The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-05-13
RE ECL A|MhT| ION Of
sACRAMEN TO
BEGIN JUNE Is
Engineers Fix Date for the
Inauguration of Mighty .
Work of Flood
Control
S33, 900, 900 WILL BE
SPENT ON TASK
All Necessary Lands OBJ
tanned Save Where the
Price Was Excessive

Sacramento river reclamation work.
for which the federal and state gov
ernments will expend sss.ooo,ooo will
begin on June 8, and will be rushed
with such expedition that it is antici-
pated by the engineers in charge that
before the next flood time the waters
at the mouth of the river will be under
control.
The project in its entirety will ex-
tend from the mouth OF the Sacra
mento river to Chico landing on the
Sacramento and Oroville on the Feather
river. A change will be necessary in
the plans for dealing with the recIama-
tion problem at the mouth of the
river. owing to the refusal OF E. G.
Dozier and W. B. PRESLEY OF Solano
county, to accept for their holdings,
which come within the lines of the
project, the money which the army
engineers and the state board of con-
troll believe equitable.
THE MEN IN CHARGE
On June Is the government work
will begin under the direction of Colo
mel Thomas H. Rees and Lieutenant
Colonel c. H. McKinstry of the United
States army engineers and Major
Cheney of the California debris COM
mission
The first work will consist of widen
ing the channel and building the levees
from Dos Rios and Bakers Point to the
mouth of the river.
The total expenditure viii be sss.-
ooo 900. 1t will include the raising Of
levees. widening the lower river. rights
of way for bypasses and overflow chan
nels and constructions of weirs.
The federal government will confne
tion of river channels and construction
of weirs. A great deal of the work
that was first undertaken by the fed
eraI government has since been done
by reclamation districts and private
land owners along various channels.
DEMAND EXTRAORDINARILY PRICE
All the property owners in the lower
river accepted the terms agreed upon
by the federal engineers before the
state board of control excepting e. c.
Dozier and w. 3. PRESLEY, whose hold
ings are in the vicinity of lower Sher-
man island and Bakers point. Dozier
and PRESLEY are the heirs of Fl. Glas-
sci. The other owners will have their
claims finally adjudicated this morning
before Judge William c. Van Fleet in
the United States district court. These
IS property owners sold their lands for
$50 an acre for the channel cut and $40
an acre for spoil land along the
banks where the debris will be dumped
to make the levee. Dozier and Press
ley asked $500 an acre for their land.
Unable to settle, the army engineers
agreed to change their plans so that
the levees will be carried to their places
and then stopped.
COURTS TO SETTLE DISPUTE
I'VE are going to start work on the
subproject of the Sacramento river"
said Major Cheney, without taking
into account the Dozier and Presley
properties. This will be settled later
by condemnation in the United States
district court. We were unable to reach
an agreement with Them although we
held many sessions before the state
board of control They asked extrava-
CANT prices for their land, wanting re-
claimed land values for unreclaimed
land"