Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-21
near this will also irrigate about 5000

acres. ibis Degl0S near Lone 1lue.
At Big Pine, which is 20 miles north
of Independence, canal is now COM
pleted called the Big Pine canal, that is
10 miles long, and will Irrigate about
1900 acres. In each one of these in
stances l am making safe estimate.
At Bishop, 16 miles north of Big Pine,
there are several canals in course of
construction, one of which is completed.
One is 10 and the other Is miles long /;
these two together will irrigate 10000
acres.
On the east side of the river, opposite
Bishop, are the McNally, Collins and
Sanger bitches, three separate canals,
that together irrigate 10000 acres. There
are a few other small canals in addition
to these that altogether irrigate 5000
acres.
A San Francisco corporation, with
paid-up capital of 81 ,250, 900, has been
formed to construct a canal ninety miles
long, tapping Owens river near Inde-
pendence, and running down the valley
and over into Salt Well valley, fifty
miles from Mojave. There are $50, 900
acres of arabic land in that valley which
can be irrigated by this canal.
OF the total amount that may be irri-
gated by these canals, only small
amount is actually irrigated by them !;
most OF these works are new.
Owens river rises in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, in Mono county. measured
the flow of the river near Independence
at low water. 1t then had width of
20 feet, an average depth of A inches,
and flow of 3ls miles per hour.
Are the mineral deposits exhausted
By no means. We have a great
abundance of low grade ores that will
not pay the present heavy cost of trans
portation to San Francisco, but would
pay handsomely if we had railroad to
Los Angeles. Our high grade ores are
now shipped to San Francisco. They
are mostly argentiferous galena. Then
we have also gold, copper and antimony.
The Cerro Gordo mine, nine miles from
Keeler, is where Remi Nadeau made his
fortune. Darwin, twenty-four miles
from Keeler, and Panamint, sixty miles,
are both very rich mining districts. Five
miles above Keeler,an a quarter OF "a mile
from the lake, is spur of mountain
two and half miles long and one thou
sand feet wide that is a solid mass OF
marble, from snowy white to black, vel
low and variegated. A full mile OF
wainscoating in the new d. o. Mills
block in San Francisco is of this marble.
What are your transportation facili-
ties to market?
All, there, you ask the most import
ant question to every Inyoite. At pres
ent we have only one railroad to connect
us with the outside world. 1t begins at
Mound House, nine miles east OF Carson,
Nevada, and runs south 293 miles to Kee-
ler at Owens lake, crossing the summit
of the White mountains at an altitude
of 1000 feet. 10 ship our produce to
market it has to 60 all this long round
about away over the White mountains
70 nevada, thence up over the Sierra
Nevada at an altitude again of over 7O0(
feet to get to San Francisco, dirtance
of over 600 miles.
As said before, nature has given In
yo county to Southern California.
Owens valley opens to the south. From
Keeler, the present terminus of the
railroad, to Mojave is distance of 121
miles over perfectly natural
grade, with slope of only
1000 feet in all. From Keelel
to Los Angeles is just one-third of the
distance from Keller to San Francisco,
and over no high mountains. Complete
this gap from Keeler to Mojave, and
Inyo county will be joined to you by
bands that can never be divorced. She
will bring to you her choicest of decid
uous fruits, her richest ores and most
beautiful marbles, and take you to view
the grandest scenery that has ever been
the lot of mortal eye to behold.
There is ample land with water in
Owens valley for population of 200, 900
The climate is singularly free from al
diseases. Plenty of good land under
canals can be had there with govern
ment title, anywhere from 500 to $50 pei
acre.
Give us railroad, and every dollar O
our business will come to Los Angeles