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<br />'000327 <br /> <br />.... <br />"::::"::':; <br /> <br />no bridge or oulvert for main line U. p. R. R. wooden siphon und8l" <br /> <br />South Platte filled with sand. Rumors of "llJlal being put in sernae again. <br /> <br />Page (23) <br /> <br />18. Nor1:h Platte Canal, hell.dgate 13-14-34 (203 miles) wooden <br />headgate 65 f't. long in poor oondit1on, wing dam 500 ft. upstrelllll parallel <br />to rive%" batik, 2 rows sheet Blld r,ound piling f'illed with sand md ove%"grClilll <br /> <br />f, <br />:' <br /> <br />with willows. Bottom of' oanal said to have been built 2 feet. above bottom <br /> <br /> <br />of river. Canal and 8tr~tures in good condi t1.on. Principal oraps o'om and <br /> <br />i.C. <br /> <br />alfalfa. In ranges 3l and 32 oropS destroyed by hail, little water appUed <br />. l <br />to them in 1911J Farmers seem satisfi6\t with water supply. <br /> <br />79. Pll.Xton and Hershey Canal, headgate in l6-~33 (203 mll811) <br /> <br />woadem headgate 125 ft. wide, oontrolle-d by "heck planks, in fair condition, <br /> <br />no dam, river wide at this point. Bottan af' canal said to have been built <br /> <br />16 inohes below bottam 'of river. Canal and. stru,ctures in good oandition. <br /> <br />Chief orops oom and alfalfa. In r&nge 32 crops largely destroyed by <br /> <br />hail in 1911. Water supply se8'll.s to have been fur. <br /> <br />80. Farmers and Merohants or Suburban Cllllal. <br /> <br />Page (24) <br /> <br />headgate 7-~32 (209), wooden headworks. good condition, no dam, island <br /> <br />in river but intervening clumnel quite wide. attempt in 1911 to divert <br /> <br />flow Bira.wood Creek aoross river to heacigate by means of straw dsmJ !"iv8r <br /> <br />rose ~i washed our dam BOon af'ter oanpletion. Canal in good oondition, <br />\' <br />