Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
Lake Elsinore Reservoir company was

which can be done at trifiing expense
compared with the magnitude Of the re-
suits. This water viii then be con-
Quoted down both sides OF Temescal cafion
(Temescal creek is the outlet of Lake
Elsinore) skirting the foothills on each
side of the valley, and affording irriga-
tion for all the ranches between Elsinore
and the Santa Ana river, of which
Temescal creek is tributary. The COM
pany is already negotiating for large
contracts for the delivery of water in the
vicinity of South Riverside, the latter
place being about 600 feet lower than
the lake. 1t is proposed, also, to take
the water across the Santa Ana river on
to the Jurupu, Chino and other ranches
in San Bernardino county, and the ada
cent ranches in Orange and Los Angeles
counties. In fact, there is scarcely a
limit to the scope OF land that may be
irrigated in this direction.
On the west side of Temescal creek It
is proposed to follow the base of the
Santa Ana mountains to the Rincon
pass, where the Santa Ana river breaks
through the mountains. The canal will
here be conducted along the edge of the
bluffs to the west side OF the Santa Ana
range, and thence southwark, affording
irrigation for nearly all the famous
ranches of Orange county, such as the
Santa Ana, the Lomas, Santa Ana de
Santiago, San Joaquin, Trabuco, Mission
Viejo, etc., as far as San Juan by the
Sea. 1t is learned that there is an eager
demand for water in that direction.
This is only half of the scheme. Re-
turning to the lake, it is proposed to tap
it at its southeastern extremity. A
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into the Temecula valley, thus opening
great as that reached by the northern
outlet. Wildomar, Murietta, Linda
Rosa, Temecula are all waiting for the
water. In fact, nearly all the ranches
as far as San Diego are accessible and
thirsting for the aqueous fluid.
Another point that must be mentioned,
is the fact that it is now almost certain
that the California Southern railroad
company will abandon its line through
the San Jacinto caflon from Perris to
Elsinore, which is washed out every
winter, and runs through pro6tless
country, and will build, instead, line
from South Riverside up the Temes-
cal creek to Elsinore, thus getting access
to the tin mines, coal banks and clay
beds and avoiding heavy grades, and
giving the town of Elsinore, proper,
depot. 1t is now two miles from the sta
ton. In case the railroad abandons
the San Jacinto cai1on, the irrigation
company will constructa reservoir there
in, in order to bring water upon the
lands surrounding the lake, which are
of exceeding fertility, and embraced in
the recently formed Elsinore irrigation
district, under the Wright law. This of
itself is an enterprise of the highest i'm
portance.
If all the lands enumerated come
under the bitches of the company, will
the source of supply be sufficient? I'm
questionably. The rainshed embraced
is at least 400 square miles in extent.
The feeder of the lake is the San Jacinto
river, which rises in the mountains OF
the same name, flows northwest to the
Laguna San Jacinto Nuevo, thence turns
at right angles and flows southwest
into Lake Elsinore. In the wet season
it carries an immense volume of water.
Last winter it raised the lake five and
one-fourth feet in twenty-four hours, an
estimated discharge of 100000 900 gal
Ions, to say nothing of the water that
was running out of the lake at the other
end through Temescal creek.
1t is thought that even without rails
ing the lake by dam at the mouth,
which can De done easily to the extent
of thirty feet, the supply of water will
be inexhaustible. The Bear Valley
company has commenced the making of
a storage reservoir of the Laguna San
Jacinto Nuevo, but it is thought that
this will not perceptibly diminish the
supply of the Laguna Elsinore.
Speaking OF the water supply for the
new reservoir of the Bear Valley COM
pany at Lake Jacinto, the Perris New
Era of June 11th, says:
''The recently acquired waters of the
Whitewater, the winter flow OF the
Santa Ana and the surplus of Bear val
ley will flow into the reservoir, the two
last named passing through the San Ma
teo tunnel where they will give power to
the largest dynamo on the Pacific coast.
The winter flow of the San Jacinto river
is also worthy of mention in this con-
nection as those who beheld that stream
| two miles wide last winter can testify.
Ample provision Will be made for the
disposition OF surplus water by the cut
ting of new channel for the San Jacinto
river about two miles above the dam
| site."
Thus it is seen that it will be impossi-
BILE for the San Jacinto dam to hold all
the water that will flow into it. The
surplus that new channel is to be cut
for will be far greater than the contents
of the dam, and all this water will find
it's way into Lake Elsinore. Given the
dimensions of the lake enumerated
above, and making ample allowances
for evaporation, ETC., by simple pro-
cess of arithmetic it is ascertained that
there is sufficient water in Lake Elsi-
more, now, to make flow of 200, 900
miners inches for $50 days of twenty
four hours each, enough to irrigate 700,-
600 acres. This should set the ques-
ton of sufficient water at rest.
Elsinore undoubtedly has bright fu-
ture before it. Besides the facilities al
ready enumerated, the mineral wealth
in the vicinity will itself in time make
it famous Its clay beds are inexhausti-
BILE. Terra Gotta, crockery, water and
sewer pipes and fire brick of the best
quality are all being manufactured there
now and finding ready market. An
examination of the bottom of the lake
has proved it to be bed of fireclay,
equal to the best product of Akron, Ohio.
Then there are the coal mines, which are
being worked right along and the quail
ity OF coal is constantly improving. The
Good Hope gold mine, five miles away
is enrichinp its owners A recent eX-