The San Francisco call., 1898-03-09

tic of California, they have all been overcome. and The Call Is now enabled to give exclusively the details of the whole proposition.
 The water supply embraces the Blue Lakes Water Companys system, in the aboye-named counties, which consists of various natural lakes and artificially constructed reservoir basins. ranging in altitude from S109 feet to 561O feet above sea level. The highest of these is the upper or west Blue Lake. which IS a deep mountain lake Of fresh, pure water, at present 375 acres in extent Lower Blue Lake is two miles south or Upper Blue Lake. and the latter emp ties into it through a stream having fall of about ninety feet. The eaten ment area drained by these two lakes is by actual survey 3050 acres, and the s11rDlus water from it, after filling the lakes. is discharged into Blue Creek. and flows through Clover Valley to it's function with Deer Creek, thence into the north fork of the Mokelumne River and down it's rock lined bed to the head of the Amador Canal, into which IL dis charges at a distance of forty miles and at an elevation of 2240 feet.
 The additional sources of supply and the reservoirs are the Twin Lakes, united into a single body Of water by dam at their outlet on the northwestern ly side, embracing a watershed or SoV acres: the overflow discharging into the Mokelumne River Meadow Lake IS an artificial reservoir about three miles westerly from Twin Lakes, formed by throwing a dam 70 feet high and 43O feet long across the westerly end or an immense granite basin, forming a DOT tion of the route of Meadow Creek. which also is a tributary of the north fork of the Mokelumne River, and has over 2000 acres of drainage area Bear River reservoir is also formed by throwing an artificial dam across the Bear River. This dam curves upward In the form of an arch. ana aDuts against the granite walls of the canyon. Its drainage area is over 1000 acres and its altitude 5670 feet.
 The above list includes the reservoirs available for the present actual run ming of the power plant. In addition, however, many storage sites have been selected and set apart for future de- velopment, as the need for increased storage facilities arises. They include Deer Valley site, which is three miles below the dam of Lower Blue Lake, the Grouse Valley site, the Snow Valley
 
 Bear River and Gold Creek. The feat ure of the whole chain of reservoirs is their admirable location, on account of which the water wasting from any of those at a higher altitude can be ar rested and stored by the ones lower down until the demand for use arises during the dry season when the river runs dry. The Mokelumne River Can yon, along which all the waters must flow for a distance of forty miles, is in a deep, precipitous granite gorge, where no waste from seepage occurs and small loss from evaporation can be caused.
 The canal system, which will carry the large volume of water to the point of its conversion into power, may be said to commence where the water from Deer Creek flows into the Moke- lumne River, along which 1t runs for forty miles to the commencement of the Amador canal. Along this course the water will follow the natural gran ite bed of the stream, and during the dry season the only flow will be the discharge from the artificial reservoirs of the Blue Lakes system. The present Amador canal has been constructed with 8 capacity of sixty cubic feet per second for length of forty two and a half miles, mostly along the high noun tain side north of Mokelumne River, and 1t comprises the main artery for the development of the proposed power plant. Along its course are eighty-two