Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-28
LEYEES AND RIVERS.
"A Break on the Yolo Side-Generally
Satisfactory Reports-Drainage.

He was all right for little while yesterday
the first few hours but after that the
wea her in Sacramento was warm sunny
and spring-like-a condition Of affairs
which everytl animats was deiig lied
with. During the day great improvement
was noticed in the appearance of the city,
/ the water that had accumulated in streets
and cutters disappearing rapidly, and yege-
/ tation responding brightly to the cheering
rays of the sun. Happy in having passed
! through the severe storm without damage,
residents of the city were anxious to hear
! from the surrounding country, Which feeds
the city. The levees were reported to be
| standing the high stage of the river adj
| mirably, except at point about three
miles down stream, on the Yolo side, where
break about twenty feet in width was re-
ported. Efforts were being made to keepit
from enlarging, but it was feared that it
would soon increase into wide crevasse.
r. J. Merkley came up to the city from
his nights work of assisting in watching
and protecting the embankment between
the city and the end of the Riverside road,
and reported everything holding well.
They had still from two to four feet Of
levee to go on, and were satisfied of their
ability to maintain ii if some treacherous
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high wind create a swell too heavy for
the water-soaked earth to withstand.
Nick Dole, who came up from CORTLAND
on horseback, reported that all the land
from point two miles this side of that place
10 FreepCr, is under water, excepting a
few isolated spots here and there. The
levees are all right, the water that is doing
the damage being back water from the
Mokelumne. As the latter river will run
down rapidly the backwater will follow,
and no particular damage be done, provid-
ing the levees along the Sacramento stand,
as in all probability they will. The dam
age by water at Walnut Grove is consider
able, the back water being almost as high
as that in the river. The town is under
water, and the people are forced into upper
stories. Mr.. Dole says the Riverside road
and the country adjacent is comparatively
free from water. The farmers have much
confidence in the strength of their levees.
which they watch with a patrol day and
night.
The rising of the Sacramento to a figure
above % feet created the impression in
many minds that the levee above the town
of Washington would not hold. but it is
still strong, and can stand rise of a foot
or eighteen inches. Gopher holes in it
created some trouble, but the men on watch
have blocked the tunnels of the little an
imals with sacks of earth. The water in
side the levee is about five feet lower than
that outside, indicating that thele would
be serious trouble If the levee gave way.
Water is everywhere in Washington, ex-
cept the business part of the town, and
gum boots and boats are in demand The
residents had abundant opportunity to pre-
pare for the emergency, however, and do
not seem to be much Inconvenience.
The Pearson Reclamation District, down
the river, is evidently holding out finely,
judging from the following dispatch sent
up by G. w. Locke to Mr.. Lavenson
" Levees all right; water falling"
A. Pendleton writes the RECORD Union as
follows from Nicolaus, under date of jan
uary 9th: "A gentle rain began falling
here at $50 A. NJ. yesterday, and up to 3
o clock .5S of an inch fell. The river is
very high, and the tules are nearly full,
the back-water coming within a mile of
town. Our citizens apprehend flood"
The fact that the Sacramento is rolling
along with such very moderate current
was much commented upon by the numer-
Gus visitors to its banks yesterday 1t is
doubtless choked up near its outlet by the
high stage of other rivers, and the vast
quantity of water running into it from
Cache and other sloughs, which are being
fed from the overfiowed country. Yester-
day it was reported to be rising at all
points on the upper Sacramento, as well
might be expected considering that at
Redding go inches of rain fell in the
twenty-four hours ending at o'clock yes
terday morning. The American also had
an upward tendency last evening, owing to
the rainfall on the hill the night before.
there being an average of about two-thirds
of an inch at the various stations. There
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at the Summit, four feet at Emigrant Gap
and two feet at Blue Canyon.
Some portions OF this city, especially
those where residences are built upon what
are called low lots, are covered with water,
which, while it inconvenience the resi-
dents, does no particular damage. Owing
to the fact of the slight fall of the drainage
system, and that the river at its present
hight is several feet above the top of the
lots referred to, such a condition must
necessarily be expected from sipage water
The Sixth-street canal is carrying it off
quite rapidly, the Sixteenth-street sewer is
also doing good work, and the Y-street
canal that comes around Thirty-first street
from East Park, is carrying off an i'm
mense amount of water. Those three water
escapes are greatly assisted in drawing off
the water by the large steam centrifugal
pump at Seventh and y streets, which
throws 100000 gallons every "A hours.
y Yesterday the outlet of the pump was
changed so that the water now escapes into
the lake Immediately west OF the CITY
Cemetery. Formerly it was pumped into
the Sixth-street canal, and impeded the We
locity of the water escaping though that
sewer. 1t is thought the change will al
most double the capacity of the sewer
This change would have been made before
hut mill vesfarIa.- tla ~. Of
not obtained from Mr.. Schulmeyer, the
owner of the lake referred to. If the storm
holds OIL couple of days the city will be
comparatively free from water.
Yesterday there was no water against the
north leyee. Sunday it rose to hight of
two feet against the base, but remained but
a few hours. The north levee has base of
seventy feet and an average hight of from
ten to twelve feet.
Two carloads of decomposed granite were
yesterday sacked and placed on the river
front. where it can be loaded upon a
steamer without delay in case of a break
below the city The Trustees have offered
the farmers in that section all the men and
material they need in case the leyees give
away.
The Sacramento river rose to % feet
inches by . P. NJ. yesterday. and remained
at that figure until dark. There was then
a slight rise, probably caused by water
from the American, and at O'Clock % feet
inches was recorded. AT IL o'clock there
had not been any change.
FACTS of interest to the public about our
annual clearance sale in boo. and shoe de-
partment: First-We do not claim to be
giving goods away. Second-There are
many lines of goods which we are closing
out, and having only limited quantity of
them, we place them below manufactur-
er's cost in order TO make room for our
Spring goods. Third-We have reduced
all our regular goods in boot and shoe de-
partment during our sale, from to Is per
cent, according TO the profit we make on
the goods. For instance" our s. 80 Red
House whole stock kip boot, for 50; our
boys 81 90 boot, same quality, for 81; our
81 80 hand-sewed French calf boot for
So 80; our So hand-sewed French
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