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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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tributed to the mining communities of the Mother Lode. Jackson, until it reaches 208 Pacific Service Magazine Summit Ridge, between Sutter and Jack-son Creeks, along which it passes to Tan-ner Reservoir near the town of SutterCreek. From Tanner Reservoir are suppliedthe distribution ditches which deliverwater to the mines and domestic com-munities in this region. The foregoing list of lakes and reser- these from the standpoint of economicaldevelopment is the Deer Valley site, threemiles below the dam of Lower Blue Lake.Concerning this reservoir site it is inter-esting to note that the waste waters fromthe two Blue Lakes and, also, the flowfrom Indian Creek and a number of smalllakes in Indian Valley pass through thesite of the Deer Vallev reservoir. At the
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A Pacific Service party at the sumnait of the Sierra Nevada, above Meyers, l^eading leit to right:P. M. Downing, John A. Britten, Charles Rollo Peters (guest), W. E. Eskew, r. S. Myrtle, W. G. Vincent. voirs includes those now improved andwhich form a part of the system of watersupply of the former Blue Lakes WaterCompany, now owned and operated byPacific Service. In addition to thesestorage reservoirs, further reservoir siteshave been located for future use whenthe demands of the company shall requireadditional storage facilities. The best of southeasterly end of the valley granitebluffs approach to within a short dis-tance from each other on either side ofthe stream and afford excellent abut-ments for a high masonry dam. With adam 100 feet in height the proposedDeer Valley reservoir would impoundnearly four thousand million gallons(500,000,000 cu. ft.). Pacific Service Magazine 209 Over the Top With Joe Schwartz The boy whose narrative appears below has just passed through a peculia

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