The Nevada journal., 1859-10-14


Miners Ditch Co. announce the re-
reduction in the price Of water along
their immense lines Of ditch, to the
very reasonable price Of sixteen and
two-thirds cents per inch, ON and af-
ter the first day Of January next.
While our attention is attracted to
the operations ofthis company,w we may
as well pay them q passing notice.
And taking into consideration the
grand fountains Of water, capacity
and length Of canals, stupendous
aqueducts, and cost Of construction
we may safely say the Eureka Lake
and Miners Ditch Company's works
are without q rival in the State. In
another point Of view too. if the re-
cent statements of the Sacramento
Standard be correct. that but few
ditch enterprises in the State pay in
terest upon investments, the compa-
ny Of whom we speak are remarka-
BILE. With a length Of canal and ditch
estimated at about 200 miles. and con-
structed at q cost altogether Of one
million of dollars. the company are
able, notwithstanding the immense
outlay necessary to keep SO long a
line in repair. to pay interest upon the
cost of construction. and to wipe away
month by month large amounts of the
debt created by the individuals who
projected and undertook the complies
ton of the vast work.
In 1854, Benoist Faucherie. a fine
French engineer. while hunting near
the summit of the Sierras discovered
cluster Of lakes, and then and there
conceived the grand idea Of making
these far-of reservoirs Of nature SER
viceable to the splendid mining re-
gion between the South and Middle
Yubas. He set his talents at work.
Other of his countrymen joined with
characteristic enthusiasm in what
might have been termed at the time
a wild and visionary project, and from
the beginnings of these men has been
built one of the finest artificial water
courses, and which as a feeder. has
perhaps no equal in the State. The
company claim twenty-one lakes ff-
teen Of which are already damned,
some of them with solid masonary
forty feet in height and eighty feet in
thickness at the base. One of the
lakes presents more than square
mile of :surface. and the whole num-
Der of lakes together, claimed by the
company furnish water surface Of
not less than FIVE square miles. So
vast a supply Of water might " ell sx-
cite the enthusiasm of the scientific
Frenchman.
The capacity Of the main canal
thesefrom Lakes is full 1000 inches
and the fountains will furnish at all
seasons this amount readily. Besides
the Lakes, the company tap the South
Forth of the Middle Yuba, Poor Mans
Greek. Bloody Run, and several 9TH
er streams of lesser note, deriving
large amounts of water therefrsm.
This immense line Of canal came un.
der the ownership of The present COM
pany by a consolidation of the Eu-
reka Lake, with tho Miners, Grizzly,
Poor Mans and Humbug Ditch COM
panies, whose united canals now
stretch from near the SUBMITS of the
Sierras to Montezuma and Cherokee,
and water an extent of mining region
embraced within an area of one hum
| dred and fifty square mil es.
1t will be remembered that the cell
| ebrated Magenta aqueduct. struc.
ture more than twelve hundred feet
| in length by one hundred and twenty
| FIVE in height. is part Of the grand
undertakings of the Eureka Lake
company whose works. if private en-
| terprize can be compared with the
projects of government, remind one
| of the vast system of canals for irri-
cation inaugurated and completed in
northern India under the energetic
| rule Of Lord Dalhousie.
But we have already written enough
to call the attention Of miners to the
important advertisement Of the Eure-
ka Lake and Miners Ditch Company
which they will End elsewhere in our
columns.
DErARTED.-Captain Rufus Shoe
maker, ex-Connty Clerk and ex-Edi-
tor,-(the titles in his case, we beg