Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-25

loeBt need OF Duuulng y b0Wet now, uor
do think there will be any need of 1t to
the ocean for years to come. The popu-
lous parts of the city as we'll as all the
business center is now we'll severed. The
running of the sewage from the rest of
the city into the main outfall conduit
will not materially increase the flow.
Below the city there are tracts of land
that will always be able to absorb the
whole flow from the city, and its pres
ence will not be felt there. l have read
all the HERALD says on this matter and
entirely agree with You.
DE-. LANNON'S PLAN.
The reporter went to DIR. lannon's
office to get his plan for caring for the
sewage. He said: When the Council
preceding the present one was in exist
ence, Judge A. M. Stephens went before
that body and laid our plan before them.
| took two engineers, Henry Dockweiler
and another. We went to the mouth OF
the Los Angeles river, between Long
Beach and Wilmington, and we followed
the bed of the river to the city limits. We
found natural fall all the way along.
Directly north of the Nadeau vineyard l
have forty acres of land. Mrs. Arcadia
de Baker has a large piece adjoining;
Hollenbeck has a large tract east
of me. Then there is the Ma
deau property. We had 1000 acres
all told. The Tweedy ranch could
have been added, and good deal OF
other property would have come in.
Benson was already in with us. We Of
fered to give the city perpetual guar
antee that would have bound all the
lands under our system to take care OF
the seagew forever. We offered to build
sewer, oval-shape, five feet by three
feet, from the city limits to the forty-acre
tract owned by me, if the city would
give ms SIS, 900. That was all it would
have cost the city for an outfall sewer.
It was our intention to use the water for
irrigation in that sandy, porous soil,
which never could have become saturated
with the waUer. In the winter, If there
ever should be surplus, we would
run that into the river bed,
where the floods would naturally take
perfect care of it. We left no point open.
We had levels run from the southwest
corner of the city to our dumping ground.
There is a good fall from the University
to my forty acres. 1t is all nonsense
about that point being lower than the
river-bed near Florence. 1t is good
deal higher. We had map made
setting forth all this. took the Sewer
Committee over it. Mr.. B. Cohn was on
the committee, 80 were Captain Barrett
and Mr.. Humphreys. Mr.. Cohn
seemed to me to agree to the feasibility
of the project. But never could get the
Council to act on the matter. And l
never could get back my map from
the committee. l had rough trac-
ing of the map made, and l gave
that to the committee, and that was lost
l gave it up in disgust. After this pres
ent Council came into Office, some one
told some of the members about this
matter, and they spoke to me. l would
not give it any more attention. L had
no axe to grind and did not propose to
waste my time. About a month ago
Mr. Hamilton, member of the Council,
came to me and asked me about it. l
told him the scheme could be carried
out still for about 100000. He was to
go with me to look the route over. We
appointed certain Saturday to go, and
that morning went to Mr.. Hamilton's
house-he lives near me-to ask If his
committee would be ready. He said he
did not think it would; that Mr.. Sum.
merland, one member of the committee,
was "away off," and that he did not
think Mr.. Shafer, the other member,
was very "much on" We could have
got 10, 900 acres of land down that way
to take the sewage. There never would
have been the least trouble about it.
Mr. Louis Lichtenberger: shall vote
against the outfall sewer. l don't be-
lieve it is in proper hands or would be
we'll done
Mr.. Alf Workman: AS things stand.
l don't believe We shall get any outfall
sewer. 1t won't get the two-thirds vote
required.
Mr.. R. J. Floyd: To get my vote, all
questions OF right of way and other
necessary details will have to be settled
satisfactorily. 1 read the HERALD and
stand in with it's attitude on the matter
Mr.. T. H Ward, Secretary of the
Board of Trade, said that he was in favor
Of the outfall sewer to the sea. He
thought that the fact that the sewer had
an outlet into the ocean would be the
largest kind of an advertisement for t 9
city. He did not think the sewage
should be wasted, however, but some
arrangement should be made whereby it
could be taken out at various points and
conducted in pipes to the lands desiring.
Mr. P. Taylor, who resides near Park
Station, said that he didn't think it
practicable to build the outfall across the
| Gun Clubs property near Ballona. 1t
would cost at least $25, 900 to build an
embankment to carry the sewer and
then the problem of crossing the lake
had to be solved.
Ex-Councilman NJ. T. Collins, who
had been on the Council when the sewer
question was looked into year ago, eaid
that he was not in favor of the outfall
sewer. He thought that the present
arrangements could be made to answer
for number of years, and by extending
the bitches. territory could be reached
which would take all of the sewage for