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<br />00032~ <br /> <br />..~'--. <br />-.;..:0; <br />(/~:' <br /> <br />62. Oshkosh Can8.l, headgate in 33-l7-44 (134 miles) <br /> <br />Page (l9) <br /> <br />Wooden headgate 14 ft. wide, ope%"ated with check plank, romains <br /> <br />01' short timbe%" wing dam in river, oanal in fair condition throughout <br /> <br />length. <br /> <br />63. Gyge%" Ca.nal, headgate in 10-l6-44 (137 miles) entirely <br /> <br />abandoned. no headgate, intake filled with sand, Gattonwood trees growing in <br /> <br />, <br />" <br />f' , <br /> <br />di toh. <br /> <br />I, <br /> <br />64. Midland Canal, headgate in 2.16-44 (138 miles) - 14 feet <br /> <br />timbnr headgate in very poor oondition, forGed out of position, needs <br /> <br />rebuilding, on side channel, cUver.8ianmade by file and brush dam. <br /> <br />65. Overload Csnal, headgate in 1-16-Q4 (138 miles) - rotted <br />remains or \roodsn beadgate f'Olmd. intake filled up almost level full, <br /> <br />wi llows growing in oanal bottom, old unused 1a.tera.l fran Midland crosses <br /> <br />lOO ft. l'ran heOO. <br /> <br />66. Bushwell Canal, headgate in 12-16-44 (140 miles from <br /> <br /> <br />1Ihalen) - no hea.dgllte, intake filled in, ditoh runs through hay land <br /> <br />bottan -..hioh is wet and seeped. <br /> <br />67. Sign&.1 Blufl' Canal, headgate in 16-16-43 (l42 mile s) <br /> <br />this oanal oonstructed during winter or 1911 - no dll:m oontemplated - canal <br /> <br />built up river bank <br /> <br />Page (20) <br /> <br />3000 ft. land under oenal measured by local surveyor 1438 aores. About <br /> <br />100 acres of this broken up. Eventually 350 acres will be cultivated, <br /> <br />remeinder will be irrigated wild hay. <br />