Stanislaus-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Beausang, J. F. 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

J. F. BEAUSANG.—This well-known old settler of the Dry creek region, on the
boundary between Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties, is a native of Sweden; the
paternal grandfather, however, was a native of France. His farm is located on
Dry creek, about three miles from La Grange, on the Knight's Ferry road. He has
1,800 acres of land, his house and the valley land being in Stanislaus and a
part of the portion devoted to pasturage being in Tuolumne county.

   One of the prominent features about Mr. Beausang's place, and one which
requires especial recognition in a volume of this character, is the fact of its
exceptional water and reservoir facilities. It has been estimated by competent
authority that a dam about thirty feet high and only about fifty feet across
would back the water up for a distance of half a mile to an average depth of
eighteen feet and an average width of a quarter of a mile, thus confining
millions of gallons of water and irrigating upward of 1,000 acres of land. The
further fact is stated, on the most reliable authority, that, utilizing his own
teams and scrapers, Mr. Beausang could build the dam at an additional expense of
only $500. The water storage facilities here available are discernible, even to
the unpracticed eye, at a glance, but such an experienced man as Mr. Barton,
engineer of the great joint dam at La Grange, fully sustains these statements.
Irrigation is the factor that is now working out the problem of success in
Californian agriculture and horticulture, and such facts as these should be
extensively known among those who are contemplating taking a hand in the future
development of this region. Mr. Beausang himself is one of the old-time settlers
along Dry creek, and is widely known as a reliable man and an estimable citizen.



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Memorial and Biographical History
Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties California

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. 1892


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