Big Ditch
Final Activity
Purpose of the Ditch
- The purpose of creating the Yreka ditch was to connect the Shasta river to the Mines both North and South of Yreka.
- This was built by the Yreka ditch company
Construction
- Cost approximately $500,000
- Starts at Shasta River and ends in Weed California about 95 miles
- Constructed in 1853
Post Construction
- over one hundred years
- Chinese maintained the ditch
- squirrel holes, rain, leakage in flumes, unsettled soil, and seepage
- horse back riding, dirt bike riding, hiking, off road bike ridding and sight seeing