2000.141.2

Three Miner's Inches
1994
19.875 in HIGH x 23.75 in WIDE
(50.48 cm HIGH x 60.32 cm WIDE)
Gift of the Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California
2000.141.2

Bottom right corner in black ink, "Geoff Fricker"
Bottom left edge has "'Three Miner's Inches', 1994" handwritten in black ink.

Black and white photograph showing a small stream in the center with rocks and plants around it. Above the stream is a person bending down to measure using a ruler. Only the boots, legs and hand of the person is visible. Next to the person are pans, a book, level, compass, and rolled paper. The end of a shovel is visible in the lower right.

Paper with photograph indicates that in California, a miner's inch is one square inch orifice under four inches of pressure. Fourth miner's inches equals one cubic foot per second. The Law of California Water Rights Wells. A Hutchins U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 1939. This is from an ongoing series in water management in California.

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