

1.7

1.75 

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.8

1.85 

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9 

1.95 

2.0

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.1

2.1

Nov.

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15 

2.15

2.2

2.2

2.2 

2.25 

2.25

2.3

2.3

2.35 

2.3 

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

Dec.

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.42

2.45

......

......

-"- "

......
164 STJBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Carson River near Hazen, Nev., for 1910 Continued.

Day.

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.45

3.6

3.4

3.3

3.4

3.4

Feb.

3.7

,3.65

3.45

Mar.

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.55

3.5

3.5

Apr.

d n

4.3 "4 4'

4.55

4 65

May.

4 1

4.15

4.05

4.1

4 1

4.1

June.

2.7

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

July.

2.15

2.15

2.1

2.05

1.95

1.9

Aug. Sept. Oct.

2.1

2 1

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.1

Nov.

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

Dec.

NOTE. The river was dry from Aug. 21 to Oct. 5.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Carson River near Hazen, Nev., for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7.. ...... ...1. ..

8.. .............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12............... 1<?

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26. ..............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

460

610

680

490

490

680

QAf)

1,150

1,240

1,100

940

1,690

860

680

645

460

610

645

610

610

430

355

405

460

610

580

610

550

490

550

550

Feb.

550

715

750

610

715

610

580

550

355

460

460

<mn

680

785

1,060

1,100

750

645

785

785

785

680

680

645

750

715

580

Mar.

580

580

645

680

645

680

715

680

645

fifirt

680

680

680

715

7Kft

750

715

680

680

750

980

1,200

980

860

820

750

750

680

645

610

610

Apr.

580

580

610

610

645

645

680

715

715

785

900

940

940

785

785

820

750

785

900

1 060

1,200

1,280

1,100

1,150

1 240

1,240

1,240

1,330

1,460

1,560

May.

1,280

1 060

980

900

860

820

715

680

680

785

1,100

1,240

1,150

1 060

1,060

1,060

1,150

1,150

940

940

940

900

900

940

1,020

1,060

1,100

1,020

1,060

1,060

1 ' 060

June.

1,060

1,060

980

980

900

820

680

610

550

4Qfl

ion

490

490

490

405

405

405

380

355

355

330

310

290

270

230

210

192

192

192

192

July.

175

145

120

120

120

IflQ

109

109

98

78

69

60

45

45

39

33

28

24

20

20

20

20

120

109

88

69

69

60

52

39

33

Aug.

33

28

24

24

20

" 20

17

17

17

14

14

8

4

2

2

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Sept.

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Oct.

0

0

0

0

0

14

17

17

20

20

20

20

24

28

33

33

33

33

39

45

52

52

52

60

60

60

60

60

60

69

60

Nov.

60

60

60

60

69

fiO

69

69

69

fiO

78

78

78

88

88

98

98

109

98

98

98

98

98

98

98

98

98

98

98

98

Dec.

98

98

120

125

132

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a well-defined discharge rating curve.

Monthly discharge of Carson River near Hazen, Nev., for 1910.

Month.

*

January. ..... ...

February. .........................................

May...............................................

July...............................................

November. ............................'.. .....

Dec. 1-5............................................

The period. . ................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,690 

1,100 

1,MO 

1,560 

1,280 

1,060 

175 

33 

0 

69 

109 

132

Mtnhntun,

355 

355 

580 

580 

680 

192 

20 

0 

0 

0 

60 

98

Mean.

683 

682 

726 

934 

989 

493 

72.4 

8.26 

0 

33.6 

84.8 

115

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

42,000 

37,900 

44.600 

55,600 

60,800 

29,300 

4,450 

508 

0 

2,070 

5,050 

1,140

283,000

Accuracy.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B.

B. 

A.

A.
THE GEBAT BASIK. 165

SILVEE CEEEK NEAE MAEKLEEVtLLE, CAL.

Silver Creek is a tributary to East Carson Kiver.

The gaging station, which is located in the SE. £ sec. 14, T. 9 N., 

K. 20 E., Mount Diablo base and meridian, in the Mono National 

Forest, at Silver Creek (an abandoned post office), 10 miles above 

Markleeville and If miles above the mouth of the river, was established November 12, 1910. (

No water is diverted from this stream. Storage has been developed 

at the Upper and Lower Kinney lakes and Kinney Meadows by the 

Alpine Land & Reservoir Co.

The gage is a vertical staff fastened to a jumper tree on the right 

bank 75 feet below the bridge.

Discharge measurements are made from the footbridge.

The channel at the gage contains large bowlders and appears permanent. Both banks are high and will not overflow.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. McGlashanby wading 20 feet above bridge:

November 12, 1910: Width, 12 feet; area, 5.3 square feet> gage height, 2.59 feet; 

discharge, 7 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Silver Creek near Markleeville, Col., for 1910. 

[H. W. Jones, observer.]

Day.

1. .............

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

2.85

2.87

Day.

11..'............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17.............. 

18..............

19..............

20..............

Nov.

2.60

........

Dec.

2.81

2.95

2.80

2.88

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27.............. 

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

........

Dec.

2.80

2.03

2.01

MAEKLEEVTLLE CEEEK AT MAEKLEEVILLE, CAL.

Markleeville Creek is formed by the union of Pleasant and Hot 

Springs creeks and flows northeastward to East Fork of Carson 

River three-fourths of a mile above the station.

The gaging station, which is located at the highway bridge at 

Markleeville, in the SE. \ sec. 21, T. 10 N., R. 20 E., Mount Diablo 

base and meridian, was established November 11, 1910.

Two ditches divert water from Hot Springs Creek. The upper one, 

.which is small, irrigates the Hot Springs ranch; the lower, known as 

the Town ditch, was built in the early days to furnish water for domes-
166 STTBFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

tic use at Markleeville, then a large mining camp. Later this ditch 

was rebuilt and extended so as to irrigate land below the town.

The gage is a vertical staff on the left abutment of the highway 

bridge.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge.

The channel is composed of gravel and bowlders. The banks are 

high and not subject to overflow.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. D. McGlashan 

by wading 50 feet below highway bridge:

October 11, 1910: Width, 18 feet; area, 10 square feet; gage height, 1 1.64 feet; discharge, 5.3 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Markleeville Creek at Markleeville, Cal.,for 1910. 

[H.. W. Jones, observer.]

Day.

1..............

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

1.81

1.83

2.70

2.10

1.91

1.97

2.03

2.06

2.11

2.22

Day.

n. .............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

is

19

20..............

Nov.

1.64

1.70

1.70

1.70

1.70

1.66

1.63

1.68

1.62

1.60

Dec.

2.41

2.28

2.21

2.06

2.20

2.09

1.98

2.25

2.33

2.01

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

1.59

1.62

1.63

1.86

1.86

1.65

1.93

1.83

1.81

1.81

Dec.

2.02

2.07

2.14

1.99

2.05

2.32

2.30

2.35

2.01

2.10

PLEASANT VALLEY CREEK AT MARKLEEVILLE,, CAL.

Pleasant Valley Creek, a tributary of Markleeville Creek, rises in 

Alpine County, Cal., on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada, near the 

summit of the divide separating Carson River waters from those of 

the Mokelumne. Its course is northeastward to Hot Springs Creek, 

with which it unites to form Markleeville Creek.

The gaging station, which is located just above the footbridge 600 

feet above the mouth of the creek, 'and about three-fourths mile 

southwest of Markleeville, in the NW. | sec. 28, T. 10 N., R. 20 E., 

mount Diablo base and meridian, was established November 11, 

1910.

Three irrigation ditches divert water from this stream. Two of 

these ditches irrigate about 300 acres of land and the return water 

enters the creek above the gage; the third heads about half a mile 

above the mouth and was originally constructed for use in placer 

mining along the East Carson River below Hangman's Bridge but 

is now used for irrigation near the mouth of Markleeville Creek.

1 Water surface referenced and gage height deduced later.
THE GREAT BASIN. 167

Storage reservoirs are partly developed by the Alpine Land & 

Reservoir Co. at upper and lower Sunset Lakes, Tamarack Lake, 

Summit Lake, Raymond Lake, and Wet Meadows.

The gage is a vertical staff fastened to a cottonwood tree on the left 

bank, 25 feet above the footbridge.

At low and medium stages discharge measurements are made by 

wading; high-stage measurements are made from the footbridge.

A riffle, composed of large bowlders, is jus't below the gage and acts 

as a permanent control. The stream is rapid and the bed is rough.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Forest Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by H. 1). McGlashan by wading 150 feet above mouth:

November 11, 1910: Width, 14 feet; area, 8.4 square feet; gage height, 2.91 feet; 

discharge, 4.5 second feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Pleasant Valley Creek at Markleeville, CaL, for 1910.

[H. W. Jones, observer.] ;

Day.

1.. ............

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7.. .............

8..............

9..............

10..............

Nov. Dec.

3.04

3.04

3.20

3.10

2.98 

3.07

3.10

3.12

3.04

3.18

Day.

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19..............

20..............

Nov.

2.91

2.91

2.93

2.93

2.92

2.94

2.92

2.90

Dec.'

3.30

3.23

3.19

3.10

3.11 

3.12

3.10

3.08

3.10

3.10

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25.............. 

26..............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

31..............

Nov.

2.90

2.91

2.92

3.00

2.97 

2.93

2.91

3.04

3.04

3.04

Dec.

3.12

3.10

3.07

3.10

3.05

3.08

3.02

3.01

3.01

3.01

WEST FOEK OF CAESON EIVEE AT WOODFOKDS, CAL.

West Fork of Carson River rises in Alpine County, CaL, on the 

eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, heading well up toward the summit of the divide that separates Great Basin waters from those flow-j 

ing through the Sacramento to the Pacific Ocean. It flows in a 

general northerly course and unites with East Fork in Douglas 

County, Nev.

The gaging station was originally established October 18, 1900,' 

about one-half mile above the post office at Woodfords, CaL, and 200 

feet from the main road between Woodfords and Blue Lake. Meas-j 

urements were also made near this point in 1890, 1891, and 1892.1, On May 18, 1907, the gage and benchmark were washed out. On 

June 8, 1907, the gage was reestablished near the highway bridge at 

Woodfords, one-half mile below the first location in SE. J sec. 34,' 

T. 11 N., R. 19 E., M. D. M., at a different datum. No change in

» See Thirteenth Ann. Report U. S. Geol. Survey, part III, p. 96.
168 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.

location or datum has since been made. This is known as the bridge 

station.

No tributaries enter below the station. The records corrected for 

diversions show the amount of water available for storage in Hope 

Valley. As the stream is very swift at the bridge, the relation between 

gage height and discharge is probably not affected by ice. The present gage is a vertical staff on the left bank just above the highway 

bridge.

Discharge measurements are made from a car and cable about onehalf mile above the gage.

During August, September, and October, 1910, three canals were 

diverting water between the former station at the cable and the gage' 

at the bridge. A gage was installed one-fourth mile above the cable 

(cable gage) and three-fourths mile above Woodfords on the right 

bank above these diversions, and gage heights and measurements 

obtained by the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation during this 

period. ' These, together with daily discharges and measurements of 

canal diversions, are published below.

Discharge measurements of West Fork of Carson River at Woodfords, Cal., for 1910.

Date.

Mar. 30 July 27<» 

Aug. 10" 25« 

Oct. 11« 

Dec. 12

Hydrographer.

.....do............................................

H. D. McGlashan. ................................

Width.

Feet. 

28

27

Area of 

section.

s'#

22 

32.5

Gage height.

Cable.

Feet.

1.20

.SO

.70

.78

Bridge.

Feet. 

2.25

.42 

1.08

Bischarge.

Sec.jt. 

132 

47 

28 

24 

33 

46

a Measurement made by wading near cable gage above all diversions.

Discharge measurements of canal diversions between cable and bridge gages at Woodfords,

Cal., for 1910.

Date.

1910. 

July 27..................... ............................

Aug. 10.. ...... .......................................

Aug. 13.... ............................................

Aug. 25..... ...........................................

Upper 

canal.

Sec.-ft.

8.7

9.9

8.8

6.3

10.4

Middle 

canal.

Sec.-ft. 

0

.95

0

1.6

.4

Lower 

canal.

Sec.-ft. 

13.5

8.6

9.0

10.8

7.8

Total diversion.

Sec.jt. 

22.2

19.45

17.8

18.7

18.6

NOTE. Measurements made by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
THE GEEAT BASIN, 169

Daily gage height, fyfeet, of West Fork of Carson River at Woodfords, Cal., for 1910.

[Bridge station.] 

[Bernice Merrill, observer.]

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22............... 

23...............

24...............

25...............

26............... 

27............... 

28...............

9Q

30...............

31...............

Jan.

1.6

1.4

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.0

.98

.98

.99

1.0

.9

.96

.9

1.1

1.1

1.6

1.8

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0 

1.0

1.0

.95

.95 

1.0 

1.0 

1.2

1.4

1.5

Feb.

1.6

1.4

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.2

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.2

1.2

1.4

1.6

1 7

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.9

1.9 

1.9

1.95

1.96

1.9 

1.8 

1.8

.......

Mar.

1.9

1.8

1.8

1.7

1.6

1.5

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4' 1.3

1.45

1.5

1.5

1.55

1.55

1.6

1.8

2.3

2.9

3.3 

3.1

2.8

2.9

2.9 

3.0 

3.0 

3.0

3.0

3.1

Apr.

3.1

3.1

3.1

2.9

2.95

2.95

3.0

3.15

3.4

3.55

3.6

3.6

3.65

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.75

3

T<\

3.8

3.8

3.9

3.9 

4.0

3.95

3.9

3.9 

3.8 

3.75

3 7

3.7

May.

3.65

3.6

3.55

3.55

3.5

3.4

3.2

3.5

3.6

3.6

3.7

3.8

3.9

3.8

3.7

3.6

3.4

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.0

2.9 

2.9

2.95

2.8

2.8 

2.8 

2.7 

2.7

2.8

2.95

June.

2.8

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.55

2.35

2.25

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.45/

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.45

2.4 

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.1 

2.1

1.95 

1.8

1.8

July.

1.6

1.6

1.4

1.3

1.35

1.35

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.6

1.8

1.9

2.0

2.3

2.3

2.0

1.8 

1.4

1.3

1.2

1.2 

1.0 

1.1 

1.0

.9

.9

Aug.

0.9

SK

.8

.4

.3

.4

.6

.7

.8

*6

.5

.3

.2 

.......

.8

Sept.

0.9

.85

.2

.0

1.1

1.3

1.2

1.1

.0

.......

.8 

""."7

.8

Oct.

0.8

.0

.3

.4

.52

.65

.0

.......

.......

.9

Nov.

0 q

.9

.85

.85

.7

.7

.7

.7

.9

.9

1.0

1.0

.9

.85

.85

.8

.7

.7

.75 

.8

.8

.8

.8 

.8 

.95 

.95

Dec.

1.8

1.6

1.1

1.1

1 2

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.0

1.0

OK

.96

.8

.8

.9 

.9

1.0

1.0

.96 

.9 

.8 

.8

.8

.8

NOTE. These gage heights represent the quantity of water remaining in the river below the canal 

diversions between the cable and bridge gages. Water was being diverted between these gages prior to August 8 to 13,22 to 28, September 5 to 13, 20 

to 25, October 3 to 12, and 17 to 30.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of West Fork of Carson River at Woodfords, Cal., for 1910.

[Bridge station.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19................

20...............

Jan.

79

62

47

36

36

36

35

35

36

36

31

34

31

41

41

79

97

47

36

36

Feb.

7Q

62

47

36

36

47

41

36

36

36

36

47

47

62

79

88

97

97

97

97

Mar.

107

97

97

88

79

70

62

54

54

54

54

62

66

70

70

74

74

79

97

160

Apr.

321

321

321

273

284

284

296

334

403

446

460

460

474

489

489

489

504

604

519

519

May.

474

460

446

446

431

403

347

431

460

460

489

519

549

519

489

460

403

347

321

321

June.

250

230

210

210

192

192

201

168

152

145

145

160

160

175

175

184

160

160

160

175

July.

70

79

62

54

58

58

62

62

62

54

47

47

54

62

79

97

107

117

160

160

Aug.

31

30

28

27

26

26

26

10

9

8

7

8

10

17

18

20

21

23

24

26

Sept.

31

30

29

28

5

4

2

2

2

2

2

31

36

41

54

47

44

41

35

2

Oct.

26

26

2

2

3

4

5

6

7.

7

10

14

19

20

20

20

2

2

2

2

NOT.

31

31

31

31

28

28

21

31

21

21

31

31

36

36

31

28

28

26

26

21

Dec.

76

97

79

41

41

47

64

54

54

54

54

62

62

47

36

36

34

31

34

26
170 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of West Fork of Carson River at Woodfords, Cat., for

1910 Continued.

Day.

21...............

22.. .............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

36

36

36

36

34

34

36

36

47

62

70

Feb.

107

107

107

112

112

107

97

97

Mar.

273

375

321

250

273

273

296

296

296

296

321

Apr.

549

549

580

564

549

549

519

504

489

489

May.

296

273

273

284

250

250

250

230

230

250

284

June.

184

175

160

160

145

130

130

112

97

97

July.

117

97

62

54

47

47

36

41

36

31

31

Aug.

28

17

15

13

7

5

4

3

31

28 ' 26

Sept.

2

2

2

2

2

26

24

' 21

24

26

Oct.

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

31

Nov.

21

24

26

26

26

26

26

34

34

55

Dec.

26

31

31

36

36

34

31

26

26

26

26

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well defined for all stages. 

Discharge interpolated or estimated for days on -which gage was'not read.

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, of West Carson River at Woodfords, Cal, for 1910. 

\

[Cable station.]

Day. 

1...... ...............................................

2.....................................................

3.....................................................

4.....................................................

5.....................................................

6.....................................................

7.....................................................

8.....................................................

9.....................................................

10.....................................................

11.....................................................

12.....................................................

13.....................................................

14.....................................................

15.....................................................

16.....................................................

17.....................................................

18.....................................................

19.....................................................

20.....................................................

21.....................................................

22......................................................

23.....................................................

24.....................................................

25.....................................................

26.....................................................

27........................................'.............

28.....................................................

29.....................................................

30.....................................................

31.....................................................

Ai

£&

1.0

.9

.9

.85

.8

.8

.8

.8

-.8

.7.

.6

.6

.8

.7

.7

.7

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.7

.7

.7

igDischarge.

36

32

32

30

29

28

28

28

28

28

28

24

20

20

28

26

24

24

24

26

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

24

24

24

Se]

«.

0.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

1.2

1.2

1.1

.8

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

pt.

Discharge.

24

24

24

24

26

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

32

39

47

47

42

28

26

26

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

O<

height.

0.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

.75

.75

.75715

.75

.75

.75

.7

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.65

.65

 st.

Discharge.

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

25

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

26

24

26

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

*»

22

22

9O

NOTE. Gage heights and daily discharge furnished by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 171

Monthly discharge of West Fork of Carson River at Woodfordb, Call, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 70 square miles.]

Month.

February. ..................

April.......................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

ItfaTrimnm97 

112 

375 

580 

549 

250 

160 

36 

47 

26 

o55 

97

580

Ttfinlmnm.

31 

36 

54 

273 

230 

97 

31 

20 

24 

22 

21 

26

20

Mean.

44.3 

73.2 

156 

451 

376 

166 

69.6 

27.1 

27.2 

24.5 

28.5 

43.5

124

Per 

'square 

mile.

0.633 

1.05 

2.23 

6.44 

5.37 

2.37 

.994 

.387 

.389 

.350 

.407 

.621

1.77

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.73 

1.09 

2.57 

7.18 

6.19 

2.64 

1.15 

.45 

.43 

.40 

.45 

.72

24.00

Total in 

acre-feet.

2,720 

4,070 

9,590 

26,800 

23,100 

9,880 

4,280 

1,670 

1,620 

1,510 

1,700 

2,670

89,600

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B.

a Estimated.

NOTE. Discharge Aug., Sept., and Oct. computed from daily discharge at the cable. Discharge 

second-feet per square mile and run-off depth in inches probably low during June and July due to diversions above the bridge gage. 

HUMBOLDT RIVER BASIN. 

GENERAL. FEATUBES.

Humboldt River rises in the northeastern part of Nevada and flows 

west and southwest a distance of about 350 miles to Humboldt Lake, 

in the western part of the State. The lake is but an expansion of 

the river that supplies it and is held by an immense gravel bank that 

was thrown completely across the valley by the currents of the lake 

that once occupied the region, at one time 500 feet deep at this 

point. The bank has been cut across by overflow of the lake and the 

breach partly filled by an artificial dam which has greatly increased 

the area of the lake. During the dry season the lake seldom overflows, but in times of excessive flood the waters escape southward to 

the northern part of Carson Desert, where they contribute to the 

water held by Carson Sink.

The entire area drained by the Humboldt is surrounded by high, 

rugged peaks, some of which rise 11,000 feet above the sea. The 

river is anomalous among the streams of the Great Basin in that 

both its source and its terminus are well within the area of interior 

drainage. Its valley is narrow, and its course and that of its tributaries lie in general through a barren region destitute of large trees 

and supporting few shrubs except scattered clusters of willows. 

The valley of the main stream affords the only east-west pass through 

the mountains of Nevada and is followed by the Southern Pacific 

Railroad.
172 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

During thte early spring and summer months the run-off of the North 

and South forks is very heavy because of the melting of the snows at 

the headwaters; as soon as the snow is all gone the rivers are left 

without a source of supply .and their channels gradually fall to a 

minimum discharge.

Several tributaries find« their way into the main river, Rock Creek 

and Reese River entering near Battle Mountain, the North and South 

forks near Elko, and the Little Humboldt near Winnemucca.

Although opportunities for reclamation are many, the cost of the 

necessary work would be very great, owing to the engineering difficulties to be overcome. The basin affords several reservoir sites, 

where the flood waters could be'collected and stored for use during 

the summer months.

Lovelock Valley is considered the most fertile valley in the basin, 

and the entire flow of the river is appropriated for irrigation.

Alfalfa and grass hay are the chief crops; the land is best adapted 

for grazing.

The availability of the stream for power development is small, 

owing to the slight fall. Possibly the best stream for this purpose is 

the South Fork.

HUMBOLDT RIVER NEAR GOLCONDA, NEV.

This station, which is located at the highway bridge 1J miles north 

of the town of Golconda, was established October 24, 1894, discontinued December 31, 1909, and reestablished September 8, 1910.

The station is below the central valley, below Reese River and 

Rock and Keely Creeks, and above all other important tributaries. 

Little Humboldt River enters about 12 miles below. Considerable 

water is diverted above the station, almost the entire low-water flow 

being used for irrigation.

During 1907 the staff gage was fastened to the bridge. The bridge 

and gage were washed out in December, 1907, and from January 1, 

1908, to December 31, 1909, all readings were taken from the original 

inclined staff gage on the left bank, reading 0.1 foot higher than the 

gage on the bridge. A temporary staff gage was installed September 

8, 1910, and on November 5, 1910, this was replaced'by a permanent 

chain gage. The datum of this gage is 1.85 feet lower than the original inclined gage on the left bank.

Discharge measurements are made from the highway bridge or by 

wading.

The relation between gage height and discharge is believed not to 

be materially affected by ice, but information on this point is meager.

As the channel shifts somewhat the records are not of the best, but 

the station nevertheless probably affords more reliable data than are 

furnished by any other station on the Humboldt.
THE GEEAT BASI3ST. 173 

Discharge measurements of Humboldt River near Golconda, Nev., 1910.

Date.

Sept. 8«

Hydrographer.

G.C.Baldwin.............................................

Width.

feet. 

3.5

97 *

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

0,95

In Q

A

Feet. 

61.86

1.82

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

1.38

1.30

<* Wading measurements.

6 Beading on temporary gage reduced to permanent chain gage.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Humboldt River near Golconda, Nev., for 1910. 

[William Duyck, observer.]

Day.

1................

2................

3................

4................

5................

6................

7................

8................

9................

10................

11................

12................

13................

14................

15................

Sept.

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

Oct. Nov.

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.85

1.85

1.85

Dec.

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.85

Day.

16................

17................

18................

19................

20................

21................

22................

23................

24................

25................

26................

27................

28................

29................

30................

31................

Sept.

1.85

1.85

I

CC

1.85

1.85

1.85

1 fi&h

1 ft*

1

OE

1.85

1.85

1.85

i fit

1 5tR

1.85

Oct.

i a>i

1

QR

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

i at

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

Nov.

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1 S

1.8

1

C

1.8

1 8

Dec.

i a

i a

9. n

2.1

2.1

2.1

9. 9.

9 i.

2.5

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.7

NOTE. No ice reported during December, but relation of gage height to discharge was probably affected 

by ice Dec. 16-31.

Monthly discharge of Humboldt River near Golconda, Nev., for 1910.

Month.

Mean discharge in 

second-feet.

1.3

1.3

1.0

1.0

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

77.4

79.9

59.5

61.5

Accuracy.

0.

0.

0.

0.

NOTE. Monthly means estimated.

HUMBOLDT EIVEE NEAE OBEANA, NEV. .

This station, which is located 1£ miles from Oreana railroad station, 

at the highway bridge on the upper road to Lovelock, was established 

January 27,1896, at a point three-fourths mile above the present site, 

at which it was established September 7, 1910. Records at the original station were discontinued December 31, 1909.

Several staff gages with various datums have been in use at this 

station.
174 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Discharge measurements of Humboldt River near Oreana, Nev.,far 1910.

Date.

Sept. 7

Nov. 4 a

Hydrographer.

G.C.Baldwin.............................................

G. H. Canfield.............................................

Width.

Feet. 

38

54

Area of 

sfection.

Syjt.

38

32.5

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.72

3.42

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

24

25.1

« Measured | mile upstream. 

Daily gage height, in feet, of Humboldt River near Oreana, Nev.,for 1910.

Day.

1. ..............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

Sept.

2.7

2.65

2.5

2.5

2.55

2.4

2.4

2.45

2.65

Oct.

2.55

2.65

2.65

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.8

2.8

Nov.

3.35

3.35

3.4

3 d.

3.3

3.3

3.25

3.0

2.9

2.95

3.1

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.1

Dec.

2.85

2.85

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.95

2.95

3.0

3.1

3.15

3.1

3.0

9 Q

2.9

2.95

Day.

16...............

17...............

18...............

19. ...i. .........

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28

29...............

30...............

31...............

Sept.

2.7

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.7

2.65

2.65

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.55

2.55

Oct.

2.8

2.9

2.9

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.15

3.2

3.2

3.25

3.25

3.3

3.3

Nov.

3.0

2.95

2.95

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.85

2.9

2.95

3.0

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.0

3.0

Dec.

2.95

2.8

2.8

2.85

2.9

2.95

2.95

3.1

3.15

3.15

3.1

3.0

2.9

2.95

3.0

3.15

NOTE. Observer reports ice in stream after Dec. 19; relation of gage height to discharge probably affected by ice Dec. 20-31.

Monthly discharge of Humboldt River near Oreana, Nev., for 1910.

Month.

December ................................................................

The period.........................................................

Mean discharge in 

second-feet.

20

25

20

20

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

1.190

1,540

1,190

1,230

Accuracy.

C.

C.

C.

D.

NOTE. Monthly means estimated.

BISHOP CHEEK NEAR WELLS, NEV.

This station, which is located about 1 mile above the Pacific Reclamation Co.'s ranch house, 2 miles below the proposed dam site and 

about ^ mile below the point of diversion for the proposed main 

canal, in the center of sec. 27, T. 29 N., R. 62 E., Mount Diablo base 

and meridian, about 5 miles from Metropolis, Nev., and 10 miles 

from Wells, Nev., was established January 1, 1910, by the Pacific 

Reclamation Co.

Trout Creek enters from the north about 2 miles, and Burnt Creek, 

also from the north, 4£ miles below the weir.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 175

The gage is a nail in the top of a post set level with the crest of the 

20-foot Cipfoletti weir by means of which discharge measurements are 

made. The head on the weir is measured by the foot rule. Moss collects on the crest of the weir and during the past year was not removed. 

The maximum discharge of this creek in 1910 was 176 feet on March 

20. All data for this station have been furnished by the Pacific 

Eeclamation Company.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Bishop Creek near Wells, Nev., for 19tO

Day.

1....... ........

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

g

10...............

11,.-. ............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

2L. ....... .......

22...............

23...............

24...............

25............... 

26...............

27...............

28............... 

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

.......

"6.25"

.26

.26

.25 

.25

.25 

.26 

26

.25 

.25

Feb.

0.25

.24

.24

.24

.23

.24

.24

.24

.24

.24

.25

.25

.25

.25

.24

.23

.23

.24 

.24

.24

.24

.24 

.25

.26 

.27

.......

Mar.

0.31

.32

.36

.40

.44 

.65

.59

.79

.81

.81

Q*>

.96

.93

.98

1.06

1.10

1.01

1.23

1.41

1.90

1.69 

1 i«

1.04

.92

.83 

.96

.87 

.75 

.61

.60 

.61

Apr.

0.60

.60

.61

.62

.60

.60

.65

.71

.66

.67

.64

.57

.54

.52

.50

.49

.50

.49 

.49

.49

.47

.45 

.45

.46 

.46 

.50

.49

May.

0.48

46

.46

.51

.78 

.66

.57

.50

.45

.45

.45

.44

.43

.44

.43

.42

.40

.37

.35

.34 

.33

.31

.30

.30 

.29 

.29

.29

June.

0.28

.28

.27

.27

.26

.26

.26

.25

.25

.25

.24

.24

.23

.23 

.22

.22

.22

.......

.22

July.

0.21

.......

.21

.20

.19

.......

.......

Aug.

0.18

.18

.......

.......

.......

.......

Sept.

0 1Q

.20

.24

.20

.20

.19

.19

.......

Oct.

0 1Q

.20

.20

.20

.23

.20 

""."26"

.20

~".~20'

.20 

.20

Nov.

0.20

.21

.21

.21 

.21

.22

.22

.23

.25

.23

.23

.24 

.25

.28

.25

.23 

.22

.22 

.24 

.25

.24

Dec.

0.24

.23

97

.30

.25 

.25

.25

.25

O7

on

34

97

.27

.25

.24

.24

.24

91

.23 

.22

.21

.21 

.22

.21 

.21 

.21

""26

NOTE. Gage heights represent the head in feet on the weir.
176 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bishop Creek near Wells, Nev.,for 1910..

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8..........*.....

g

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

7.5

8.0

8.0

8.0

8.0

8.0

8.0

8.4

8.4

8.4

8.9

8.9

8.4

8.4

8.4

8.9

8.9

8.4

8 A

Feb.

8.4

7.9

7.9

7.9

7.4

7.6

7.9

7.9

7.9

7.9

7.9

8.4

8.4

8.4

8.4

8.4

7.9

7.4

7.4

7.6

7.9

7.9

7.9

7.9

7.9

8.4

8.9

9.5

Mar.

11.6

12.2

14.5

17.0

19.7

35.3

30.5

47.3

49.1

49.1

59.4

63.3

60.4

65.3

73.5

77.7

68.3

91.9

112.7

176.3

147.9

118.8

71.4

59.4

50.9

63."3

54.6

43.7

32.1

31.3

32.1

Apr.

31.3

31.3

31.7

32.1

32.9

31.3

31.3

31.3

35.3

40.3

36.1

36.9

34.5

29.0

26.7

25.3

23.8

23.4

23.1

23.8

23.1

23.1

23.1

21.7

20.3

20.3

21.0

21.0

23.8

23.1

May.

22.4

21.0

21.0

24.5

46.4

36.1

29.0

23.8

20.3

20.3

20.3

19.7

19.0

19.4

19.7

19.0

18.3

17.0

15.2

13.9

13.4

12.8

12.2

11.6

11.0

11.0

11.0

10.5

10.5

10.5

10.5

June.

10.0

10.0

10.0

10.0

10.0

9.8

9.5

9.5

8.9

8.9

8.9

8.6

8.4

8.4

8.4

7.9

7.9

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

7.0 7.-0

7.0

July.

6.8

6.6

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.8

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

Aug.

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

Sept.

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.8

6.0

7.9

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.8

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.6

Oct.

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.8

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.,5

6.5

7.0

7.4

6.8

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

Nov.

6.0

6.2

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.9

6.9

6.9

7.2

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.6

7.9

8.4

10.0

8.4

7.4

6.9

6.9

- 7.9

8.4

7.9

Dec.

7.9

7.4

9.5

11.0

8.4

8.4

8.4

8.4

9.5

11.0

13.4

9.5

9.5

8.4

7.9

7.9

7.9

7.1

6.5

7.4

6.9

5.6

6.5 6.5

6.5

6.9

6.5

6.5

6.5

6.2

6.0

NOTE. Daily discharge computed by means of Francis weir formula. Discharge interpolated for days 

on which gage was not read.

Monthly discharge of Bishop Creek near Wells, Nev.,for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 125 square miles.]

Month.

March.. ..........................

April.............................

May..............................

July..............................

August. ..........................

November. .......................

December. .......................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

8.9 

9.5 

176.3 

40.3 

46.4 

10.0 

6.8 

5.1 

7.9 

7.4 

10.0 

11.0

176. 3

Minimum.

6.5 

7.4 

11.6 

20.3 

10.5 

7.0 

5.6 

5.1 

5.1 

5.6 

6.0 

5.6

5.1

Mean.

7.80 

8.04 

59.4 

27.7 

18.4 

8.24 

6.02 

5.10 

5.66 

6.09 

7.32 

7.94

14.0

Per 

square 

mile.

0.062 

.064 

.475 

.222 

.147 

.066 

.048 

.041 

.045 .049- 

.059 

.064

.112

Bun-ofl.

Depth in 

inches pn 

drainage 

area.

0.07 

.07 

.55 

.25 

.17 

.07 

.06 

.05 

.05 

.06 

.07 

.07

1.54

Total in 

acre-feet.

480 

447 

3.650 

1,650 

1,130 

490 

370 

314 

337 

374 

436 

488

10,200

NORTH FORK OF HUMBOLDT RIVER NEAR HALLECK, NEV.

This station, which is located one-fourth mile above the mouth 

of North Fork, 2 miles west of Elburz station on the Southern Pacific 

Railroad, and about 6 miles west of Halleck, the nearest post office,
THE GREAT BASIN". 177

was established October 10, 1902, discontinued December 31, 1909 

and reestablished October 1, 1910.

A new gage, set to read the same as the old gage, was installed 

August 5, 1909.

Discharge measurements are made by means of a cable and car.

The relation between gage height and discharge seems to be 

affected by backwater from the main Humboldt. The river freezes 

during the winter, but information as to condition of the ice is 

very meager.

The channel shifts somewhat and the results are therefore only 

approximate.

The following discharge measurement was made by G. H. Canfield:

November 9, 1910: Width, 21 feet; area, 11.5 square feet; gage height, 2.98 feet; 

discharge, 10,0 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of North Fork of Humboldt River near Hailed;, Nev., for 1910.

[F. K. Fowler, observer.]

Day.

1. ..............

2. ..............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

Sept.

2.6

Oct.

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

Nov.

2.9

9 O

2.95

2.95

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.95

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

Dec.

3.25

3.25

3.25

3.25

3.2

3.2

3.25

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.35

Day.

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Sept. Oct.

2.85

2.9

2.85

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.85

2.9

2.9

9 Q

2.9

2.9

9 Q

Nov.

3.0

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.15

3.15

3.2

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.25

3.25

3.25

Dec. t

3.35

3 A

3.4

3.4

3.45

3.45

3.5

3.5

,3.5

NOTE. Observer reports river frozen over Dec. 25; relation of gage height to discharge probably affected 

by ice Dec. 8 to 31.

Monthly discharge of North Fork of Humboldt River near Halhck, Nev., for 1910.

Month.

Mean discharge in 

second-feet.

8

10

8

5

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

476

615

476

307

Accuracy.

C.

C.

C.

D.

NOTE. Monthly means have been estimated.

SOUTH FORK OF HUMBOLDT RIVER NEAR ELKO, NEV.

This station, which is located about 12.miles southwest of Elko, 

Nev., 6 miles above the mouth of the river and above the proposed 

reservoir site of the United States Reclamation Service, was established August 29, 1896, discontinued December 31, 1909, and reestablished September 9, 1910. 

43926° WSP 290 12 12
178 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAKT X.

The gage was removed February 26, 1907, about 1,000 feet upstream; and gage heights since that time bear no determined relation to previous readings.

Discharge measurements are made by means of a cable and car 

or by wading.

The river freezes during two or three months of the winter, the 

ice probably reaching a considerable thickness, but information 

as to winter flow is very meager.

The channel at the station shifts somewhat, but measurements 

define a fair discharge rating curve.

Discharge measurements of South Fork of Sumboldt River near Elko, Nev., for 1910.

Date.

Nov. 8

Hydrographer.

G.£L Baldwin. . ...........................................

G.lLcanneld... ..........................................

Width.

Feet.

17

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft.

7.50

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.0

1.37

Discharge.

See.-ft. 

.0

9 38

'Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, of South Fork of Humboldt River

near Elko, Nev., for 1910.

[James Cowling, observer.]

Day.

1....................................

2....................................

4....................................

5....................................

6....................................

7....................................

10....................................

11....................................

12....................................

13....................................

14....................................

15....................................

16....................................

17....................................

10

1Q

20....................................

91

22....................................

23..........-..--.--.... ........... ...

24....................................

25....................................

26....................................

27....................................

28....................................

29....................................

30....................................

31....................................

September.

height.

1.0

1.0 

1.0 

1.0 

1.2

2.4

1.3

1.2 

1.2 

1.2 

1.2

1.2

1.2 

1.2 

1.2 

1.2

1.2

1.2 

1.4 

- 1.4 

1.4

Discharge.

0 

0

0 

0

0 

4

114

8 

4 

4 

4 

4

4 

4

4 

4

4

4 

4

13 

13 

13

October.

Gage 

height.

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.4 

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

Discharge.

13 

13 

13 

13 

13

13 

13 

13 

13 

13

13 

13 

13 

13 

13

13 

13 

13 

13 

1313' 

13 

13 

13 

13

13 

13 

13 

13 

13 

13

November.

Gage 

height.

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4

1.5 

1.5 

1.5 

1.5 

1.6

1.6 

1.6 

1.5 

1.6 

1.6

1.6

1.6 

1.6 

1.7 

1.65

Discharge.

13 

13 

13 

13 

^ 

13 

13 

13 

13 

13

13 

13 

13 

13 

13

December.

«.

1.55 

1.5 

1.5

1.5 

1.55

1.55 

1.5 

1.6 

1.7 

1.7

1.8 

1.7 

1.6 

1.6

1.75

1 S

1.8

1.8

1.8

1 O

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0 

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0 

2.0

Discharge.

NOTE. Observer reports much ice on Nov. 16; relation of gage height to discharge probably affected by 

ice Nov. 16 to Dec. 31.

Daily discharge determined by a fairly well defined discharge rating curve drawn through low-water 

discharge measurements made during 1909 and 1910.
THE GREAT BASIN. 179 

Monthly discharge of South Fork ofHumboldt River near JElko, Nev.,far 1910.

Month.

September... . .....................................

December <»....'. ...................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

114 

13

Minimum.

0 

13

Mean.

8 

13 

12

8

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

476 

799 

714 

492

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

C. 

D.

a Estimated. 

NOTE. Discharge Sept. 1-8 estimated at 2 second-feet; Nov. 16-30, estimated at 10 second-feet.

PYRAMID AND WINNEMTJCCA LAKE BASINS. 1

GENERAL FEATURES.

Pyramid and Winnemucca lakes occupy two long, narrow basins 

in Washoe and Humboldt counties, Nev., and receive the waters of 

Truckee River, which sends a stream to each lake. The first published aecount of the bifurcation of Truckee River so as to supply two 

lakes is given by King, who says:

At the time of our first visit to this region, in 1867, the river bifurcated; one half 

flowed into Pyramid Lake, and the other through a river 4 or 5 miles long into Winnemucca Lake. At that time the level of Pyramid Lake was 3,890 feet above the sea, 

and of Winnemucca about 80 feet lower. Later, owing to the disturbance of the balance between influx and evaporation already alluded to as expressing itself in Utah 

by the rise and expansion of Great Salt Lake, the basin of Pyramid Lake was filled 

up, and a backwater overflowed the former region of bifurcation, so that now the 

surplus waters go down the channel into Winnemucca Lake, and that basin is rapidly 

filling.

Between 1867, the time of my first visit, and 1871, the time of my last visit, the area 

of Winnemucca Lake had nearly doubled, and it has risen from its old altitude about 

22 feet, Pyramid Lake in the same time having been raised about 9 feet. The outlines 

as given upon our topographical maps are according to the survey of 1867, and form 

interesting data for future comparison.

The differences in elevation between Pyramid and Winnemucca 

lakes as reported by King and determined by Russell in 1882 are as 

follows: In 1867 Pyramid was 80 feet higher than Winnemucca; in 

1872 Pyramid was 67 feet higher than Winnemucca; in 1882 Pyramid 

was 12 feet higher than Winnemucca, as determined by engineer's 

level; in 1890, when the region was surveyed by the topographers of 

the United States Geological Survey, Pyramid was but 5 feet higher 

than Winnemucca. The waters of both lakes are alkaline and 

brackish. . Their shores, like those of all the lakes in the lower portion 

of the Great Basin, are clothed only with scanty growths of desert 

vegetation.

»Abstracted from Eussell, I. C., Geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern 

Nevada: Mon, U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 11,1885, pp. 56-66.
180 SUKFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

In the southern part of Pyramid Lake the water is slightly discolored by multitudes of shining particles that are rendered visible 

when a ray of light is passed through it, the lack of transparency is 

apparently due to the suspended silt brought down by Truckee Elver. 

In the northern part of the lake the water is wonderfully clear, and at 

some distance from the land is deej) blue in color.

The largest islands in Pyramid Lake are Pyramid and Anaho, which 

rise in its southern part near the eastern shore. Anaho Island rises 

520 feet above the water level of 1890, and is surrounded by water 150 

to 300 feet deep. Pyramid Island rises 320 feet above the water level 

of 1890 and the water near its base is 150 to 175 feet deep.

TRUCKEE RIVER BASIN. 

GENERAL FEATUKES.

The Truckee River system comprises the main river and several 

minor tributaries, all having as their chief sources of supply small 

mountain lakes. Truckee River itself is the natural outlet of Lake 

Tahoe, a beautiful mountain lake, 193 square miles in area, lying at 

an elevation of 6,225 feet above gea level, and noted as the largest 

body of fresh water in the United States at so high an altitude. 

Nearly three-fourths of the lake is in California and the rest is in 

Nevada.

Issuing from the northwest side of Lake Tahoe the Truckee flows 

almost due north to the town of Truckee, Cal., where it turns to the 

east. At Wadsworth, Nev., the river again turns north and discharges into Pyramid and Winnemucca lakes. From Lake Tahoe to 

Verdi, Nev., a distance of 35 miles, the country is heavily timbered 

with fir and pine; below Verdi barren wastes alternate with small and 

fertile valleys the Verdi Valley, the Reno or Truckee Valley, and the 

Wadsworth Valley all of which have a rich, productive soil. The 

total length of the Truckee is about 110 miles and its total fall is about 

2,350 feet.

Donner Creek, the natural outlet of Dormer Lake, is the first 

important tributary of the Truckee, which it enters at the town of 

Truckee. Prosser Creek, the second tributary, and the natural outlet 

of several small lakes, enters about 5 miles northeast of Truckee, and 

Little Truckee River, the natural outlet of Webber and Independence 

lakes, comes in at Boca, Cal., about 2 miles farther along. Each of 

these tributaries rises at an elevation of 6,000 feet above sea level, and 

each flows from a lake whose capacity can be enlarged by building a 

dam across its outlet. The region about the lakes is thickly forested 

and receives during the whiter months very heavy snowfall. During 

the season of thaw this snow affords an immense run-off, almost all 

of which could be stored by enlarging the natural lakes.
THE GBEAT BASIN. 181

Three power plants have been installed on the Truckee the Farad 

(Mystic), Fleish, and Washoe plants with an emergency plant 

near Reno, Nev. The plants have an average capacity of about 

2,500 horsepower each and they supply practically all the power used 

by the towns of Verdi, Reno, Carson City, Yerington, Gardner-vile, 

Sparks, and Virginia City, Nev. There are many falls on the headwaters of the small tributaries.

Almost all the minimum flow of the river is appropriated for irriga-s 

tion, but further storage development would make more water available for both irrigation and power.

Within the period covered by the records, 1907 was by far the 

wettest year and 1900 the driest year. The ratio in the two years 

for the state-line station was about 3.4 to 1.

LAKE TAHOE AT TAHOE, CAL.

Records of the height of Lake Tahoe have been kept since 1900 to 

determine the amount of water drawn from storage and the possibility 

of further regulation of the outflow. All gage heights recorded in the 

following table have been referred to a datum 6,220.0 feet above sea 

level, the gage now in use being set at that datum. The gage heights 

for 1907 and 1908 as given in Water-Supply Paper 250, page 102, refer 

to a datum 6,225.5 feet above sea level. The gage is located near 

the outlet in SE. J sec. 6, T. 15 N., R. 17 E., Mount Diablo base and 

meridian.

From 1889 until early in 1904 the floor of the outlet gates of the dam 

had a mean elevation of 6,223.3 feet, and the crest of the spillway at 

its highest point was 6,229.3 feet. Since 1904 the mean elevation of 

the floor of the gates has been 6,223.08, that of the lowest gate 6,223.04, 

and that of the lowest part of the spillway has been 6,229.50.

The following table summarizes the fluctuations of the lake for the 

last 23 years as far as they have been recorded:
182 SUBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Table showing fluctuation of Lake Tahoefrom 1888 to 1910.

Year.

1888................................................

1889................................................

1890................................................

1895................................................

1900................................................

1901................................................

1902................................................

1903................................................

1904................................................

1905................................................

1906................................................

1907................................................

1908................................................

1909................................................

1910................................................

High water.

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

4.90 

4.60 

8.55± 

9.02 

7.00 

8.43 

9.02 

8.90 

10.40 

8.70 

9.87 

11.26 

8.40 

8.88 

8.48

Date.

Sept. 8 

Spring.

July 7 

June 17 

July 27 

June 22 

July 5 

June 22 

June 18 

July 21 

July 14 

Jan. 1 

July 11 

June 2-11

Low water.

&L

Feet.

3.05

7.55 

5.87 

6.10 

6.97 

6.80 

7.10 

6.20 

6.16 

7.80 

6.10 

6.10 

5.80

Date.

October.

oDec. 17 

6 Oct. 17 

Jan. 1 

Dec. 5 

Jan. 21 

Feb. 5 

Dec. 23 

Jan. 5 

Jan. 19 

Dec. 31 

Jan. 1 

Dec. 1-2

Fluctuation.

Feet.

1.55

1.47 

1.17 

2.33 

' 2.05 

2.10 

3.30 

2.50 

3.71 

3.46 

2.28 

2.78 

2.68

o The lake was also low in January. * Lower earlier in year, no record. 

NOTE. Records for 1888 to 1890 were reported by W. H. Hall.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Lake Tahoe at Tahoe, CaL, for 1910. 

[3. U. Haley, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7............... 

8...............

10............... 

11...............

12............... 

13............... 

14............... 

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19............... 

20...............

21...............

22...............

23............... 

24...............

25...............

26............... 

27............... 

28............... 

29...............

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

7.70 

7.72

7.72

7.69

7.65

7.68 

7.67

7.65

7.60 

7.60

7.58 

7.50

7.50

7.50

7.50

7.48

7.48

7.48

7.50

7.70 

7.70 

7.70 

7.70

7.70 

7.67

Feb.

7.65

7.63 

7.60

7.59

7.58

7.56

7.53 

7.52

7.51

7.50

7.50

"7."56" 

7.50

7.50

.......

"7." 45"

7.45

7.45 

7.45 

7.45

.......

Mar.

7.46

7.47 

7 45

7.45

7.45

7.42

7.41 

7.41

7.40

7.39 

7.38

7.38 

7.38 

7.42 

7.40

7.40

7 iO

7 40

.......

7.48

7.56

7.58

"i'ss"

 7.58 

7.58

7.58 

7.58

Apr.

7.58

7.58 

7.58

7.58

7.58

7.60

7.60 

7.62

7 64

7.65 

7.65

7.67 

7.67

7.73

7.78

7.78

7.82 

7.88

7.88

7.88

7.89 

7.89

"~8."66"

May.

.......

8.06

8.06

8.06

8.10 

8.10

.......

8.20 

8.17

8.25

8.25

8.28 

8.30

8.30

8.30

8.30 

8.30

8.33

8.35 

8.36 

8.38 

8.40

8.40 

8.42

June.

8.46

8.48 

8.48

8.48

8.48

8.48

8.48 

8.48

8.48

8.48 

8.48

8.38

8.38

8.38

8.38 

8.38

8.38

8.38

8.38 

8.38

8.38 

8.38

.......

July.

8.30

8.30 

8.26

8.23

8.20

8.20

8.20 

8.18

8.16

8.16 

8.16

8.15 

8.09

8.06

L 8.04

' 8.04 

8.04

8.04

8.04

8.02 

8.00

8.00

7.96

7.94 

7.92 

7.90

7.88 

7.88

Aug.

7.87

7.84 

7.80

7.78

7.76

7.76

7.74 

7.70

7.68

7.67 

7.63

7.60 

7.60 

7.58 

7.56

7.54

7.50

1 AQ

7.42 

7.40

7.40

7.39

7.39 

7.39

7.37

7.35 

7.33 

7.30

7.20

Sept.

"i.'io"

.......

6 QA

"6.~85" 

6.85

"e.'TO"

6.70

6.70

6.65 

6.62

6.60

6.60

6.58

"~6."58"

6.58

Oct.

6.58 "e-'so"

6.50

6.45

6.45 

6.45

.......

6.35 

6.20

"6~20'

6.18

 6.18

6.15 

6.15

6.15

6.15 

6.12 

6.12 

6.11

6.10 

6.08

Nov.

6.08

6.08 

6.08

6.06

6.06

6.05

6.05 

6.05

6 <\A

6.06 

6.04 

6.04 

6.02

6.02

6.02

6.00 

5.90

5.90

5.88

5.88 

5.85

5.85

5.85 

5.85 

5.85 

5.83

5.80

Dec.

5.80 

5.88

5.98

"e.'oo

6.00

6.02

"5." 98 

5.98 

5.98

5.98

5.98

"5." 88

5.89

5.87

5.86 

5.84

5.85

5.85 

5.88 

5.85 

5.82

5.81 

5.81

NOTE. Lake too rough to obtain accurate readings on days for which no gage readings are given.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 183

TRUCKEE EIVEB AT TAHOE, CAL.

This station, which is located at Tahoe, Cal., about one-fourth 

mile below the outlet of Lake Tahoe, in the NW. J sec. 7, T. 15 N., 

R. 17 E., was established July 3, 1895, discontinued February 29, 

1896, and reestablished June 17, 1900, to obtain information needed 

by the United States Reclamation Service in connection with the 

Truckee-Carson project.

A timber dam across the river about 500 feet from the lake completely regulates the flow of the river, sometimes causing sudden 

fluctuations and often cutting down the outflow to 15 or 20 secondfeet, or the amount of leakage through the dam.

The station is equipped with a vertical staff gage and a cable and 

car, from which discharge measurements are made.

The channel is liable to shift only in a slight degree and records 

are reliable. The datum of the gage has not been changed. The 

flow is practically unaffected by ice.

Discharge measurements made by the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation have been furnished to the United States Geological 

Survey for publication.

Discharge measurements of Truckee River at Tahoe, Cal., for 1910.

Date.

Feb. 3

4

4

4

5

Mar. 13

17

17

18

18

18

19

19

Sept. 19o

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

68

85

90

90

90

30

7Q

80

82

84

85

85

85

82

Area of 

section.

* /*,

278

308

301

330

44

106

160

209

234

246

261

269

222

&.

Feet.

0 75

2.77

3.05

2.92

3.16

1.10

1.10

1.55

1 00

2

00

2.43

2.56

2.67

2

90

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

59

.637

758

7OK

SI *\

102

110

OOK

OKA

439

493

555

588

JAQ

a Not reliable. 

NOTE. All measurements made by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation except September 19.
184 STJEFACB WAT1B SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Truckee River at Tahoe, Cal., for 1910. 

[J. U. Haley, observer.]

Day.

1...... .........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...........;...

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.37

3.35

3.35

3.34

3.34

3.32

3.32

3.31

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30

3.30

"3.30

3.30

3.30 

3.28

Feb.

1.66

2.46

3.08

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.20

3.19

3.18

3.18

3.18

3.18

3.18

3.18

3.18

3.18

.......

Mar.

3.18

3.18

3.18

3.18

3.18

3. IS

3.18

3.16

3.15

3.14

3.13

3.12

1.07

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.66

2.22

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10 

1.10

Apr.

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

i 1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.52

2.40

2.40

1.52

1.90

May.

1.90

1.90

1.74

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.30

1.21

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.20 

1.20

June.

1.20

1.20

1.20

1.20

1.20

1.20

1.53

1.65

2.04

1.89

1.89

2.60

1.90

1.87

2.44

1.92

2.09

1.98

1.98

1.98

1.98

1.98

2.23

2.16

2.16

3.00

2.25

2.25

2.09

209

July.

2.09

2.20

3.10

2.95

2.95

2.95

2.95

2.95

2.95

2.76

2.76

2.76

2.76

2.76

2.76

3.00

3.00

3.00

3.00

2.15

2.30

2.30

2.87

2.90

2.90

2.90

2.90

2.90

2.90

2.90 

2.90

Aug.

2.90

2.90

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.80

2.78

2.20

2.78

2.78

2.78

2.78

2.76

2.74

2.72

2.70

2.70

2.70

2.68

2.68

2.68

2.66

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.63

2.55 

2.50

Sept.

2.50

2.50

2.50

2.40

2.40

2.40

2.38

2.37

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.30

2.30

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.00

2.04

2.02

1.96

1.96

2.15

2.12

2.10

2.10

2.10

2.10

Oct.

2.08

2 08

2.07

2.07

2.07

2.07

2.05

2.04

2.02

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

1.98

1.98

1.98

1.97

1.97

1.95

1.93

1.90

1.90

1.90

1.88

1.88

1.88

1.88

1.88

1.86

1.84 

1.80

Nov.

1.78

1.78

1.78

1.78

1.78

1.77

1.77

1.78

1.78

1.78

1.78

1.78

1.76

1.76

1.76

1.76

1.76

1.75

1.75

1.70

1.70

1.70

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.81

1.78

Dec.

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.73

1.70

1.77

1.78

1.78

1.78

1.80

1.80

1.80

1.80

1.70

1.69

1.69

1.69

1.69

1.62

1.62

1.62

1.62

1.61

1.60

1.60

1.60

1.58

1.76

1.75

1.73 

1.68

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Truckee River at Tahoe, Cal., for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10.

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

'18.. .............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

26...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

890

898

898

898

898

898

898

898

898

898

898

898

890

890

890

886

886

877

877

873

869

869

869

869

869

869

869

869

869

869

861

Feb.

247

518

777

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

827

823

819

819

819

819

819

819

814

819

Mar.

819

819

819

819

819

819

819

810

806

802

798

793

108

114

114

114

247

426

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

Apr.

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

209

494

494

209

318

May.

318

318

270

156

156

156

1W1

156

156

156

156

136

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

114

124

124

124

124

124

124

124

124

134

134

June.

134

134

134

134

134

134

212

944.

364

315

315

634

318

309

610

324

381

344

344 *1AA

344

344

430

406

406

743

438

438

381

381

July.

381

419

785

722

722

722

722

722

722

642

642

642

642

642

642

743

743

743

743

402

456

456

688

701

701

701

701

701

701

701

701

Aug.

701

701

680

680

680

680

680

680

659

651

419

651

651

651

651

642

634

625

 617

617

617

609

609

609

600

696

696

596

688

664

534

Sept.

634

634

534

494

494

494

486

483

475

475

475

456

456

438

438

438

438

438

438

350

364

357

337

337

402

391

384

384

384

384

Oct.

Q77

377

374

V7A.

374

374

367

364

357

350

qcfl

350

350

344

344

344

340

340

334

328

318

318

318

312

312

312

312

312

306

299

9fi*7

Nov.

281

281

281

281

281

278

278

281

281

281

281

281

275

275

275

275

275

272

272

268

258

258

302

302

302

302

302

302

290

281

Dec.

302

302

302

267

268

278

281

281

281

287

287

287

287

268

265

255

255

255

236

236

236

236

233

230

230

230

225

275

272

267

252

NOTE. Daily discharges determined from a discharge rating curve well defined for all stages.
THE GE1AT BASIN. 185

Monthly discharge, of Truckee River at Tahoe, Cat, for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 519 square miles.]

Month.

May........................

July........................

November. .................

December. .................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

*

898 

827 

819 

494 

318 

743 

785 

701 

534 

377 

302 

302

898

Minimum.

861 

247 

108 

114 

114 

134 

381 

419 

337 

287 

258 

225

108

Mean.

883 

791 

398 

152 

148 

332 

656 

628 

436 

339 

281 

262

441

Per 

square 

mile.

1.70 

1.52 

.767 

.293 

.285 

.640 

1.26 

1.21 

.840 

.653 

.542 

.505

.85

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

1.96 

1.58 

.88 

.33 

.33 

.71 

1.45 

1.40 

.94 

' .75 

.60 

.58

11.51

Total in 

acre-feet.

54,300 

43,900 

24,500 

9,040 

9,100 

19,800 

40,300 

38,600 

25,900 

20,800 

16,700 

16,100

319,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B.

TRUCKEE RIVER AT NEVADA-CALIFORNIA STATE LINE.

This station, which is located 1 mile upstream from Calvada, a 

flag station on the Ogden route of the Southern Pacific Railroad 

near the Nevada-California'State line, in California, 15 miles southwest, by railroad, of Eeno, Nev., was established September 7, 1899, 

at Farad, 2£ miles farther upstream, and was moved to its present 

site June 14, 1909.

The station is below all tributaries which head in the Sierra Nevada 

and is above all diversions.

The station is equipped with an inclined staff gage and a cable and 

car, 50 feet upstream from the gage.

Hood measurements are made with difficulty owing to the high 

velocities of the current.

The flow is probably unaffected by ice. The channel shifts somewhat at each high-water period so that additional measurements 

must be made to define the low-water .curve.

Records are fairly reliable.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Reclamation Service.

' Discharge measurements made by the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation have been furnished to the United States Geological 

Survey for publication.
186 SUBFACE WATEB SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Discharge measurements of Tnickee River at Nevada-California State line, for 1910.

Date.

Mar. 25

May 7

July 1

30

Oct. 16

Nov. 13

25

Hydrographer.

F. C. Schafer.............. ................................

.... .do. .............................'.:.....................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

F.C. Schafer... ...........................................

H. D.McGlashan.. ........................................

Width.

Feet. 

115

112

111

112

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

414

487

375

348

342

283

309

275

278

298

298

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.40

4.11

3.30

2.92

2.95

2.47

2.70

2.36

2.35

2.54

2.44

Discharge.

8ec.-ft.

2*020

1,200

815

828

479

683

454

420

540

505

Daily gage height, in feet, of Truckee River at Nevada-California State line, for J9}0. 

[E. C Bigelow, jr., observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19. ..............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31........... -

Jan.

2.7

3.6

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.4

Feb.

3.4

3.4

2.7

3.1

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.4

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

Mar.

3.3

3.3

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

4.0

4.0

4.1

4.1

3.9

3.6

3.6

3.8

4.3

5.4

4.9

4.3

4.0

3.8

3.5

3.3

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.0

3.2

3.2

Apr.

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.6

3.8

3.8

3.9

4.0

4.0

4.1

4.2

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

* 4.0

4.1

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.3 4 3

4.4

4.5

4.7

4.4

4.4

May.

4.1

4.0

3.7

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.4

June.

3.4

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.1

2.9

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.4

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.1

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

3.0

3.1

3.2

3.2

3.1

2.8

3 A

July.

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.9

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.6

2.6

2.6

3.1

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.9

9 O

2.9

Aug.

2.9

2.9

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

17

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2,7

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

Sept.

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.2

2 3

2.3

2.3

2.5

2.4

2.3

2.4

Oct.

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.3

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.5

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

^2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.3

Nov.

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2 4

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

Dec.

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.3
THE GREAT BASIN. 187 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Truckee River at Nevada-California State line for 1910.

Day.

1.... ..........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10. ..............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15. ..............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23. ..............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28. ..............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

735

1,510

1,410

1,310

1,310

1,310

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,120

1,120

1,210

1,210

1,120

1,210

1,310

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,310

1,410

1,310

1,310

1,310

1,310

1,310

1,310

1.310

1,310

Feb.

1,310

1,310

735

1,030

1,030

1,120

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,310

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,120

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,120

1,120

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

Mar.

1,210

1,210

1,410

1,610

1,620

1,730

1,730

1,730

1,730

1,970

1,970

2,090

2,090

1,850

1,510

1,510

1,730

2,350

3,890

3,080

2,290

1,920

1,690

1,360

1,160

964

964

(¥U

873

1,060

1,060

Apr.

1,060

1,160

1,260

1,470

1,690

1,690

1,800

1,920

1,920

2,040

2,160

1,800

1,800

1,800

1,800

1,920

2,040

2,160

2,160

2,160

2,040

2,160

2,290

2,290

2,290

2,420

2,550

2,810

2,420

2,420

May.

2,040

1,920

1,580

1,470

1,360

1,360

1 I'wn 360

1,360

1,470

1,470

1,470

1,360

1,470

1,580

1,470

1,470

1,470

1,360

1,360

1,260

1,260

1 360

1,360

1,260

1,360

1,360

1 360

1^360

1,260

1,260

June.

1,260

1,160

1,060

1,060

Qfii

786

7JJfi

873

873

1,260

1,160

1,160

1,060

1,060

Qfii

873

873

873

873

703

703

703

703

873

964

1,060

1,060

964

703

873

July.

703

703

703

786

703

703

628

628

703

703

703

786

873

873

873

873

873

786

786

562

562

562

OKA

873

873.

786

7JJfi

786

786

7JJfi

Aug.

786

786

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

703

628

628

628

628

628

628

628

628

628

£62

562

562

562

Sept.

562

562

562

562

562

562

562

504

504

504

504

504

504

562

504

504

504

504

457

457

457

385

418

418

418

504

4S7

418

457

Oct.

457

457

457

§04

504

418

504

457

457

457

504

457

418

418

418

418

385

385

385

385

385

335

385

385

385

418

418

385

418

418

418

Nov.

418

385

385

385

385

385

385

418

418

418

504

457

457

418

418

385

385

385

418

418

418

418

457

457

457

457

418

418

418

Dec.

418

418

457

504

504

504

504

504

504

562

628

628

562

504

K/U

457

WM.

504

504

457

457

457

418

418

418

418

385

385

385

385

418

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from two discharge rating curves, one applicable Jan. 1 to Mar. 19, 

and the other Mar. 20 to Dec. 31; well denned above 700 second-feet.

Monthly discharge of Truckee River at Nevada-California State line for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 955 square miles.]

Month.

January

April.......................

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

IfffrinirnTi1,510 

 1,310 

3,890 

2,810 

2,040 

1,260 

964 

786 

562 

504 

504 

628

3,890

Minimum.

735 

735 

873 

1,060 

1,260 

703 

562 

562 

385 

385 

385 

385

385

Mean.

1,250 

1,180 

1,680 

1,980 

1,430 

943 

755 

668 

498 

427 

418 

473

974

Per 

square 

mile.

1.31 

1.24 

1.76 

2.07 

1.50 

.988 

.791 

.699 

.621 

.447 

.438 

.495

1.02

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

1.51 

1.29 

2.03 

2.31 

1.73 

1.10 

.91 

.81 

.58 

.62 

.49 

.57

13.85

Total in 

acre-feet.

76,900 

65,500 

103,000 

118,000 

87,900 

56,100 

46,400 

41,100 

29,600 

26,300 

24,900 

29,100

705,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

B.
188 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

TEUCKEE EIVEE AT EENO, NET.

This station, which is located in the city of Reno, in SE. J sec. 11, 

T. 19 N., R. 19 E., about 12 miles below the California-Nevada line, 

near the upper end of Truckee Meadows, was established July 1, 1906, 

by the United States Weather Bureau in connection with its measurements of snowfall in the high Sierra, and gage heights have been 

furnished by that bureau.

The station is above all return waters and below practically all 

tributaries except Steamboat Creek, which enters from the south 6 

miles below.

The datum of the staff gage is 4,481.60 feet .above sea level and 

has remained unchanged.

Discharge measurements are made from the Rock Street Bridge, 

about 800 feet downstream from the Virginia Street Bridge, where 

the vertical staff gage is located. Low-water measurements are made 

by wading.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Reclamation Service and the United States Weather Bureau.

The stream bed is permanent. The relation between gage height 

and discharge is unaffected by ice, and the records are considered good. 

The discharge of the river is affected by storage and regulation at 

several power plants above the station.

Discharge measurements of Truckee River at Reno, Nev., in 1910.

Date.

Mar. 25

Aug. 29

Oct. 16

Dec. 10

Hydrographer.

F. C. Schafer... ...........................................

.....do.......*.............................................

D. S. Stuver........... ........ ...........................

Width.

Feet. 

120

119

102

118

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

430

344

310

377

height.

Feet. 

2.70

1.40

1.38

1.90

Discharge.

8ec.-ft. 

1,280

324

336

618
THE GBEAT BASIN. 189

Daily gage height, in feet, of Truckee River at Reno, Nev., for 191&. 

[United States Weather Bureau, observer.]

Day.

1......... ......

2.. .............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...........'....

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24. ..............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.0

2.9

2.8

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.5

2. -5

2.5

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.7

2.7

2

0

2.8

2.7

2 7

2.7

2.7

9 7

2 7

Feb.

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.8

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.6

Mar.

2.8

2.9

2.9

3.0

3.1

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.1

3.8

4.3

4.2

3.8

3.4

3.3

3.1

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

9 S

Apr.

3.0

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.3

3.5

3.6

3.4

3.3

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.5

3.8

3.8

3.6

3.3

May.

3

1

2.9

2.8

2 7

2 A

2 A

2.3

2.7

2.9

3.0

3.0

2.9

2

O

2

0

2

0

2.8

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2 A

2.4

June.

2.3

2.3

2.3

2 A

1 Q

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

9 ft

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.2

1 9

1.2

1.4

1.2

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.8

1.3

1.1

1 9

July.

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.7

1.8

, 1.8

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.8

1.8

2.0

2.1

2.0

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.7

1.5

1.6

1.5

Aug.

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.5

1.5

Sept.

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

Oct.

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.4

^ 1.3

1.4

1.4

i s

Nov.

1.3

1.2

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.3

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.3

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.5

Dec.

1.5

1.5

1.6

2.0

1.8

1.0

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.9

2.4

2.0

1.8

1.7

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.8

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.4

1.4

1.5

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Truckee River at Reno, Nev., for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6..... .........I

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12. ..............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30. .............. 

31...............

Jan.

1,630

1,520

1,420

1,320

1,220

1,220

1.220

1,220

1,220

1,220

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,220

1,220

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,320

1,320

1,420

1,420

1,320

1,320

1,320

1,320

1,320 

1,320

Feb.

1,320

1,320

1,220

1,220

1,220

1,220

1,220

1,220

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,420

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120, *1,120V

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,220

Mar.

1,420

1,520

1,520

1,630

1,740

1,850

1,850

1,850

1,960

1,960

2,070

2,200

2,330

1,850

1,850

1,850

1,740

2,600

3,360

3,200

2,600

2,070

1,960

1,740

1,320

1,320

1,320

1,320

1,320

1,320 

1,420

Apr.

1,630

1,850

1,740

1,740

1,850

1,850

1,850

2,070

2 onn

2 9ftft

2,200 i Qfift

1,960

1,960

1,850

1,850

1,850

1,960

2 9nn

2,330

2,070

1,960

2,070

2,070

2,070

2,200

2,600

2,600

2,330

1,960

May.

1,740

1,520

1,420

1,320

1,030

1,030

Qdn

1,320

1,520

1,630

1,630

1,520

1,420

1,420

1,420

1,420

1,220

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,120

1,220

1,220

1,220

1,120

1,030

1,030

1,030

1,030

1,030 

,1,030

June.

940

940

<un

700

630

441

441

111

OQO

388

388

388

7nn

338

338

293

250

oen

250

338

250

91 Pi

215

215

215

562

293

215

250

July.

215

215

91 1;

500

562

562

500

562

562

562

562

Kfi9

562

388

388

388

562

562

700

780

700

388

388

388

500

500

441

500

388

441 

388

Aug.

388

388

388

388

388

388

388

388

388

388

388

OQQ

338

388

338

388

388

388

388

388

388

338

388

388

388

388

388

388

338

388 

388

Sept.

338

388

388

388

388

388

QQQ

388

338

338

338

338

293

338

388

388

388

388

388

338

338

338

293

293

293

338

338

338

338

Oct.

338

338

338

338

338

338

338

338

338

293

293

9O3

293

338

338

388

388

338

338

338

388

388

441

388

388

338

338

293

338

338 

293

Nov.

293

250

338

338

338

338

338

338

388

388

388

293

388

388

388

388

388

338

293

293

338

388

441

441

388

388

388

388

338

388

Dec.

388

388

441

700

562

441

441

441

441

630

1,030

700

562

fiOO

441

441

441

441

441

388

388

388

388

888

388

388

388

388

338

338 

388

NOTE. Daily discharges determined from a discharge rating curve well defined for all stages.
190 SURFACE WATEB SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Truckee River at Reno, Nev., for 1910.

Month.

April..................................:...........

TiSay. ...............................................

July........... ....................................

December .........................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,630 

1,420 

3,360 

2,600 

1,740 

940 

780 

388 

388 

441 

441 

1,030

3,360

Minimum.

1,120 

1,120 

1,320 

1,630 

940 

215 

215 

338 

293 

293 

250 

338

215

Mean.

1,260 

> 1,170 

1,870 

2,030 

1,260 

415 

482 

380 

354 

342 

359 

465

864

Kun-ofl 

(total in 

acre-feet).

77,500 

65,000 

115,000 

121,000 

77,500 

24,700 

29,600 

23,400 

21,100 

21,000 

21,400 

28,600

626,000

Accuracy.

A. 

A.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

TRUCKEE RIVER AT CLARES, NEV.

This station, which is located in the SE. I sec. 26, T. 20 N., R. 22 

E., at the highway bridge about 600 feet from the Southern Pacific 

Railroad station at Clarks, was established August 1, 1910, to replace 

the station formerly maintained at Derby dam.

The gage is a vertical rod fastened to the south abutment of the 

bridge.

Discharge measurements are made from the bridge.

The river is regulated by storage and power plants above the station. Water is diverted above the gage for irrigation in Truckee 

Valley.

This station is maintained by1 the United States Reclamation Service. Discharge measurements are made and furnished by the Stone 

& Webster Engineering Corporation.

Discharge measurements of Truckee River at Clarks, Nev., in 1910.

Date.

Sept. 1

28

Hydrographer.

Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation .................

Width.

Feet. 

64

64

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

324

304

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.80

2.51

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

431

342
THE GEBAT BASIN. 191

Daily gage height, in feet, anddisckafge, in Second-feet, of Trucked River at Cldrks, Nev.,for

1910.

[E. R. Back, observer.)

Day.

1

2...................

3...................

4...................

5...................

6...................

7...................

8...................

9...................

10...................

11...................

12...................

13...................

14...................

15

16...................

17...................

18...................

19...................

20...................

21...................

22...................

23...................

24...................

25...................

26...................

27...................

28...................

29..~... ..............

30...................

31...................

August.

height.

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.6 

2.6 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2.6 

2.7 

2.7 

2.8

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2,6. 

2.6 

2.6 

2.6 

2.6

Discharge.

420 

425 

420 

420 

420

380 

380 

420 

420 

420

420 

380 

420 

420 

460

420 

420 

420 

420 

420

420 

420 

420 

420 

420

420 

380

September.

Gage 

height.

2.6 

2.6 

2.6 

2.6 

 3.2

3.0 

3.0 

2.6 

2.6 

2.6

2.5 

2.5 

2.4 

2.5 

2.6

3.0 

2.8 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2.6 

2.6 

2.5 

2.5

2.4 

2.5 

2.5 

2.6 

2.6

Discharge.

380 

380 

380 

380 

630

540 

540 

380 

380 

380

350 

350 

320 

350 

380

540 

460 

420 

420 

420

420 

380 

380 

350 

350

320 

350 

350 

380 

380

October.

height.

2.6 

2.6 

2.5 

2.6 

2.7

2.6 

2.7 

2.6 

2.6 

2.5

2.6 

2.8 

2.7 

2.8 

3.0

2.9 

2.9 

2.8 

2.7 

2.7

2.8 

2.8 

2.8 

2.8 

2.7

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.8

Discharge.

380 

380 

350 

380 

420

380 

420 

380 

380 

350

380 

460 

420 

460 

540

500 

500 

460 

420 

420

460 

460 

460 

460 

420

420

420 

420 

420 

420 

460

November.

Gage 

height.

2.8 

2.7 

2.6 

2.6 

2.6

2.6 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2.7 

3.1 

3.0 

2.8

2.8 

2.8 

2.8 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2.7 

2.7 

2.8 

3.2

3.1 

3.0 

2.9 

2.9 

2.9

Discharge.

460 

420 

380 

380 

380

380 

420 

420 

420 

420

420 

420 

580 

540 

460

460 

460 

460 

420 

420

420 

420 

420 

460 

630

580 

540 

500 

500 

500

December.

height.

2.9 

2.9 

3.4 

3.8 

3.2

3.2 

3.1 

3.2 

3.1 

3.2

4.2 

3.6 

3.4 

3.3 

3.1

3.1 

3.1 

3.1 

3.1 

3.0

3.0 

2.8 

2.7 

2.7 

2.7

2.7 

2.7 

2.6 

2.7 

2.9 

2.9

Discharge.

500 

500 

730 

960 

630

630 

580 

630 

580 

630

1,210 

840 

730 

680 

580

580 

580 

580 

580 

540

540 

460 

420 

420 

420

420 

420 

380 

420 

500 

500

NOTE. Daily discharges determined from a discharge rating curve well defined for all stages.

Monthly discharge of Truckee River at Clarks, Nev.,for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 1,740 square miles.]

Month.

October. ...................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

460 

630 

540 

630 

1,210

Jtlf if^iTyi'^Tn T

380 

320 

350 

380 

380

Mean.

411 

401 

426 

456

586

Per 

square 

mile.

0.236 

.230 

.245 

.262 

.337

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.27 

.26 

.28 

.29 

.39

Total in 

acre-feet.

25,300 

23,900 

26,200 

27,100 

36,000

Accuracy.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A.

TRUCKEE RIVER AT DERBY DAM, NEV.

This station, which is located about 2 miles east of Clarks, Nev., 

three-fourths of a mile above the Reclamation Service diversion dam 

for the main canal of the Truckee-Carson project, was established 

July 1, 1907, to determine the amount of water available for the.
192 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET 1.

canal and the amount in excess of the requirements of the water users 

in the Wadsworth Valley, and was discontinued June 6, 1910, in 

favor of the station at Clarks. The station replaced the station at 

Vista, giving practically the same record.

The station is equipped with an inclined staff gage in two sections, 

the datum of which has remained unchanged^ and a cable and car 

from which discharge measurements are made.

The relation between gage heights and discharge at this point was 

at times evidently affected by backwater. The river is regulated by 

storage and power plants above the station. Water is diverted 

above the gage for irrigation in Truckee Valley.

The station was maintained by the United States Reclamation 

Service.

The following discharge measurement was made by F. C. Schafer:

March 26, 1910: Width, 115 feet; area, 438 square feet; gage height, 6.00 feet; discharge 1,780 eecond-feet.

Daily gage height, infect, of Truckee River at Derby dam, Nev.,for 1910.

Day.

1.....................................................

2.....................................................

3......................................................

4.....................................................

5. .....................................................

6.....................................................

7.................................................:...

8.....................................................

9.....................................................

10.....................................................

11.....................................................

12.....................................................

13.....................................................

14.....................................................

15.....................................................

16.....................................................

17.....................................................

18.....................................................

19.....................................................

20.....................................................

y\... ...................................................

^... ............... ...................................

23.....................................................

24.....................................................

25.....................................................

26.....................................................

27.....................................................

28.....................................................

29.....................................................

30.....................................................

31.....................................................

Jan.

5.6

6.8

6.7

5.9

5.8

5.8

5.75

5.8

5.65

5.8

5.9

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.9

5.85

5.85

5.85

5.8

5.75

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.75

5.6

5.75

5.75

5.75

5.8

Feb.

5.8

5.8

6.0

6.0

5.8

5.8

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.4

6.5

6.5

6.2

6.0

5.9

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.6

6.0

5.8

5.7

5.6

Mar.

5.8

6.0

6.2

6.2

6.4

6.5

6.6

6.7

6.7

6.7

6.7

6.75

6.9

6.7

6.4

6.0

6.0

7.3

8.5

7.3

6.6

6.6

6.0

5.9

5.7

5.6

5.6

5.6

5.4

5.6

Apr.

5.9

6.3

6.4

6.2

6.2

/ 

6.9

6.6

6.5

6.9

6.7

6.8

6.5

6.6

6.6

6.4

6.2

6.8

6.9

7.1

fi Q

7.0

6.8

7.0

6.9

6.8

7.0

7.1

7.0

6.9

6.8

May.

6.5

6.4

5.9

5.4

5.4

5.9

6.0

6.4

R A

6.8

6.8

6.4

6.4

6.2

6.0

5.8

5.6

5.6

5.7

5.7

5.6

5.7

5.8

6.1

6.0

5.9

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

June.

5.7

5.6

5.5

5.4

5.1

4.9
THE GEEAT BASIN". 193

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Truckee River at Derby dam, Nev., for 1910.

Day.

i.............................. !......................

2.....................................................

3.....................................................

5.....................................................

6.....................................................

7.....................................................

8.....................................................

9. ....................................................

10. ....................................................

11.....................................................

12.....................................................

13.....................................................

14.....................................................

15.....................................................

16.....................................................

17......................................................

18.....................................................

19.....................................................

20.....................................................

21.....................................................

99

23. ....................................................

24.....................................................

25. ........ \. ..........................................

26... ..................................................

97

9ft

29.....................................................

on

31.....................................................

Jan.

1,220

2,070

2,000

1,410

1,340

1,340

1,310

1,340

1,250

1,340

1,410

1,340

1,340

1,340

1,340

1,410

1,380

1,380

1,380

1,340

1,310

1,340

1,340

1,340

1,310

1,310

1,310

1.310

1,340

Feb.

1,340

1,340

1,480

1 480

1,340

1,340

1,480

1,480

1,480

1,480

1,480

1 480

1,480

1,770

1,840

1,840

1,480

1,410

1,150

1,150

1,150

1,150

1,220

1,480

1,340

1,280

1,220

Mar.

1,340

1,480

1,620

1,620

1,700

1,770

1,840

1,920

2,000

2,000

2,000

2,000

2,030

2,150

2,000

1,770

1,480

1,480

2,470

3,440

2,470

1,920

1,920

1,480

1,410

1,280

1,220

1,220

1,220

1,090

1,220

Apr.

1,410

1,700

1,770

1,620

1,620

2,150

1,920

x 1,840

2,150

2,000

2,070

1,840

1,920

1,920

1,770

1,620

2,070

2,150

2,310

2,150

2,230

2,070

2,230

2,150

2,070

2,230

2,310

2,230

2,150

2,070

May.

1,840

1,770

1,480

1,410

1,090

1,090

1,410

1,480

1,770

1,770

2,070

1,770

1,770

1,620

1,480

1,340

1,220

1,220

1,280

1,280

1,220

1,280

1,340

1,550

1,480

1,410

 1,340

1,340

1,340

1,340

June.

1,280

1,220

1,150

1,090

910

800

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well defined for 1907-1909, but 

denned during 1910 by only one measurement which does not plot on the curve.

Monthly discharge of Truckee River at Derby dam, Nev., for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 1,740 square miles.]

1

Month.

April.......................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

2,070 

1,840 

3,440 

2,310 

2,070 

1,280

Mjnimum.

1,220 

1,150 

1,090 

1,410 

1,090 

800

Mean.

1,380 

1,420 

1,760 

1,990 

1,480 

1,080

Per 

square 

mile.

0.794 

.816 

1.01 

1.14 

.851 

.621

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.92 

.85 

1.16 

1.27

.98 

.14

Total in 

acre-feet.

84,800 

78,900 

108,000 

118,000 

91,000 

12,800

494,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

DONNER CREEK NEAR TRUCKEE, *CAL.

Donner Creek Jlows from the east end of Donner Lake eastward 

into Truckee River about 1^ miles above Truckee, Cal., its length 

being about 2 miles.

The gaging station, which is located 150 feet below the dam of the 

Donner Creek Ice Co., 1| miles west of Truckee, Cal., and below the 

mouth of Cold Creek, the principal tributary, was established October 

43926° WSP 290 12 13
194 S17EFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

23, 1902, to determine the amount of water available for storage in 

Dormer Lake for use on the Truckee-Carson project.

Four different gages were used during 1909. Previous to June 1 

all gage heights are referred to the datum of the-old gage. Beginning 

June 1, 1909, they refer to a permanent inclined gage installed September 12, 1909, about 40 feet downstream from the old gage.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable and car.

The relation between gage height and discharge is probably not 

greatly affected by ice, but it is affected by the raising and lowering of 

the gates of the storage dam at the outlet of Donner Lake.

The record is considered reliable.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Reclamation Service.

Discharge measurements of Donner Creek near Truckee, Cal.,for 1910.

Date.

Mar. 21

Sept. 20»

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

45

5

4

40

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

97

1.8

1.5

40

 ».

feet. i.eo

.00

IS

.42

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

228

1.4

2.6

20.3

a. Wading measurement.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Donner Creek near Truckee, Cal.,for 1910. 

[W. O. Blinn, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2........ .......

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9. ..............

10. ..............

11...............

12. ..............

13...............

14. ..............

15. ..............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19. ..............

20...............

21. e .. ...........

22...............

33...............

24. ..............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

sn

01

Jan.

0.9

.9

.8

.8

.8

.8

.7

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.9

1.1

1.1

1.05

1.0

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

g

Feb.

0.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

1.0

1.0

1.4

1.15

1.0

.95

.9

.85

.85

.86

.8

.8

.8

.8

.75

.75

.75

.75

.8

Mar.

0.85

.85

.9

1.05

1.0

1.05

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.15

1.2

1.25

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.35

1.7

1.75

1.65

1.6

1.5

1.4

1.35

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.2

1.2

1 ot:

Apr.

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.35

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.55

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.65

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.8

1.7

1.9

1.9

1.9

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.9

May.

1.8

1.6

1.5

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.55

1.6

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.55

1.55

1.5

1.45

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.4

June.

1.3

1.3

1.2

1.1

1.05

85*

.85

.8

.8

.8

.8

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.65

.6

.55

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

.4

.4

July.

0.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.2

.2

,2

.15

.2

.15

.2

.15

.2

.1

.1

.1

.1

.1

.5

.45

.1

Aug.

0.1

.1

.1

.0

.1

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.05

.05

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

Sept.

0.0

.0»0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0.1

.1.1.1.1.1

.1 ' .1.1.1.1

.1.1.1.1.1

Oct.

0.1.1.1.1.1

.1.1.1.1.1

.1.1.1.1.1

.1.1.1.1.1

.1.1.1.1.1

.1.1.1.1.1.1

Nov.

0.05

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.3

.2

.2

.1

.0

.0.1

.1.1

.15

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.5

.45

.4

.4

.5

.4

.4

Dec.

0.4

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.4

.4

.5

.7

.7

.6

.55

.45

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4
THE GEEAT BASIN. 195 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Donner Creek near Truckee, Cal., for 1909 and 1910.

Day.

1909. 

1..........

2..........

3..........

4..........

5..........

6... .......

7..........

8..........

9..........

10..........

Day.

1910. 

1..........

2..........

3..........

4..........

5..........

6..........

8..........

9....:.....

10. .........

11..........

19

13..........

14

15........*

16. .........

17. .........

18. .........

19..........

20..........

21..........

22. .........

23..........

24..........

25..........

26. .........

27. .........

28..........

29..........

30. .........

31..........

Jan. No\

Jan.

77

77

63

63

63

63

50

63

63

. 63

63

63

63

63

63

63

63

03

C3

C3

77

111

111

102

' 93

77

77

77

77

77

77

. Dec

4 86

4 67

4 44

4 44

4 32

4 32

4 30

4 29

4 27

4 25

Feb.

70

70

70

70

70

70

.70

70

70

93

93

177

121

93

85

77

70

70

70

63

63

63

63

56

56

56

56

63

2 11.

4 12..

7 13..

7 14.

6 15..

6 16.

8 17..

0 18..

4 19.

7 20..

Mar.

70

70

77

102

93

102

111

111

111

121

131

142

153

153

153

153

153

165

257

274

242

228

202

177

165

153

153

153

131

131

142

Day.

Apr.

153

153

153

153

165

177

177

177

215

228

228

202

228

228

228

242

257

257

257

290

257

326

326

365

365

365

365

365

326

Jan.

326

652

812

IV)

752

652

May.

2SO

228

202

190

177

177

202

202

228

257

01:7

257

202

202

202

215

228

228

202

202

215

215

202

190

177

177

177

177

177

Nov.

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

106

230

June.

153

153

131

111

102

70

70 63

63

63

63

56

56

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

44

38

32

27

27

27

27

27

18

18

Dec.

215

202

202

190

177

153

142

131

93

93

July.

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

5.5

5.5

5.5

4.0

5.5

4.0

5.5

4.0

5.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

27

22

2.5

T

21...

22...

23...

24...

25...

26...

27...

28...

29..

30..

31..

Aug.

9 *\

2.5

2.5

1 9

2.5

1.2

1.2

1 9

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.8

. 1.8

.1.2

1 9

1.2

1.2

1 9

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

)ay.

Sept.

1 9

1.2

1.2

1 9

1.2

1.2

1.2

1 9

1.2

1.2

1.2

1 O

1.2

1.2

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Jan.

574

410

288

43

43

43

43

43

43

34

34

Oct.

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Nov.

255

315

345

489

447

365

290

290

326

674

Nov.

1.8

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1 9

11

5.5

5.5

2.5

1.2

1.2

2.5

2.5

2.5

4.0

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.5

 27

22

18

18

27

18

18

Dec.

93

70

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

63

Dec.

18

11

11

11

11

11

IS

18

27

50

50

38

32

22

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

NOTE. Table of daily discharge for 1609 supersedes that published in Water-Supply Paper 270; an error 

discovered in the data for January. 1909, is here corrected; discharge determined from a revised curve 

fairly well denned for period after Nov. 23. Daily discharge for 1910 determined from a discharge rating 

curve fairly well defined for all stages.
196 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Monthly discharge of Donner Creek near Truckee, Cal., for 1909 and 1910. 

[Drainage area, 30 square miles.]

Month.

1909.

April.......................

May.......................

July.......................

1910.

May.......................

July.......................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum,

812 

43 

62 

276 

410 

285 

180 

20 

7 

7 

674 

862

862

111 

177 

274 

365 

290 

153 

27 

2.5 

2.5 

2.5 

27 

50

365

Minimum.

8 

30 

43 

52 

196 

58 

23 

7 

1 

1 

4 

50

1

50 

56 

70 

153 

177 

18 

2.5 

1.2 

1.2 

2.5 

- 1.2 

11

1.2

Mean.

214 38.2' 

51.0 

150 

264 

176 

69.2 

11.8 

4.9 

3.4 

140 

208

111

72.0 

75.6 

148 

252 

210 

59.6 

10.1 

1.41 

1.89 

2.50 

7.47 

20.5

71.6

Per

square 

mile.

7.13 

1.27 

1.70 

5.00 

8.80 

5.87 

2.31 

.393 

.163 

.113 

4.67 

6.93

3.70

, 2.40 

2.52 

4.93 

8.40 

7.00 

1.99 

.337 

.047 

.063 

.083 

.249 

.683

2.39

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

8.22 

1.32 

1.96 

5.58 

10.14 

6.55 

2.66 

.45 

.18 

.13 

5.21 

7.99

50.39

2.77 

2.62 

' 5.69 

9.37 

8.07 

2.22 

.39 

.05 

.07 

.10 

.28 

.79

32.42

Total in 

acre-feet.

13,200 

2,120 

3,140 

8,930 

16,200 

10,500 

4,250 

726 

292 

209 

8,330 

12,800

80,700

4,430 

4,200 

9,100 

15,000 

12,900 

 3,550 

621 

86.7 

112 

154 

444 

1,260

51,900

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

D. 

D. 

D. 

C. 

B.

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

D. 

D. 

D. 

D. 

C.

NOTE. Data for January, November,' and December, 1909, supersede those published in Water-Supply 

Paper 270.

PEOSSEE CEEEK NEAE HOBART MILLS, CAL.

Prosser Creek, a stream about 14 miles long, enters Truckee River 

from the west about 2 miles southwest of Boca.

The gaging station, which is located just below Alder Creek, about 

2 miles above the mouth of Prosser Creek, 4 miles north of Truckee, 

and 3 miles below Hobart Mils, Cal., was established June 27, 1903, 

discontinued October 15, 1904, and reestablished September 23, 

1907. Some miscellaneous measurements were made at this point in 

the mean tune.

The present gage is painted on the northeast iron pier of the bridge, 

and has been used since January 15, 1909.

Discharge measurements are made from a wagon bridge or by 

means of a car and cable 150 feet below the bridge.

The section is subject to change between floods, and the relation 

between gage height and discharge is at times affected by ice.

This station is maintained in cooperation with the United States 

Reclamation Service.
THE GREAT BASIN. 197 

Discharge measurements ofProsser Creek near Hobart Mills, Cal.,for 1910.

Date.

Mar. 21

Aug. 26

Sept. 21

Dec. 15

Hydrographer. ,

F. C. Schafer ..............................................

.....doo. ..................................................

D. S. Stuver o .............................................

Width.

Feet. 

54

16.5

45

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

85.5

10.7

48.1

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

4.00

2.10

6.89

2.62

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

308

10

C16.6

34.4

« Wading measurement.

fe Refers to Stone and Webster gage at cable 150 feet below the regular gage at the bridge. Bridge 

gage not readable.

e Measurement was made above Alder Creek, which was carrying 3.5 second-feet; but it is included in 

above discharge.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Prosser Creek near Hobart Mills, Cal.,for 1910. 

[A. A. Wilcox, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7. ..............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16........... ... 17...........:...

18...............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22............... 23......:........

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29............... 

30. ..............

31...............

Jan.

3 9

3-8

3.8

3.85

3.8

3.9

3 9

3.8

3.8 3.'8

3.8

3.75

3.75

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.7

3.7

3-7

3.75

3.8

3.8

3.65

3.6 

3.7

3.65

Feb.

3.75

3.85

3.85

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.75

3.75

3.75

3.7

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3

0

3.8

3.8

3

O

3

O

3 7

3.6

Mar. _

3.5

3.35

3.25

3.25

3.4

3.45

3.45

3.4

3.4

3.4

3.55

3.6

3.75

3.8

3.75

3.75

3.95

4.0

4.4

4.25

4.0

3.8

3.8

3.75

3.45

3.45

3.45

3.4

3.4 

3.4

3.4

Apr.

3.65

3,7

3.8

3.75

3.75

3.75

3 95

4.05

4.05

4 05

4.05

4.05

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.8

3.85

4.05

4.05

4.15

4.15

4.05

4.05

4.05

4.05

4.05

4.15

4.05

May.

3.9

3.85

3.8

3.75

3.55

3.5

3.5

3.6

3.75

3.8

3.85

3.8

3.75

3.65

3.65

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.7

3.65

3.65

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3 7

3.7

June.

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.75

3.7

3.7

3

f!K

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.55

3.55

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.45

3.4

3.35

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.0

2 Q

July.

2.85

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2 7

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.2

2.2

2.2

2

1

2.1

2.0

2.0

Aug.

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1 

2.1

2.1

Sept.

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.3

2.3

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1 

2.1

Oct.

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1 

2.1

2.1

Nov.

2.1

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.25

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4 

2.3

Dec.

9 3

2.3

2.5

2.6

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.7

2.5

2.5

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.6

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4 

2.4

2.4

NOTE. Probably slight effect from ice the last part of December.
198 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Prosser Creek nearHobart Mills, Gal., for 1909 and 1910.

Day.

1909. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

A.4 ............

6...............

7.. .............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15.... ...... ......

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

9Q

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1910. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

60

67

67

67

67

114

105

96

88

114

122

140

210

347

879

1,290

764

560

393

393

470

344

298

284

246

246

210

186

136

118

118

'ill

252

252

264

252

277

277

252

252

252

252

240

240

227

227

204

204

204

204

204

227

227

227

240

252

252

204

216

204

227

216

Feb.

89

76

89

89

70

58

52

47

42

42

38

38

34

34

58

89

114

123

114

105

132

141

172

172

161

141

132

123

264

264

252

252

252

252

252

227

227

227

240

240

240

227

252

252

252

252

252

252

252

252

252

252

252

227

204

Mar.

105

97

97

105

105

97

89

97

114

114

114

114

132

132

123

132

123

114

132

132

123

123

114

97

89

89

89

97

105

105

97

182

151

132

132

161

172

172

161

161

161

193

204

240

252

240

240

291

305

44fl

386

305

252

252

240

172

172

172

161

161

161

161

Apr.

114

132

151

151

151

151

151

151

172

216

264

370

440

480

523

545

665

640

480

386

386

422

386

386

422

523

640

640

665

216

227

252

240

240'

291

321

321

321

321

321

291

291

291

252

264

321

321

354

321

321

321

191

321

321

OCA

321

OAK

May.

665

640

692

692

640

640

581

545

545

502

480

460

460

460

422

422

386

386

370

353

321

321

291

276

305

305

320

336

369

443

277

264

252

193

182

182

9fi4

240

252

216

216

227

227

227

9fi4

204

204

204

227

216

216

997

227

227

227

June. i

483

568

524

483

524

483

483

483

503

369

352

386

386

386

369

352

305

276

276

276

330

330

330

330

300

300

300

260

248

236

252

252

227

240

227

227

216

204

9O4

193

182

182

172

161

151

141

141

141

141

141

141

141

123

1AC

89

July.

224

188

188

178

168

168

158

158

158

139

158

158

148

158

148

158

148

139

139

129

129

129

129

114

114

105

89

89

97

Q7

89

70

63

52

59

52

52

52

52

42

42

42

34

14

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

14

14

14

10

10

7

7

7

Aug.

76

58

52

47

47

47

38

34

30

30

24

24

24

24

17

17

14

14

10

10

10

10

10

10

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

. 10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Sept.

7

7

7

10

14

14

12

12

12

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

20

20

20

20

20

20

17

17

20

20

24

24

24

24

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

20

20

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Oct.

20

24

30

30

30

38

38

38

38

38

38

47

47

47

47

47

47

47

47

 47

47

47

47

52

52

52

52

63

70

70

76

10

10

10

10

10

10

. 10

10

10

10

10

10

10

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Nov.

63

63

63

63

76

76

63

63 ' 63

63

63

 63

63

63

52

52

52

52

63

204

900

403

305

305

264

252

216

172

161

161

10

14

14

. 14

14

14

14

14

17

20

20

27

20

* 14

14

14

14

20

20

20

20

20

27

34

27

27

27

97

27

20

Dee.

480

403

305

264

227

204

204

182

182

161

161

161

151

141

141

141

161

161

161

161

151

141

141

123

123

123

123

123

141

161

305

20

20

34

42

34

27

27

20

27

34

52

34

34

20

27

27

27

42

34

34

 34

27

27

20

20

20

20

20

27

27

27

NOTE. Daily discharge table for 1909 supersedes that published in Water-Supply Paper 270, p. 130, 

which was based on an unreliable curve. Discharge revised from a set of parallel curves drawn through 

scattered discharge measurements, using 1910 curve as standard.

Daily discharge for 1910 determined from a discharge rating curve well defined for all stages. Discharge 

estimated for days on which gage was not read.

No correction made for ice effect during December, 1910.
THE GREAT BASIN. 199

Monthly discharge of Prosser Creek near Hobart Mills, CaL, for 1909 and 1910, 

[Drainage area, 48 square miles.]

Month.

1909.

February. ..................

AprU.. ........ .............

May..... ...................

July........................

December. .................

1910.

April.......................

July.......... ..............

October ....................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,290 

172 

132 

665 

692 

568 

224 

76 

24 

76 

900 

480

1,290

277 

264 

440 

354 

277 

252 

42 

10 

20 

14 

34 

52

440

Minimum.

60 

34 

89 

114 

276 

236 

89 

7 

7 

20 

52 

123

7

204 

204 

132 

216 

182 

76 

7 

10 

10 

10 

10 

20

7

Mean.

277 

92.0 

110 

375 

460 

374 

142 

23.4 

16.1 

45.6 

151 

187

188

236 

245 

212 

299 

226 

175 

32.0 

10.0 

10.7 

11.2 

19.5 

27.7

124

Per 

square 

mile.

5.77 

1.92 

2.29 

7.81 

9.58 

7.79 

2.96 

.488 

.335 

.950 

3.15 

3.90

3.92

4.92 

5.10 

4.42 

6.23 

4.71 

3.65 

.667 

.208 

.223 

.233 

.406 

.577

2.58

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

6.65 

2.00 

2.64 

8.71 

11.04 

8.69 

3.41 

.56 

.37 

1.10 

3.51 

4.50

53.18

5.67 

5.31 

5.10 

6.95 

5.43 

4.07 

.69 

.24 

.25 

.27 

.45 

.66

35.09

Total in 

acre-feet.

17,000 

5.110 

6,760 

22,300 

28,300 

22,300 

8,730 

1,440 

958 

2,800 

8,980 

11,500

136,000

14,500 

13,600 

13,000 

17,800 

13,900 

10,400 

1,970 

615 

637 

689 

1,160 

1,700

90,000

Accuracy.

C. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C.

c.

B. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

B. 

B.

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

C. 

C. 

C.

c.

B. 

B.

LITTLE TRUCKEE RIVER AT STARR, CAL.

Little Truckee River rises on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, 

in northwestern Nevada County, CaL, flows north, then east, and then 

south, and unites with the Truckee at the town of Boca, Cal.

The gaging station, which is located at Starr, Cal., about 5 miles 

north of Boca, the nearest post office, was established June 25, 1903, 

at Bruhn's mill, or Pine station, on the Boca & Loyalton Railroad, 

was removed to its present site on January 1, 1908, and was discontinued October 22, 1910. The flow is practically the same at both 

places.

The station is below all tributaries except Dry Creek, and furnished 

"data necessary to determine the quantity of water available for 

storage at Independence and Webber lakes and along the course of 

the stream and also for power development.

A new inclined gage was established August 3, 1909, with a datum 

1 foot lower than that of the original gage. The creek freezes during 

parts of the winter.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable and car.
 200 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY. 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge for April 18, 19, and 29, May 5 and 6, and June 3, 

4, and 5, 1909, as published in Water-Supply Paper 270, should be 

reduced 100 second-feet, as an error was found in values published 

for these dates.

This station was maintained by the United States Reclamation 

Service.

Discharge measurements of Little Truckee River at Starr, CaL, for 1910.

Date.

Mar. 24

Aug. 27

Sept. 22«

Dec. 15

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

86

32

40

40

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

124

14.6

23

38.4

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

2.60

.70

.77

1.33

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

519

13

20

81.8

a Wading measurement. 

Daily gage height, in feet, of Little TrucJc.ee River at Starr, CaL, for 1910.

Day.

1...... .............

2...................

3...................

4...................

5...................

6...................

7...................

8...................

9...................

10...................

11...................

12...................

13...................

14...................

15...................

16...................

17...................

18...................

19...................

20...................

21................... 22. .......... :. ......

23...................

24...................

25...................

26...................

27...................

28...................

29...................

30...................

31...................

Jan.

2.25

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.05

2.3

2.2

2.1

1.95

1.95

1.95

1.95

2.05

2.05

2.0

2.1

2.25

2.3

2.4

2.3

2.4

2.4

2 A

2.5

2.4

2.8

2.7

2 7

2.65

2.7

2.65

Feb.

2.45

2.35

2.5

2.65

2.95

 * 1

' 3.2

2.95

3.1

2.75

2.65

2.7

2.55

2.5

2.1

2.4

2.75

2.65

2.45

2.7

2.85

2.8

2.55

2.5

2.5

2.0

2.5

2

O

Mar.

1.9

1.85

1.95

2.0

2.1

9 1

2.2

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.55

2.6

2.7

2.6

2.55

2.65

2.9

3.75

3.6

3.05

2.85

2 7

2

K

2.35

2.55

2.4

2 OK

2.6

2

rj

Apr.

2.85

2.95

2.9

2.8

2.75

O OK

2.95

3.05

3.1

3.15

3.05

2.95

3.0

2.9

2.95

2.95

3.0

3.1

3.25

3.35

3.2

3.2

3 9

3.25

3.3

3.35

3.45

3.1

3.05

May.

2.85

2.75

2.75

2.6

2.45

2.45

2.55

2.75

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.95

2.9

2.75

2.75

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.55

2.55

2.65

9 7

2.65

2.55

2.5

2

ft

2.35

2.35

2.5

June.

2.5

2.55

2.45

2.4

2.2

2.05

2.0

1.95

1.85

1.85

1.9

1.8

1.65

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.65

1.65

1.6

1.55

1.55

1.5

1.55

1.45

1.4

1.45

1.4

1.25

1.30

1.30

July.

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.15

1.05

1.05

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

.95

.95

.95

.95

.9

.9

1.0

1.0

1.0

.85

.85

.85

.85

.8

.85

.8

.75

.8

.75

Aug.

0.7

.75

.7

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.65

.7

.7

Sept.

0.65

.65

.7

.7

.7

.7

.65

.7

.7

.7

.65

.7

.7

.75

.8

1.05

.9

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

Oct.

0 8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

85

9

9

8

85

85

85

85

8

8

8

8

*
THE GREAT BASIN. 201

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Little Truckee River at Starr, Cal.,for 1910.

Day.

1...................

2...................

3...................

4...................

5...................

6...................

7...................

8...................

9...................

10...................

11...................

12...................

13...................

14...................

15...................

16...................

17...................

18...................

19...................

20...................

21...................

22...................

23...................

24...................

25...................

26...................

27...................

28...................

29...................

30...................

31...................

Jan.

342

321

281

281

262

364

321

281

228

228

228

228

262

262

281

342

364

409

364

409

409

409

4.C7

409

613

559

533

CCQ

COO

Feb.

433

386

457

533

698

790

855

698

790

586

533

559

482

457

281

409

586

533

433

559

641

613

457

457

244

457

321

Mar.

211

196

228

244

281

281

321

364

409

457

482

507

559

482

533

fifiQ

1,240

1.130

759

641

KCQ

457

386

482

409

386

386

559

Apr.

641

698

669

613

586

698

698

759

790

822

759

698

728

669

698

698

728

700

888

956

855

855

888

922

956

1,030

790

759

May.

641

586

586

507

433

433

482

728

728

728

698

669

586

586

559

559

482

482

533

533

533

482

457

507

386

386 457

June.

457

433

409

321

262

196

211

180

140

152

152

140

140

128

118

118

107

118

98

88

98

88

72

79

July.

79

58

!>8

58

52

41

41

36

36

36

36

32

32

32

^9

27

27

36

36

36

23

23

OQ

HO

19

N 

19

19

16

la

16

Aug.

i^

16

11

16

13

13

13i^

i^

13

16

16

13

13

13

13

13

1^

13

13

13

33

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

13

Sept.

11

11

13

13

13

13

11

1^

13

13

11

13

13

16

19

41

27

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

Oct.

10

10

10

19

19

19

19

10

19

19

" 23

27

27

1Q

23

23

23

23

19

19

19

19

Monthly discharge of Little Truckee River at Starr, Cal.,for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 166 square miles.]

Month.

March. ...>.................

April.......................

May........................

July........................

Oct. 1-22. ..................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

613 

855 

1,240 

1,030 

728 

482 

72 

16 

41

Minimum.

228 

244 

196 

586 

386 

65 

16 

11 

11

Mean.

366 

526 

484 

782 

552 

189 

33.5 

12.9 

17.0 

19.7

Per 

square 

mile.

2.20 

3.17 

2.92 

4.71 

3.33 

1.14 

.202 

.078 

.102 

.119

 Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

2.54 

3.30 

3.37 

5.26 

3.84 

1.27 

.23 

.09 

.11 

.10

Total in 

acre-feet.

22,500 

29,200 

29,800 

46,500 

33,900 

11,200 

2,060 

793 

1,010 

898

178,000

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

A. 

B. 

B. 

B.

WARNER LAKE BASIN.

GENERAL FEATURES.

The Warner Lake basin includes a chain of lakes and marshes 

extending in a general north and south direction between two high 

escarpments in the southeastern portion of Lake County. The waters 

of these lakes flow from south to north. The total drop between the
202 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

water surface of Crump and Bluejoint lakes, as determined in 1911, 

was about 11 feet. There is almost no point where a well-defined 

channel or an appreciable velocity of current can be found, the greatest concentrated drop being at the lower end of Hart Lake. The 

lakes in the southern end of the valley are therefore fresh, while 

those at the northern end are alkaline. The larger lakes in the area 

from south to north are Crump Lake, Hart Lake, Flagstaff Lake, and 

Bluejoint Lake. The general elevation of the water surface is about 

4,550 feet.

The total area topographically tributary to Warner Lake comprises 

2,100 square miles, of which 360 lie in the valley. Practically the 

entire run-off is contributed by an area of about 600 square miles in 

the south and west edges of the basin.

The principal perennial streams in this basin are Twentymile 

Creek, flowing from the south, Deep Creek (formerly called Warner 

Creek), and Honey Creek, flowing from the west. These streams rise 

on the eastern slope of the Warner Mountains, a range which extends 

southward into California.

Deep Creek is the most important, and its run-off is the best maintained during the summer. Honey Creek and Twentymile Creek each 

appear to furnish about half as much water as Deep Creek. In addition 

to these, a number of intermittent streams enter from both sides of the 

valley, of which Rabbit Creek, which drams an area north of Honey 

Creek, is perhaps the most important. Protected by the high ridges 

that border it on both sides, this valley has reached a fairly high 

stage of agricultural development. At the base of the hills bordering 

the western'shores of Hart and Crump lakes are a number of prosperous ranches whose products include fruit, grains, and nearly all 

agricultural crops. The water of all three streams is largely used for 

irrigation, both in their upper reaches and in the valley. Any additional irrigation development will require construction of storage 

reservoirs on their headwaters.

Around the west side and north end of the valley is a large area of 

agricultural land which is now growing sagebrush. The Warner Lake 

Irrigation Co. has a preliminary contract for the reclamation of these 

lands under the provision of the Carey Act. Its plans contemplate 

the pumping of water from Hart Lake or Flagstaff Lake by hydro-, 

electric power developed on the lower portion of Deep Creek, where 

the stream passes over an escarpment and has a large concentrated 

fall. The low-water flow of the stream will be augmented by storage 

in Big Valley, a large marsh lying near its headwaters at an elevation 

of over 1,000 feet above Warner Valley.

A number of springs, some of them thermal, issue along the edge 

of the escarpment on both sides of the valley. On the west side these 

are found in a belt extending about 10 miles north and 3 miles south
THE GREAT BASIN. 203

«

of Adel. On the east side they are limited to 3 or 4 miles near the line 

between Tps. 37 and 38 S. The water of these springs is used for 

irrigation, and some of them probably discharge nearly a second-foot.

TWENTYMILE CHEEK NEAR WARNER. LAKE, OREGK

Twentymile Creek rises in Oregon near the California boundary 

line and flows eastward and northward into the marsh at the head of 

Warner Valley. About midway its course it receives Twelvemile 

Creek, which drains an area in California and Nevada considerably 

larger than that directly tributary to the main stream. Cqwhead 

Lake, which lies just north of the low divide between the headwaters 

of Twelvemile Creek and the streams which drain southward to Surprise Valley, receives the water of Eightmile Creek and drains northward into Twelvemile Creek. This lake can probably be used as a 

storage reservoir by diverting the water of the other streams into it.

The gaging station, which is located about 2 miles above Warner 

Lake post office, in sec. 25, T. 40 S., K. 23 E., and below all tributaries, was established March 1, 1910.

Except for a small amount of water diverted in two ditches just 

above, the total run-off from the drainage area is shown by the 

records.

The first gage (lower gage) was installed at the bridge, where the 

readings were affected by the operation of a dam below after April 19. 

The second or present staff gage, established June 3, 1910, at a new 

datum (upper gage), is located about one-fourth mile above the bridge 

and above a fall in the stream. The datum of the second gage has 

probably changed since it was installed.

Discharge measurements are made from the highway bridge and 

by wading.

Records derived from observations at the lower gage are rendered 

somewhat uncertain by the effect of the dam and by the diurnal 

fluctuation normal to the early spring. Records obtained at the 

upper gage are more reliable, except between measurements made 

July 8 and September 30, when a change in datum of about 0.3 foot is 

assumed to have occurred. The most probable date of occurrence 

of this change is believed to be September 16.
204 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Discharge measurements of Twentymile Creek near Warner Lake, Oreg.,for 1910.

Date.

Mar. 1

7

10

24

24

May 19

May 19

June 13

146

236

Sept. 306

Hydrographer.

LOWER GAGE.

.....do ....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do...- ...............................................

UPPEK GAGE. '

.....do... ................. ............................

.....do....................................................

.....do.............................. .....................

Width.

Feet. 

127

61

57

53

54

59

59

50

23

22

6.3

20

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

455

229

212

139

146

150

150

105

32

10.8

4.4

96

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

4.80

1.80

1.60

1.30

1.40

a 1.73

1.62

1.30

.85

.48

.11

.12

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

2,610

396

328

157

55

55

33

19

11.6

5.7

3.9

a Gage height affected by backwater from dam. 6 Measured by wading.

 Daily gage height, in feet, of Twentymile Creek near Warner Lake, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[Warner Lake Irrigation Co., observer.]

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

9

10...............

11...............

12..'.............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16. ..............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan. Feb. Mar.

4 8

4.2

3.0

2.3

2.2

1 9

1.8

1.7

1.7

1.7

1 s

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.6

1.7

1 8

1.7

1 9

1 B

1.7

1.7

1.5

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.2

1.1

1.2

1.1

Apr.

1.2

1.1

1.0

1.1

1.1

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0 1.1 1.1

May.

.

June.

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.15

1.1

.95

.9

.9

.9

.85

.7

.65

.6

.5

.5

.5

.4

.4

.35

.35

.3

.25

.25

July.

+0.2

+ .2

.05

.05

.05

.2

.1

.1

.1

.05

- .1

__ ^

- .15

- .05

.0

.1

.05

- .05

- .05

.2

.1

.05

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.1

.1

.05

.0

Aug.

0.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

.0

- .1

- .15

- .15

- .15

- .1

_ ^

- .15

- .1

- .1

- .1

- .1

- .2

- .2

 .1

 .1

- .2

 2

- .2

_ 2

- .2

- .1

- .1

- .1

Sept.

-0.1

- .1

_ I

_ 1

- .1

- .1

- .1

.0

.0

- .05

- .05

- .05

- .05

- .05

- .05

.2

.05

.05

.1

.1

.2

.2

.1

.1

.1

.1

.1

.1

.1

.1

Oct.

0.1

.1

.2

.2

.2

» 9

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

Nov.

0.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.4

.4

.4

.5

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.3

.5

.6

. .7

.5

.5

.4

.4

.5

Dec.

0.5

.4

.7

1.0

.7

.5

.5

.7

2.3

4.1

2.4

1.7

1.0

.8

.7

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

NOTE. Headings for March and April made at the bridge (lower) gage; those beginning in June at the 

upper gage. Readings on bridge gage after Apr. 19 discarded, as they indicate backwater from the diversion 

dam below. Probably no ice at this station during period covered by records. Readings for Mar. 1 and 2 

may nave been made in the afternoon and are probably higher than the true daily mean.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 205 

Daily discharge, in second feet, of Twentymile Creek near Warner Lake, Oreg., for 1910.

Day.

1.... ...........

2...............

3...............

t.... ...........

5...............

6...............

7...............

8.....-...--....

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20. ......:.......

21...............

22...............

23...............

24. ..............

25...............

26...............

27. ..............

28...............

29.... ...........

30...............

31...............

Jan.

.

Feb. Mar.

2,610

2,020

1,020

600

550

432

362

362

362

380

350

350

300

300

330

350

320

390

340

310

310

260

156

180

180

180

134

115

134

115

Apr.

134

134

134

115

98

115

115

134

115

115

115

115

115

98

98

98

98

115

115

148

126

118

118

118

129

139

132

123

109

118

May.

112

QQ

QQ

QQ

87

7362'

62

62

91

91

80

80

80

70

70

62

55

55

55

55

50

48

48

48

48

48

46

42

38

37

June.

36

35

S4

30 ?fl

28

26

24

22

20

20

20

19

18

18

18

18

16

15

14

12

12

12

10

10

9

9

8

7.5

7.5

July.

7

7

5

C

5

C

5

C

7

6

6

6

5.5

4

4

3.5

4.5

5

6

% %

4.5

4.5

7

6

5.5

5

5

5

5

5

6

6

5.5

5

Aug.

5

5

5

5

5

5

4

3.5

3.5

3.5

4

4

3.5

4

4

4

4

3

3

4

4

3

3

3

3

3

4

4

4

Sept.

4

4

4

4

.4

5

5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4

9 %

2.5

3

3

4

4

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Oct.

4 % 4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Nov.

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

7

7

7

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

9

11

13

15

9

9

7

7

9

Dec.

9

7

10

1Q

10

9

g

13

486

134

1Q

15

13

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

9

9

9

9

9

9

NOTE. Dally discharge determined as follows: Mar. 1 to 10, from a fairly well defined discharge rating 

curve; Mar. 11 to 23, by indirect method for shifting channels; Mar. 24 to Apr. 19, from a poorly defined 

curve; Apr. 20 to June 2, by means of a hydrograph drawn through the measurement of May 19 and following the rise and fall of Deep Creek near Adel; June 3 to Sept. 15, from a curve well denned above 5 

second-feet? Sept. 16 to Dec. 31, from a rating curve well denned (by measurement of Sept. 30,1910, and 

measurements in 1911) between 3 and 600 second-feet.

" Determinations for the early part of March, especially the first two days, are liable to considerable error, 

resulting from reading the gage but once daily during a time when there was considerable diurnal fluctuations normal to the early spring.

Monthly discharge of Twentymile Creek near Warner Lake, Oreg., for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 126 square miles.]

Month.

April.......................

vfotr

July........................

November. .................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

2,610 

148 

112 

36 

7 

5 

4.5 

4 

15 

486

Minimum.

115 

98 

37 

7.5 

3.5 

3 

2.5 

3 

4 

7

Mean.

458 

118 

66.2 

18.6 

5.44 

3.97 

3.73 

3.94 

6.53 

35.5

Mean per 

square 

Mile.

3.63 

.936 

.525 

.148 

.043 

.032 

.030 

.031 

.052 

.282

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches.

4.18 

1.04 

.61 

.17 

.05 

.04 

.03 

.04 

.06 

.33

Total In 

acre-feet.

28,200 

7,020 

1 4,070 

1,110 

334 

244 

222 

242 

389 

2,180

44,000

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B.
206 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAST X. 

DEEP GREEK 1 AT ADEL, OBEG.

Deep Creek rises on the east slope of the high escarpment that lies 

just east of the Goose Lake Valley, and flows eastward into the 

marshes that form the upper portion of Warner Valley. The mountains at its headwaters reach an elevation of over 7,000 feet.

Its principal tributaries are Camas Creek, which enters from the 

north just above the escarpment, and Drake Creek, a small stream 

just below Camas. Mud, Blue, and Sagehen Creeks are tributaries 

of Camas Creek. There are reservoir sites on Deep Creek at Big 

Valley, on Camas Creek with dam site below Mud Creek, and at Crane 

Lake on Crane Creek, a tributary of Sagehen Creek.

The gaging station, which is located at Adel, in the SE. f NW. i 

sec. 21, T. 39 S., R. 24 E., belov all tributaries, was established May 

11, 1909.

Several small ditches divert water for irrigation near the headwaters of the stream. Two or three thousand acres are watered by 

natural flooding in Big Valley and Crane Lake, but much of the water 

thus diverted, probably returns to the stream. Five ditches take out 

within 6 or 8 miles above the station and divert water around it to 

irrigate several hundred acres of land. The combined capacity of 

these ditches is about 30 second-feet. Measurements of their combined discharge were made in June, 1910, and April and July, 1911, 

and gave 25, 20, and 18 second-feet respectively.

The staff gage (upper gage) is located about 500 feet above the 

bridge and above a series of rapids; its datum has remained unchanged. A second gage (lower gage) was established by the Warner 

Lake Irrigation Co., February 28,1910, at the bridge and read about 

7 weeks.

Discharge measurements are made from the county bridge 300 

yards north of Adel post office and by wading. Below the bridge 

the grade of the stream is very flat, and the water is diverted into , 

the M-C. ditch by means of a temporary dam, which is repaired at 

the beginning of each irrigation season. The upper gage is out of 

the influence of this dam, but the relation of gage height to discharge 

at the lower gage location is liable to be disturbed by changes in 

and operation of this dam.

The relation between gage heights and discharge is affected by ice 

during periods of extreme cold weather, and occasionally by ice jams.

Conditions at this station are fairly good, although a diurnal 

fluctuation during the spring renders the determination of the mean 

gage height rather difficult.

The station is maintained in cooperation with the Warner Lake 

Irrigation Co., which has furnished part of the gage heights and 

discharge measurements.

i Formerly called Warner Creek. ,
THE GEEAT BASIN. 207

Discharge measurements of Deep Creek at Adel, Oreg.,for 1909-10.

UPPER GAGE.

Date.

1909.

May 12

Dec. 5

1010. 

Mar. 1

May 19

July 80

Hydrographer.

R.B. Post................................................

.....do....................................................

.....do....................................................

Width.

Feet. 

49

30

119

57

40

27

23

21

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

183

SO

473

156

29

18.7

1Q 4

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

4.30

3.52

7.80

3.85

3.50

3.10

2.81

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

510

129

3,340

206

127

59

11.3

14 0

a Measured by wading. 

Daily gage height, in feet, of Deep Creek at Adel, Oreg.,for 1910.

UPPEB GAGE. 

[J. J. Van Keulen, observer.] ,

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16. v - ...........

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29.... ...........

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.2

3.6

3.6

3.9

3.8

3.6

3.6

3.4

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.5

8.8

.......

Feb.

3.]

3.1

3.1

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

3.0

3.0

3.2

3.1

3.1

4.4

.......

Mar.

6.8

7.3

5.65

5.3

5.4

4.9

4.9

4.7

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.7

4.8

4.9

4.9

5.0

5.0-

5.1

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.9

4.5

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.3

4.2

4.2

4.2

Apr.

4.4

4.4

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5.

4.5

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.7

4.55

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.55

4.6

4.55

4.5

4.4

4.45

May.

4.4

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.2

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.2

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.9

3.8

3.8

,3.8

3.8

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.65

3.6

3.5

3.5

June.

 3.5

3.5

3.5

3.4

3.35

3.3

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.05

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3^0

3.0

2.9

2.85,

2.85

July.

2.85

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.9

2.9

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

Aug.

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.76

2.75

2.75

Sept.

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2

0

2.8 2.8'

2.8

2

0

2

0

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2

0

2 Q

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.85

Oct.

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.9

2.9 /

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2 Q

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2 Q

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

Nov.

2 Q

2.9

2.9

2 9

2.9

2.9

2.9

3.0

3.2

3.2

 3.0

3.2

3.3

3.05

2.95

3.0

3.1

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.1

3.25

3.4

3.35

3.2

3.05

3.1

3.0

3.25

Dec.

3.25

3.3

3.55

3.55

3.5

3.3

3.4

3.55

3.5

4.3

4.55

4.8

4.8

4.35

4.0

3.35

3.1

3.05

3.4

3.35

3.3

3.3

3.25

3.45

3.35

3.2

3.15

3.25

3.3

3.25

3.2

NOTE. Gage heights probably raised by ice Jan. 2-9. Gage carried out by flood and ice jam Jan. 23 and 

replaced by observer Fen. 8. Creek somewba.t obstructed by ice Feb. 8 to 14, after which obstruction not 

probable. Gage heights Feb. 28 to Mar. 2 are the mean of several readings a day. The highest stage reached 

was 9.0 feet at 6 p. m. Mar. 2. Subsequent readings were made about noon each day when the creek was 

at about its lowest stage in the diurnal cycle, and are therefore not fairly representative of the daily mean.
208 SURFACE WATBE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Discharge measurements of Deep Creek at Adel, Oreg.,for 1910.

LOWER GAGE.

Date.

Mar. 1

1

3

4

4

5

7

7

8

10

Time.

8a.m.....

8 a. m. ....

...do.......

7.40 a. m..

Hydrographer.

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

.....do.........................................

.....do........................................

.....do.........................................

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

Width.

Feet. 

60

119

97

60

68

60

63

57

55

55

Area of

section.

Sq.ft.

248

473

377

187

265

184

136

166

139

104

Gage

height.

Feet. 

3,46

6.50

6.10

2.80

4.00

2.80

1.70

2.00

1.60

.50

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

1,630

3,340

2,290

1,080

1,650

1,070

667

836

676

468

Daily gage height, in feet, of Deep Creek at Adel, Oreg.,for 1910.

LOWER GAGE. 

[Warner Lake Irrigation Co., observer.]

Day.

1.. ..........

2............

3............

4............

5............

6............

7............

8............

9............

10............

Feb. Mar.

5.0

5.2

6.1

2.8

4.0

2.4

2.0

/ 2.2

1.6

.5

Apr.

1.2

1.2

.8

.9

1.0

1.0 r.i

1.4

1.4

1.4

Day.

11............

12............

13............

14............

15............

16.............

17............

18............

19............

20............

Feb. Mar.

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.9

2.0

1.8

2.0

2.2

2.8

2.7

Apr.

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.3

1.5

1.4

Day.

21............

22............

23............

24............

25............

26............

27............

28............

29............

30............

31........:...

Feb.

1.1

Mar.

2.5

1.9

1.7

1.6

1.4

1.3 1'.3

1.2

1.1

1.0

1.0

Apr.

NOTE. Gage heights observed on bridge gage probably affected by backwater from the diversion dam 

below after about Apr. 1; time of observation not known, but it probably varied from day to day.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Deep Creek at Adel, Oreg.,for 1909-10.

Day.

1909. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May.

,

550

510

510

510

510

470

470

470

510

510

550

510

510

390

390

June.

600

700

750

750

750

650

550

510

470

430

430

430

430

430

390

390

350

310

350

390

310

270

240

240

210

July.

130

130

130

86

86

130

130

107

86

86

86

66

66

. 66

60

50

35

35

23

23

23

23

13

13

13

Aug.

13

13

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

Sept.

5

5

5

5

18

13

5

8

8

8

8

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

Oct.

23

23

23

23

23

23

23

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

18

18

18

13

13

13

Nov.

35

86

50

35

35

50

42

35

50

35

35

23

13

13

13

35

50

35

66

750

1,700

1,100

1,800

1,610

1,020

Dee,

370

122

122

122

99

99

99

122

199

145

122

122

171

99

80

1 80

8061"

61

61

61

80

80

80

99
THE GEEAT BASI3ST. 209 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Deep Creek at Adel, Oveg.,'for 1909-10 Continued.

Day.

1909. 

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1910. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13............... 14.... r... ........

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29..........:....

30...............

31...............

Jan.

61

61

61

61

61

61

61

61

61

61

61

61

80

80

80

80

61

61

61

44

44

122

2,500

1,000

800

600

400

300

200

100

80

Feb.

60

50

40

30Qfi

25

91!

20

20

20

25

9fi

25

30

30

30

30

18

18

18

' 18

18

30

30

61

44

Ad

410

Mar.

2,020

2,400

1,580

1,280

1,080

771

766

671

588

484

565

648

702

718

712

742

802

875

855

822

728

672

565

540

508

508

478

448

438

438

Apr.

410

410

295

295

295

370

410

AKf\

450

450

450

AKft

450

410

410

410

450

J.CA

450

540

470

450

450

450

470

490

- 450

410

430

May.

470

650

600

470

510

410

O7fi

370

Q7fl

330

295

260

260

260

330

330 one

9Q*.

295

260

260

229

229

199

199

199

199

171

171

171

171

171

158

145

122

122

June.

156

199

122

QQ

on

go

gO

- QA

61

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

37

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

18

14

14

July.

13

11

13

13

IQ

13

14

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11 * 7

7

7

7

7

18

18

11

11

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

Aug.

5

5

5

5

5

5

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

11

11

11

11

11

7

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

Sept.

13

13

23

23

00

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

14

Oct.

13

13

13

13i?

18

14

14

14

14

14

18

18is

18

18

18is

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

Nov.

490

410

330

330

370

18

18

18is

18

18

18 ' 30

61

61

30

. 61

80

37

24

30

44

30

30

30

44

44

70

99

90

61

37

44

30

70

Dec.

99

99

99

80

stn

61

70

80

134

134

122

80

99

134

122

370

470

590

590

390

260

90

44

37

9990-

80

80

70

110

90

61

52

70

80

. 70

61

NOTE. Daily discharge, except as noted, based on readings of the upper gage as published. Discharge 

May 11 to Nov. 20,1909, determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well defined above 50 second-feet; 

curve is based on one measurement in May and the form of the curve for the period following, but it gives 

results consistent with the daily discharge for low water of 1910. Discharge from Nov. 21,1909, to Dec. 

31,1910, determined from a rating curve well defined between 10 and 1,500 second-feet.

Special methods used as follows: Jan. 2 to 9, discharge interpolated because of ice; Jan. 23, estimated. 

because of ice jam, at about one-half of open channel discharge; Jan. 24 to Feb. 7 estimated, assuming that 

creek fell rather rapidly after the high water; Feb. 8 to 13, estimate reduced on account of ice; Mar. 1 to 10, 

discharge taken from a hydrograph drawn by plotting as coordinates with time the discharge corresponding 

to gage readings on the upper gage and the measurements made by engineers of the Warner Lake Irrigation 

Co., probably represents the daily mean fairly well; Mar. 11 to 31, mean 'discharge determined from the 

two sets of gage readings on upper and bridge gage.

The maximum discharge recorded, 4,950 second-feet, at 6.p. m. Mar. 2,1910.

43926° WSP 290 12 14
210 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Monthly discharge of Deep Creek at Add, Oreg.,for 1909 and 1910.

[Drainage area, 272 square miles.]

Month.

1909. 

May 11-31... ....... ........

July........................

August .....................

1910.

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

700 

750 

130 

13 

23 

23 

1,800 

370

2,500 

410 

2,400 

540 

410 

132 

18 

11 

18 

18 

99 

590

2,500

Minimum.

390 

130 

13 

5 

5 

13 

13 

61

44 

18 

438 

295 

( 122 

14 

7 

7 

10 

14 

18 

37

7

Mean.

513 

406 

56.9 

6.48 

12.2 

15.9 

355 

108

240 

43.7 

807 

 428 

247 

53.0 

9.77 

8.42 

15.0 

17.4 

42.1 

156

174

Mean per 

square 

mile.

1.89 

1.49 

.209 

.024 

.045 

.058 1.31' 

.397

0.882 

..161 

2.97 

1.57 

.908 

.195 

.036 

.031 

.055 

.064 

.155 

.574

.636

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches.

1.48 

1.66 

.24 

.03 

.05 

.07 

1.46 

.46

1.02 

.17 

3.42 

1.75 

1.05 

.22 

.04 

.04 

.06 

.07 

.17 

.66

8.67

Total in 

acre-feet.

21,400 

24,200 

3,500 

398 

726 

978 

21,100 

6,640

78,900

14,800 

2,430 

49,600 

25,500 

15,200 

3,150 

601 

518 

893 

1,070 

2,510 

9,590

126,000

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C.

D. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

HONEY CREEK NEAR' PLUSH, OREG.

Honey Creek drains a high area lying between the escarpments that 

border the valleys of Warner Lake and Lake Abert. The main 

stream rises on the north slope of Crooks Peak. Snyder Creek from 

the north and Twelvemile Creek from the south are its principal 

tributaries. McDowell Creek is a tributary of Twelvemile. Storage 

is available on Snyder Creek, and water can be diverted into the 

reservoir from the upper portion of Honey Creek.

The gaging station, which is located at the mouth of the canyon 1 

mile above the bridge in the SW. i sec. 20, T. 36 S. } K. 24 E. was 

established May 13, 1909, at a wagon bridge one-fourth mile north of 

Plush in NE. J sec. 29 of 'the same township. It is below all 

tributaries.

The gage first used was a vertical staff fastened to the wagon 

bridge, and measurements were made from *he bridge, but the gage 

heights were affected by a temporary dam used below the station to 

divert water into an irrigation ditch, and on February 24, 1910, a 

new gage was installed at the present site by the Warner Lake Irrigation Co. Since the new station was established the datum of the gage 

h»s remained unchanged. ' At high and ordinary stages discharge measurements are made from 

a cable at the gage; at extreme low stages measurements are made 

by wading.
THE GEBAT BASIN. 211

The records at the new site show the total run-off of the creek except 

for a small amount of water used for the irrigation of a few hundred 

acres on the headwaters of the stream and are fairly reliable, although 

the accuracy is vitiated by diurnal fluctuations which have been only 

partly covered by gage readings.

Discharge measurements of Honey Creek near Plush, Oreg., for 1910.

Date.

Feb. 24

25

25

26

26

26

Mar. 2

2

5

8

9

12

May 19

July 18

Oct. 1

Time.

11.40 a. m.

9.30 a. m . .

Hydrographer.

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

.....do........................... ..............

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

:....do.... ....................................

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

Width.

Feet. 

88

24

41

20

22

22

64

65

37

26

23

25

18

15

6

14

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft.

318

38

60

22

31

38

191

176

72

41

39

46

28

11.6

1.15

3.5

&,

Feel. 

6.30

1.50

2.00

.70

1.30

1.40

4.00

4.30

2.40

1.50

1.50

1.60

+ .65

- .10

- .46

- .38

Discharge.

Set.-ft. 

2,240

125

204

64

91

104

702

933

243

129

116

128

39

13.0

.94

1.9

Daily gage height, in feet, of Honey Creek near Plush, Oreg., for 1910. 

[C. E. Oliver, observer.]

Day.

1.... ...........

2...............

3............... 

4...............

5...............

6.1.............

7.... ...........

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26............... 

27...............

28............... 

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

.......

A. 3

4.4

4.5

4.5

8.15

8.6

.......

.......

Feb.

3.6

2.6

1.4 

1.6

3.9

Mar.

5.2

4.5

3.5 

3.0

2.2

2.2

2.0

1.8

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.6

2.8

1.8

1.8

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.2

2.6

2.1

1.9

1.8

1.7

1.6

1.4 

1.3

1.2 

.9

1.1

1.3

Apr.

1.5

1.4 

1.4

1.5

1.4

1.5

1.7

2.0

2.2

2.2

2.0

1.8

1.8

1.9

2.0

1.9

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.7

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.8 

1.9

1.9 

1.8

1.8

May.

1.7

1.7

1.65 

1.6

1.5

1.3

1.2

1.0

1.4

1.3

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.0

.9

.8

.7

.75

.9

.65

.7

.6 

.5

.4 

.3

.3

.3

June.

0.3

.25

.25 

.25

.2

.2

.2

.2

.1

0

- .1

- .2

- .2

- .1

- .1

- .2

- .2

_ . g

- .25

- .25

- .25

- .25

- .2

- .2

- .25

- .25

_ . g

- .3 

- .3

3

July.

-0.4

- .4

- .4 

- .4

- .3

- .3

- .35

- .4

- .4

- .45

- .5

- .4

- .45

- .4

- .4

- .45

.......

Aug.

.......

Sept.

.......

Oct.

-0.4

- .35

- .35 

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

- .35

__ *3

- .3

- .3

q

- .3

- .3

- .3

- .3

- .3

- .3

- .3

- .35 

- .35

 35

Nov.

-0.25

- .2

- .15

- .2

- .2

- .15

__ . J

- .1

- .05

 05

.3

.35

.35

.6

.65

.7

.9

1.4

1.7

1.8

2.05

2.4

2.7 

2.6

2.65 

2.6

2

e

Dec.

2.4

2.3 

2.35

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.05

2.1

2.15

2.05

1.9

1.9

1.85

1.85

1.7

1.55

1.45

1.45

1.4

1.35

1.35

1.2

1.2

1.05

.9

.8

- .2

NOTE. Bridge gage read Jan. 1 to Apr. 16, gage in poor condition and flow affected by ice part of 

the time; gage heights can not be used except for period Jan. 18 to 23.

Gage at the mouth of the canyon read from "Feb. 24. Gage heights Feb. "4 to Mar. 5 taken from 

a hydrograph plotted from both the direct readings on the upper gage and the readings on the lower 

gage reduced "to corresponding heights on the upper by means of a curve of relation. Gage heights beginning 

Mar. 6 represent one reading daily; no observations July 17 to Sept. 30. Gage heights for portions 

of November and December somewhat questionable. Probably no ice at the upper gage during the period 

of records.
212 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Honey Creek near Plush, Oreg., for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10........."......

11. .:.... ........

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22. ..............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

30

30

30

30

30

30 Jfl

30

30

50

100

1,000

1,200

800

500

300

200

100

50

50

50

Feb.

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

1 030

407

120

150

884

Mar.,

1 PLdft

1,060

600

234

238

200

166

120

120

134

134

372

166

166

200

200

218

238

322

183

166

1 VI

134

108

07

86CA

76

07

Apr.

120

120

108

108

120

108

120

200

238

238

200

166

166

183

200

183

166

166

166

166

150

150

166

166

166

' 183

183

166

166

May.

150

150

142

134

120

97

86

66

50

108

Q7

86

76

76

66

58

50 * 50

43

46

CO

Kfi

40

36

43

36

30

OK

20

20

20

June.

20

18

18

18

16

16

16

16

12

g

7

5

5

7

7

5

5

4

4

4

5

4

4

3

3

3

3

July.

2

2

2

2

3

3

2.5

2

2

1.5

1

2

1.5

2

2

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1 i

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

Aug. Sept. Oct.

2

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Nov.

4

5

6

6

5

5

6

7

7

8

8

8

20

22

22

36

40

43

50

58

 108

150

166

209

278

346'

322

334

322

300

Dec.

278

268

258

268

238

238

228

209

218

228

209

183

183

174

174

150

127

114

114

108

102

102

86

86

71

58

50

<JQ

28

16

5

\

NOTE. Daily discharge Feb. 24 to Dec. 31 determined from a fairly well defined discharge rating curve.

Daily discharge Feb. 24 to Mar. 5 a period of great diurnal fluctuation determined by applying the 

rating table to gage heights taken at 3-hour intervals from a hydrograph and using the mean of the 8 

determinations of discharge as the discharge for the day. This method gives results considerably larger 

than those obtained by applying the rating table to the mean of the gage heights.

Daily discharge for high-water period in January determined by assuming a discharge of 30 secondfeet for the gage reading of Jan. 19 on the lower gage, and extending a curve through this point parallel 

to the curve derived from the relation of the gages in February-and March; values Jan. 22 and 23 reduced 

arbitrarily for assumed affect of ice jam; discharge was further assumed to have fallen rather rapidly.

Mean discharge for Feb. 1 to 23 estimated at 30 second-feet.

Daily discharge July 17 to Sept. 30 estimated at 1.5 second-feet.

Monthly discharge of Honey Creek near Plush, Oreg., for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 232 square miles.]

Month.

1910.

May........................

July........................

September ..................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,200 

1,030 

1,540 

238 

150 

20 

3

3 

346

278

1,540

Minimum.

20 

30 

58 

108 

20 

3 

1.5

2 

4 

5

1.5

Mean.

157 

117 

267 

163 

68.7 

8.4 

1.8 

ol.5 

ol.5 

2. 7 

76.7 

149

89.5

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.677 

.504 

.115 

.703 

.296 

.036 

.0078 

.0064 

.0064 

.012 

.331 

.642

.386

Kun-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.78 

.52 

1.33 

.78 

.34 

.04 

.009 

.007 

.007 

.01 

.37 

.74

4.93

Total in 

acre-feet.

9,650 

6,500 

16,400 

9,700 

4,220 

500 

111 

92 

89 

'166 

4,560 

9,160

61,100

Accuracy.

D. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

D. 

D. 

B. 

C. 

D.

Estimated.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 

MISCELLANEOUS STATIONS IN WARNER VALLEY.

213

A number of gaging stations were established by the Warner 

Lake Irrigation Co. in June, 1910, on Deep and Honey creeks and 

their tributaries, and records obtained for about six weeks. The 

records of the measurements and gage heights have been furnished 

by the company, but discharges have been computed by the United 

States Geological Survey.

Miscellaneous discharge measurements in Warner Lake drainage basin in 1910. 

[By Warner Lake Irrigation Co.]

Date.

July 7

June 16

26

17

July 8

15

24

20

Stream.

.....do............

.....do............

Mud Creek........

.....do............

Blue Creek........

.....do............

Tributary t<v-

.....do. ...........

Deep Creek.......

.....do............

Camas Creek......

.....do............

.....do............

.....do............

Locality.

At Big Valley, NE. J see. 4, T. 40 S.,

B. 22 E. 

.....do...............................

Above Mud Creek. See. 6, T. 39 S.,

B. 22 E. 

.....do..............................

Sec. 32, T. 388., R. 22 E. ............

.....do...............................

.....do...............................

See. 9, T. 398., B. 23 E........ ......

.....do...............................

S., B. 22 E.

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.43

.93

.96

.91

1.09

.88

.44

1.13

1.12

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

52.3

16.6

2.5

1.4

10.0

5.9

9 7

10.0

8.8

3 9

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, of streams in Warner Valley,

Or eg., for 1910.

\...... ........

2..............

3..............

5..............

6......-....--.

7..............

8..............

g

10..............

11..............

19

13..............

14..............

15..............

Id..............

17..............

18.. ............

19....... .......

20..............

91

22. .............

no

24..............

25..............

Deep Creek at Big Valley.

June.

Gage 

height.

1.43

1.40 

1.3S 

1.35 

1.30 

1.28

1.26 

1.22 

1.20 

1.19 

1.17

Discharge.

53

50 

48 

45 

40 

38

37 

34 

32 

31

30

July.

Gage 

height.

1.04 

1.02 

1.00 

.98 

.96

.95 

.93 

.91 

.90 

.90

.89 

.89 

.88 

.87 

.87

.86 

.85 

.84 

.S3 

.82

.80 

.79 

.78 

.78

Discharge.

22 

21 

20 

19 

18

18 

17 

16 

16 

16

16 

16 

15 

15 

15

14 

14 

14 

13 

13

12 

12 

11 

11

Camas Creek above Mud 

Creek.

June.

Gage 

height.

1.00

.96 

.96 

.95 

.94 

,93

.93 

.92 

.92 

.91 

91

Discharge.

3.6

2.6 

2.6

2.4 

2.2 

1.9

1.9 

1.7 

1.7 

1.4 

1.4

July.

Gage 

height.

0.88- 

.87 

.87 

.86 

.86

.85

..85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85 

.85

.85

.85 

.85 

.84 

.84 

.84

Discharge.

1.0

.8 

.8

.7

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6

.6 

.6

.6

.6 

.6 

.5 

.5 

.5

Mud Creek near mouth.

June.

Gage 

height.

1.10

1.10 

1.09 

1.09 

1.08 

1.08

1.07 

1.06 

1.06 

1.05 

1.04

Discharge.

10.2

10.2 

10.0 

10.0 

9.8 

9.8

9.5 

9.3 

9.3 

9.1

8.9

July.

Gage 

height.

0.94 

.92 

.91 

.90 

.89

.88 

.88 

.87 

.87 

.87

.87 

.87 

.86 

.86 

.86

.86

.85 

.85 

.85 

.85

Discharge.

6.9 

6.6 

6.4 

6.2

. 6.1

5.9

5.9 

5.8 

5.8 

5.8

5'.8 

5.8 

5.6 

5.6 

5.6

5.6

5.5 

5.5 

5.5 

5.5
214 STTBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, of streams in 'Warner Valley, 

Oreg., for 1910 Continued.

26. .............

27. .............

28. .............

29..............

30..............

Run-ofiinacre1..............

3..............

5..............

6..............

8..............

9.. ............

10..............

11..............

12. .............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19..............

20..............

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26.'.............

27..............

28..............

29..............

30..............

Run-off In acrefeet. .........

Deep Creek at Big Valley.

June.

Gage 

height.

1.15 

1.12 

1.10 

1.08 

1.06

,

Discharge.

29 

27 

26 

25 

24

35.5

1,130

July.

Gage 

height.

Discharge.

14.8

705

Blue Creek near,mouth.

June.

Gage 

height.

0.44

.44

.44

.43

43

.43

.43

.42

.42

.42

.42

.42

.42

.42

Discharge.

July.

Gage 

height.

0.41

.41

.40

.40

.40

.40

.40

.41

.41

.41

.42

..42

.42

.43

.43

.43

.44

.45

.45

.45

.45

.45.

Discharge.

Camas Creek above Mud 

Creek.

June.

Gage 

height.

0.90 

.90 

.89 

.89 

.89

Discharge.

1.2 

1.2 

1.1 

1.1 

1.1

1.82

57.6

July.

Gage 

height.

Discharge.

0.64

25.4

Drake Creek near mouth.

June.

Gage 

height.

1.13

1.13 

1.13 

1.13 

1.13 

1.13

1.13 

1.13 

1.12 

1.12 

1.12

1.12 

1.12 

1.12 

1.11 

1.11

Discharge.

10

10 

10 

10 

10 

10

10 

10 

9 

9 

9

9 

9 

9

8 

8

9.5

301

July.

Gage 

height.

1.11 

1.11 

1.11 

1.10 

1.10

1.10 

1.10 

1.10 

1.10 

1.10

1.10 

1.10 

1.10 

1.10 

IIIO

1.10 

1.10 

1.10 

1.10 

1.10

1.10 

1.10 

1.10

Discharge.

8 

8 

8 

7

7

7 

7 

7 

7 

7

7 

7 

7 

7 

' 7

7 

7 

7 

7 

7

7 

7 

7

7.1

330

Mud Creek near mouth.

June.

Gage 

height.

1.02 

1.00

.99 

.97 

.95

Discharge.

8.4 

8.0

7.8 

7.5 

7.1

9.06

2.87

July.

height.

Discharge.

5.87 

2.33

Honey Creek above Snyder 

Creek.

June.

Gage 

height.

0.60

.60 

.60 

.60 

.60 

.58

.60 

.61 

.62 

.63 

.64

.65 

.65 

.65

.65 

.65

Discharge.

3.8

3.8 

3.8 

3.8 

3.8 

3.4

3.8 

4.0 

4.2 

4.5 

4.7

4.9 

4.9 

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.26 

135

July.

Gage 

heignt.

0.64 

.64 

.63 

.63 

.62

.61 

.60 

.59 

.58 

.58

.57 

.56 

.55 

.54 

.53

.52 

.50 

.50 

.49 

.48

.48 

.48 

.47

Discharge.

4.7 

4.7 

4.5 

4.5

4.2

4.0 

3.8 

3.6 

3.4 

3.4

3.2 

3.0

2.8 

2.6 

2.4

2.2 

1.8 

1.8 

1.6 

1.4

1.4 

1.4 

1.3

2.94 

134
THE GEEAT BASIN. 215 

ABERT LAKE BASIN. 

GENERAL FEATURES.

Abert Lake is a strongly alkaline body of water lying near the 

central part of Lake County at an elevation of 4,210 feet above sea 

level. It has a surface area of 60 square miles and a tributary basin 

of 926 square miles. The waters are supplied mostly by Chewaucan 

River and its tributaries, Coyote and Crooked creeks.

Chewaucan River rises on the high divide in the southern part of 

Lake County and flows northward into Chewaucan Marsh, .through 

which it meanders in a southeasterly direction and flows into Abert 

Lake at its southern extremity.

The principal agricultural development in the basin consists of the 

hay lands in the Chewaucan Marsh and the area of irrigated lands 

bordering the marsh on the south and along Chewaucan River in the 

vicinity of Paisley.

An irrigation project is being developed under the Carey Act which 

will water about 12,000 acres just north of Paisley with water stored 

on the upper portion of Chewaucan River. The development of this 

project, however, has been hindered by certain water-right claims of 

the owners of hay lands in Chewaucan Marsh. The general practice 

here has been to flood the lands during the spring and winter to a 

depth of several feet. As all the waters are claimed for this flooding, 

no development work can proceed until the water rights have been 

settled. There is undoubtedly sufficient water for all interests if it is 

wisely used.

CHEWAUCAN RIVER AT PAISLEY, OREG.

This station, which is located in the SE. \ sec. 23, T. 33 S., R. 18 E., 

one-fourth mile upstream from Paisley, was established January 4, 

1905. On account of insufficient funds observations were suspended 

from January 1, 1908, to January 17, 1909.

Near the station are several irrigation ditches. George Conn's 

ditch, which heads about 2|- miles above the station, diverts water 

around the gage. Conn's mill ditch diverts water from the left 

bank 250 feet below the gage, where a low timber dam has been 

constructed. This dam increases the gage heights artificially, but it 

is fairly permanent, and the accuracy of the records is not greatly 

affected by it. A short distance below Conn's mill ditch the Brattain ditch diverts water from the right bank. It follows the foothills for many miles down the river valley, and its water is used 

to irrigate land immediately around Paisley and large areas of hay 

land in Chewaucan marsh.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank.
a&e. SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable 60 feet below the 

gage.

The left bank is high; the right bank is low and will overflow at 

high stages for a distance of'500 feet or more.

Discharge measurements of Chewaucan River at Paisley, Oreg.,for 1910.

Date.

May 3

16

26«

Hydrographer.

L.R. Alien...............................................

...l.do ...............................................:....

Width.

Feel. 

43

41

34

34

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

108

86

42.4

43

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

5.59

5.06

3.74

3.74

Discharge.

See.-ft. 

423

260

38.4

38.3

a Measured by wading.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Chewaucan River at Paisley, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[Miss Lula Banister, observer.]

Day.

1...............

2. ..............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

S....:.. ........

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14. ..............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23

24...............

25. ..............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30:..............

31...............

Jan.

6.4

6.4

6.5

6.4

6.4

6.5

6.4

6.4

6.5

6.7

7.9

9.1

7.8

6.6

6.6

6.6

fi a

6.1

5.2

4.8

5

ft

Feb.

4.9

4.6

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.5

4.6

4.6

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.4

4.5

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.6

Mar.

7.6

6.2

6.9

6.8

6.2

6.0

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.5

5.4

5.7

5.8

5.9

6.0

6.0

5.2

6.1

6.1

5.2

5.9

5.7

5.6

5 A

5.5

5

K

Apr.

5.5

5.4

5.2

5.3

5.5

5.6

5.7

5.9

6.1

6.0

6.0

6.1

5.3

5.2

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.3

6.3

6.3

6.4

6.3

6.3

6.4

6.3

6.4

6.5

6.5

6.6

May.

6.1

5.8 5.6-

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.1

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.9

4.8

4.8

4.8

A Q

4.6

4.6

4.5

4 4

4.4

June.

4.4

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.2

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

July. Aug. Sept.

3.7

Oct.

3.7

3.7

4.1

4.2

4.0

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.7

3'. 7

3.6

3.6

3.6

3.7

3.7

3.7

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.9

3 9

3.9

3

n

3.9

3 9

Nov.

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

4.1

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.0

3.9

3.9

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.2

4.5

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.2

4.0

Dec.

3.9

4.0

4.5

4.0

3.9

3.8

3.8

*0

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.0

3.9

3.8

 3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.9

4.1

4.0

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

NOTE. Heavy ice jam below gage Jan. 1 to about Feb. 1; ice was not taken out by the rise of Jan. 20 to 23, 

but it became gradually thinner; ice 9 inches thick Feb. 5 and 6 inches thick Feb. 10; ice went out Feb. 16. 

Relation between gage height and discharge probably not appreciably affected by ice in December.

Readings suspended June 29 to Sept. 30 as gage could not be read easily.

Gage heights for 1910 may have been slightly affected by the raising of a dam which diverts water into a 

mill canal about 250 feet below the gage.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 217 

Daily discharge, in secona-feet, of Chewauean River at Paisley, Oreg.,far 1910.

Day.

1.. .............

2...............

3....... ........

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

i64

457

1,180

AQK

156

156

156

220

220

90

77

137

Feb.

154

125

96

102

116

116

102

108

123

108

120

137

137

156

156

104

120

137

120

120

120

137

120

137

176

156

156

156

Mar.

1,530

662

1,050

992

662

573

387

355

355

387

387

355

355

355

387

355

457

495

533

573

573

295

616

616

295

533

457

421

355

387

387

Apr.

387

355

295

325

387

421

457

533

616

573

616

573

325

295

573

573

573

712

712

712

764

712

712

764

712

764

818

818

S74

May.

616

495

421

387

387

355

355

325

325

355

325

325

325

295

268

243

243

243

243

243

220

197

197

197

197

176

156

iw

137

120

120

June.

120

104

104

104

104

on

90

77

77

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

54

54

54

54

54

54

54

54

54

54

50

50

July. Aug. Sept.

35

Oct.

35

35

77

90

65

44

44

44

44

35

35

35

35

35

35

27

27

27

35

35

35

44

44

44

54

54

54

54

54

54

Nov.

54

54

54

54

54

54

54

54

54

77

90

90

90

65

54

54

65

65

65

65

65

90

137

104

77

77

77

90

90

65

Dec.

54

65

137

100

65

54

44

44

65

137

'120

120

65

54

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

54

77

65

54

54

44

44

44

44

44

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve well defined between 35 and 1,000 

second-feet. Mean discharge Jan. 1 to 19 estimated at 70 second-feet. Ice obstruction Jan. 20 to Feb. 10 

estimated from the observer's notes; daily discharge for this period only approximate.

Monthly discharge of Chewauean River, at Paisley, Oreg.,for 1910.^ 

[Drainage area, 272 square miles.]

Month

January. ...................

March. . ....................

April...... .................

May........................

July........................

December. . ................

The year.............

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

1,180 

156 

1,530 

874 

616 

120

90 90' 

137

1,530

Minimum.

a 70

96 

355 

295 

120

27 

54 

44

Mean.

154 

129 

521 

584 

279 

69.8 

635.0 

623.0 

635.0 

45.0 

71.3 

63.1

168

Mean per

square 

mile.

0.566 

.474 

1.92 

2.15 

1.03 

.257 

.129 

.085 

.129 

.165 

.262 

.232

.617

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0-65 

.49 

2.21 

2.40 

1.19 

.29 

.15 

.10 

.14 

.19 

29 

.27

8.37

Total in 

acre-feet.

9,470 

7,160 

32,000 

34,800 

17,200 

4,150 

2,150 

1,410 

2,080 

2,770 

4,240 

3,880

121,000

Accuracy.

D. 

C.

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

C. 

D. 

C. 

A. 

A. 

B.

a Estimated. 6 Estimated by comparison with records for previous years.
218 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X. .

SUMMER LAKE BASIN. 

GENERAL FEATURES.

Summer Lake is a strongly alkaline body of water with, a surface 

area of about 70 square miles, at an elevation of 4,300 feet above sea 

level. The water is derived largely from Ana River, a stream 7 miles 

long, which heads in five large springs on the northern border of the 

valley. These springs supply a continuous flow of about 145 secondfeet. The water has a nearly constant temperature of 65°.

The water surface of the upper spring is 39.3 feet above normal 

water surface in Summer,Lake; the water surface of the fifth or lower 

spring is 7.5 feet above that of Summer Lake. Below the second 

spring an attempt has been made to raise the water by an earth dam 

sufficiently high to divert it into a ditch for the irrigation of lands on 

the right or south side of the stream. This dam will raise the. water 

58 feet. The project is being developed by persons owning desert 

claims in the vicinity.

The agricultural development in this basin is limited to a narrow 

strip lying at the foot of a high escarpment along the western shore of 

Summer Lake. This narrow strip is the most favored section in 

central Oregon and in it agriculture has been practiced extensively 

since 1848. The escarpment is effective protection against the cold 

winds from the west and north, which in passing over make an eddy 

drawing the warm air of the lake over the lands and serving to equalize the temperature. The region has long been famous for its fruit. 

Apples, pears, peaches, cherries, and berries of all kinds fire grown 

in abundance.

Along the eastern shore of the lake and extending eastward into 

the wide valley adjoining Chewaucan marsh is a large area of agricultural land, a portion of which could undoubtedly be watered from 

Ana River and another portion from Chewaucan River.

ANA RIVER NEAR SUMMER LAKE, OREG.

This station, which is located near the head of Ana River, in the 

NW. | SE. J sec. 6, T. 30 S., R. 17 E., about 6 miles northwest of the 

town of Summer Lake, Oreg., was established March 28, 1905. I No 

continuous observations of gage heights were obtained until January 

14, 1909. It was found, however, that fluctuations in the gage 

heights were caused by temporary diversion dams in the stream 

about 3 miles below the gage. Discharge measurements indicate 

that the flow is practically constant and equal to 145 second-feet. 

On this account observations of gage heights were suspended February 9, 1910.

The following measurement was made by Alien and Davenport: 

September 25, 1910: Width, 27 feet; area, 68 square feet; gage height, 3.95 feet; 

discharge, 141 second-feet.
THE GBEAT BASIN.' 219 '

SILVER LAKE BASIN.

GENERAL FEATURES.

Silver Lake is a body of fresh water approximately 15 square miles 

in area, at an elevation of 4,340 feet. The western, southern, and 

eastern borders of the lake consist of high escarpments; to the northwest is Pauline marsh.

Silver Creek, Bridge Creek, and Bear Creek flow from Yamsay and 

Hagar mountains northward into Pauline marsh and thence southeastward into Silver Lake.

The water surface in the lake fluctuates considerably. During a 

succession of high-water years the water rises sufficiently to overflow 

into Thorn Lake and cover a small portion of the desert to the east. 

This fact perhaps accounts for the freshness of the lake. After a 

succession of dry years the lake surface diminishes and the waters 

become more and more alkaline until freshened again by another 

overflow.

The principal agricultural development at the present consists of 

hay lands in Pauline marsh and small irrigated tracts bordering the 

streams. During recent years all land suitable for agriculture has 

been taken as homesteads, and dry farming has been practiced with 

more or less success.

To the northeast and practically connected with Summer Lake 

drainage basin is Christmas Lake Valley, a flat alluvial area comprising 300,000 acres. This valley has no surface streams, but contains two or three small lakes. Alkaline Flat, near the northeastern 

part of the valley, is an intermittent lake; south,of it Christmas Lake 

is a perennial body of water, at an elevation of 4,296 feet. North of 

Christmas Lake is Fossil Lake, and in the extreme southwestern portion and practically connected with Silver Lake basin is Thorn Lake. 

Nearly all the lands of Christmas Lake Valley have been taken as 

homesteads. Dry farming is practiced extensively and good crops of 

grain and potatoes and other crops have been raised. Water for 

domestic purposes is found in comparatively shallow wells. Near 

the eastern border of the valley, however, wells 40 feet in depth have 

encountered salt water.

SILVER CREEK NEAR SILVER LAKE, OREG.

This station, which is located 1£ miles southwest of Silver Lake 

post office, in sec. 28, T. 28 S., K. 14 E., was established December 

29, 1904, abandoned March 31, 1907, for lack of funds, and reestablished January 11, 1909.

The gage is an inclined staff on the right bank. The elevation of 

the gage has been verified from time to time by means of a bench 

mark near it at-elevation 18,12. The gage was found in April,
220 SUBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

1910, to have been raised from the true position, and some of the 

1909 gage readings are therefore liable to error.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable near the gage.

The bed and banks of the stream are fairly permanent. The 

country through which the creek flows is more or less arid, and the 

natural summer flow of nearly all the streams is appropriated for 

present irrigation requirements. Any additional development will 

require storage. Several fairly good storage sites are available on 

Silver Creek, and below it lie areas of agricultural land that eould 

easily be irrigated from stored waters.

The conditions at the station are favorable for good results and 

the records are believed to be reliable.

Discharge measurements of Silver Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1909-10.

Date:

1909. 

Apr. 28

Dec. 12

1910. 

Apr. 29

Nov. 22

Hydrographer.

i 

R. B. Post ................................................

.....do....................................................

L.R. Alien...............................................

Width.

Feet. 

45

17

23

20

19

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

94

26

38

19.2

21.1

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.48

61.29

1.64

.70

.81

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

292

42

78

14.9

21.4

o Measured by wading at regular section.

6 This gage height supersedes that published to Water-Supply Paper 270, p. 179.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Silver Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1909.

Day.

1....... .......

2..............

3..............

4..............

5..............

6..............

7..............

8..............

9.............. 

10..............

Nov.

........

-Dec.

1.7

1.55

1.55

1.25

1.25

1.3

1.25 

1.8

1.25 

1.2

Day.

11..............

12..............

13..............

14..............

15..............

16..............

17..............

18..............

19.............. 

20..............

Nov. Dec.

1.2

1.2

1.15

1.1

1.2

. 1.5

1.5 

1.5

1.15 

1.15

Day.

21..............

22..............

23..............

24..............

25..............

26..............

27..............

28..............

29.............. 

30..............

31..............

Nov.

5.5

5.05

4.75

4.2

1.9

2.0 

2.05

Dec.

1.2

1.4

1.55

1 45

1.55

1.25

1.2

.9

1.0 

1.2

1.15
THE GEEAT BASIN. 221

Daily gage height, in feet, of Silver Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[J. H. Gowdy, observer.]

Day.

1... ............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

w

31...............

Jan.

1.05

.9

1.9

2.3

2.1

1.5

1.0

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.95

.9

.9

.9

.9

.95

.9

.95

1.0

3.05

2.5

2.3

2.2

2.05

1.6

1.6

1.45

1.6

1.55

Feb.

1.45

2.4

2.75

2.8

2.95.

2.75

2.6

2.1

1.45

1.25

1.35

1.6

1.65

1.65

1.15

1.35

1.35

1.55

1.7

1.65

1.6

1.45

1.25

3.6

1.25

1.35

1.15

1.55

Mar.

3.15

3.9

4.75

4.35

3.9

4.25

4.7

4.65

2.95

4.65

5.05

3.8

3.85

3.95

3.9

4.0

3.95

4.0

4.35

4.15

4.1

3.8

3.4

3.15

2.65

3.15

2.75

2.5

2.5

2.65

2.5

Apr.

2.6

2.1

2.1

2.05

2.5

2.6

2.6

3.4

4.0

4.05

3.15

2.6

2.6

2.4

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.2

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.9

1 Qfi

1.9

1.65

1.65

May.

1.75

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1 45

1.4

1.3

1.25

1.2

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.15

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.05

1.05

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

June.

1.0

.95

95

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

.9

g

.9

.85

85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

July.

0.9

.9

.9.85'

.85

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.8

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

Aug.

0.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7 -.7

.7

.7

.7

Sept.

0.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

nR

95

1.0

1.2

1.05

1.0

.9

.8

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

Oct.

0.7.7 '

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

.75

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

Nov.

0.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.75

.85

.85

.9

.8

.8

.8

.8

.75

.75

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.8

.8

.85

.9

Dec.

1.0

1.0

1.1

1.05

1.05

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

.95

.95

.9

.85

.85

.85

.85

.85

.8

.8

.8

.7R

.75

.75

.75

.7

.7

.65

.6

.6

.6

NOTE. Gage heights Nov. 24 to Dec. 31,1909, supersede those for the same period published in WaterSupply Paper 270, p. 179,; gage was found to be in error Apr. 29,1910, and was corrected. The best evidence indicates that the change occurred about the time of the flood of November, 1909, and hence gage 

heights are uncertain Nov., 1909, to Apr. 29.1910. Creek probably frozen Jan. 1 to Feb. 1,1910.. Rise 

Feb. 2 to 8 caused by an ice jam; probably no ice after this except a little during the latter part of December.

On Apr. 29,1910, the gage was found to have been moved from its true elevation and was corrected; 

gage heights prior to this date have been corrected but are somewhat uncertain.
222 STJBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily discharge, in eecond-feet, of Silver Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1909-10.

Day.

1909. 

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4.. .............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23'... ............

24...............

25...............

26. ..............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1910. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6. ..............

7... ............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14.......=.......

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

30

84

117

107

157

210

147

89

72

44

29

64

38

19

26

26

15

80

117

QR

48

IQ

15

15

15

15

17

15

15

15

17

15

17

1Q

1Q4

137

117

107

QA

56

56

44

56

> 52

Feb.

24

22

56

56

68

64

52

41

41

29

15

24

26

26

24

78

107

102

48

44

35

26

26

26

19

26

35

44

50

50

60

60

60,

60

60

60

CO

72

76

76

38

52

52

68

80

76

60

44

,282

44

KO

38

68

Mar.

29

24

38

64

52

52

41

29

26

29

24

22

24

41

98

147

167

98

56

60

41

52

41

41

107

117

167

199

. 199

107

194

227

323

473

394

323

376

451

204

451

540

309

316

330

323

337

330

337

1QA.

360

OEO

309

997

997

mo

157

157

179

117

Apr.

199

210

245

147

117

107

117

147

177

199

157

316

245

OflQ

309

337

309

257

257

177 157*

167

257

221

309

295

9^7

210

IQO

167

117

117

112

157

167

167

9C7

337

344

227

167

167

147

137

147

12?

127

107

QR

QR

102

QC

76

76

May.

177

210

257

352

368

269

221

188

188

167

147

107

107

107

98

107

89

64

127

89

89

72

64

64

48

56

KC

64

48

89

48

84

80

80

80

79

64

64

64

60

56

4s

44

41

qc

38

qc

qc

3*1

35

35

35

35,

35

qo

32

29

29

OQ

OQ

OQ

OQ

June.

48

41

41

48

41

35

35

29

41

29

26

26

24

29

26

29

29

29

38

35

29

24

24

22

19

22

19

19

19

19

29

26

26

24

24

24

f)A

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

24

99

22

00

22

00

99

99

22

99

July.

19

19

19

22

24

26

In

22

19

24

22

19

19

1Q

15

13

15

13

13

15

13

15

17

15

15

iq

iq

iq

15

15

15

24

24

94

oo

00

19

19

19

, Jg

IQ

19

IQ

IQ

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

Aug.

15

13

111*1

11

13

11

11

11

11

11

13

13

11

11

11

13

11

11

11

13

iq

111111

15

15

iq

111111

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

IK

15

15

15

15

15

11

11

15

15

15

15

15

- 15

15

IK

11

15

15

15

IK

15

15

15

Sept.

15

13

13

13

13

15

13

11

11

13

11

11

11

11

11

13

11

11

11

13

13

11

11

13

13

15

iq

13

13

iq

15

15

16

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

11

15

17

17

26

OQ

41

qo

29

f)A

19

15

15

IK

IK

15

15

Oct.

13

13

15

13

15

15

15

13

13

13

13

15

15

15

11

15

15

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

1Q

11

iq

15

15

15

15

15

15

11

11

15

15

15

17

17

17

17

15

15

IK

15

11

15

15

15 IK

"K

15

15

15

11

15

15

Nov.

15

13

13

13

13

11

11

11

13

13

13

11

13

22

29

32

26

. 29

32

41

72

865

652

540

473

368

98

107

112

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

17

99

24

19

19

19

19

17

17

15

IK

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

19

19

24

Dec.

80

68

68

44

44

48

44

89

44

41

41

41

38

35

41

64

48

48

26

26

29

41

52

44

52

32

29

15

19

29

26

29

29

35

32

32

29

9Q

9Q

29

26

26

24

00

oo

00

oo

22

19

19

19

17

17

17

17

IK

15

13

11

11

11

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a fairly well-defined discharge rating curve. Values for 1909 

supersede those published in Water-Supply Paper 270, p. 180.

Thefollowin? estimates and corrections have teen made: Jan. 1 to 16,1909, discharge estimated 30 secondfeet. Gage heights Dec. 16, 1909, to Feb. 1, 1910, reduced 6.2 foot before applying rating curve, to allow for 

ice obstruction. Discharge Feb. 2 to 8 interpolated on account of ice jam.
THE GBEAT BASIN. 223

Monthly discharge of Silver Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1909-10. 

[Drainage area, 221 square miles.]

Month.

1909.

March. .....................

April.......................

May........................

July........................

1910.

May........................

July........................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

210 

107 

' 199 

' 337 

368 

48 

26 

15 

15 

15 

865 

80

865

194 

282 

473 

344 

84 

29 

24 

17 

41 

17 

24 

35

473

Minimum.

19 

15 

22 

107 

48 

, 19 

13 

11 

11 

11 

11 

15

11

15 

38 

157 

76 

29 

22 

17 

15 

15 

15 

 15 

11

11

Mean.

55.1 

41.6 

77.0 

222 

133 

27.5 

1 17.3 

12.0 

12.5 

12.8 

126 

43.4

64.9

49.4 

66.1 

311 

150 

46.4 

23.6 

18.5 

15.5 

18.3 

15.3 

17.3 

22.2

62.8

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.249 

.188 

.348 

1.00 

.602 

.124 

.078 

.054 

.057 

.058 

^570 

.196

 .294

0.224 

.299 

1.41 

.679 

.210 

.107 

.084 

.070 

.083 

.069 

.078 

.100

.284

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.29 

.20 

.40 

1.12 

.69 

.14 

.09 

.06 

.06 

.07 

.64 

.23

3.99

0.26 

.31 

1.63 

.76 

.24 

.12 

.10 .08- 

.09 

.08 

.09 

.12

3.88

Total in 

acre-feet.

3,390 

2,310 

4,730 

13,200 

. 8,180 

1,640 

1,060 

738 

744 

,787 

7,5CO 

2,670

46,900

3,040 

3,670 

19,100 

8,930 

2,850 

1,400 

1,140 

953 

1,090 

941 

1,030 

1,360

45,500

Accuracy.

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BRIDGE CREEK NEAR. SILVER LAKE, OREG.

Bridge Creek lies between Silver and Bear creeks and is tributary 

to the latter near the edge of Pauline Marsh.

The gaging station, which is located at the county bridge 2 miles 

west of Silver Lake, Oreg., in SW. I sec. 20, T. 28 S., R. 14 E., was 

established January 21, 1905, discontinued July 21, 1906, and reestablished in cooperation with the United States Forest Service September 24, 1910.

The staff gage was established at the same datum as that of the 

original gage.

Discharge measurements are made by wading near the gage.

The bed of the creek shifts, and the occasional gage readings that 

have -been obtained since the station was reestablished serve only to 

give a general idea of the behavior of the stream.
224 SUBFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Discharge measurement? of Bridge Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1910.

Date.

Nov. 22

Hydrographer. Area of

section.

Sq.ft. 

o0.50

3.0

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

1.60

1.72

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

o0.40

1.40

o Estimated.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Bridge Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg., in 1910.

[II. S. Forest Service, observer.]

1.6

15..............................

22..............................

Nov. 11...............................

17..............................

23..............................

Dec. 3. .............................

10..............................

17 1 ............................

........................... 1. 6

........................... 1. 6

........................... 1. 7

........................... 1. 6

........................... 1. 7

................:.......... 1. 7

........................... 1. 6

........................... 2. 3

BEAU CREEK2 NEAR SILVER LAKE, OREG.

This station, which is located 3 miles southwest of Silver Lake 

post office, at the county highway bridge, in sec. 17, T. 28 S., K. 14 

E., was established January 21,1905, discontinued July 21,1906, and 

reestablished January 11, 1909.

Water is diverted by a dam above the station, and below several 

brush dams, put in each year, divert water for use in small ditches 

or for flooding hay lands. The brush dame cause backwater at the 

gage. Gage heights have been corrected for effect of backwater and 

daily and monthly discharge records for the whole period of observations are published herewith.

The results obtained from observations at this station are only 

approximate and chiefly of local interest. The waters of the stream 

are appropriated during the summer months for irrigation, and have 

been the cause of considerable litigation.

Creek frozen Dec. 15 to 31. 2 Locally known as Buck Creek.
THE GREAT BASIN. 225 

Discharge measurements of Bear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg., in 1905-1910.

Date.

* 

1905.

Feb. 23

Mar. 17

May 31

Aug. 7

Oct. 4

24

Nov. 11

1906. 

Apr. 9

May 29

1909. 

Apr. 28

1910. 

Apr. 29

Sept. 24

Nov. 22

Hydrographer.

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do.....................................................

.....do......................................................

...'..Ao........... ................................... .......

L.R. Alien ................................................

Width.

Feet. 

7

11

. tf

27

28

11

10

10

9

10.5

17.5

18.7

sd.

34.5

15

16.5

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft

7.4

5.1

37.0

25.0

8.7

7.0

6.1

6.4

13

29

83.4

10.6

' 8.15

11.0

height.

Feef. 

4.15

4.60

4.00

5.48

5.25

3.90

3.85

3.92

4.03

4.48

4.87

06.23

5.79

6.05

3.93

4.09

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

14.4

23.6

11.7

50.0

46.0

6.3

5.0

6.4

6.8

27

30

65

39.7

56.1

6.6

10.5

o Observer's.gage reading of 5.35 has been used in computations. 

NOTE. Most of the lotf-water measurements have been made by wading at different sections.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Bear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg., for 1905, 1906,1909,

and 1910.

[Cliff Smith, observer.]

Day.

1905.o 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21.

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.2

4.2

4.4

4.4

4.2

4

0

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

Feb.

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.55

4.55

4.5

4.85

5.0

4.8

4.6

4.4

4.4

4.0

4.1

4.0

Mar.

3.95

4.35

4.55

4.0

4.0

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

4.0

4.0

3.95

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.05

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.95

1 3.95

3.95

3.85

3.75

Apr.

4.1

4.0

3.95

3.95

3.95

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.85

4.85

4 85*

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.75

4.8

4.95

4.9

i Q

4.95

4.75

5.0

May.

5.0

4.95

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.95

4.95

5.05

5.05

5.0

4.95

5.0

4.95

4.95

5.05

5.25

5.05

5.15

5.15

5.1

5.0

4.95

a Q

5.0

5.1

5.2

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.5

5.5

June.

5.45

5.4

5.45

5.45

5.35

5.25

5.2

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.45

5.45

5.4

5.35

5.3

C 0

5.05

5.05

5.0

4 95

5.35

5.35

5.3

5.3

5.25

5.2

5.2

5.3

5.25

5.05

July.

5.05

5.0

4.95

4.95

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.85

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.75

4.75

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

3 Q

3 9

3.9

1 Q

3.9

3.9

3.9

3 d

S o.

3 9

3.9

3.9

Aug.

3.9

3.9

3.85

3.85

3.8

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.85

3.85

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.85

3.85

3.85

3.85

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

0*. Q

0 0

3.8

3

0

3.8

Sept.

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3

0

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.75

3.75

3.75

3.75

3.75

3.75

3

7K

3.75

3.75

3.75

3

7K

3.75

3.75

Oct.

3.85

3.85

3.85

3.85

3.85

3.85

3.95

3.95

3.95

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3 9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

4 Q

3.9

3.9

3.9

a

n

3 0

3 0

1 Q

3.9

Nov.

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.6

3.6

3.8

3.95

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

3.9

3.9

1 Q

3 Q

3.85

3.75

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.65

3 7

3.7

3.85

3.85

3 n

1 Q

3 ft

Dec.

3.9

3

n

3.9

3 Q

3.9

3.9

3.9

3 d

3.9

3.7

3.65

3.65

3.7

3.85

3 d

3 95

3

QK

3.95

4.0

4.0

4.1

4.1

4.0

3.6

4.0

4.6

4.6

4.2

4.2.

4.2 ,

4.2

a See Water Supply Paper 175, p. 132. 

43926° WSP29O 12 15
226 SUEFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Sear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1905, 1906, 1909,

and 1910 Continued.

Day.

1906.* 

1... ............

3.. .............

4............... 

B..............I,

6..".............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1909.6 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

g

10...............

11...............

19

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30............... 

31...............

Jan.

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

L 4.2

.4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

3 Q

3 9

3 9

4 9

4.7

5.2

6.0

5.7

7.6

ft n

6.2

6.4

5.6

4.9

4.6

4.2

4.6

4.2

4.1 

4.4

Feb.

4.2

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.4

4.4

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.6

4.4

6.1

4

O

4.5

4.2

4.3

4.3

A "*>

4.2

A ^

4.3

4.3

4.2

4.2

5.3

7.5

5.9

4.9

4.5

4.0

4.0

3.9

4.1

3.8

4.0

4.1 4.-0

.......

Mar.

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.1

4.0

4.0 '

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.2

5.15

5.2

5.1

4.6

4.5

4.4

5.1

4.95

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.0

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.4

4.4

4.3

 4.4

4.6

4.4 

4.2

Apr.

4.3

4.1

4.4

4.6

4.6

4.3

4.2

4.0

4.25

4.25

4.25

4.3

4.35

4.4

4.35

4.3

4.9

5.0

5.15

E 9

5.2

5.0

4.95

4.95

4 9

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.4

A Q

4 3

4.5

4.6

4.6

4.7

4.7

4.7

1 Q

5

0

5.8

5.8

'5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.7

5.7

May.

5.1

5.2 

5.3

5.35 

5.4

5.4

5.45

5.5

5.6

E 0

c Q

5.65

5.4

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.2

5.1

5.0

5.2

5.05

4 95

4.7

4.7

5.0

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.0 A oe

4 9

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.8

t Q

5.9

t Q

5.9 5 9

1 Q

1 Q

5.9

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5 Q

n; Q

5.9

5 9

K Q

K Q

t Q

t Q

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0 

6.1

June.

4.9

4.95 

4.95

5.35 

5.2

5.15

5.0

4 95

5.35

5.35

5.4

5.75

5.5

5.45

5.4

5.75

5.6

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.35

E 9

E 9

5.2

5.35

5.5

5.3

5.05

5.25

6.1

6.3

6

0

6.3

6.3

fi 9

6.1

6.1

6.1

6.1

6.1

6 9

6 9

6 9

6.2

A 9

ft 9

6.2

6.2

6.2

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.9

5.9

5.9

July.

5.15

5.1 

5.2

5.2 

5.3

5.2

5.2

5.2

5.0

5.0

4.85

4 OK

A ft

4.4

4 q

4.4

A *)

4.1

1 Q

>\ Q

5.9

5 Q

 i Q

5.9

5 Q

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

K Q

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

5.7

4

0

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0 

4.0

Aug.

3 Q

3 Q

-^ Q

3 0

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3 9

3 0

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3 ft

3.8

3 ft

3 ft

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8 

3.8

Sept.

3

0

3.8

3 ft

3 ft

3.8

3.8

3 ft

3.8

0 0

3 ft

0 O

3 ft

3.8

3 ft

3 ft

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

Oct.

 v

3.8

3.8

3 ft

3 ft

3 ft

3.8

3

0

3 ft

3 ft

3 ft

3

O

3 ft

3

O

3

O

3 ft

3.8

3 ft

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.8

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9

3.9 

3.9

Nov.

3 9

3 9

3 9

3.9

3 Q

3 9

3 9

1 Q

3.9

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3 Q

3.9

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.3

4.5

5.0

8.4

7.1

6.1

5.4

5.0

4.9

4.7

4.6

Dec.

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.4

A 4

4.6

4 4

4.7

4.6

4.4

4.4

4.4

4

n

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.3

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.5 

4.5

a See Water-supply Paper 212, p. 89.

6 Backwater from irrigation dam April 17 to July 17,
THE GREAT BASIN. 227

Daily gage height, in feet, of Bear Creel near Silver Lake, Oreg., for 1905, 19061 1909,

and 1910 Continued.

Day.

1910. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12.. ............ :

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18........:......

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

90

30...............

31...............

Jan.

4.5

4.5

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.6

5.0

5.0

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

5.0

6.8

5.2

5.2

4.7

4.7

4.7

6.4

Feb.

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.4

4.4

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.8

4.8

4.7'

4.7

5.7

7.0

5.6

4.7

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.6

4.5

4.5

4.5

7.0

6.8

5.9

5.6

8.4

Mar.

7.7

7.5

6.0

6.1

5.9

5.3

5.0

5.0

4.8

4.8

4.8

 4.9

.4-9

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.0

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.1

5.2

5.1

5.1

4.9

4.7

4.7

4.6

4.6

Apr.

4.6

4.6

4.5

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

4.5

5.8

5.9

5.9

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.1

6.2

6.2

6.1

6.0

6.0

May.

5 Q

6.0

6.0

6.0

t Q

5.8

5.9

t Q

6.1

6.1

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

June.

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

5.9

t 0

5.9

5.9

X, Q

5.9

5.9

5.9

t Q

5.9

5.9

5.9

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.8

5.7

5.7

5.6

5.5

5.5

July.

5.5

5.8

5.8

5.6

5.6

5.6

Aug. Sept.

3.93

Oct.

4.05

4.05

4.05

Nov.

4.35

4.15

4.1

4.15

Dec.

4.15

4.15

4.15

NOTE. Creek frozen Jan. l.to Mar. 1 and during part of December preceding; Feb. 6, ice about 20 inches 

thick; relation of gage height to discharge probably little affected by ice after the thaw at the end of February.

The rise Apr. 16 was caused by backwater from a temporary brush dam which is placed each year to 

divert water into canals. The dam was not removed until after records were suspended July 6. No 

records July 6 to Sept. 24; records after Sept. 24 made by United States Forest Service. The maximum 

stage was 10.0 feet at 8 p. m. Feb. 24.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg., for 1905, 1906,

1909, and 1910.

Day.

1905.

2...............

3...............

4...............

fi...... .........

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

is

19...............

20...............

Jan. Feb.

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

29

29

27

42

Mar.

8

21

29

9

9

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

9

9

8

9

9

9

9

9

Apr.

12

9

8

8

8

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

May.

19

17

17

17

17

la

19

25

25

23

21

23

23

23

2?

35

27

31

31

25

June.

50

48

50

52

48

42

40

50

50

52

55

55

52

52

50

45

35

35

33

31

July.

27

25

21

21

la

10

17

Ifi

14

12

12

9

9

9

9

9

8

8

6

6

Aug.

6

6

5

5

4

6

6

6

5

5

4

4

4

4

4

5

5

5

5

4

Sept.

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

3.5

3.5

3.5

Oct.

5

5

5

5

5

5

8

8

8

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Nov.

6

6

6

6

2

2

4

4

5

6

7

6

6

6

6

6

6

5

3.5

3

Dec.

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

3

2.5

2.5

3

5

6

6

6

6

6

6
228 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg., for 1905, 1906, 

1909, and 1910 Continued.

Day.

1905. 

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

on

30

31...............

1906. 

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7.. .. ...........

8...............

9...............

10........ .......

11...............

12. . ............ -

13...........-;..

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25.. .............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1909. 

1...............

2............. -

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

1Q

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

Jan.

15

15

15

23

23

15

15

12

12

12

12

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

15

35

60

108

so

220

94Q

122

136

83

45

Feb.

50

46

31

23

23

9

12

9

4

4

4

8

12

12

19

19

12

19

12

12

^ii

OQ

115

40

*>7

15

1Q

Id

15

15

1Q

1G

1Q

15

15

65

oiq

101

45

27

6

12

4

Mar.

9

9

10

8

8

8

8

8

8

5

4

8

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

8

10

10

10

10

10

10

6

4

4

6

6

12

15

15

58

60

55

31

27

23

55

48

12

12

15

1Q

12

12

15

g

qi

3101

12

23

Apr.

9

9

10

15

14

14

17

10

1Q

19

12

12

23

23

31

31

19

15

17

17

17

19

21

23

21

1Q

1Q

23

OQ

33

33

25

23

23

21

27

27

27

OQ

OQ

27

31

27

27

9^

In

1Q

97

01

qi

qi

35OK

35

,01

01

qi

31q-i

T.1

31

31

May.

27

25

23

27

31

35

45

45

48

52

52

31

35

40

45

48

48

50

52

58

71

77

62

50

50

AK

45

40

38

33

42

35

31

21

23

35

40

40

40

35

29

31

35

QC

45

efi

50Cf|

50

50>ai

50

Kf\

45

45

45

45

50

65

55

55

55

55

55

55

55

June.

48

48

45

42

40

38

35

40

qo

27

33

35

35

55

48

48

40

' 38

58

58

62

OQ

68

62

83

77

71

71

65

65

62

58

58*&

65

74

62

Kf\

60

65

77

77

77

77

77

60

60

60

60

65

60

60

60

60

60

Cft

Kf\

50

50

July.

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

58

55

60

60

65

60

60

60

50

50

60

42

42

40

23

19

23

15

12

10

10

10

10

10

8

8

8

8

6

6

6

35

35

qc

OK

35

35

qi

27

27

' 97

27

oq

00

90

1Q

1Q

1Q

15

19

19

12

12

12

9

Aug.

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

,4

6

6

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Sept.

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3

E

3

E

-

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Oct.

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

fi

Nov.

2.5

3

5

5

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

9

9

in

27

50

9C1

ICC

115

Dec.

6

6

6

6

6

7

7

7

7

7

7

31

31

qi

01

90

<w

31

oo

35^i

23

OQ

23

15

9

9

9

9
THE GBEAT BASIN. 229-

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Bear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg., for 1905,1906, 

1909, and 1910 Continued.

Day.

1909. 

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1910. 

1.. .............

2...............

3...'............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

31

15

31

15

12

23

9

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

27

27

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

27

129

35

35

1511?

11?

15

 101

Feb.

9

12

45

23

6

4

4

23

23

23

15

15

12

12

55

136

50

]2

6

6

6

9

6

6

6

136

122

101

83

281

Mar.

23

19

23

31

23

15

227

213

108

115

101

65

50

50

40

40

40

45

45

50

50

50

50

50

50

55

55

55

55

60

. 55

55

45

35

35

31

31

Apr.

40

40

40

35

40

31

^1

27

23

23

23

23

23

23

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

31

31

35

40

40

40

45

45

50

60

60

55

50

50

May.

60

60

60

60

60

65

50

55

55

55

55

50

50

50

65

65

60

60

00

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

65

June.

45

45

40

40

40

65

65

65

65

65

65 si

55

55

55

55

55

V]

50

50

s:n

50

50

AR

45

45

40

40

40

40

35

35

31

23

23

July.

9

9

9

9

23

35

35

27

27

27

26

24

22

20

20

18

16

14

12

12

10

10

10

10

9

9

/Q

9

9

8

8

8

8

6

6

Aug.

4

4

4

4

4

4

Sept.

4

4

4

4

4

i

6.6

Oct.

6

6

6

6

6

6

8

8

8

8

4 10

10

10

10

10,

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Nov.

71

* 50

45

35

31

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

21

20

20

18

18

16

14

14

14

12

12

12

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

Dec.

9

9

9

9

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

> 14

14

14

14

14

12

12

10

10

10

8

8

8

6

NOTE. Daily discharge for periods of unobstructed channel determined from a discharge rating curve 

fairly well denned between 4 and 50 second-feet, but uncertain above on account of the lack of high-water 

measurements during winter floods.

Due allowance has been made for backwater caused by a temporary dam below the gage for the following periods: Apr. 18 to July 20, 1905; Apr. 19 to June 30, 1906; Apr. 17 to July 18, 1909; Apr. 16 to July 6, 

1910. The correction curve is defined by the rise in stage when the dam is put in, the fall when it is removed, 

and by one or two measurements each year.

Corrections have been made for ice during the following periods, using the best data available: Nov. 8 to 

13, Dec. 16 to 31,1905; Jan. 1 to Mar. 20,1906; Dec. 19 to 31,1909; Jan. 1 to Feb. 24 and Dec. 19 to 31,1910.

Discharge estimated July 20 to 31,1906, Jan. 1 to 11,1909, and July 7 to Sept. 30,1910,
230 SUEFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Monthly discharge of Bear Creek near Silver Lake, Oreg.,for 1905, 1906, 1909, and 1910.

[Drainage area, 77 square miles.]

Month.

1905.

April..............................

May. .............................

July...............................

1906.

April..............................

May...............................

July...............................

The period (212 days) .......

1909.

April..............................

May...................... .

July..............................

1910.

March. ..................

April..............................

May................:..............

July...............................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

50 

29 

19 

52 

55 

27 

6 

4 

8 

7 

7

35 

60 

33 

77 

83 

65

249 

213 

31 

40 

65 

77 

35 

6 

4 

6 

281 

35

281

129 

281 

227 

60 

' 65 

65 

35

10 

21 

14

281

Minimum.

9 

4 

8 

17 

27 

6 

4 

3.5 

5 

2 

2.5

4 

4 

9 

 21 

33 

6

6 

4 

9 

19 

35 

40 

9 

4 

4 

' 4 

6 

9

4

6 

4 

31 

23 

50 

23 -

10 

6

Mean.

a 15.0 

18.4 

9.3 

10.2 

28.2 

44.2 

11.0 

4.6 

3.78 

6.0 

4.77 

5.74

13.4

o8.0 

11.1 17.5' 

21.9 

42.6 

58.9 

34.5

44.3 

33.0 

15.4 

30.7 

51.1 

59.5 

20.9 

4.9 

4.0 

4.5 

34.4 

17.0

26.5

19.6 

43.8 

64.7 

34.9 

61.3 

48.7 

15.7 

a 4.0 

«6.0 

9.7 

13.4 

12.6

27.8

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.195 

.239 

.121 

.132 

.366 

.574 

.143 

.060 

.049 

.078 

.062 

.075

.174

.104

.144 

.227 

.284 

.553 

.765 

.448

.575 

.429 

.200 

.399 

.664 

.773 

.271 

.064 

.052 

.058 

.447 

.221

.344

.255 

.569 

.840 

.453 

.796 

.632 

.204 

.052 

.078 

.126 

.174 

.164

.361

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.22 

.25 

.14 

.15 

.42 

.64 

.16 

.07 

.05 

.09 

.07 

.09

2.35

.12 

.15 

.26 

.32 

.64 

.85 

.52

2.83

.66 

.45 

.23 

.45 

.77 

.86 

.31 

.07 

.06 

.07 

.50 

.25

4.68

.29 

.69 

.97 

.51 

.92 

.71 

.24 

.06 

.09 

.15 

.19 

.19

4.91

Total in 

acre-feet.

922 

1,020 

572 

' 607 

1,730 

2,630 

676 

283 

225 

369 

284 

353

9,670

492 

616 

1,080 

1,300 

2,620 

3,500 

2,120

11,700

2,720 

1,830 

947 

1,830 

3,140 

3,540 

1,290 

301 

238 

277 

2,050 

1,050

19,200

i

1,210 

2,430 

3,980 

2,080 

3,770 

2,900 

965 

246 

357 

596 

797 

775

20,100

a Estimated.

NOTE. Values only approximate; some of the monthly means may be 25 per cent or more in error, but 

the yearly totals are probably considerably more accurate.
THE GREAT BASIK. 231 

MALHEUR AND HARNEY IiAKE BASINS.

GENERAL FEATURES.

Malheur and Harney lakes, which are in Harney County, occupy a 

large basin at a general elevation of 4,100 feet and rimmed by mountain ranges whose elevation is between 5,000 and 7,000 feet. They 

are connected by a small strait known as The Narrows, through which 

the water of Malheur flows into Harney Lake. For this reason the 

water of Malheur Lake is practically fresh, while that of Harney Lake 

is alkaline. The average rainfall is about 10 inches; on the summit of 

the divide it is probably about 18 inches or more.

The agricultural lands in this basin comprise nearly 700,000 acres 

of flat alluvial soil, forming a circular valley surrounding the lakes 

and extending like fingers into the valleys of tributary streams.

The lower lands are more or less swampy and have for years been 

utilized as hay flats. During the spring months, when water is 

abundant, small rock and brush dams sufficiently high to cause the 

streams to overflow their banks are constructed at convenient points. 

Much of the meadow lands may thus be covered by a foot or more of 

running water during five or six weeks of the season. As the stream 

flow diminishes the swamp and hay lands gradually drain until the 

middle of July, when they are sufficiently dry .to permit the cutting 

of hay. .

Comparatively small areas are cultivated, and on these the crops 

are limited to rye, oats, and barley. The principal industry of the 

region has been stock raising, and this has afforded a ready market 

for all grain and hay that could be raised:* During recent years, however, much of the hay lands have been taken as homesteads and the 

better lands are rapidly being developed.

The principal streams in this basin are Donner und Blitzen River 

from the south and Silvies River from the north flowing into Malheur Lake; and Silver Creek flowing from the northwest into Harney 

Lake. South of Silver Creek in a flat valley lies Silver Lake, a small 

playa which is supplied by ov/erflow from Silver Creek. Donner und 

Blitzen River, with its principal tributaries Keiger, McCoy, and Mud 

creeks, drain the western slope of Steins Mountain. This mountain, 

which is the most prominent topographic feature in the area, is a 

long timberless ridge, extending northeast and southwest, with a 

crest length of 60. miles or more. The eastern slope forms an abrupt 

escarpment; the western slope, which forms a gradual ascent is 

deeply cut by canyons into which enormous quantities of snow are 

drifted each year, thus serving as efficient storage reservoirs for 

winter precipitation. The snows melt gradually and the flow of the 

streams draining the western slope of the mountain is therefore 

well maintained throughout the year.
232 SURFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Silvies I^iver drains the northern part of the Malheur-Harney basin, 

rising in the heart; of the Blue Mountains^ flowing generally southward through a broken country to Harney Valley, which it traverses 

in a southeasterly direction, and emptying into swamp lands bordering the northern shores of Malheur Lake. A large part of its drainage 

area is heavily timbered. The stream is very "flashy," being subject 

to sudden floods which as suddenly subside. The summer flow is 

practically nothing.

Silver Creek heads in a spur of the Blue Mountains and flows southeastward through Silver Creek valley into Harney Basin. The upper 

portion of its drainage area is well timbered, but the lower portion 

is bare. The stream is subject to sudden floods and in summer its 

flow practically ceases.

Between Silvies River and Silver Creek and flowing in the same 

general direction is Sagehen Creek, a small stream heading in a spur 

of the Blue Mountains and draining a rough, broken country. It 

empties into the marsh surrounding the northern end of Malheur 

Lake near the point where Silvies River enters this marsh.

The eastern rim of Harney Valley is broken by a low pass known 

as Malheur Gap. Through this gap a drainage canal could be 

excavated that at the deepest portion would not require a cut of 

more than 18 or 20 feet. This canal would carry the waters of the 

lakes into Malheur River by way of a tributary of the South Fork. 

Such a project was at one time begun, but riparian owners of the 

lake border feared that the absence of these large bodies of water 

would have an unwholesome effect on the climate of the basin. 

Accordingly an injunction was issued restraining the company from 

building the project.

SILVIES RIVER NEAR telliVIES, OREG.

This station, which is located at the proposed dam site about 3 

miles southwest of Silvies, Oreg., in sec. 14, T. 19 S., R. 31 E., was 

established June 16, 1903. Observations were suspended from 

December 31, 1904, to January 8, 1909, for lack of funds. It is now 

maintained in cooperation with the Silver Valley Irrigation Co. , An inclined gage is located on the left bank under the cable. The 

right bank is a berm over which, the water flows for 400 feet at an 

elevation of 5 feet on the gage. The cable spans the entire channel.

At the site of the station a dam can be constructed which will 

impound all the annual run-off from the drainage area above it. 

The water so stored could be diverted from the stream for the irrigation of lands in Harney Valley. This project was under investigation 

at one time by the United States Reclamation Service.

The conditions at the station are not favorable for highly accurate 

results. The banks of the stream are covered with, heavy brush
THE GEEAT BASIN. 233

which serves to create unstable conditions to a certain extent. The 

bed is sandy, and some changes occur at flood times. During the 

winter months ice interferes materially with the determination of 

flow, but due allowance for such conditions has been made, using 

comparisons with the Burns station, when no other data are available.

Discharge measurements of Silvies River near Silvies, Oreg.,for 1908-1910.

Bate.

1909.a 

MM-. 11

July 12

1910. 

Mar. 26

Oct. 226

Hydrographer.

.....do....................'................................

L. B. Alien ...............................................

Width.

Feet. 

41

14.5

64

14.5

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

104

6.2

368

10.1

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.37

2.45

8.12

2.23

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

58

6.8

699

4.6

o These measurements republished with corrected gage heights on account of error of gage. 

6 Measured by wading, 50 feet above gage.

Daily gage height, in feet, of .Sihies River near Silvies, Oreg.,for 1909-10. 

[David Craddock, observer.]

Day.

1909. 

1........ .......

2...............

3...............

4...............

5. ..............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14. ..............

15...............

16...............

17. ..............

18...............

19. ..............

20...............

21...............

22. ..............

23................

24...............

25...............

26...............

27............:..

28...............

29............... 

30. ..............

31...............

1910. 

1...............

2. ..............

3...............

4...............

5...............

Jan.

3.2

3.5

3.5

5.7

6.3

7.3

8.5

9.9

9.95

8.0

7.6

6.4

5.4

4.7

4.5

4.3

4.3

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05

Feb.

4.3

4.3

10.0

9.3

7.1

6.5

5.9

5.2

4.7

4.6

4.9

4.4

4.3

A 9

4.9

4.2

4.2

4.2

Mar.

5.0

4.8

5.0

5.3

5.4

4.5

4.4

4.3

3.8

3.9

3.3

4.0

3.5

3.9

4.3

A K

5.0

4.7

4.4

4.3

4.1

3.9

3.9

4.0

4.3

4.5

4.7

5.1

5.2 

5.0

4.7

10.5

10.5

9.8

8.6

7.0

Apr.

4.9

5.2

5.4

5.5

5.2

5.0

4.7

4.5

4.7

4.5

5.1

5.1

5.2

5.4

5.4

5.4

a 4

5.4

5.3

5.3

6.0

4.9

4.9

4.8

4.9

4.8

A Q

5.0

5-1

4.8

6.3

6.4

6.6

6.5

6.6

May.

4.8

4.8

4.4

4.5

4.6

4.6

4.6

4.7

4.5

4.4

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.2

3 Q

3.9

3.9

3 Q

3.8

3.7

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.5

3.6

3.8

3.9 

5.1

5.0

5.0

5.0

4.8

4.7

4.9

June.

3.9

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.8

3.8

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.4'

3.4

3.3

3.3

3.2

3

O

3.3

3.2

3.3

3.3

3.2

3.1

3.25

3.15

3.15

q nK

2.95

2.85 

2.75

2.85

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

July.

2.65

2.55

2.55

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.35

2.35

2.25

2.35

.2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2

AK

2.45

2.35

2.35

9 95

2.25

2.35

2.35

2.25

2.25

2.25

2 OK

2.35

2.25 

2.25

2.25

2 1 R

2.15

2.15

2.15

Aug.

2.25

2.35

2.25

2.15

2.15

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.15

2 OK

O f\K

2

1*.

2.15

9 in

2.15

O f\K

2.05

2.05

2.05

1 95

2.05

2.05 

1.95

1.95

2.05

2.05

1.95

1 95

Sept.

2.05

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.25

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.35

2.35

2.35

2 OK

2 9*

2.25

2.25

2 OK

2.35

O QK

2.25

2 9*

2.25

2.25

2 OK

2.35

2.35 

2,35

Oct.

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2

JK

2.45

2.65

2.45

2

KK

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.45

2.55

2.55

2.45 

2.45

2.45

2.05

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

Nov;

2.45

2.45

2.75

2.75

2.65

2.45

2 55

2.65

2.65

2.55

2.55

2.45

2.55

2.45

2.45

2.55

2.85

2.65

3.0

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.2

3.15

2.95

2.95 

2.95

2.3

Dec.

3.05

2.85

2.95

2.95

2.95

2.85

2.85

2.95

2.95

2.95

2.95

3.05

2.95

2.95

2 95

2 Q^

2 OR

2 95

2

QC

2.95

O QK

2.95

2

QC

2 95

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05 

3.05

3.05

2 85

9 Q

2

0

2.8

2.7
234 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily gage height, in feet, ofSilvies River 'near Sihies, Oreg.,for 1909-10 Contd.

Day.

1910. 

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20. ..............

21...............

22. .............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.55

4.4

4.5

4.6 4 *;

4.3

4

0

4.3

Feb.

4.2

4.2

A *>

4

0

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.5

4.8 *; 9

Mar.

7.2

6.1

5.6

5.0

5.5

f; 9

5.4

6.2

6.7

7.2

7.1

7 9

7.4

7.8

10.0

10 9

10.1

10.0

9.9

Q Q

8.2

8 A

7.5

7.0

A ft

6.3

Apr.

6.5

6.6

6.5

6.4

6.5

6.5

6.7

6.4

6.3

6.1

5.9

K Q

5.6

5.5

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.1

5.0

A Q

'4.8

4 9

May.

4.8

4.7

4.5

4.3

4.3

3 Q

4.1

3.9

3.9

3

0

3.5

3.4

3.3

3.4

3

1

3

*>

3

1

3.0

3.0

9 a

2.9

3.0 3.1

3.1

3.0

2.9

June.

2.65

2.55

2.55

2.45

2.45

2.45

9 4*

2.45

2.25

2 25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2 915

2

OE

2 25

2.25

2.25

2

1*;

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.15

2 11

July.

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.15

2.05

2.05

2.05

Aug.

1.95

1.95

1.95

1.95

1.95

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

Sept.

1.85

1.95

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.15

2.15

2.Q5

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.05

2.15

2.15

2.05

Oct.

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.15

2.15

2.15

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2.25

2 25

2 25

2.2

2.3

«

2.5

Nov.

2.5

2.4

^fl

Dee.

3.05

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.75

2.75

2.5

2.8

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.6

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.7

2.75

2.75

2.75

NOTE. Gage heights for 1909 supersede those published iu Water-Supply Paper 270, p. 159. In October, 

1910, the gage was found to have been raised from its true position, and the evidence indicates that the 

change occurred prior to the reestablishment of the station in January, 1909.

River reported frozen Jan. 28 to Feb. 15, and Dec. 2-31,1909.

River frozen over Jan. 1 to Mar. 1,1910, when the ice began to break; Ice gone Mar. 4; a rise caused by a 

warm spell about Jan. 22 did not take out the ice: water running over the ice Feb. 26 to 28. River frozen 

Dec. 25 to 31.

Stream bed dry Aug. 22 to Sept. 12,1910.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, ofSilvies River near Silvies, Oreg.,for 1909-10.

Day.

1909. 

1...............

2...............

3..... ......'....

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23

24...............

25...............

Jan.

6

8

10

12

14

20

30

45

70

50

30

20

30

30

42

179

221

294

413

667

684

359

319

228

159

Feb.

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

88

697

882

465

393

322

242

187

177

208

157

Mar.

220

197

220

254

265

167

157

147

97

107

53

117

70

107

147

167

220

187

157

147

127

107

107

117

147

Apr.

 208

242

265

276

242

220

187

167

187

167

231

231

242

265

265

265

265

265

254

254

334

208

208

197

208

May.

197

197

157

167

177

177

177

187

167

157

147

147

147

147

137

107

107

107

107

107

97

87

97

97

87

June.

107

97

97

87

97

97

87

87

78

70

70

62

62

53

53

45

45

53

45

53

53

45

37

49

41

July.

14

10

10

8

8

8

8

6

6

4.2

6

8

8

8

8

8

8

6

6

4.2

4.2

6

6

4.2

4.2

Aag.

4.2

6

4.2

3.0

3.0

4.2

4.2

4.2

3.0

3.0

3.0

4.2

4.2

4.2

3.0

2.0

2.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

Sept.

2.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

4.2

3.0

3.0

3.0

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

6

6

6

6

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

6

6

4.2

4.2

' 4.2

Oct.

6

6

6

6

8

8

8

6

6

6

8

8

8

8

8

8

8 x 8

8

14

8

10

10

- 10

10

Nov.

8 8

8

8

18

18

14

8

10

14

' 1410

10

8

10

8

8

10

22

14

22

31

45

45

45

Dec.

34

22

28

28

28

22

22

28

28

28

28

28

34

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28

28
THE GREAT BASIN. 235 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Silvies River near Silvies, Oreg., for 1909-10 Contd.

Day.

1909. 

26...............

27..... ..........

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

1910. 

1.. .............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8. ..............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

112

100

94

88

88

88

Feb.

147

137

208

130

160

200

Mar.

167

1fi7

231

242

220

187

1,430

1,430

1 060

708

453

477

346

288

220

276

242

265

358

417

477

465

477

504

563

1,160

1,650

1,210

1,160

1,110

774

634

598

518

453

393

369

Apr.

197 "»ia

220

231

197

369

381

405

393

405

393

405

393

381

393

393

417

381

369

346

322

311

288

276

276

276

265

265

254

254

231

220

208

197

208

May.

70

7ft

Q7

107

231

220

220

220

197

187

208

197

187

167

147

147

107

127

107

107

107

70

62

53

62

37

45

37

31

31

20

25

31

37

37

31

25

Jane.

41

34

28

22

is

22

14

14

14

14

14

10

10

8

8

8

8

8

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

July.

4.2

6

6

4.2

4.2

4.2

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.5

3.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

Aug.

2.0

1 9

2.0

2.0

1.2

1.2

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Sept.

4.2

4.2

6

6

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

.7

1.2

2.0

2.0

2.0

3.0

3.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

3.0

3.0

2.0

Oct.

8

10

10

8

8

8

2.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

4.2

4.2

4.2

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.5

3.5

3.5

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

3.5

4.2

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

Nov.

45

41

28

28

28

5

5

5

5

5

5

6

7

7

8

9

9

9'

8

8

8

8

7

7

8

9

9

10

11

12

14

15

17

18

20

Dec.

n

14

34

34

34

14

- 22

25

20

20

16

34

20

20

20

20

18

18

9

20

16

16

16

16

12

16

16

16

16

16

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a-fairly well-defined discharge rating curve. Values for 1909 

supersede those published in Water-Supply Paper 270, page 160 (see note to daily gage heights).

Discharge Jan. 1 to 14,1909, estimated because of presence of ice. Determinations of discharge Jan. 15 

to Feb. 16 were compared with discharge at Burns Station, where there was Mttle ice, and reduced 40 per 

cent from values derived from open-channel curve.

Mean discharge estimated at 30 second-feet Jan. 1 to Feb. 25, 1910; discharge determined from, openchannel curve Feb. 26 to 28 reduced, as ice was still in bottom of nver.

No correction Mar. 1 to 4. Determinations may be somewhat too high as ice was present.
236 SUEPACE WATEE STJPPLY, 1910, PAET 5.

Monthly discharge of Silvies River near Silvies, Oreg.,for 1909-10. 

[Drainage area, 450 square miles.]

Month.

1909.

April.......................

July........................

The year.............

1910.

April.......................

May........................

June........................

July.........:..............

October. . ..................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

882 

265 

334 

231 

107 

14 

6 

6 

14 

45 

34

882

1,650 

417 

220 

22 

3 

2 

3 

5 

20 

34

1,650

Minimum.

53 

167 

70 

18 

4.2 

1.2 

2 

6 

8 

22

1.2

220 

197 

20 

3 

2 

0 

0 

2 

5 

9

0

Mean.

145 

198 

163 

230 

138 

60.4 

6.64 

2.94 

4.43 

8.13 

19.5 

29

82.9

«30 

o44.3 

661 

322 

98.9 

7.21 

2.34 

.71 

1.26 

3.97 

9.1 

18.2

101

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.322 

 .440 

.362 

.511 

.307 

.134 

.015 

.0065 

.0098 

.018 

.043 

.064

.184

.067 

, .098 

1.47 

.716 

.220 

.016 

.0052 

.0016 

.0028 

.0088 

.020 

.040

.224

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.37 

.46 

.42 

.57 

.35 

.15 

.02 

.007 

.01 

.02 

.05 

.07

2.50

.08 

.10 

1.70 

.80 

.25 

.02 

.006 

.002 

.003 

.01 

.02 

.05

3.04

Total in

acre-feet.

8,920 

11,000 

10,000 

13,700 

8,480 

3,590 

408 

181 

264 

500 

1,160 

1,780

60,000

1,840 

2,460 

40,600 

19,200 

6,080 

429 

144 

44 

75 

244 

541 

1,120

72,800

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C.

D. 

D. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

C.

n Estimated. t 

SILVIES RIVER NEAR BURNS, OREG. .

This station, which is located at a wagon bridge near Parker's 

house, 10 miles upstream from Burns, was established August 14, 

1903, but lack of funds caused suspension of observations from July 

24, 1906, to December 11, 1908. ;

The cable from which discharge measurements are made is at 

Lampshire's ranch, 1 mile above the staff gage, in the NW. \ sec. 6, T 

22 S., R. 30 E.

The conditions at the cable are not favorable for accurate measurements. The stream flows through a flat, alluvial bottom. The 

banks are lined with a dense growth of willows and underbrush. The 

right bank is subject to overflow for about 600 feet. The left bank 

is high and will not overflow.

The water of Silvies River is used largely for the flood irrigation of 

hay lands in Harney Valley. As even the flood discharge of the stream 

is used for this purpose, the development of an irrigation project that 

would contemplate the diversion of the water would involve the settlement of accrued water rights.
THE GBEAT BASIN. 

Discharge measurements ofSilvies River near Burns, Oreg.,for 1910.

237

Date.

Mar. 29

Oct. 17 «

Hydrographer.

'L.'R.A'O.m. ..............................................

Width.

Feet. 

73

35

3Q

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

637

21

30

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

12.72

2.64

2.87

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

943

19.6

48

a Waded 10 feet below gage.

Daily gage height, in feet, ofSihies River near Burns, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[Mrs. Leona Parker, observer.]

Day.

1...... .........

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7...............

8...............

9...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14............... 

15...............

16...............

17........:......

18............... 

19............... 

20...............

21...............

22...............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.7

2.7

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2-75 

2.75

2.85 

2.85 

2.8 

2.9 2n

9 Q<;

9 ai

2

01;

2.95

2 95

2 Qi»

2

n

2.9

2.9

3.05

3.2

Feb.

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.0

3.0

3.0

3-0

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.0

3.0

3.0 

3.0

3.0 

3.0 

3.0 

3.0 

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.1

3.4

.......

Mar.

6.85

12.25

14.9

15.1

14.55

13.9

13.0

11.7

11.8

11.6

11.6

11.6

12.15

12.6 

13.4

13.6

14.2 

14.25 

14.7 

15.7

15.7

15.7

15.3

14.9

14.7

14.5

13.9

13.6

12.8

11.8

11.6

Apr.

11.2

11.2

11.2

11.2

11.2

10.9

11.1

11.1

11.2

11.3

n

o

10.9

10.9 

10.4

9.9 

9.5 

9.3

9.0 

8.6

8.0

7.9

7.6

7.3

7.0

A O

6.8

6.6

6.5

6.3

May.

6.2

6.2

6.2

6.2

6.1

6.1

6.1

5.6

5.1

5.0

4.8

4.7

4.5

4.5

4.2

4.1 

3.9 

3.7 

3.2 

3.0

3.05

3.05

3.05

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.95

2.95

2.85

2.65

2.65

June.

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65 

2.65

2.65 

2.6 

2.6

2.55 

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

July.

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.45

9 d

2.4 

2.4 

2.4 

2.4 

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

Aug.

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.3

2.35

2.35

2.35 

2.35 

2.35 

2.35 

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

Sept.

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.35

2.45

2.45

2.45

2.55

2.55

2.55 

2.55 

2.55. 

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

Oct.

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

' 2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55

2.55 

2.55

2.65 

2.65 

2.65 

2.65 

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

Nov.

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.65

2,65

2.65

2.65

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75

2.75 

2.7

2.7 

2.7 

2.75 

2.75 

2.75

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2

0

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.85

2.85

Dec.

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.85

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

2.9

......

" "i's"

2.7

2.65

2.65

2.65

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

NOTE. No ice reported by observer; river probably somewhat obstructed by ice from about Jan. 30 

to Feb. 26. 

Gage readings Dec. 13 to 19 were questionable and have been discarded.
238 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, ofSilvies River near Burns, Oreg.,for 1910.

Day.

1...............

2...............

3...............

4...............

5...............

6...............

7........ .......

8...............

10...............

11...............

12...............

13...............

14...............

15...............

16...............

17...............

18...............

19...............

20...............

21............... ^a,.. .............

23...............

24...............

25...............

26...............

27...............

28...............

29...............

30...............

31...............

Jan.

21

21

21

21

21

21

25

25

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

40

40

35

45

45

50

KA

50

50

50

50

45

45

45

Feb.

64

92

Mar.

382

937

2,170

2,390

1,810

1,340

1,080

863

875

851

851

851

922

1,000

1,170

1,230

1,520

1,560

1,960

3,050

3,050

3,050

2,610

2,170

1,960

1,760

1,340

1,230

1,040

875

851

Apr.

803

803

803

803

-803

768

768

7Q1

791

803

815

803

768

768

713

660

620

601

574

538

484

475

448

421

394

386

377

361

352

336

May.

327

327

327

327

319

319

319

278

237

229

213

205

189 isa

163

154

136

119

73

54

59

59

59

54

54

54

50

50

40

21

21

June.

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

17

17

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

11

11

11

11

July.

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

9

9

9

9

9

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Aug.

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

4

4

4

4

4

4

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Sept.

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

9

9

9

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

Oct.

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

Nov.

21

21

21

21

21

21

21

30

30

30

30

30

30

30

25

25

25

30

30

30

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

40

40

Dec.

40

40

40

40

40

45

45

45

45

45

45

45

45

45

40

40in

35

35

35

25

21

21

21

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

NOTE. Dally discharge determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well defined between 15 and 

2,800 second-feet. Mean discharge Jan. 30 to Feb. 26 estimated at 40 second-feet. Discharge Dec. 13 to 19 

interpolated.

Monthly discharge ofSUvies River near Burns, Oreg.,for 1910, 

[Drainage area, 865 square miles.]

Month.

May........................

July........................

Discharge In second-feet.

Maximum.

50 

92 

3,050 

815 

327 

21 

11 

6 

14 

21 

40 

45

3,050

Minimum.

21 

40 

382 

336 

21 

11 

6 

4 

6 

14 

21 

17

4

Mean.

35.7 

42.7 

1,510 

628 

162 

17.5 

8.2 

5.6 

10.8 

17.6 

29.4 

33.4

210

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.041 

.049 

1.75 

.726 

.187 

.020 

.0095 

.0065 

.012 

.020 

.034 

.039

.243

Run-off.

Depth In 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.05 

.05 

2.02 

.81 

.22 

.02 

.01 

.007 

.01 

.02 

.04 

.04

3.30

' Total in 

acre-feet.

2,200 

2,370 

92,800 

37,400 

9,960 

1,040 

504 

344 

643 

1,080 

1,750 

2,050

152,000

Accuracy.

D. 

D. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

C.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 239 

DONNEB T7ND BLITZEN RIVER NEAR DIAMOND, OREG.

The water of Donner und Blitzen River is used to irrigate hay 

lands in the Donner und Blitzen swamp, which embraces nearly 

100,000 acres of land extending from the P ranch to Narrows. The 

ranch is owned by the William Hanley Co., which has cooperated by 

observations of gage heights.

The gaging station, which is located at the mouth of the canyon 

in sec. 20, T. 32 S., R. 32J E., above all irrigation ditches, was established Jan. 27, 1909, at a private wagon bridge near the P ranch 

buildings, 25 miles southwest of Diamond and near the point where 

the river enters the swamp. The station was removed to the present 

site, 2 miles farther upstream, May 23, 1910.

The gage at' the original site was a vertical staff fastened to the 

right bank just below the bridge from which discharge measurements 

were made. Five irrigation ditches divert water from the stream 

above the bridge, and a brush and rock dam about 300 feet below 

the bridge is used to divert water into another ditch. When water is 

to be diverted the dams are repaired and raised by adding more rock 

and brush. Two of these ditches run water during the entire year, 

three of them only during the irrigation season. No record has been 

kept of the actual time of operation. The flow at this point is considerably less than the natural flow of the stream, particularly during the irrigation season.

From a point near the mouth of the canyon, 5 miles above the P 

ranch, the banks of the stream are subject to overflow during times 

of flood. They are covered with a dense growth of willows and 

underbrush, and it is almost impossible to find a place where the 

stream can be measured in a single channel even at moderate stages.

At the upper station, discharge measurements are made from a 

cable and conditions are fairly good for obtaining accurate results. 

There is considerable daily fluctuation on this river during the spring, 

and the water from the snow melting in the daytime may pass the 

station at night when no record can be obtained.

The upper gage was read occasionally during the summer of 1910. 

By computing the discharge for the days on which the gage was read 

and subtracting the discharge at the lower station on these days, the 

net diversion above the old station- is determined. These diversions are thus found to vary from 118 second-feet on June 19 to 13 

second-feet on October 4. The amount diverted has been estimated 

for each month and added to the determined discharge at the lower 

station, thus affording an approximate estimate of the total run-off.

A diversion dam below the old station caused backwater at the 

lower gage during the summer of 1910. As no discharge measurements were made between June and December, 1909, the influence of
240 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAET.X.

the dam during that year is uncertain, but the low-water estimates 

based on gage heights for that period (published in Water-Supply 

Paper 270, p. 165) were probably rendered somewhat too large. "The 

summer discharge for 1910 has, therefore, been estimated from 

observations in 1911, when continuous records were obtained at the 

upper station.

Discharge measurements of Donner und Blitzen River near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910.

Date.

May 21

Oct. 4

May "22

Oct. 4 »

Hydrographer.

LOWER GAGE.

Stevens and Alien ........................................

UPPER GAGE.

r \

Width.

Feet. 

35

32

55

25

Area of 

section.

Sq.ft. 

96

48

101

21

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.50

2.10

3.51

2.61

Discharge.

8ec.-ft. 

195

39

134

49

a Measured by wading.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Donner und Blitzen River near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[Lower gage. J. P. Jefferson, observer.]

Day.

1..........

2..........

3..........

4..........

5..........

6..........

7..........

9..........

10..........

11..........

12..........

13..........

14..........

15..........

16..........

17..........

18..........

19..........

20..........

21..........

22..........

23..........

24..........

25..........

26..........

27..........

28..........

29..........

30..........

31..........

Jan.

1.68

1.72

1.62

1.60

1.88

1.68

1.62

1 48

1.60

2.02

1.52

1.42

1.40

1.35

1.32

1.50

1.42

1.32

1.42

1.45

3.45

5.70

3.05

2.65

2.52

2.52

2 4n

2.38

2.62

2.42

Feb.

2.70

2.92

2.70

2.60

2.60

2.78

3.02

2.90

2.68

2.75

2.88

2.90

2.75

2.58

2.15

1.72

1 >ai

1.42

1.35

1.38

1.48

1.42

2.10

2.28

2.02

2.15

3

7C

Mar.

4

QK

5.60

5.30

4.35

4.22

4.05

3.50

4.15

3.95

3.45

3.55

3.75

3.90

4 30

4.25

4.40

4.35

4

KA

5 OA

5 ftK

5.40

5.00

5 AC

4.45

4 40

4 30

4 25

4.15

4.15

4.15

Apr.

4 40

3.85

4.05

4 60

4.70

4 55

4.20

4.12

4.10

4.25

4.20

4

KA

4.48

4.55

4.30

4 05

4.10

4.22

4.35

4.05

4 30

4.20

4.30

4 65

5.15

5 40

5.00

4.20

May.

3.60

3.25

3.45

3.35

3

QC

4 05

4.20

4.15

4.15

4.25

3

QK

4.15

3.90

3.65

3.85

3

QE

3.60

3.70

3 no

4 05

3 no

3.65

* 3.75

3

7C

3.68

3.82

3.86

June.

3.90

3.92

3.52

3.10

3.00

3.15

2.80

2

<JA

2.50

2.60

2.70

2.65

2.51

2.42

2.48

2.56

2.48

2.38

2.12

2.05

2 AC

2.00

2 11

2 AC

2.06

2.10

1.98

July.

2.00

2.05

1.96

1.90

1.92

1 QQ

1.68

1.75

1.78

1.78

1.82

1.80

1.80

1.78

1.82

1.68

1.70

1.74

1.75

1.82

1.70

1.65

1 A9

1 1Q

1.60

I

fiO

1 t&

'1.58

Aug.

" 

Sept. Oct. Nov.

1.56

1.62

1.68

1.68

1.62

1.50

1.58

1 B8

1.55

1.48

1.62

1.55

n

NOTE. Gage heights from about Jan. 24 to Feb. 7 increased by effect of a driftwood jam on a riffle below. 

A dam about a mile below the gage, used to divert water into a canal, was raised prior to the measurement 

on May 21, probably some time in March or April; it had evidently been lowered prior to the November 

readings and seem to have remained stable.

Relation of gage height to discharge probably not affected by ice.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 241 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, o/Donner undBlitzen River near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910.

Day.

1............................................

2............................................

3............................................

4............................................

5............................................

6............................................

7............................................

8............................................

9............................................

10............................................

11............................................

12............................................

13............................................

14............................................

15............................................

16............................................

17............................................

18............................................

19............................................

20............................................

21............................................

22............................................

23............................................

24............................................

25............................................

26............................................

27............................................

28............................................

29............................................

30............................................

31............................................

Jan.

62

66

58

56

80

62

58

50

48

56

50

43

49

38

36

49

43

36

AV

46

282

654

07

68

58

KQ

AQ

48

66

50

Feb.

i\A

56

94

82

A4

ftl

80

217

. 200

169

179

197

200

179

156

107

66

55

43

38

41

48

43

102

121

94

107

OOQ

Mar.

510

637

586

425

1 404

377

289

393

361

282

297

329

353

417

409

433

425 4f>n

535

fvifi

513

441

450

<Mfi

338

321

313

297

281

297

907

Apr.

338

249

281

372

389

364

305

292

289

313

305

355

352

364

321

281

289

308

330

281

321

' 305

321

380

4fi8

513

305

290

974.

May.

258

242

226

210

160

188

174

174

281

305

297

297

313

265

297

257

218

249

265

218

210

225

270

281

260

218

OQQ

233

222

244

251

June.

257

260

198

141

129

148

106

53

73

84

95

91

74

A4

71

80

71

60

42

45

39

35

35

32

39

35

46

38

31

July.

37

32

35

30

27

28

31

17

20

21

21

23

22

22

21

23

17

18

20

20

23

18

17

16

16

15

15

16

15

14

14

NOTE. Daily discharge Jan. 1 to Mar. 20 determined from a discharge rating curve fah-ly well defined 

by measurements in 1909. Discharge Mar. 21 to July 30 determined from a poorly denned curve. The 

change between this curve and the previous one was caused by a diversion dam; the stability of this dam 

and the exact period of its operation are uncertain.

Daily discharge for November can not be computed. Determinations reduced arbitrarily Jan 24 to 

Feb. 7 to allow for effect of wood jam. Values show only unappropriated flow at this point and are somewhat less than the total flow of the river.

Monthly discharge of Donner und Blitzen River near Diamond, Oreg:,for 1910.

[tower gage.]

Month.

May...............................................

June ..............................................

July...............................................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

654 

329 

646 

513 

313 

260 

37

Minimum.

36 

38 

281 

249 

160 

31 

14

Mean.

82.1 

114 

402 

333 

243 

83.6 

21.4

Run-off 

(total in 

acre-feet).

5,050 

6,330 

24,700 

19,800 

14,900 

4,980 

1,320

77,100

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

B. 

C. 

B. 

B. 

B.

43926° WSP 290 12 16
242 SUKFACE WATEK SUPPLY, 1910, PAET X.

Daily gage height, in feet, and discharge, in second-feet, of Donner und Blitzen River near

Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910.

[Upper gage.]

Date.

May 22.. .....................

29.......................

12.......................

19.......................

26.......................

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.51

3.42

3.32

3.10

3.10

2 (W

Discharge.

Feet. 

292

261

228

160

160

111

Date.

JulyS........................

10................:.......

16........................

24........................

Oct. 4........................

&.

Feet. 

2.90

2.75

2.65

2.60

2.61

2.60

Discharge.

Feet. 

106

75

58

50

52

50

NOTK. Daily discharge determined from a discharge rating curve well defined by measurements, most 

of which were made in 1911. They represent the total flow of the river.

Monthly discharge of Donner und Blitzen River near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1909-10. 

[Drainage area, 238 square miles.}

Month.

1909.

March....... . .... ...

May..............................

July..............................

The^year . . ..................

1910.

March.......................... .

April.............................

May..............................

June ... ............... ........

July..............................

The year.. ..................

Discharge in second-feet.

Lower 

station.

63.9 

105 

155 

185 

298

47.1 

92.7 

66.8

82.1 

114 

402 

333 

243 

82.7 

21.3

Canals.

10 

10 

30 

60 

90

15 

10 

10

10 

10 

10 

30 

60 

90 

50

Total.

oSO.O 

73.9 

115 

185 

145 

388 

Q95 

041 

o40 

62.1 

103 

76.8

117

92.1 

124 

412 

363 

303 

173 

71.3 041 

o40 

o50 

o50 

o60

148

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.336 

.310 

.483 

.777 

.609 

1.63 

.399 

.172 

.168 

.261 

.433 

.322

.492

.387 

.521 

1.73 

1.53 

1.27 

.727 

.300 

.172 

.168 

.210 

.210 

.252

.623

Kun-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.39 

.32 

.56 

.87 

.70 

1.82 

.46 

.20 

.19 

.30 

.48 

.37

6.66

.45 

.54 

1.99 

1.71 

1.46 

.81 

.35 

.20 

.19 

.24 

.23 

.29

8.46

Total to 

acre-feet.

4,920 

4,100 

7,070 

11,000 

 8,920 

23,100 

6,840 

2,520 

2,380 

3,820 

6,130 

4,720

84,500

6,660 

6,890 

25,300 

21,600 

18,600 

10,300 

4,380 

2,520 

2,380 

3,070 

2,980 

3,690

107,000

o Estimated.

NOTE. Monthly discharge computed by adding the estimated diversion of the canal to the discharge 

determined from observation at tne lower station. Discharge for January and July to September, 1909, 

and August to December, 1910, estimated by comparison with records derived from observations at other 

stations and by assuming that the low-water discharge in 1911 was fairly representative of that in previous 

years. Figures published for the lower station for July to September, 1909, nave been discarded as prob&bly 

too high, for the channel was obstructed during that period.

The figures for each month are liable to considerable error, but they afford a basis for an approximate 

estimate of the total yearly discharge.
THE GREAT BASIN. 24-3

KEIGEB CHEEK NEAR DIAMONp, OREG.

The waters of Keiger Creek are used to irrigate hay land in the 

Diamond swamp.

The gaging station, which is located 3 miles south of Diamond 

post office, in sec. 10, T. 30 S., R. 33 E., above all present irrigation 

ditches, was established January 26,1909. Observation of gage heights 

was suspended May 31, 1910, as the observer moved away.

The gage is a vertical staff on the right bank.

Discharge measurements are made by wading at any convenient 

point near the gage. No facilities have been provided for making 

measurements at high stages.

The stream flows through an alluvial bottom on a flat grade. The 

banks are subject to overflow and are covered with a dense growth 

of willows and underbrush, which trail in the water, catch debris, 

and form obstructions that produce unstable conditions at the gage. 

For this reason the results do not possess a high degree of accuracy, 

but they suffice for a general study of the behavior of the stream.

The following discharge measurement was made by Stevens and 

Alien by wading above the gage:

. May 23,1910: Width, 20 feet; area, 32 square feet; gage height, 1.67 feet; discharge, 

54 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Keiger Creek near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[H. D. Pugsley, observer.]

Day.

1.......

2.......

3.......

4.......

5.......

6.......

7.......

8.......

9.......

10.......

11.......

12.......

13.......

14. ......

15. ......

Jan.

n o

8

8

8

9

9

9

8

8

75

7

Feb.

1.0

1.0

1.0

.5

1.5

1.0

.75

.5

.6

.6

.6

.65

.65

.6

.6

Mar.

 2.0

1.6

1.4

2

n

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.6

1.55

1.5

1.7

1.7

1.6

1.6

Apr.

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.75

1.75

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.9

1 Q

2.0

2.0

2.0

May.

1.9

1.8

1.75

1.75

1.8

1 Q

2.0

2.1

2.3

2.4

2.1

2 A

2.1

2.1

2.0

Day.

16. ......

17.......

18.......

10

20.......

21.......

22. ......

23.......

24.......

25.......

26.......

97

28.......

29.......

30. ......

31.......

Jan.

0.6

.5

.5

.6

.6

.8

2.0

2.0

1.0

.9

.8

.8

.8

.8

1.5

1.5

Feb.

0.5

.6

.7

.8

.8

.8

.8

1.0

1.2

2.0

1.9

2.0

2.0

Mar.

1.7

1.8

1.8

2.0

2.1

2.0

1 Q

1.9

1.8

1.8

2.0

1 Q

1 Q

1.8

1.8

1.8

Apr.

1.9

1.9

1.9

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.6

2.75

2.8

3.3

3.2

2.8

2.3

2.0

May.

2.0

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.8

2.1

2.1

2.15

2.3

2.5

2.6

2.7

NOTE. Relation between gage height and discharge at this station is probably little or not at all affected 

by ice.
244 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Keiger Creek near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1909-10.

Day.

1009. 

1......

2.......

3.......

4.......

S.......

6...'....

7.......

8.......

9.......

10.......

11.......

12.......

13.......

14.......

15.......

16.......

17.......

18.......

19.......

20.......

21.......

22.......

23.......

24.......

25.......

26.......

27. ......

28.......

29

30.......

31.......

Day.

1910. 

1.......

2.......

3.......

4.......

5.......

6.......

7.......

8.......

9.......

10.......

11.......

12.......

13.......

14.......

15.......

J

Fe

an.

26

24

74

24

26

26

26

26

26

716

26

?,4

24

23

22

b.

716

24

19

14

13

24

19

19

13

22

20

14

14

12

n

1Q

30

24

23

18

IS

39

90

14

14

13

10

16

F

Ma

1

eb.

oa

29

29la

47

*>Q

0^

18

20

20

20

21

21

20

20

r.

16

16

16

16

16

IS

10

19

12

10

14

14

18

20

18

1ft

26

26

24

OJ.

26

26

f)A

13

44

3O

43

QC

35

QE

39

Id

Ap

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Ear.

74

52

43

74

52

47

47

47

52

50

47

57

57

52

52

r.

47

47

<w

57

47

57

41

47

47

62

60

47

68

74,

CO

90

13-ID

11

04

O'l

Qfi

01

OR

13

10

10

10

31

06

A

Ma

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

 1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

7

pr62

62

62

62

60

60

60

62

62

62

68

68

74

74

74

y.

06

01

40

50

50

50

w»

50

w»

60

10

10

Q-l

m-to

01

AQ

01

OS

32

19

08

01

08

13

to

7.1

q-l

H1

m

i

June

91

23

25

OC

24

24

18

18

17

16

16

13

14

151 R

1 1

14

14

14

19

19

14

19

11

10

10

7

7

7

lay.

68

62

60 60

62

68

74

81

OR

104

81

74

81

ai

74

5

1

1

5

5

1

1-

6

0

0

1

0

n

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

4

1

4

4

4

1

1

1

1

7

7

?

7

7

7

7

?

?

7

3

3

July.

81

R9

52

47

43

35

32

32

32

35

34

32

30

29

9O

29

9Q

00

26

26

26

25

24

18

18

10

10

18

18is

18

Day.

1910. 

6.......

7.......

8.......

Q

0.......

1. ......

2

3.......

A.......

5.......

6.......

7.......

8.......

9.......

0.......

1.......

Aug.

14

13

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

11

11

10

10

10

10

Q 9

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

O O

Q 9

9.2

9 A

9

A

Jan.

20

18

18

20

20

24

74

74

29

26

24

24

24

24

47

47

Sept.

9.2

12

14

12

10

14

10

10

12

9.2

9.2

10

12

9.2

10

10

9.2

8.2

8.5

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

9.2

10

10

Feb.

18

20

24

24

24

24

29

35

74

68

74

74

Oct.

10

10

12

14

14

14

14

12

12

12

12

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

9.2

10

10

12

11

12

12

12

19

12

12

12

12

Mar.

57

62

62

74

81

74

68

68

62

62

74

68

68

62

62

62

Nov.

12

12

12

12

13

14

12

12

14

14

14

14

14

14

16

16

16

20

22

26

43

43

43

43

43

39

35

26

20

20

Apr.

68

68

68

81

88

96

104

122

136

140

192

181

14096-

74

Dec.

19

18

18

18

47

47

43

52

57

24

19

43

18

18

16

16

43

29

29

29

29

29

29

24

26

26

26

26

28

29

29

May.

74

62

62

62

60

57

62

62

62

81

81

84

96

113

122

131

NOTE. Dally discharge determined from a discharge rating curve fairly well defined between 10 and 120 

second-feet, but very uncertain above. Determination for the winter period somewhat uncertain, as ice 

affected to a slight degree the relation of gage height to discharge.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 245

Monthly discharge of Keiger Creek near Diamond, Oreg,,for 1909-10. 

[Drainage area, 50 square miles.]

Month.

1909.

April.......................

May........................

June.......................

July........................

August. . ...................

October. . ..................

Theperiod...........

, 1910. 

January ....................

February. ..................

March......................

April.......................

May........................

Theperiod...........

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

39 

113 

140 

203

251 

81 

14 

14 

14 

43 

57

74 

74 

81 

192 

131

Mfrn'nnirn,-

10 

10 

43 

96 

74 

18 

9 

8.2 

9.2 

12 

16

18 

18 

43 

60

57

Mean.

18.8 

26.4 

82.2 

130 

152 

31.1 

10.5 

10.0 

11.4 

21.8 

29.2

28.6 

31.2 

60.3

87.5 

77.7

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.376 

.528 

1.64 

2.60 

3.04 

.622 

.210 

.200 

.228 

.436 

.584

0.572 

.624 

1.21 

1.75 

1.55

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.39 

.61 

1.83 

3.00 

3.39 

.72 

.24 

.22 

.26 

.49 

.67

0.66 

.65 

1.40 

1.96 

1.79

Total in 

acre-feet.

1,040 

1,620 

4,890 

7,990 

9,040 

1,910 

646 

595 

701 

1,300 

1,800

31,500

1,760 

1,730 

3,710 

5,310

4,780

17,200

Accuracy.

C. 

B. 

B. 

C. 

C. 

B. B." 

B. 

B. 

B.

C. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

McCOY CHEEK NEAR DIAMOND, OBEG.

This station, which is located at Kesterson's ranch, in sec. 12, T. 

30 S., R. 32 E., and above all present irrigation ditches, was established January 27, 1909, at a point three-fourths of a mile west of 

Diamond ranch house and 3 miles from Diamond post omce, and was 

removed to the present site, 2£ miles above the old one, on May 23, 

1910, observations at the original site having been suspended June 

30, 1909, for lack of an observer.

Several irrigation ditches divert water above the original station 

for hay lands in the Diamond swamp, but no estimate has been made 

of the flow of these ditches, and the results obtained during 1909 do 

not represent the natural flow of the stream. The figures published 

for that year, therefore, are only of general interest and do not possess 

a high degree of accuracy.

At the new station conditions are favorable for good results. Discharge measurements are made by wading or from a footbridge 25 

yards above the vertical staff gage.

Discharge measurements of McCoy Creek near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910.

Date.

May 23 Oct. 7

Hydrographer. Width.

Feet. 

25

11.5

Area of 

section.

8^

4

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.64

1.79

Discharge.

Sec.-/*. 

SO

3.6
246 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PAST X.

Daily gage height, in feet, of McCoy Creek near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[Mrs. Grant Kesterson, observer.]

Day.

I....................................

2......... ...........................

3....................................

4....................................

5....................................

6....................................

7...................................

8...................................

9...................................

10....................................

11....................................

12.................................... 

13....................................

14...... ......... .................

15....... .............................

16........... .........................

17....................................

18....................................

19....................................

20....................................

21....................................

22....................................

23....................................

9d

25....................................

36.............. ... ................

27....................................

28....................................

on

30....................................

31....................................

May.

3.65

3

0

3.6

3.6

June.

S 4.

3.3

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.5

2.5

2.5

£,, ttO

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.15

2.15

2.1

9 1

2.05

2

ftK

2 A

2.0

July.

2.0

1.95

1.95

2.0

1.95

1.95

1.95

1.9

1.9

1.8

1.8

l.S

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.9

1.8

1.75

1.75

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.65

Aug.

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.65

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

Sept.

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.75

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

1.7

Oct.

1.8

1.8

1.85

1.9

1.85

1.85

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.9

1.85

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

Nov.

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.85

1.9

1.85

1.9

1.95

1.9

1.9

1.85

1.85

1.9

1.85

1.8

1.9

2.0

1.95

2.0

2.0

1.95

2.0

,1.95 '1.9

Dec.

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

1.85

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.1 

1.9

1.9

1.9

2.0

1.9

1.9

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.9

1.85

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.85

1.85

1.85

NOTE. No ice reported in December.

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of McCoy Creek near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910.

Day.

1.... ................................

2....................................

3. ...................................

4....................................

5.....................................

6....................................

7......... ................... ........

8....................................

9....................................

10....................................

11....................................

12....................................

13....................................

14....................................

15....................................

16....................................

17....................................

18....................................

19....................................

20....................................

21....................................

22....................................

23....................................

24....................................

25:..........................-........

26....................................

27....................................

2&~. .................................

29....................................

30....................................

31.......---.--...------.-............

May.

80

78

75

72

70

68

53

77

77

June.

65

59

33

33

33

33

33

29

21

21

21

20

18

18

is

18

18

18

18

15

19

12

10

10

9

9

8

8

7

July.

7

6

6

7

6

6

6

5

5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

Q 1

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

5

3.5

2.8

2.8

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.5

Aug.

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.5

1.0

1.0

1.0

. 1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Sept.

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

. i.o

1.0

2.0

2.0

9 ft

3.5

3.5

2.8

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.8

2.8

2.8

3.5

Oct.

3.5

3.5

4.2

5

4.2

4.2

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

4 9

4.2

4.2

4.2

5.0

4.2

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

Q ^

3.5

3.5

3.5

NOT.

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

3.5

4.2

5

4.2

5

6

6

5

5

4.2

4.2

5

4.2

3.5

5

7

6

7

7

6

6

7

6

5

Dec.

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

4.2

7

7

9

9

5

5

5

7

5

5

7

7

7

5

4.2

4.2

3.5

3.5

3.5

4.2

4.2

4.2

NOTE. Daily discharge determined from a fairly well-defined discharge rating curve. 

24 to 27 interpolated.

Discharge May
THE GEEAT BASIN. 247

Monthly discharge of McCoy Creek near Diamond, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[Drainage area, 56 square miles.]

Month.

May23-31.. .................

July........................

October. ...................

Discharge In second-feet.

Maximum.

80 

65 

7 

1.5 

3.5 

5 

7 

9

Minimum.

53 

7 

1.5 

1.0 

1.0 

3.5 

3.5 

3.5

Mean.

72.2 

21.1 

3.87 

1.13 

1.86 

3.78 

4.93 

5.12

Per 

square 

mile.

1.29 

.376 

.069 

.020 

* .033 

.068 

.088 

.091

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.43 

.42 

.08 

.02 

.04 

.08 

.10 

.10

Total in 

acre-feet.

1,290 

1,260 

238 

69 

111 

232 

293 

315

3,810

Accuracy.

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B.

SILVER CREEK NEAR RILEY, OREG.

This station, which is located about 200 feet above the bridges 

across the Silver Creek on Cecil's ranch, about 12 miles north of 

Riley, Oreg., on the main stage road from Prineville to Burns, was 

established April 19, 1904. Observations were suspended from July 

14, 1906, to January 14, 1909, and from December 13, 1909, to April 

6, 1910. The station is now maintained in cooperation with the 

Silver Valley Irrigation Co.

When the station was reestablished January 14, 1909, it was practically impossible to install a permanent gage; temporary gages have 

therefore been used, all referring to the same datum except the one 

read during December, 1910.

Discharge measurements are made from a cable installed in 

January, 1909.

One hundred feet below the cable is a brush and rock dam which 

diverts water into three channels. Stable relations between discharge 

and gage heights can be established only during the irrigating seasons 

and the time between first fall flood, when the dam is washed out, and 

the spring when it is reconstructed. Usually only the brush, earth, 

and smaller stones are washed away. For this reason results at this 

station will be only approximate, but it is the only site that can be 

utilized that is within practical distance of an observer.

The waters of Silver Creek are now largely used for the irrigation of 

hay lands in Silver Creek valley. The Silver Creek reservoir site, 

which was investigated by the Reclamation Service, and later by the 

Silver Valley Irrigation Co., is 3 or 4 miles above the station. At this 

point a large quantity of water can be scored. Below the station on 

both sides of the stream are large areas of agricultural land which 

could be irrigated from stored water.
248 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Discharge measurements of Silver Creek near Riky, Oreg.,for 1910,

Date.

Apr. 6

May 29

Oct. 19

Deci 9

Hydrographer.

L.R. Alien...............................................

R. W. Davenport. . .......................................

Width.

Feet. 

63

16

20

13

Area of 

section.,

Sq.ft.

257

13

5

4

Gage 

height.

Feet. 

3.89

1.52

1.25

ol.l6

Discharge.

Sec.-ft. 

191

14

2.4

6.1

o Silver Valley Irrigation Co. gage read 0.50. Some Ice at old gage.

Daily gage height, in feet, of Silver Creek near Riley, Oreg.,for 1910. 

[Mrs. W. C. Cecil, observer.]

Day.

1..........

3..........

4..........

5..........

6..........

7. .........

8. .........

9..........

10. ...... ...

11...........

12... .......

13..........

14.......... 

15..........

Apr.

3 Q

3.6

3.6

3.5

3.4

3.3

3.2 

3.1

May.

2.0

2 A

2.1

2.2

2

1

2 A

1 Q

1.9

1.8

2.0

2.0

1 Q

1.9

1.9 

1.8

June.

1.4

1.4

1.4

1.3

1.3

1 s

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1,3

1.3

1.3 

1.3

July.

1 0

Q

9

Q

9

Q

8

8

7

7

7 

C

Aug.

0.2

.1

......

Dec.

0.45

.5

.5

.45

.4

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5

.5 

.5

Day.

16..........

17..........

18..........

19..........

20..........

21..........

22..........

23..........

24..........

25..........

26..........

27..........

28

29..........

Oft

31..........

Apr.

2.9

2.8

2.7

2.6

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.0

2.0 

2.0

May.

1.8

1.8

1.8

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.7

1.7

1.5

1:6

1.6

1.0

1.5

1.5 

1.5

1.5

June.

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.0 

1.0

July.

0.5

.6

.6

.5

.5

.4.4'

.4

.4

.4

.4

.4

.35

.3 

.25

.25

Aug.

......

Dec.

0.5

45

.4

......

NOTE. Creek dry Aug. 3 until about Oct. 1. Gage readings for December refer to new gage with datum 

different from that of old. Water below gage Dec. 19 to 31. Gage heights somewhat affected by backwater 

from a dam below; observer notes changes in dam Apr. 23 and May 20 which no doubt, caused the Increase 

in stage on those days.
THE GEEAT BASIN. 249 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Silver Creek near Riley, Oreg.,for 1909.

Day.

1...... .................................

2.......................................

3.......................................

4.......................................

5.......................................

6.......................................

7.......................................

8.......................................

9.......................................

10.......................................

11.......................................

12.......................................

13.......................................

14.......................................

15.......................................

16.......................................

17.......................................

18.......................................

19.......................................

20.......................................

21.......................................

22.......................................

23.......................................

24.......................................

25.......................................

26.......................................

27.......................................

28.......................................

29.......................................

30.......................................

31.......................................

Feb.o

40

178

184

52

38

44

30

19

20

10

16

22

19

16

Mar.

16

20

24

26

16

28

25

24

22

25

24

22

22

28

38

52

73

62

48

46

42

40

42

48

48

110

129

189

201

157

157

Apr.

201

283

344

268

254

147

121

121

167

227

201

227

313

344

328

283

268

201

167

138

129

113

99

92

73

73

67

62

62

52

May.

52

48

44

40

42

40

36

36

32

28

28

34

34

32

25

36

34

28

26

25

22

22

24

22

25

22

26

30

30

25

16

June.

19

19

16

16

14

8

9

11

9

12

11

11

10

10

9

9

10

10

10

10

10

8

8

8

8

8

7

7

6

6

July.

5

4

4

4

4

5

5

6

6

7

12

10

8

7

6

4

3

3

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.1

1.4

1.4

1.1

1.1

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Aug.

2.5

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

1.4

1.1

1.1

0.8

0.6

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.1

.1

.1

.1

.1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Oct.

0.0

0.0

0.1

3

4

4

4

4

3

3

4

4

5

5

4

4

4

4

4

5

5

5

4

6

6

6

5

4

5

5

6

Nov.

9

9

8

8

5

7

7

7

6

6

5

5

5

6

6

6

6

6

6

8

8

8

13

13

14

13

13

8

6

6

Dec.

7

7

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

6

6

6

«.

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

o Estimated mean Feb. 1 to 14, 25 second-feet. 

Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Silver Creek near Riley, Oreg.,for 1910.

Day.

1...........

2...........

3...........

4...........

5...........

6...........

7...........

8...........

9...........

10...........

11...........

12...........

13...........

14...........

15...........

Apr.

195

177

159

159

159

148

137

127

117

107

May.

30

30

35

40

35

30

26

26

22

30

30

26

26

26

22

June.

11

11

11

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

July.

4

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

2

2

2

2

2

2

Aug.

0.2

.1

0

Dec.

5

6

6

5

4

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Day.

16...........

17...........

18........... 10

20...........

21...........

22...........

23...........

24...........

25...........

26...........

27...........

28...........

29... ........

30...........

31...........

Apr.

88

71

63

fiO

45

40

50

45

40

40

35

30

30

30

May.

22

22

22

19

22

22

10

19

13

13

16

16

13

13

13

13

June.

7

5

5

7

7

7

7

7

5

5

5

4

4

4

4

July.

1

2

2

1

1

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.7

.6

.4

.3

.3

Aug. Dec.

6

5

4

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

NOTE. Daily discharge for 1909 determined from a poorly defined discharge rating curve; determinations for individual days or weeks are liable to fairly large errors, but the mean for the whole period may 

not be much in error.

Mean daily discharge Feb. 1 to 14,1909, estimated at 25 second-feet. Discharge derived from openchannel curve Dec. 13 to 31,1909, reduced on account of ice.

Daily discharge April to August, 1910, determined from a fairly well-defined discharge rating curve. 

The curve for December is fairly well defined by measurements in 1911. Mean discharge Apr. 1 to 5,19101 

estimated at 200 second-feet; mean discharge Dec. 19 to 31,1910, estimated at 3 second-feet
250 SUKFACE WATEE SUPPLY, 1910, PABT X.

Monthly discharge, of Silver Creek near Rihy, Or eg., for 1909-10. 

[Drainage area, 266 square miles.]

Month.

1909.

May........................

July........................

1910, 

April.......................

May........................

July........................

October..... ................

Discharge in second-feet.

Maximum.

184 

201 

344 

52 

19 

12 

2.5 

0 

6 

14 

8

344

40 

11 

4 

.2 

0

6

Minimum.

16 

16 

52 

16 

6 

1.1 

0 

0 

0 

5 

6

0

30 

13 

4 

.3 

0 

0

0

Mean.

37.4 

58.2 

181 

31.1 

10.3 

4.20 

.54 

0 

4.04 

7.77 

6.97

30.8

107 

22.9 

7.47 

1.73 

.01 

0 

ol.74 

04.00 

4.52

16.4

Mean per 

square 

mile.

0.141 

.219 

.680 

.117 

.039 

.016 

.0020 

0 

.015 

.029 

.026

.116

.402 

.086 

.028 

.0065 

0 

0 

.0065 

.015 

.017

.062

Run-off.

Depth in 

inches on 

drainage 

area.

0.15

.25 

.76 

.13 

.04 

.02 

.002 

0 

.02 

.03 

.03

1.43

.45 

.10 

.03 

.007 

0 

0 

.007 

.02 

.02

.63

Total in 

acre-feet.

2,080 

3,580 

10,800 

1,910 

613 

258 

33 

0 

248 

462 

429

20,800

6,360 

1,410 

444 

106 

0 

0 

107 

238 

278

8,940

Accuracy.

C. 

C. 

C.

c. 

c. 

c. 

c. 

c. 

c. 

c. 

c.

c. 

c. 

c. 

c.

c. 

c. 

c.

o Estimated. 

I GOOSE LAKE BASIN.

Consideration of the Goose Lake basin has been transferred to the 

report on the Sacramento drainage area owing to the fact that in 

times of exceptionally high water the lake has overflowed southward 

to the North Fork of Pit River, and to the possibility that considerable water may pass from the lake to the river by underground channels in the porous lava.

Data regarding the following gaging stations will be found in 

Water-Supply Paper 291:

Cottonwood Creek near Lakeview, Oreg. 

Drews Creek near Lakeview, Oreg.
THE GREAT BASIN". 

MISCELLANEOUS MEASUREMENTS.

251

The following miscellaneous discharge measurements were made 

in the Great Basin drainage area during 1910:

Miscellaneous measurements in the Great Basin for 1909-10.

Date.

1909.

1910. 

Mar. 7

7

22

22

May 26

7

July 5

May 20

Aug. 26

Mar. 8

Aug. 12

Sept. 6

May 19

June 22

July 16

Sept. 7

May 25

Oct. 11

9

Oct. 9

Aug. 18

Nov. 11

Sept. 21

21

21

20

19

Oct. 12

Stream.

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do.................

. ....do...... ...... .....

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do................

.....do.................

.....do.................

.....do................

Clear Creek.. ..........

.....do.................

.....do.................

Adler Creek. ..........

Trout Creek. ..........

Long Valley Creek 6 ...

Tributary to.

Utah Lake.... ........

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

.....do................

Locality.

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

Round Valley to Bishop; 

SE-iT.6S.,R.21E.,Cal.

{

1 mile west of county road

and Big Pine, Cal. 

.....do......................

near Independence, Cal. 

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

.....do......................

Lone Pine-OIancha Road, 

Cal.

 diversions.

canyon, near Carson, Nev.

.....do......................

Markleeville, Cal ............

.....do......................

Red Rock, Cal..............

Gage 

height.

Feet.

}:::::::

0.69

.23

.45

1.69

Discharge.

Sec.-fu 

7.1

11.3

10.8

28.7

37.9

19.6

6.1

12.4

3.0

11.0

.51

76

7.4

5.3

o.lS

0.20 

a.20

3.5

3.8

o.l

1.6

0

1.2

33

1.9

3.0

5.1

80

6.1

3.5

0.5

.9

.5

1.3

4.0

o Estimated. & By floats.
252 SURFACE WATER SUPPLY, 1910, PART X.

Miscellaneous measurements in Quinn River basin, Nev.,for 1906. 

[By E. D. Boyle, State engineer.]

Date.

May 5

20

6

19

6

6

7

20

5

19

19

s

Stream.

.....do.....,.........................:

Quinn River. ........................

.....do................................

.....do................................

.....do................................

Locality.

McConnell field...............................

.....do........................................

.....do........................................

400 feet below junction of main channel with

Hardin slough.

.....do........................................

Discharge 

per 

square 

mile.

Sec.-ft. 

33

8

21

21

2.2

12

84

62

2.0

.8

2.9

Miscellaneous measurements in Humboldt River basin, Nev.,for 1910. 

[By E, D. Boyle, State engineer.]

Date.

Nov. 7

Oct. 21

1

Oct. 29

Stream.

i

.....do................................

Willard Creek.. ......................

Locality.

N W. i SE. 1 NW«i sec. 11, T. 38 N., R. 61 E. . .

Peak.

Discharge

per

square

mile.

See.-ft.

8.6

24

6

1.9

4.1

6,2

1.0

a By floats.
INDEX.

A.

Aberdeen, Cal., Page. 

Goodale Creek near:

description.......................... 130

discharge............................ 130

discharge, daily...................... 131

discharge, monthly.................. 132

gage heights....................... 130-131

Taboose Creek near:

description........................ 127-128

discharge............................ 128

discharge, daily...................... 129

discharge, monthly.................. 129

gage heights......................... 128

Abert Lake basin, general features of........ 215

stream flow in......................... 215-217

Accuracy of discharge measurements, degree

of................................ 16-18

Acknowledgments to those aiding........... 18-20

Acre-foot, definition of....................... 13

Adel, Oreg.,

Deep Creek at:

description.......................... 206

discharge.......................... 207,208

discharge, dally.................... 208-209

discharge, monthly.................. 210

gage heights....................... 207,208

Adler Creek nearmouth:

discharge............................ 251

Alamo River near 

Brawley, Cal.:

description.......................... 102

discharge............................ 102

discharge, dally...................... 103

discharge, monthly.................. 104

gage heights......................... 103

Alien, L. R.,*workof........................ 20

Alps,H. F.jWorkof......................... 20

Ana River nearSummer Lake, Oreg.

description.......................... 218

discharge............................ 218

Appropriations, amount of.................. 7

Ash Creek near 

Olancha, Cal.:

description.......................... 146

discharge............................ 146

Authority for investigations................. 7

B.

Balrs Creek near 

Thebe, Cal.:

description., i....................... 138

discharge............................. 139

Baker Creek near 

Big Pine, Cal.: Page, 

description.......................... 121

discharge............................ 121

Baldwin, G. C., work of..................... 20

Basins, river and lake, description of........ 21-22

See also Interior basins; Great Basin. 

Bear Creek nearSilver Lake, Oreg.:

description.......................... 224

discharge............................ 225

discharge,daily.................... 227-229

discharge, monthly.................. 230

gage heights....................... 225-227

Bear River at or near 

Collinston, Utah:

description.......................... 35

discharge............................ 36

discharge, daily...................... 37

discharge, monthly.................. 37

gage heights......................... 36

Dingle, Idaho:

description.......................... 30

discharge............................ 31

discharge, daily...................... 32

discharge, monthly................... 32

gage heights......................... 31

Preston, Idaho:

description.......................... 33

discharge............................ 33

discharge, daily...................... 34

discharge, monthly.................. 35

gage heights......................... 34

Bear River basin, general features of........ 28-30

stream flow in........................... 30-48

Beaver River at 

Minersville, Utah:

description.......................... 96-97

discharge........................... 97

discharge, daily..................... 98

discharge, monthly................. 98

gage heights......................... 97

Big Cottonwood Creek near 

Salt Lake City, Utah:

description.......................... 86-87

discharge, daily..................... 87

discharge, monthly.................. 87

Big Pine, Cal.,

Baker Creek near:

description.......................... 121

discharge............................ 121

Thibaut Creek near:

discharge........................... 251

- 253
254 INDEX.

Big Pine Creek nearBig Pine, Cal.: Page, 

description........................ 121-122

discharge........................... 122

discharge, daily..................... 123

discharge, monthly.................. 123

gage heights......................... 122

Big Valley, Oreg., 

Deep Creek at:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights....................... 213-214

Birch Creek near 

Tinemaha, Cal.:

description........................ 123-124

discharge........................... 124

discharge, daily..................... 125

discharge, monthly................. 125

gage heights......................... 124

Bishop Creek (Humboldt River basin) near 

U-7 ranch, Nov.:

discharge...........................' 252

Wells, Nov.:

description........................ 174-175

discharge, daily..................... 176

discharge, monthly.................. 176

gage heights......................... 175

Bishop Creek (Owens Lake basin) nearBishop, Cal.:

description........................ 118-119

discharge........................... 119

discharge, daily..................... 120

discharge, monthly................. 121

gage heights......................... 120

Blacksmith Fork near 

Hyrum, Utah:

description.......................... 40

discharge........................... 41

discharge, daily..................... 42

gage heights......................... 41

Blacksmith Fork and power-plant race near 

Hyrum, Utah:

discharge, daily..................... 42

discharge, monthly................. 42

Blacksmith Fork, power-plant race near 

Hyrum, Utah:

description.......................... 43

discharge............................ 43

discharge, daily..................... 44

gage heights......................... 44

Blue Creek in 

T. 38 N., R. 22 E., Oreg.:

discharge........................... 213

gage heights......................... 214

Bolster, R.H., work of...................... 20

Box Elder Creek at 

Brigham, Utah:

description.......................... 45

discharge........................... 45

discharge, daily..................... 46-47

discharge, monthly................. 48

gage heights......................... 46-47

Boyle,E. D., work of....................... 252

Brawley, Cal.,

Alamo River near:

description.......................... 102

discharge............................ 102

discharge, daily..................... 103

discharge, monthly.................. 104

' * ...................... 103

Brawley, Cal. Continued.

New River near: Page, 

description.......................... 104

discharge............................ 104

gage heights......................... 105

Bridge Creek nearSilver Lake, Oreg.:

description.......................... 223

discharge_......................... 224

gage heights......................... 224

Bridgeport, Cal.,

Buckeye Creek near:

description.......................... 154

discharge............................ 154

gage heights......................... 154

Robinson Creek near:

description.......................... 153

discharge............................ 153

gage heights......................... 154

Brigham, Utah,

Box Elder Creek at:

description........................'.. 45

discharge............................ 45

discharge, daily..................... 46-47

discharge, monthly.................. 48

gage heights......................... 46-47

Brunswick Mill power canal nearEmpire, Nov.:

discharge, daily..................... 162

gage heights......................... 161

Buckeye Creek near 

Bridgeport, Cal.:

description.......................... 154

discharge............................ 154

gage heights......................... 154

Burns, Oreg.,

Silvies River near:

description.......................... 236

discharge.......................... . 237

discharge, daily..................... 238

discharge, monthly.................. 238

gage heigh ts......................... 237

C. 

California, cooperation with................. 18

California-Nevada State line, 

Truckee River at:

description............... .......... 185

discharge............................ 186

discharge, daily...............'...... 187

discharge, monthly.................. 187

gage heights......................... 186

Camas Creek near 

Mud Creek, Oreg.:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights....................... 213-214

Canfleld, G.H., work of..................... 20

Carroll Creek nearLone Pine and Olancha, Cal.:

discharge............................ 251

Carson, Nov.:

Clear Creek near .

discharge............................ 251

Carson River at or nearEmpire, Nov.:

discharge............................ 160

discharge, daily................... 160-161

.................... 160
INDEX. 255

Carson River at or near Continued. Page. 

Hazen, Nev.:

description.......................... 163

discharge............................ 163

discharge, daily..................... 164

discharge, monthly.................. 164

gage heights....................... 163-164

Heiton Bridge, Nev.:

discharge............................ 251

Carson River (East Pork) near 

Gardnerville, Nev.:

' description......................!. 156-157

discharge......^..... ^............... 157

discharge, daily..................... 158

discharge, monthly.................. 158

gage heights......................... 157

Carson River (West Fork) at 

Woodfords, CaL:

description........................ 167-168

discharge............................ 168

discharge of canal diversions......... 168

discharge, daily................... 169-170

discharge, monthly.................. 171

gage heights....................... 169,170

Carson River and Brunswick Mill power canal

nearEmpire, Nev.:

description.......................... 159

discharge, monthly.................. 162

Carson River basin, general features of....... 155

stream flow in......................... 156-171

Carson Sink basin, general features of........ 155

stream flow in......................... 155-179

Chewaucan River at 

Paisley, Oreg.:

description........................ 215-216

discharge............................ 216

discharge, daily..................... 217

discharge, monthly.................. 217

gage heights......................... 216

Clapp, W. B., work of....................... 20

Clarks, Nev.,

Truckee River at:

description.......................... 190

discharge............................ 190

discharge, monthly.................. 191

gage heights......................... 191

Clear Creek nearCarson, Nev.:

discharge............................ 251

Cooperation, credit for....................... 18-20

Collinston, Utah, 

Bear River near:

description.......................... 35

discharge............................ 36

discharge, daily..................... 37

discharge, monthly.................. 37

gage heights......................... 36

Cottonwood Creek near 

Olancha, Cal.,

description.......................... 144

discharge............................ 144

discharge, daily..................... 145

discharge, monthly.................. 146

gage heights......................... 145

Crandall, L., work of........................ 20

Current meters, view of..................... 17

Current-meter stations, views of............. 16

D. 

Data, explanation of........................ 14-16

field methods used in collection of....... 16-18

Data on stream flow in publications of United 

States Geological Survey, character of............................ 9-12

Davenport, R. W., work of................. 20

Dean, H.J., work of........................ 21

Deep Creek at 

Adel, Oreg.:

description.......................... 206

discharge.......................... 207,208

discharge,daily................... 208-209

discharge, monthly.................. 210

gage heights....................... 207,208

Big Valley, Oreg.:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights....................... 213-214

Definition of terms.......................... 12

Derby Dam, Nev., 

Truckee River at:

description........................ 191-192

discharge............................. 192

discharge, daily..................... 193

discharge, monthly.................. 193

gage heights......................... 192

Devils Slide, Utah, 

Weber River at:

description.......................... 52

discharge............................ 52

discharge, daily..................... 53

discharge, monthly.................. 54

gage heights......................... 53

Diamond, Oreg.,

Dormer und Blitzen River near:

description........................ 239-240

discharge............................ 240

discharge, daily..................... 241

discharge, monthly................ 241,242

gage heights....................... 240,242

Kelger Creek near:

description.......................... 243

discharge............................ 243

discharge, daily...................... 244

discharge, monthly.................. 245

gage heights......................... 243

McCoy Creek near:

description.......................... 245

discharge.. s ......................... 245

discharge, daily..................... 246

discharge, monthly.................. 247

gage heights......................... 246

Diamond Fork nearThistle, Utah:

description.......................... 77

discharge............................ 77

discharge, daily..................... 78

discharge, monthly.................. 79

gage heights......................... 78

Diastrophism, definition of................... 21

formation of basins by.................. 21-22

Dingle, Idaho: 

Bear River at:

description.......................... 30

discharge............................ 31

discharge, daily. ..................... 32

discharge, monthly.................. 32

...................... 31
256 INDEX.

Page. 

Discharge, definitions of............... 12-13,15-16

Discharge measurements, accuracy of........ 16-18

nature of................................ 14-16

Divine ranch, Nev., 

Spring Creek at:

discharge............................ 252

Division Creek nearIndependence, Cal.:

description.......................... 132

discharge....'........................ 132

Donner Creek (Cal.) near 

outlet:

discharge............................ 251

Truckee, Cal.:

description........................ 193-194

discharge............................ 194

discharge, daily..................... 195

discharge, monthly.................. 196

gage heights......................... 194

Donner und Blitzen River nearDiamond, Oreg.:

description........................ 239-240

discharge............................ 240

discharge, daily..................... 241

discharge, monthly................ 241,242

gage heights....................... 240,242

Dort, J. C., work of......................... 20

Drainage basins, list of...................... 9

Drake Creek in 

T. 39 S., R. 23 E., Oreg.:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights.......................... 214

Duckwater Creek at 

Duckwater, Nev.:

discharge............................ 252

E.

East Carson River near 

Marfcleeville, Cal.:

description........................... 156

discharge............................ 156

gage heights......................... 156

East Fork Carson River. See Carson River

(East Fork).

East Walker River nearMason, Nev.:

description.......................... 151

discharge............................ 152

gage heights......................... 152

Eightmile Creek at 

McConnell field, Nev.:

discharge............................ 252

EIko, Nev.,

Humboldt River (South Fork) near:

description........................ 177-178

discharge............................ 178

discharge, monthly.................. 179

gage heights......................... 178

Emigration Creek near 

Salt Lake City, Utah:

description.......................... 90

discharge, daily...................... 90

Empire, Nev.,

Brunswick Mill power canal near:

discharge, "daily...................... 162

gage heights............... .,....,,., 161

Page. 

Empire, Nev. Continued.

Carson River and Brunswick Mill power

canal near: 

description.......................... 159

discharge, monthly......... .>........ 162

Carson River near:

discharge............................ 160

discharge, daily.................... 160-161

gage heights......................... 160

Equivalents, list of.......................... 13-14

Euers Valley, Cal.,

South Prosser Creek at: .

discharge............................ 251

F.

Flat Creek (Nev.) 

discharge................................ 252

Forest Service, aid of........................ 19

Fuller, E. S., work of........................ 20

G.

Gage heights, readings of.................... 14-15

Gaging stations, view of..................... 16

Gardnerville, Nev.,

Carson River {East Fork) near:

description........................ 156-157

discharge............................ 157

discharge, daily...................... 158

discharge, monthly.................. 158

gage heights......................... 157

George Creek near 

Thebe, Cal.:

description.......................... 139

discharge............................ 139

Gilbert G. K.,on Great Basin............... 21-25

Golconda, Nev.,

Humboldt River near:

description.......................... 172

discharge............................ 173

discharge, monthly.................. 173

gage heights......................... 173

Goodale Creek nearAberdeen, Cal.:

description.......................... 130

discharge............................ 130

discharge, daily...................... 131

discharge, monthly.................. 132

gage heights....................... 130-131

Goose Lake basin, gaging stations in......... 250

general features of....................... 250

Great Basin, description of.................. 22-26

map of..................... 1 ............ 22

vegetation in............................ 25

water supply of.......................... 23-25

factors affecting...................... 25-26

Great Salt Lake basin, general features of.... 27-28

stream flow in........................... 28-90

Gunnison, Utah, 

Sevier River near:

description.......................... 94-95

discharge............................ 95

discharge, daily...................... 96

discharge, monthly.................. 96

...................... 95
INDEX. 257

H.

Haines, R. E., work of................... 20

Halleck, Nev.,

Humboldt River (North Fork) near:

description........................ 176-177

discharge............................ 177

discharge, monthly.................. 177

gage heights......................... 177

Hand ranch, Cal., 

Owens Eiver at:

discharge............................ 251

Hartwell, O. W., work of.................... 20

Hardin slough, Nev.,

Quinn River near: "

discharge............................ 252

Hardy, W. V., work of...................... 20

Harney and Malheur Lake basins, general 

features of........................ -...... 231-232

stream flow in......................... 232-250

Hazen, Nev.,

Carson River near:

description.......................... 163

discharge............................ 163

discharge, daily..................... 164

discharge, monthly.................. 164

gage heights....................... 163-164

Heiton Bridge, Nev., 

Carson River at:

discharge............................ 251

Henshaw, F. F., work of.................... 20

Hobart Mills, Cal., 

Prosser Creek near:

description.......................... 196

discharge............................ 197

discharge, daily..................... 198

discharge, monthly.................. 199

gage heights......................... 197

Hobble Creek near 

Springville, Utah:

description.......................... 79

~ discharge............................ 79

discharge, daily..................... 80

discharge, monthly.................. 81

gage heights......................... 80

Honey Creek near 

Plush, Oreg.:

description........................ 210-211

discharge............................ 211

discharge, daily..................... 212

discharge, monthly.................. 212

gage heights......................... 211

Snyder Creek, Oreg.:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights......................... 214

Horton Creek in 

T. 6 S., R. 21 E., Cal.:

discharge............................ 251

Humboldt River near 

Golconda, Nev.:

description.......................... 172

discharge............................ 173

discharge, monthly................. 173

gage heights......................... 173

Oreana, Nev.:

description.......................... 173

discharge............................ 174

43926° WSP 290 12 17

Humboldt River near Continued. 

Oreana, Nev. Continued.

discharge, monthly.................. 174

gage heights......................... 174

Humboldt River (North Fork) near ' 

Halleck, Nev.:

description........................ 176-177

discharge............................ 177

discharge, monthly.................. - 177

gage heights......................... 177

Humboldt River (South Fork) near 

Elko, Nev.:

description........................ 177-178

discharge............................ 178

discharge, monthly.................. 179

gage heights......................... 178

Humboldt River basin, general features of.. 171-172 

miscellaneous measurements in.......... 252

stream flow in......................... 172-179

Hyrum, Utah,

Blacksmith Fork near:

description.......................... 40

discharge............................ 41

discharge, daily..................... 42

gage heights............'............. 41

Blacksmith Fork and-power-plant race

near: 

discharge, daily..................... 42

discharge, monthly.................. 42

Blacksmith Fork power-plant race near:

description.......................... 43

discharge............................ 43

discharge, daily ...................... 44

gage heights......................... 44

I.

Idaho, cooperation with ..................... 18,19

Independence, Cal.,

Division Creek near:

description.......................... 132

discharge............................ 132

Little Pine Creek near:

description.......................... 136

discharge............................ 136

discharge, daily...................... 137

' discharge, monthly.................. 138

gage heights......................... 137

Oak Creek near:

description.......................... 133

discharge............................ 134

discharge, daily...................... 135

discharge, monthly.................. 135

gage heights......................... 134

Sawmill Creek near:

description.......................... 133

discharge............................ 133

Symmes Creek near:

discharge............................ 251

Thibaut Creek near:

discharge............................ 251

Interior basins, definition of................. 21-22

location of............................... 22,26

See also Great Basin. 

Investigations, authority for................. 7

scope of.................................. 8
258 INDEX.

J. Page. 

Jordan River basin, general features of....... 62-64

stream flow in........................... 64-90

tributaries of, flow of.................... 85-90

K.

Keiger Creek near 

Diamond, Oreg.:

description.......................... 243

discharge............................ 243

discharge, daily...................... 244

discharge, monthly.................. 245

gage heights......................... 243

Kimble, Howard, work of................... 20

L.

Lake Shore, Utah, 

Spanish Fork near:

description.......................

discharge............. ^...........

discharge, daily..................

discharge, monthly...............

Lake Tahoe at 

Tahoe, Cal.:

description.......................... 181

fluctuations....'..................... 182

gage heights......................... 182

La Rue, E.G., work of...................... 20

Leevining Creek near 

Mono Lake, Cal.:

description.......................'. 149-150

discharge............................ 150

gage heights......................... 150

Leidl, Charles, work of...................... 20

Little Cottonwood Creek near 

Salt Lake City, Utah:

description.......................... 85

discharge, daily...................... 86

discharge, monthly.................. 86

Little Pine Creek near 

Independence, Cal.:

description.......................... 136

discharge......................... v.. 136

discharge, daily...................... 137

discharge, monthly.................. 138

gage heights......................... 137

Little Truckee River at 

Starr, Cal.:

description.......................... 199

discharge............................ 200

discharge, daily...................... 201

discharge, monthly.................. 201

gage heights......................... 200

Logan River near 

Logan, Utah:

description.......................... 38

discharge............................ 38

discharge, daily...................... 39

discharge, monthly---......--....... 40

gage heights......................... 39

Lone Pine, Cal.,

Carroll Creek near:

discharge............................ 251

Owens River near:

description.......................... 112

discharge............................ 112

Lone Pine, Cal. Continued.

Owens River near Continued.

discharge, daily...................... 113

discharge, monthly.................. 114

gage heights......................... 113

Tuttle Creek near:

description........................ 141-142

discharge............................ 142

discharge, daily...................... 143

discharge, monthly.................. 143

gage heights......................... 142

Lone Pine Creek near 

Lone Pine, Cal.:

description........................ 139-140

discharge........ ; ................... 140

discharge, daily...................... 141

discharge, monthly.................. 141

gage heights......................... 140

Long Valley Creek at 

Red Rock, Cal.:

discharge............................ 251

M.

McCoy Creek near 

Diamond, Oreg.:

description.......................... 243

discharge............................ 243

discharge, daily..................... 244

discharge, monthly.................. 245

gage heights......................... 243

McGlashan, H. D., work of.................. 20

McGonagle, G. F., aid of.................... 20

Malheur and Harney Lake basins, general

features of..................... 231-232

stream flow in......................... 232-250

Maple Creek near 

Springville, Utah:

description.......................... 81

discharge............................ 81

gage heights......................... 81

Markleeville, Cal.,

East Carson River near:

description.......................... 156

discharge............................ ,156

gage heights......................... 156

Markleeville Creek at:

description........................ 165-166

discharge............................ 166

gage heights......................... 166

Pleasant Valley Creek at:

description........................ 166-167

discharge............................ 167

' gage heights......................... 167

Silver C eek near:

description.......................... 165

discharge............................ 165

gage heights......................... 165

town ditch in:

discharge............................ 251

Marysvale, Utah, 

Sevier River near:

description.........'................. 92

discharge............................. 92

discharge, daily...................... 94

discharge, monthly.................. 84

...................... 93
INDEX. 259

Mason, Nev.,

East Walker River near: Page, 

desciiption.......................... 151

disenarge............................ 152

gage heights......................... 152

Walker River at:

description.......................... 152

d seharge........................... 152

gage heights......................... .153

Mathers, J. G., work of...................... 21

Mill Creek, nearSalt Lake City, Utah:

description.......................... 88

discharge, daily..................... * 88

discharge, monthly.................. 88

Minersville, Utah, 

Beaver River at:

description.......................... 96-97

discharge............................ 97

discharge, daily..................... 98

discharge, monthly.................. 98

gage heights......................... 97

Monk, P. S., work of........................ 21

Mono Lake, Cal.,

Leevining Creek near:

description........................ 149-150

discharge............................ 150

gage heights......................... 150

Rush Creek near:

description........................ 147-148

discharge............... ............ 148

gage heights......................... 149

Mono Lake basin, general features of....... 146-147

stream flow in......................... 147-150

Moser, Leland, work of...................... 20

Mud Creek, Oreg., 

Camas Creek near:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights....................... 213-214

Mud Creek in 

T. 38 N., R. 22 E., Oreg.:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights....................... 213-214

Muddy Valley Irrigation Co., aid of......... 20

N.

Nevada, cooperation with................. 18

Nevada-California State line, 

Truekee .River at:

description.......................... 185

discharge........... -.......*........ 186

discharge, daily..................... 187

discharge, monthly.................. 187

gage heights......................... 186

New River near 

Brawley, Cal.:

description.......................... 104

...................... 104

...................... 105

Norcross, T. W., work of.................... 20

North Fork Humboldt River. See Humboldt River (North Fork).

O.

Oak Creek near 

Independence, Cal.:

description.......................... 133

... .. .. . . 134

Oak Creek near Continued.

Independence, Cal. Continued. Page. 

discharge, daily..................... 135

discharge, monthly.................. 135

gage heights......................... 134

Oakley, Utah,

Weber River near:

description.......................... 49

discharge............................ 50

discharge, daily j.................... 51

discharge, monthly.................. 51

gage heights......................... 60

Ogden River near 

Ogden, Utah:

description.......................... 56

discharge, daily..................... 57-60

discharge, monthly.................. 60-61

Olancha, Cal.,

Ash Creek near:

description.......................... 146

discharge-........................... 146

Carroll Creek near:

discharge............................ 251

Cotton wood Creek near:

description.......................... 144

discharge............................ 144

discharge, daily..................... 145

discnarge, monthly.................. 146

gage heights......................... 145

Oreana, Nev.,

Humboldt River near:

description.......................... 173

discharge. ........................... 174

discharge, monthly.................. "174

gage heights.. ....................... 174

Oregon, cooperation with................... 18; 19

Owens Lake basin, general features of..... 105-108

stream flow in......................... 108-146

Owens River at or near 

Hand ranch, Cal.:

discharge............................ 251

Lone Pine, Cal.:

description.......................... 112

discharge............................ 112

discharge, daily..................... 113

discharge, monthly.................. 114

gage heights......................... 113

Round Valley, Cal.:

description.......................... 108

discharge............................ 108

discharge, daily..................... 109

s, monthly.................. 110

........................ 109

Tinemaha, Cal.:

description.......................... 110

discharge...........-..--.....--...-. 110

discharge, daily..................... Ill

discharge, monthly.................. 112

...................... Ill

P.

Pacific Reclamation Co., aid of.............. 20

Padgett, H. D., work of..................... 21

Paisley, Oreg.,

Chewaucan River at:

description........................ 215-216

discharge............................ 216
260 INDEX.

Paisley, Oreg. Continued.

Chewaucan River at Continued. Page, 

discharge, daily..................... 217

discharge, monthly.................. 217

gage heights.............!........... 216

Parleys Creek nearSalt Lake City, Utah:

description.......................... 89

discharge, daily..................... 89

discharge, monthly.................. 89

Patch, W. W., work of...................... 20

Payson, Utah,

Peteetneet Creek near:

description.......................... 66-67

discharge........................... 67,251

discharge, daily..................... 67-68

discharge, monthly.................. 68

gage heights......................... 67-68

Peekema, G. T., work of.................... 20

Peteetneet Creek near 

Payson, Utah:

description.......................... 66-67

discharge........................... 67,251

discharge, daily...............'...... 67-68

discharge, monthly.................. 68

gage heights......................... 67-68

Pine Creek near 

Round Valley, Cal.:

description.......................... 116

discharge............................ 117

discharge, daily..................... 118

discharge, monthly.................. 118

gage heights......................... 117

Plain City, Utah,

Weber River near:

description.......................... 54

discharge............................ 54

discharge, daily..................... 55

discharge, monthly.................. 56

gage heights......................... 55

Pleasant Valley Creek at 

Markleeville, Cal.:

description........................ 166-167

discharge............................ 167

gage heights...................'...... 167

Plush, Oreg.,

Honey Creek near:

description........................ 210-211

discharge............................ 211

discharge, daily..................... 212

discharge, monthly.................. 212

gage heights......................... 211

Porter, E. A., work of....................... 20

Preston, Idaho,

Bear River near:

description.......................... 33

discharge............................ 33

discharge, daily..................... 34

discharge, monthly.................. 35

gage heights ......................... 34

Price meters, view of........................ 17

Prosser Creek near 

Hobart Mills, Cal.:

description.......................... 196

discharge............................ 197

discharge, <?aily..................... 198

discharge, monthly.................. 199

gage heights......................... 197

Provo River (above Telluride Power Co.'s

dam) near Page. 

Provo, Utah:

description.......................... 82

discharge............................ 82

discharge, daily..................... 84

discharge, monthly.................. 85

gage heights......................... 83

Publications of United States Geological

Survey, data on stream flow in. 9-12 

lists of................................... 9

Purton, A. B., work of...................... 20

Pyramid and Wtnnemucca Lake basins, gen-

* eral features of................ 179-180

stream flow in......................... 183-201

Q.

Quinn River near 

Hardin Slough, Nev.:

discharge............................ 252

Quinn River basin, Nev., miscellaneous

measurements in................ 252

R.

Rating curves and tables, accuracy of........ 16-17

construction of.......................... 15

Reclamation Service, aid of.................. 19

Red Rock, Cal.,

Long Valley Creek at:

discharge............................ 251

Reno, Nev.,

Truckee River at:

description.......................... 188

discharge............................ 188

discharge, daily..................... 189

discharge, monthly.................. 190

gage heights......................... 189

Revision, need for........................... 17

Rice, R. C., work of......................... 21

Riley, Oreg.:

Silver Creek near:

description.......................... 247

discharge.................... ........ 248

discharge, daily..................... 249

discharge, monthly.................. 250

gage heights......................... 248

Robinson Creek near 

Bridgeport, Cal.:

description.......................... 153

discharge................... ........ 153

gage heights......................... 154

Rock Creek near 

Round Valley, Cal.: }

description.......................... 114

discharge............................ 114

discharge, daily..................... 115

discharge, monthly.................. 116

gage heights......................... ' 115

Round Valley, Cal., 

Owens River near:

description..........................' 108

discharge............................ 108

discharge, daily..................... 109

discharge, monthly.................. 110

gage heights.........'................ . 109
INDEX. 261

Bound Valley, Cal. Continued. 

Pine Creek near:

description.......................... 116

discharge............................ 117

discharge, daily..................... 118

discharge, monthly.................. 118

gage heights......................... 117

Rock Creek near:

description.......................... 114

discharge............................ 114

discharge, daily..................... 115

discharge, monthly.................. 116

gage heights......................... 115

Kun-off, definition of........................ 12,13

Kush Creek nearMono Lake, Cal.:

description........................ 147-148

discharge............................ 148

gage heights......................... 149

Salt Lake City, UtahBig Cottonwood Creek near:

description.......................... 86-87

discharge, daily..................... 87

discharge, monthly.................. 87

Emigration Creek near:

description..... i.................... 90

discharge, daily..................... 90

Little Cottonwood Creek near:

description.......................... 85

discharge, daily..................... 86

discharge, monthly.................. 86

Mill Creek near:

description.......................... 88

discharge, daily..................... 88

discharge, monthly.................. 88

Parleys Creek near:

description.......................... 89

discharge, daily..................... 89

discharge, monthly.................. 89

Salton Sea near 

Salton, Cal.:

description......................... 99-100

gage heights......................... 101

rise, monthly....................... 101

Salton Sink, general features of............. 99-100

stream flow in......................... 102-105

Santaquin, Utah,

Summit Creek near:

description.............. I........... 64-65

discharge.......................... 1. 65

discharge, daily..................... 66

discharge, monthly.................. 66

gage heights......................... 65

Sawmill Creek near 

Independence, Cal.:

description.......................... 133

discharge............................ 133'

Schafer, F. C., work of...................... 20

Second-foot, definition of.................... 13

Sevier Lake basin, general features of..'...... 91-92

stream flow in..........'................. 92-98

Sevier River near 

Gunnison, Utah: .

description.......................... 94-95

discharge............................ 95

Sevier River near Continued. 

Gunnison, Utah Continued, 

discharge, daily..........

discharge, monthly.......

Page.

....................... 95

Marysvale, Utah:

description.......................... 92

discharge............................ 92

discharge, daily..................... 94

discharge, monthly.................. 94

gage heights......................... 93

Shepard Creek near 

Thebe, Cal.:

description.......................... 138

discharge............................ 138

Silver Creek (Carson River basin) near 

Markleeville, Cal.:

description.......................... 165

discharge............................ 165

gage heights......................... 165

Silver Creek (Harney Lake basin) near 

Riley, Oreg.:

description.......................... 247

discharge................... ( ........ 248

discharge, daily..................... 249

discharge, monthly.................. 250

gage heights......................... 248

Silver Creek (Silver Lake basin) nearSilver Lake, Oreg.:

description........................ 219-220

discharge............................ 220

discharge, daily..................... 222

discharge, monthly.................. 223

gage heights....................... 220-221

Silver Lake, Oreg.,

Bear Creek near: 

. description.......................... 224

discharge............................ 225

discharge, daily.. ................. 227-229

discharge, monthly.................. 230

gage heights....................... 225-227

Bridge Creek near:

description.......................... 223

discharge............................ 224

gage heights......................... 224

Silver Creek near:

description........................ 219-220

discharge............................ 220

discharge, daijy..................... 222

discharge, monthly.................. 223

gage heights..... i..............'... 220-221

Silver Lake basin, general features of........ 219

stream flow in......................... 219-230

Silver Valley Irrigation Co., aid of........... 20

Silvies, Oreg.,

Silvies River near:

description........................ 232-233

discharge............................ 233

discharge, daily................... 234-235

discharge,monthly.............. ... 236

gage heights....................... 233-234

Silvies River near 

Burns, Oreg.:

description.......................... 236

discharge............................ 237

discharge, daily..................... 238

discharge, monthly.................. 238

...................... 237
262 INDEX.

Silvies River near Continued.

Silvies, Oreg.: Page, 

description........................ 232-233

discharge............................ 233

discharge, daily................... 234-235

discharge, monthly.................. 236

gage heights....................... 233-234

Snyder Creek, Oreg.,

Honey Creek near:

discharge............................ 213

gage heights......................... 214

South Fork Humboldt River. See Humboldt River (South Fork). 

South Prosser Creek at 

Euers Valley, Cal.:

discharge............................ 251

Spanish Fork, Utah,

United States Reclamation power canal

near: 

description.......................... 73

discharge............................ 73

discharge, daily..................... 74,

discharge, monthly.................. 75

gage heights......................... 74

Spanish Fork at or near 

Lake Shore, Utah:

description.......................... 75

discharge............................ 75

discharge, daily..................... 76

discharge, monthly.................. 77

gage heights......................... 76

Spanish Fork, Utah:

description.......................... 71

discharge............................ 71

discharge, daily..................... 72

discharge, monthly.................. 73

gage heights......................... 72

Thistle, Utah:

description.......................... £8-69

discharge............................ -69

discharge, daily..................... 70

discharge, monthly.................. 70

73

Spanish Fork and power canal near 

Spanish Fork, Utah:

discharge, monthly................

Spring Creek at 

Divine ranch, Nev.:

discharge............................ 252

Springville, Utah, 

Hobble Creek near:

description.......................... 79

discharge............................ 79

discharge, daily..................... 80

discharge, monthly.................. 81

gage heights......................... 84

Maple Creek near:

description.......................... 81

discharge............................ 81

gage heights......................... 81

Squaw Creek near 

mouth:

discharge............................ 251

Starr, Cal.,

Little Truckee River at:

description.......................... 199

discharge............................ 200

Starr, Cal. Continued.

Little Truckee River at Continued. Page, 

discharge, daily..................... 201

discharge, monthly.................. 201

gage heights......................... 200

Stevens, G. C., work of....................... 20-21

Stevens, J. C., work of...................... 20

Stewart, J. E., work of...................... 20

Stone & Webster Engineering Co., aid of.... 19-20

Storey, F. B., work of....................... 20

Stream measurements, accuracy of.......... 16-18

Stuver, D. S., work of....................... 20

Summer Lake, Oreg., 

Ana River near:

description.......................... 218

discharge............................ 218

Summer Lake basin, general features of...... 218

stream flow in........................... 218

Summit Creek near 

Santaquin, Utah:

description......1................... 64-65

discharge............................ 65

discharge, daily..................... 66

discharge, monthly.................. 66

Symmes Creek nearIndependence, Cal.:

discharge............................ 251

T.

Tables, explanations of...................... 14-15

Terms, definition of......................... 12-14

Taboose Creek nearAberdeen, Cal.:

description........................ 127-128

discharge............................ 128

discharge, daily..................... 129

discharge, monthly.................. 129

gage heights......................... 128

Tahoe, Cal.,

Lake Tahoe at:

description.......................... 182

fluctuations......................... 182

gage heights......................... 182

Truckee River at:

description.......................... 183

discharge............................ 183

discharge, daily..................... 184

discharge, monthly.................. 185

gage heights......................... 184

Tecoma, Nev.,

Thousand Springs Creek near:

description........................

discharge..........................

Telluride Power Co., aid of................ 20

Thebe, Cal.,

Bairs Creek near:

description.......................... 138

discharge............................ 139

George Creek, Cal.:

description.......................... 139

discharge............................ 139

Shepard Creek near:

description.......................... 138

discharge............................ 138
INDEX. 263

TMbaut Creek between 

Independence and Big Pine, CaL: Page, 

discharge.-........................... 251

Thistle, Utah,

Diamond Fork near:

description.......................... 77

discharge............................ 77

discharge, daily..................... 78

discharge, monthly.................. 79

gage heights......................... 78

Spanish Fork at:

description.......................... C8-C9

discharge............................ C9

discharge, daily..................... 70

discharge, monthly.................. 70

gage heights......................... C9

Thousand Springs Creek basin, stream flow in 98-99

Thousand Springs Creek near 

Tecoma, Nev.:

description.......................... 98-99

discharge. 1 ........................... 99

Tinemaha, Cal.,

Birch. Creek near:

description ........................ 123-124

discharge............................ 124

discharge, daily..................... 125

discharge, monthly.................. 125

gage heights......................... 124

Owens River near:

description.......................... 110

discharge............................ 110

discharge, daily..................... Ill

discharge, monthly.................. 112

gage heights......................... Ill

Tinemaha Creek near:

description........................ 125-126

discharge............................ 126

discharge, daily...................... 127

discharge, monthly.................. 127

gage heights......................... 126

Tom Cain Creek at 

Treutt ranch, Nev.:

discharge............................ 252

Tompkins, H. J., work of................... 20

Treutt ranch, Nev., 

Tom Cain Creek at:

discharge............................ 252

Trout Creek (Carson River basin) near 

mouth:

discharge............................ 251

Trout Creek (Humboldt River basin) in 

T. 38 N., B. 61 E., Nev.:

discharge............................ 252

Truckee, Cal.,

Donner Creek near:

description........................ 193-194

discharge............................ 194

discharge, daily..................... 195

discharge, monthly.................. 196

gage heights......................... 194

Truckee River at 

Clarks, Nov.:

description.......................... 190

discharge............................ 190

e, monthly.................. 191

...................... 191

Truckee River at Continued.

Derby dam, Nev.: Page. 

description........................ 191-192

discharge............................ 192

discharge, daily............... v..... 193

discharge, monthly.................. 193

gage heights......................... 192

Nevada-California State line:

description.......................... 185

discharge............................ 186

discharge, daily..................... 187

discharge, monthly.................. 187

gage heights......................... 186

Reno, Nev.:

description.......................... 188

discharge............................ 188

discharge, daily..................... 189

discharge, monthly............ .f.... 190

gage heights......................... 189

Tahoe, Cal.:

desciiption.......................... 183

discharge............................ 183

discharge, daily..................... 184

discharge, monthly.................. 185

gage heights......................... 184

Truckee River basin, general features of... 180-181

stream flow In......................... 181-201

Tuttle, A. H., work of....................... 21

Tuttle Creek nearLone Pine, Cal.:

description........................ 141-142

discharge............................ 142

discharge, daily..................... 143

discharge, monthly.................. 143

gage heights......................... 142

Twelvemile Creek (Quinn River basin) 

discharge................................ 252

Twentymile Creek near 

Warner Lake, Oreg.:

description.......................... 203

discharge............................ 204

discharge, daily..................... 205

discharge, monthly.................. 205

gage heights......................... 204

U.

U-7 ranch, Nev. :

Bishop Creek near:

discharge............................ 252

Utah, cooperation with...................... 18,19

Utah Lake tributaries, flow of............... 64-85

Utah Light & Railway Co.^aid of........... 20

V.

Vineyard Land & Stock Co., aid of. 20

W.

Walker Lake basin, general features of..... 150-151

stream flow in......................... 151-154

Walker River at 

Mason, Nev.:

description.......................... 152

discharge............................ 152

gage heights......................... 153

Walters, M. I., workof...................... 21
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Warner Lake, Oreg.,

Twenty-mile Creek near:

description.......................... 203

discharge............................ 204

discharge, daily..................... 205

discharge, monthly.................. 205

gage heights......................... 204

Warner Lake basin, general features of..... 201-203

miscellaneous measurements in........ 213-214

stream flow in......................... 203-214

Warner Lake Irrigation Co., aid of........... 20

Weather Bureau, aid of..................... 19

Weber River at or near 

Devils Slide, Utah:

description.......................... 52

discharge............................ 52

discharge, daily..................... 53

' discharge, monthly.................. 54

gage heights......................... 53

Oakley, Utah:

description.......................... 49

discharge............................ 50

discharge, daily..................... 51

discharge, monthly.................. 51

gage heights......................... 50

Plain City, Utah:

description.......................... 54

discharge............................ 54

discharge, daily.......:............. 55

discharge, monthly.................. 56

gage heights......................... 55

Weber River basin, general features of...... 48-49

stream flow in........................... 49-61

Wells, Nev.,

Bishop Creek near:

description........................ 174-175

Wells, Nev. Continued. 

Bishop Creek near Continued. Page, 

discharge, daily..................... 176

discharge, monthly.................. 176

gage heights......................... 175

West Carson River at 

Woodfords, Cal.:

discharge............................ 251

West Fork of Carson River. See Carson

River (West Fork). 

Wheeler Peak, Nev., 

Willard Creek near:

discharge............................ 252

Willard Creek near 

Wheeler Peak, Nev.:

discharge............................ 252

William Hanley Co., aid of.................. 20

Winnemucca and Pyramid Lake basins, general features of................ 179-180

stream flow in......................... 183-201

Wood, F. G., work of....................... 20

Wood, Mrs. B. D., work of.................. 21

Woodfords, Cal.,

Carson River (West Fork) at:

description........................ 167-168

discharge............................ 16S

discharge of canal diversions......... 168

discharge, daily................... 169-170

discharge, monthly.................. 171

gage heights....................... 169,170

West Carson River at:

discharge............................ 251

Work, division of............................ 20-21

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Yadon, G. C., work of. 20

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