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Financial records, 1880-1893
MANUSCRIPT SMCII Box 15 Folders 11-13
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Title:

Financial records, 1880-1893
South Yuba Water and Mining Company financial records, 1880-1893

Creator/Contributor:

South Yuba Water and Mining Company, creator

Abstract:

Ca. 30 items. Incomplete financial records, 1880-1893; bulk 1883. Primarily financial statements from the Nevada City office detailing expenditures (operating costs, payroll, etc.) and income from water sales. Also includes an annotated bill for legal services to establish the company from the New York firm of Sullivan and Cromwell.

Date:

1880 (issued)

Subject:

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South Yuba Water and Mining Company -- Records and correspondence
Water utilities -- California -- History
Water-supply -- California -- Yuba River Watershed -- History
Water resources development -- California -- Yuba River Watershed -- History
Yuba River Watershed (Calif.) -- History

Note:

The South Yuba Water and Mining Company was one of the many companies involved in the progression of gold rush era ditch companies to modern hydroelectric and irrigation projects. It was incorporated in New York City on April 1, 1880 by William B. Leonard, George R. Howell, and seven other New York capitalists to mine in Nevada and Placer counties, and to accumulate, store, distribute, and sell water in Sacramento, San Francisco, Placer, Nevada, San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara, and San Mateo counties. Leonard was president, and John Earl Brown served as the company's agent at its California office in Nevada City.
Properties acquired at the time of incorporation included the Nevada Hydraulic Mining Company and the South Yuba Canal Company. The South Yuba Canal Company was an early ditch company which came to own twenty storage reservoirs and operate over 450 miles of canals and ditches supplying water to Dutch Flat in Placer County, Grass Valley and Nevada City in Nevada County, and numerous other mining sites. Underway since the early 1870s was the building of Fordyce Dam which was completed under the South Yuba Water and Mining Company in 1881, creating the largest reservoir in the state. About 1891, due to the passage of anti-debris legislation, the South Yuba Water and Mining Company re-orientated its activities towards supplying water for irrigation by purchasing the Bear River Ditch and changing its name to the South Yuba Water Company, under which name it was absorbed by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1905.
South Yuba Water and Mining Company financial records, 1880-1893
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.

Physical Description:

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30 items

Language:

English

Identifier:

MANUSCRIPT SMCII Box 15 Folders 11-13

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.