Osgood v. El Dorado Water & Deep Gravel Mining Co.

Ross, J.:

It appears from the record, that, in the year 1856, a man by the name of Kirk conceived the idea of constructing a canal *575from the vicinity of Placerville, in El Dorado County, for the purpose of conducting water from various sources of supply in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the foothills and plains below, for mining, agricultural, and other useful purposes. There were many obstacles in the way of the undertaking; for the -country through which the waters had to be conducted was, in great part, rough and mountainous, and the winters so severe that the working season consisted of…