head-gates

Just such a flood as that on which we were travelling had torn out the insufficiently supported head-gates.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

The tracks led straight from here to the head-gates.

Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

The main canal was full of water, and after some effort she succeeded in opening the head-gates so as to let the water go pouring through.

Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

Into this she turned, following it until she came to the head-gates of the lateral which ran through their place.

Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

She came back up the ditch and then rode right up to the head-gates and turned on the water.

Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

Lark's ranch was the first one below the head-gates, lying between the river and the ditch, an old homesteader's claim, sub-irrigated by means of rude dams ponding the natural sloughs.

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

He gave him those five crucial miles between the head-gates and Glenn's Ferry, the notorious beat that had sifted Finlayson's force without yet finding a man who could keep the banks.

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

It was a queer country along the new ditch below the head-gates; as old and sun-bleached and bony as the stony valleys of Arabia Petrea; all but that strip of green that led the eye to where the river wandered, and that warm brown strip of sown land extending field by field below the ditch.

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

This outlet is on the northwest side of the Lake, between Tahoe City and Tahoe Tavern, and is now entirely controlled by the concrete dam and head-gates referred to in the chapter on "Public uses of the Water of Lake Tahoe."

The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter George Wharton James 1890

"Well, after I have my tunnel driven and the head-gates in and my

The Long Chance 1918