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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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taining even 4000and 5000 acres; under these conditions,it is plain that there must be large ditchesand canals to supply the water to pumpsof this capacity; therefore, the maindrainage canals are constructed fromtwenty to twenty-five feet wide with num-erous laterals of three and four feet inwidth. This reclamation development, the suc-cess of which has been very largely con-tributed to by the use of electric powerfor drainage, has opened up this immenseterritory, which contains as rich land asexists anywhere in the world, to the pro-duction of numerous crops of variouskinds, the most important of which arepotatoes, beans, onions, asparagus, hemp,celery, corn and barley. The Joaquin, a monthly magazine pub-lished by the San Joaquin Valley Coun-ties Association, in its issue of July, 1917,published an interesting interview withMr. William H. Pile, one of the pioneerresidents of the Delta region. Mr. Pile,who at the time of giving this interviewwas eighty-five years of age, had deserted
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Fourteen-mile slough. Htuip mill on Rindge tiact in the distance. 40 Pacific Service Magazine

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