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[[underline]] Fallon [[/underline]].  

[[underline]] Nov. 15 [[/underline]] Mr. Means (Engineer in charge of the Trucky Carson Project) took me out over the valley and showed me many places where the gophers had cut the ditch bank, or rather where gopher holes had caused the water to cut through the banks and do a great deal of damage. We struck one fresh break where a gulch 6 feet wide & four feet deep had been cut through the bank and [[strikethrough]] into [[/strikethrough]] across the road. This was photographed as also several other breaks and sets of gopher hills in the ditch banks. Many burrows of Perodipus, Dipodomys and Ammospermophilus were found in the banks but these are less extensive and not very dangerous.  Mr. Means says that last year one of the big canals broke out, probably through a gopher hole, and it cost about 500 dollars to repair the break. If the country was under cultivation such a break would mean immense loss.

Transcription Notes:
Trucky Carson Project = Truckee-Carson Project, a well-known Reclamation project