Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey No. 16


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Source: 55th Congress, 2nd Session - HOUSE. - Document No. 511

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR


WATER-SUPPLY AND IRRIGATION PAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY No. 16


OPERATIONS AT THE RIVER STATIONS, 1897.-Part II


WASHINGTON, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898ARBOLES STATION ON SAN JUAN RIVER.

This station, described in the Eighteenth Annual Report, Part IV, page 279, is located at a foot bridge 1,000 feet below the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad depot at Arboles, Colorado, and is above the month of the Peidra River. The gage consists of two inclined 4 by 4 inch timbers marked to vertical tenths of a foot, the space between marks being 0.131 of a foot, and it is bolted to the rocky bank on the right-hand side of the river. The left bank is low and liable to overflow, the right is high and rocky; the current is sluggish, and the bed sandy and shifting. Discharge measurements are made during high water at the footbridge, and at low stages about 1,300 feet below the gage, where the bed of the stream is composed of small stones and is less liable to change, and the current is swift. The observer is T. F. Burke, section foreman. The following discharge measurements have been made in 1897 by Cogswell:

April 25, gage height, 8.30 feet; discharge, 2,753 second-feet.

May 16, gage height, 8.80 feet; discharge, 3,316 second-feet.

June 27, gage height, 7.60 feet; discharge, 1,604 second-feet.

July 25, gage height, 6.50 feet; discharge, 446 second-feet.

August 29, gage height, 5.80 feet; discharge, 209 second-feet.

September 26, gage height, 8.00 feet; discharge, 2,048 second-feet.

October 24, gage height, 6.90 feet; discharge, 795 second-feet.

Daily gage height, in feet, of San Juan River at Arboles, Colorado, for 1897.

Day Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov.
1 6.50 8.20 9.10 7.25 6.20 5.70 6.50 6.60
2 6.80 8.40 8.85 7.30 6.20 5.70 6.50 6.50
3 6.60 8.45 8.35 7.45 6.30 6.50 6.65 6.50
4 6.75 8.60 8.10 7.40 6.30 5.90 7.50 6.50
5 6.95 9.05 8.05 7.10 6.35 6.00 7.35 6.50
6 7.45 8.50 8.10 7.05 6.25 6.65 7.10 6.50
7 7.85 8.63 8.25 6.90 6.20 7.00 7.05 6.50
8 7.25 8.70 8.50 6.95 6.20 6.40 7.15 6.40
9 7.20 8.85 8.50 7.05 6.20 6.80 8.05 6.40
10 7.25 8.90 8.60 7.10 6.30 6.50 7.90 6.40
11 7.85 8.55 8.75 7.05 6.30 6.45 7.70 6.40
12 7.65 8.50 8.50 6.90 6.10 7.90 7.55 6.40
13 7.75 8.70 8.40 6.90 6.10 6.95 7.40 6.40
14 7.80 8.75 8.40 6.70 6.15 7.15 7.20 6.35
15 8.10 8.60 8.35 6.70 6.10 6.65 7.50 6.30
16 8.20 8.75 8.40 6.70 6.15 6.50 7.50 6.30
17 8.60 8.65 8.15 6.70 6.35 6.40 7.50 6.30
18 8.90 8.85 7.85 6.75 6.15 6.40 7.40 6.30
19 8.90 9.20 7.80 6.60 6.10 6.30 7.35 6.30
20 8.50 9.95 7.90 6.60 6.05 6.30 7.20 6.20
21 8.45 9.05 7.85 6.50 6.00 6.60 7.05 6.30
22 8.10 8.75 7.95 6.50 6.00 6.45 6.95 6.30
23 7.70 8.95 7.95 6.75 6.00 6.40 6.90 6.30
24 7.85 9.20 7.75 6.65 6.00 6.40 6.90 6.30
25 8.15 9.20 7.60 6.50 5.90 7.10 6.85 6.30
26 8.35 9.30 7.70 6.40 5.90 7.65 6.80 6.30
27 8.75 9.35 7.65 6.40 5.90 7.05 6.80 6.20
28 8.20 9.05 7.55 6.30 5.90 6.90 6.70 6.15
29 8.10 9.10 7.40 6.30 5.80 6.70 6.70 6.10
30 8.10 9.00 7.20 6.25 5.80 6.55 6.60 6.10
31 ---- 9.05 ---- 6.20 5.70 ---- 6.60 ----

BUTTES STATION ON GILA RIVER.

This station, described in the Eighteenth Annual Report, Part IV, page 286, is located at the buttes 16 miles above Florence, Arizona. This gage is bolted to a solid rock on the right bank, where the river emerges from the lower end of the gorge. Measurements are made from a car suspended from a cable, a short distance above the gage. Owing to the shifting character of the bottom, it was necessary to make a large number of discharge measurements and the following were made by W. J. Brash and A. T. Colton in 1897:

Date Gage Height Discharge Date Gage Height Discharge Date Gage Height Discharge
  Feet Sec. ft.   Feet Sec. ft.   Feet Sec. ft.
Jan.1.... 2.30 4,445 Feb.26.... 2.60 646 May 28.. 1.65 94
Jan.5.... 2.25 413 Mar.2.... 2.50 593 June 10.. 1.50 72
Jan.8.... 2.24 377 Mar.5.... 2.52 614 June 30.. 1.30 20
Jan.12.... 2.90 853 Mar.9.... 2.60 687 July 11.. 3.00 726
Jan.14.... 3.10 846 Mar.12.... 2.48 568 July 27.. 1.93 173
Jan.15.... 3.80 1,891 Mar.16.... 2.45 585 Aug.11... 2.25 365
Jan.16.... 5.30 3,895 Mar.20.... 2.58 681 Aug.14... 4.70 3,181
Jan.18.... 4.60 3,085 Mar.23.... 2.90 1,010 Aug.31... 1.90 246
Jan.22.... 3.40 1,446 Mar.26.... 2.74 833 Sept.8... 6.75 5,588
Jan.26.... 3.05 1,045 Mar.31.... 2.78 837 Sept.13... 3.50 1,946
Jan.29.... 2.85 912 Apr.8.... 2.54 675 Sept.15... 5.30 4,950
Feb.1.... 3.50 1,530 Apr.14.... 2.70 797 Sept.23... 3.75 2,099
Feb.5.... 3.20 1,123 Apr.20.... 2.60 757 Sept.28... 3.70 2,068
Feb.10.... 2.85 926 Apr.28.... 2.43 516 Oct.10... 2.65 868
Feb.13.... 2.71 840 May 6... 2.22 318 Oct.24... 2.23 601
Feb.16.... 2.54 700 May 14... 1.96 188      
Feb.22.... 5.82 808 May 20... 1.80 134      

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