Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1884-12-12


The HeRAIn has no hesitaney Ia
iieratinq and roifefating the fact that
the City Council is simply fooling
with The levee proposition Mover IN
the history Of California, At least
since It's occupancy BY Americans,
have the springs, streams and rivers
Of this section been so full " they are
to-day. Probably not one AneeleGo
in Ton knows that tie ditch leading
from Tho upper Los Angeles river,
which ordinarily supplies East Los
Angeles with water. has been broken
ever since the Hoods Of last Spring,
YET this ia true. II Is also u1ie shat
om popular Eastern suburb during
the past season has been aupplied
with water, Tor domestic and irrigat-
ing purposes, not from the Los An
COLES river, but from tue Arroyo
Zero, a stream which, az Is name in
dicatcs, ia. dry nine years oct Of ten
ia The summer aeason All Though
the past summer the Arroyo seco, "a
has been the ease with thous-
and other water courses u
ike character, has been rum
ming splendid volume OF
water. Few people are aware Of the
fact that the San Diego river has
run steady stream since the
foods OF iasl Spring, and this
is the case With All the ordi-
narily dry riyers and streams
which figure on the map Of southern
California What is the natural in
fsrence from these iacts7 Il is that a
very triiiine rainfall this winter, Il it
should come ali at once, would result
IN a. great damage from floods as was
witnessed at the opening Of the cur
rent year Should We have, as is by
no meane unlikely a downpour, at
one time. Of from three 90 Ave inches,
sc are Fable &c be called upon 10
chronicle great damage 10 the low
lands Of our city. Meanwhile, the
City Council has occupied itself in
erecting chilawh's expedients Of card
board castles to check the tide Of in
ovitohle danage IN the Los Angeles
river The best that Los Angeles
councilman had TO say about the silly
expenditures ia che river bed in the
Spring was That ihoy saved several
aores Of Mrs Bieelow'e place on this
side Of the river, at the expense Of
SID, GOO to $4,000 losses 10 the vine
Yards Of the Messrs. VIM Il. Work
man and J. Z. Hollenbeek on the
other side. And this was the grand
outcome Of the wisdom Of our City
Council IN fare Of the nnminent dam
ger which then menaoed the city
with an exieeus call We regret very
much 70 say tltal bad as the expe-
dients then adopted were, they seem
10 have become stin worse. The
fatuousness of employing hundreds
OF men in the river bed, in removing
sand from one place to be eaIted to
another, 70 be in tnfn restored to The
place from which il was taken At the
first lick Of the tide begotien Of high
water in the Los Angeles river, is be-
yond belief. Thousands Of dollars
are being to-day sunk in the bed Of
the Los Angeles river with ahso-
lutely no benefit to any created being.
The City Council would exhibit IN
fnitely more wisdom in applying
what remains Of the Lovee Fund to
yitalizing the Commission to New
Orleans That would be a far better
channel in which to expend thous-
ands than in wasting them in the
channel OF the Los Angeles river, q
proposition which can only be con
trolled by large aud Intelligent eN.
penditure.