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Figure 24. Placer mining on the road between Sonora and Columbia, ca. 1870. Note the flume in the background. (Courtesy of the Society of California Pioneers.) Figure 25. Placer mining and flume in Brown’s Flat, ca. 1870. (Courtesy of the Society of California Pioneers.) Foothill Resources, Ltd. 4.18 TUD Ditch Sustainability Project Francis Heritage, LLC Historic Resource Evaluation Report
No longer in operation, but originally one of the more important segments of the system was the Main or Columbia Gulch flume, race, and waterway from Columbia via Springfield to the Slum Dam on Mormon Creek, as well as a branch to Shaw’s Flat. Both were depicted on Wallace’s 1853 and 1862 maps of the TCWC system. The Columbia Gulch Fluming Company was incorporated December 18, 1854, for the purpose of constructing a flume from San Diego Gulch through Columbia Gulch to Tim’s Springs Gulch (Articles of Incorporation No. 17½), and increased its capital stock the following year (Articles of Incorporation No. 18). Evidently intending to acquire all the water rights in the area, on November 21, 1857 the Columbia Gulch Fluming Company (incorporated in 1854 and 1855) purchased the 120- rod long flume of the Mormon Creek Fluming Company, located in a gulch near the Columbia Gulch Fluming Company’s flume, for $2000 (Deed Book 7:84). In debt to the TCWC in the amount of $9,000, on August 29, 1864, the Columbia Gulch Fluming Company deeded their flume, described as extending from Columbia Gulch to a short distance east of Columbia to a point in the gulch a short distance southwesterly of Springfield, satisfying the debt plus $100 in court costs; the flume was valued at $15,000 (Deed Book 13:436). On January 9, 1867, the Columbia Gulch Flume was conveyed by Sheriff John L. Bourland to George Wight, and by Wight to the TCWC for $7,159.72 on January 31. It was again described as being on Columbia Gulch and coursing through Springfield to 400 yards below (Deed Book 14:725). In 1870, it was identified as the Columbia Gulch Tailrace Flume and depicted on the GLO Plat for T2N, R14E, in approximately the same location. The Slum Dam on Mormon Creek was apparently constructed ca. 1853, as on May 30 of that year Loretta Arrows deeded a right-of-way for a ditch or flume on Mormon Creek one-half mile below Springfield to the TCWC for their use and benefit for the “construction, excavation, or repair of said ditch” (Deed Book 7:184). The Slum Dam was built to “slum out” the tailings carried down from the Columbia placers and was rebuilt in stone in 1900 (Rhodin 1916). It has been used as a diversion dam for the Table Mountain Ditch since that time. The other important system was the Table Mountain system that took water from the Columbia Ditch through a series of reservoirs and the Union, or High Flume, and the Springfield Weir to the mining regions on and near Table Mountain, including the Rawhide Ranch, Peppermint Creek, Montezuma, Chinese Camp, Peoria Flat, and French Flat. Those systems are described below in the histories of the Montezuma and Table Mountain ditches. As noted in the 1910s, however, at times, water was turned through the “Main Gulch Flume” to the Springfield Weir (the weir was apparently located near the present Springfield Trout Farm at the headwaters of Mormon Creek) of the Table Mountain system. This means was not preferable, as it had to flow across the Columbia Basin where seepage was great, and the water supplying the Table Mountain system through the Foothill Resources, Ltd. 4.19 TUD Ditch Sustainability Project Francis Heritage, LLC Historic Resource Evaluation Report
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TUOLUMNE UTILITIES DISTRICT DITCH S
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Foothill Resources, Ltd. ii TUD Dit
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Section 4 Ditch (P-55-003161; CA-TU
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Figure 1. Project vicinity. Consu
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sparsely or intermittently; new set
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1850s Gold Rush. As many as 10,000
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Of particular assistance in determi
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Page 28 and 29: Figure 6. Tuolumne County Water Com
Page 30 and 31: Figure 7. Entrance of the tunnel at
Page 32 and 33: Figure 9. Montezuma Flats, ca. 1859
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Page 50 and 51: Roach’s Camp Ditch The Roach’s
Page 52 and 53: Figure 13. The Rawhide Mine near Ja
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Page 56 and 57: Figure 16. Portion of the 1909 map
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Page 64 and 65: time water was taken from the North
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Page 70 and 71: Figure 20. Western portion of John
Page 72 and 73: Figure 22. John Wallace’s undated
Page 76 and 77: Shaw’s Flat Ditch was used for ge
Page 78 and 79: Figure 26. General Land Office Plat
Page 80 and 81: History. The present Kincaid Ditch
Page 82 and 83: Evaluation. The Kincaid Ditch appea
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Page 86 and 87: Phoenix Ditch (P-55-003751; CA-TUO-
Page 88 and 89: On August 27, 1861, William Clark,
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Page 92 and 93: Ownership of the TW&EPC system was
Page 94 and 95: ditch had been absorbed into the TC
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Page 102 and 103: Ridge to the Soulsby mill were cons
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