Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-22
RIVER APPROPRIATION.
( Two Appropriations of the Sacramento
! River Above Its Chief Tributaries.

Two Approximations of the sacramento
River Above Its Chief Tributaries.
January 80. 1884, the Stony Creek Canal
Company posted notice on the bank OF
the Sacramento river not far above Colusa,
that it thereby appropriated the water
flowing in the river to the extent OF oOOooo
inches. measured under four-inch press
ure. The purpose is recited to tap the river
and take out the water by canal sixty feet
wide at the bottom and throughout its en-
tire length. ana from seventeen to eighteen
feet deep at the point of commencement,
and going down two or three Ieet pe!oW
low water mark in the river. The OBJECT
was recited to be to irrigate lands over
wide area to furnish water for domestic
purposes to people of towns and villages
and farms, and for wafer power for mills,
and for manufactures along and near the
canal and for navigation, and Tor hoatng
saw-logs boats, barges and water craft OF
every description throughout the entire
length of the canal. But this was not the
first appropriation of the sacramento
rivers waters. 1t was preceded, by
month and a half. by claim we give be-
low in full. The point where the canal is
to depart from the river is the same IN
both cases, and the only essential difference
is that in the prior appropriation scheme
the plan is to go down only 10 feet, and to
sink one or two feet below low-water mark,
while the later appropriation is for canal
Is feet deep and to go down two or three
feet below low-water mark. 1t IS probable
that the notice and claim of the Stony
Creek Company swallowed the earlier
one of Mr.. Rideout, or it is pos
sible that both claims remain and
represent two appropriations aggregating
100000 inches of water of the river.
The Stony Creek Canal Company's scheme,
it will be remembered, was first called to
public attention as Objectionable by the
REcoRD-U UNION some two years ago, and OBJ
iected TO at that time vigorously. The re-
suit was hot debate between this journal
and the Colusa Sun relative to the effect on
the river of the canal and relative to the
right of the company to take the water of
a navigable stream and divert it for private
gain by selling the water for irrigation, for
motive power, for use of towns and cities,
and to create a new waterway for boats
and all sorts of water craft. We present
below, as of interest, to show the need of
emitting from the appropriation bills the
navigable rivers, the full text of the first
appropriation claim upon the Sacramento
river:
WATER NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
that he desires and intends to appropriate the
water flowing in the Sacramento river at the
point at which this notice is posted, to-wit
About 20 chains below the north boundary of
township -, and east of the red land; that he
claims the water therein flowing to the extent
of 100000 inches measured under a four-inch
pressure; that the purposes for which he in
tends to divert it are as follows:
l. Irrigating the lands of the Sacramento val
ley east of the general course of a canal which
he intends to construct, running from the river
at this point as far west on the plains of Colusa
county as the fall will practically permit; also
to water the lands along the margin of the Sac
ramento river.
2 For furnishing water for domestic purposes
to people of towns and villages along or near its
course, and to people residing on farms.
s. For furnishing water power for mills and
all mechanical and manufacturing purposes.
4. For floating sawlogs, timber, wood, lumber
boats, barges, etc. The places of intended use
are the places hereinabove named.
That the means by which he intends to divert
said water is ditch which shall be sixty feet
wide and sixteen feet deep at the river going
down to one or two feet below low-water mark
Done this 18th day of December, 1858
n. D. RIDEoUT.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Colusa.
W s. Green. being duly sworn, deposes and
says that he did, ON the 18th day of December
1888, post notice at the point designated in the
above, and that the foregoing is true copy of
said notice. W. S. GREEN
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this Dist of
December, 1888. W. II. MILES, Recorder
Filed for record at the request of W. S. Green.
this Dist day of December, A. D. 1888, at thirty
five minutes past 9 o clock A. NJ.
w. H. MILES, County Recorder.
Recorded the Dist day of December, 1888, in
Book "a Miscellaneous Records, page 81, Re
cords of Colusa County.