nty, the San Fernando Valley and est sections, and the bench-lands nga and the Sierra Madre, receive briel Valley, as a whole, probably aan does the San Fernando, and 80 lley of San Bernardino. The reathe following facts: San Gabriel front of it, and has a high range dino Valley, notwithstanding the s also quite a high range in front. ely high range in front of it, and it for more than half its length. the underlying gravels, within a ing fully eight to ten months (innost every year. All but two or › not, naturally, even bring their six months of almost every year. gravels, but they reappear below Angeles Valley, or in those of the asses of streams, then, serving ir have their independent mountain ior valley through deep gorges or ch rise at the outlets of the three Open earth ditches.. Wooden flume and tunnel. Total This summary shows that the the city is 52.3 miles, of which sists of tight conduits-wooden or masonry-lined canals, brick of open canal and ditches of va There are 40 miles of ditches water supply from the city zanj duit, connecting with as many m and pipes. The cost has been $300,000. The irrigation system of Los the city council, from the heads ern limits of the city, and from t several associations of outside in The council appoints a genera ants, fixes the rates for sale of that are made within the city, a sion from the river. In times 3 they were $1.75 per day, $1.25 limits. Outside they were $3 per by they were $1.50 per day and $1 . After the latter date 75 cents n is about 12,000 acres, of which st report 250 different systems of thern counties of California; also asins, the total acreage of which is NO COUNTY. back are the culminating points in nia. From them, trending southich enter Mexican territory. Exges reach away over a hundred Ventura County. Standing at the nardino peaks are the highest and Iscape, and play a very important nomena and regulating irrigation an Diego range, or plateau, begins ist Range, extending northward Its face to the sea is a sloping . mountain peaks and spurs abo the same period. The slopes a The accumulation of vegetab as water-holding, are limited i the rain-fall was immensely gr days poured through the cai before them. The operation of bed-rock cuttings that are n Into these flow and disappear above. In this wise the artesi are collected. The Santa Ana River, with of 220 square miles, is the mai and also its chief irrigation and tributary creeks, cañons, o areas the northern face of the Mohave River. The basin slop length, and comprises 120 squa in irrigation is considered la waste 40 miles from its source. nardino lands as follows: (1) The wet and marshy lands of t and the Chino; (2) the moist and s Rincon on the north, and bordering east; (3) the moist bottom-lands bor the Jurupa from the upper to the lov the systems of distribution. One is is that made by tunneling into ing the drainage waters that pass tunnel delivers about 30 miner's tario Colony enterprise, whose en› become known all over the world alian projects, is the most famous of ter conserving all the surface sup and underground pipe-line, bave bowlders of the cañon bed a disworld is the duty of water so high han 800 miner's inches per annum, 150 to 60. The whole distribution . The work of distribution is in r, who delivers water to each irriwenty-four hours each thirty days, equivalent to a continuous flow of y of the company and the zanjero és, but laborers are at times emdirection in caring for and repairment for maintenence has not exper acre. The duty of water is to ten acres; it is probably about |