Documents d'approvisionnement en eau et d'Irrigation de l'United States Geological Survey . r au premier point de mesure80  % sur le Funstons passe North Fork, ou un point d'equalelevation (7 050 pieds) sur la branche sud, qui serait à peu près à mi-chemin entre l'extrémité inférieure de Menache Meadows et l'embouchure du ruisseau de poissons. Les possibilités d'alimentation théorique du cours d'belowthese places serait donc de 500 000 chevaux, qui, pour awatershed de 2 349,3 milles carrés dans une région aride, témoigne de theremarkable avantages de l'eau, jusqu'à présent comme dischargeare et grades concernés, pour aide-po

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Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . r at First Point of Measurement80 per cent passes Funstons on the North Fork, or a point of equalelevation (7, 050 feet) on the South Fork, which would be about mid-way between the lower end of Menache Meadows and the mouth ofFish Creek. The theoretical power possibilities of the stream belowthese places would be, then, about 500, 000 horsepower, which, for awatershed of 2, 349.3 square miles in an arid region, evidences theremarkable advantages of the stream, so far as grades and dischargeare concerned, for electrical-power development. The Kern River Company, which has been engaged for the last fouryears in securing rights of way (now approved by the Department ofthe Interior), and in arranging preliminaries incident to the construe- 26 RECONNAISSANCE OF KERN RIVER, CALIFORNIA. [no. 46. tion of so large a plant, has as yet accomplished nothing in the wayof actual building. A plan of the reservoir site of the company isshown in fig. 7. The diversion works of their power canal will be in. Fig. 7. -Plan of reservoir site of Kern River Company. Area, 1, 121 acres; storage capacity, J2, 000 acre-feet; height of dam, 72 feet. the lower end of the town of Kernville, where the river forks. TheWest Fork is to be deepened so that during low stages this branchwill gather all of the water of the river, and a low training wall, overwhich floods of the river will pass, will be built. The head gate will olmsted.] POWER POSSIBILITIES. 27 be 3, 600 feet distant, on bed rock, and of solid masonry. The stand-ard cross section of the canal for the first 10 miles is 25 feet wide atbottom, 7.5 feet depth of water, and on a grade of 1.058 feet to themile. At a distance of 4^ miles from the head gate the only consider-able structure on the line is encountered—the bridge over KernRiver. After passing that point the cross section of the canal isreduced and the grades are increased accordingly. The plans of the company a

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