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Show -37- Yuma Project History, 1915. P. 23: Reservation Canal System. The lateral system for the Indian lands was completed during the first half of 1915. This work was the building of 14 miles of laterals containing 157,293 cubic yards. Engineer, E. W. Dahl; foreman, J. A. Chridy. In February, March, and April, a portion of the Coco-pah canal was cleaned out by a drag-line excavator for a length of 1>2 miles, 21,114 cubic yards of earth being moved at an average of about 70 cubic yards per operating hour. Drag-line operator, Wilford Kerr. Structures, Yuma Indian Reservation. Nine small concrete structures were built during the year, containing 110 cubic yards. Two hundred and ninety-five small wooden structures, containing 205,000 feet B.M. were built. One corrugated iron pipe culvert was placed. Reservation Levee Extension. This work was the building of about three-quarters of a mile of levee on the Iaeger tract where a gap had been left in the levee previously constructed and the extension of the levee from a point about 3 miles west of the Southern Pacific railroad bridge at Yuma to where it intersects the Southern Pacific railroad tracks about 5 miles west of the bridge. The earthwork moved was 111,920 cubic yards. Engineer, E. W. Dahl; foreman, J. A. Claridy. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |