Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-16
THE DEBRIS COMMISSION.
Second Meeting of the Directors Of Drain
age District No.

The Directors of Drainage District No. l
reassembled yesterday at 10 A. NJ. Present
w. H. Parks, President w. f. Knox and
Niles Searles. Also State Engineer Hall and
Acting Secretary, General Cosby.
The Board proceeded to the election of a
Secretary, and Charles NJ. Coglan was
elected, and his salary fixed at 500 per
month.
Judge Searles offered q resolution, which
was adopted, which was addressed TO Captain
j. B. Eads, urging him to accept the position
Of Consulting State Engineer rendered to him
by Governor Perkins. The resolution was
ordered transmitted, and the President was
requested to accompany it with letter
further expressive of the desire of the Board
to have the counsel and advice of the emf
nent engineer named.
The matter of electing Resident Engineer
for District No. l was postponed until the
further order Of the Board.
The Secretary was directed to procure rec.
ord books for the Commission and necessary
stationery, blanks etc.
The Secretary was instructed to notify at
once the Assessor of each county embraced
in the district of the formation Of the Board
and its official address, and urge upon As
SCISSORS the necessity of prompt compliance
with the law as expressed in the Act creating
the district by preparing Immediately dupli-
cate assessment rolls, and to include therein
the quantity of water used by miners in the
respective counties of the district The Sec
rotary is TO also notify Assessors that the
Board will soon file with them maps showing
the boundaries of the district.
The Board held lengthy consultation with
State Engineer Hall relative to the proposed
restraining dam about to be constructed on
the Yuba river, above Marysville. Mr.. Hall
explained in detail the engineering theory re-
garding the dam, and its proper construction.
1t will be some 5000 feet in length, and
when fully completed will attain hight of
about forty feet. 1t will be secured upon a
firm foundation and constructed with mate
rial in the first course size larger than that
il the natural foundation, and in the next
course with material still another size larger
and so on to the proper hight, so that it will
permit the water to percolate through the
dam. It is estimated that at food hight the
water will flow over the dam but one foot
deep. Material for the construction is plen-
tiful in the immediate neighborhood of the
location and is easy of removal.
The Secretary reported that the Secretary
of State had allotted the Board Room No 30
in the Capitol building, and the Board de-
clared such locality its official headquarters.
The Board resolved that when it shall have
made the initial or preliminary trip of inspec-
ton it will return to Sacramento and in few
days thereafter in boats proceed up the Sac
ramento river as far as Colusa, and from Sac
ramento down the river as far as Rio Vista,
to inspect the levees and view the breaks
therein, ard form judgment as to what the
Board can do, if anything, toward aiding in
closing certain breaks.
The State Engineer said that the river
should be so closed in that it would as it
ought to do, carry all the waters at the pres
ent hight in the Sacramento river, and that
such carriage would materially benefit the
river.
The Board adjourned subject to the call of
the President.
At 2:10 P NJ yesterday the members of the
Board, accompanied by Engineers Hall and
Mendell, left for Marysville and to-day will
visit the location for the first proposed re-
straining dam.