228 VALUATION, DEPRECIATION AND THE RATE-BASE
Culture exclusively citrus:
Per million
gals. per day
Lemon Cove Ditch Co. on Kaweah River. ................ $25,400
Rosedale Water Co. on Tule RIVer. .. aie vive « sivsisluisleleiainlos 23,200
Citrus and diversified crops:
Per million
gals. per day
South Tule Independent Ditch on Tule River. ............. 5,070
Diversified crops, no citrus:
Per million
gals. per day
Bishop Creek Ditch'in Owens Valley... LLL UL LL LLL, 3,100
Clark Colony Water Co. in Owens Valley........... 0 3,100
MeNally Ditch Co. in Owens Valley... 0 ih 3,100
Owens River Canal Co. in Owens Valley. ............. ; 3,100
Roberts DitchiCo. near Colusa... LL LLL EE DEER As ; 1,160
Watson Ditch Co. near Visalia... LL. on nal .. . 2,560
EvansiDitch!Co. near Visalia... Lo Lh . 2,012
Murphy Slough Assoc. on lower Kings River......... 1,040
Rawson Ditch'in'Owens Valley. .........L............ . 1,040
Consolidated Peoples Ditch on lower Kings River. ......... 870
OakesiDitchiCoinear Visalia. Lo. SL 580
Poplar Ditch Co. onTule River... fs iLL, 21%
Mr. Lee cites also a few canal companies for whose water-
rights no value is demonstrable from the market value of stock
in the canal company. These were omitted from the above
enumeration.
The above figures are not presented to show the value of
water in regions where society already demands full utilization,
but rather to show that with the demand for a higher use of
water which must come as the pioneer region gradually changes
to a densely populated territory, the value of the water-right in
any such country as that under consideration, where nature has
set a limit to the available supply, must go up.