Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-07
1876 our company brought down from the
upper Sacramento
$4,000 TONS OF WHEAT.

Cross-examination Ito w. c. Belcher)-I
came to Sacramento in May, 1851 I came to
California, settled in Grass Valley, aud en-
gagged in mining in the fall of 1850. I never
made hydraulics or engineering study.
Until the last three or four years have been
on boat all the time. either in the capacity
of pilot or captain. / have been with boat
to Squaw Hill. almost sixteen miles above
Mcintosh Landing. That point is 275 miles
above Sacramento city and % miles above
Stoney creek. Stoney creek is II miles
below Jacinto. 1 think the left bank of the
Sacramento is not leveed between Stoney
creek and a point miles below Jacinto. 1
have been navigating the river to Jacinto
since 1868. There is big slough about s
miles below Jacinto, on DR.. Glenn's ranch.
think it is 40 feet wide on top, 20 in the
bottom, and II feet deep
BUTTE SLOUGH
Where it puts into the river is about 100 feet
wide. The water should Judge was twelve
feet deep. The banks are ten and twelve
feet above low water. The lower Sycamore
slough. at Knights Landing, is about eighty
feet wide on top, GO feet on the bottom and
about eighteen feet deep. The overflow and
backwater from Knights Landing came in
the tule basin to a point three miles above
Coluss. There is 10 tule in the upper por-
tion of that basin. The water eyerfowsd
land twenty miles in length. There were
levees along the banks OF the river between
the town of Princeton and Knights Landing.
This levee was broken in numerous places
last winter.
Here Attorney-Ge Hart objected to
the examination of the witness as being con-
Quoted by Mr.. Belcher. claiming that it was
not proper cross examination. This provoked
a general discussion among counsel on both
s.Ias lad kol khat L.
Court allowed the examination as being con.
Quoted to proceed, it would necessitate the
plaintiffs summoning at least fifty witnesses
from the banks of the Sacramento river, to
prove existing facts. After q lengthy discus
sion between the Court and counsel, the
cross-examination was allowed to proceed.
Witness resuming-The average width of
the tule basin l have spoken of, in high
stage of water. is from three to seven miles.
In the tules it is fifteen feet deep. I should
judge that the first six miles from
KNIGHTS LANDING
It is twelve feet deep. From that point up
to Colusa its depth would average from six to
twelve feet. There is slough running
through the center of the basin, which of
course is much deeper. During the high water
of 1862 and 1888 steamers went into
this tule basin and rescued stock.
IL IlOSS u w. uuii6 u lcNSS D6tW6tn
Knights Landing and Sycamore slough. 1
recollect their building levees between Syca-
more slough and Colusa. There is not con-
tinuous levee between Princeton and Knight S
Landing. There was no levee last winter at
point on that bank of the river between
t Princeton and Colusa.
Mr.. Belcher-Do you know, and is it an
established fact, that the water in the river
since the building of that levee has been
much higher than was ever known before?
Mr.. Hart renewed his objections as before.
The matter of its admissibility as proper
cross-examination was fully argued by coun.
sci. The question, 10 modified form, was
allowed.
Witness continuine-Since the levees were
built 1 have noticed that the river rises higher
at Eddy's Landing, in Colusa county. I
think the water was raised at
EDDY's LANDING
About five feet, by the building of the levee.
When these levees gave away the river in the
neighborhood of the break would ba consider
ably lowered. The effect is felt for several
miles above the break. One break several
miles below Colusa eased the river and pre-
vented Colusa from being overf1owed I
sailed up the Sacramento river during the
foods of 1861 and 1862 and 1867 and 1868.
The food of 1861 and 1862 was much larger
than any food since. The food of the upper
Sacramento in 1867 and 1865 was not cir
cumstance to the food OF 1862. 1t was FIVE
or six feet less in hight