The herald., 1896-10-28

to the south patent boundary line of
the city of Los Angeles.
Sec. g. That the map as declared in sec
tion of the ordinance made in Feb
ruary, 1887 by Fred Eaton, city sur
veyor. is hereby declared the official map
of the bed of tine Los Angeles river.
Sec. 4. The clerk of the council shall
certify to the passage of this ordinance,
and shall cause the same to be published
once in the Tribune, and thereupon and
thereafter it shall take effect and be in
force.
l hereby certify that the foregoing or
dinance was adopted by the city of Los
Angeles at its meeting of Feb. 20. 1887.
FREEMAN G. TEED.
Clerk of the council of the city of Los
Angeles.
Approved this I'd day of March, 1887
w. II. WORKMAN, Mayor.
Published March 8, 1897
SANE RENDERING.
For the non technical reader il may be
OF penei1t to know that the above ordi-
nance, shorn of it's technical verbiage,
reads in general terms as follows:
1t commences somewhere in the CEN
1t commences somewhere in the cen
street; thence southerly to a point 3jS
feet south and west of the intersection Of
Chavez and Kuhrts streets; thence
southerly to point 707 feet south and
west OF the Intersection of ST. James and
Holly streets; thence northerly to q
point 574 feet north and west Of the in
tersection of Holly and St.James streets;
thence to point $50 feet west of the in
tersection of Mission and Leroy streets;
thence southerly to a point 754 feet west
OF the intersection of Also and Center
streets; thence southerly to a point 631
feet west of the intersection of First and
Center streets; thence to the center OF
Seventh street; thence southerly to
point 3S9 feet south and east of the inter-
section of Ninth street and Hostetter
avenue; thence southerly to the south
boundary of the city as per patent.
THE HERALD'S EXHIBIT.
By an examination of the map now on
exhibition at the office of The Herald it
Will be seen that the actual river and the
official river are two very distinct prop
ositions. Any surveyor by examining it
will find that the plan is properly plated
and an absolutely correct representa-
ton of the official bed of the river The
blamed thing isn't there on the ground
but that isn't the rivers fault, for it
worked hard enough to get there. Just
after the Eaton survey had been made
Old Pluvius made another investigation
of the merits of the case and finding this
survey worse than any of it's predeces-
sors just tore around and afforded an
opportunity to Martin Aguirre to
achieve immortal fame and the high po-
sition of sheriff of Los Angeles county,
as reward for hts having al the risk OF
his life saved numerous ducks and geese
and, be it also said, many lives.
The Terminal railway about this time
got franchise from the city along the
east bank of the official bed of the river
andiproposed to put a track there When
they. came to figure out where that Of
fetal bed was they gave it up in despair
and concluded to buy the right of way
from the property owners. To save
time they did about as everybody else
does, bought the land first and tried to
find out afterwards what they got. They
employed an abstract company to get
the owners names and the thing looked
all right until they employed surveyor
to go out and locate the lots. Then there
was trouble. The lots apparently, from
the abstract, fit together in one contin-
uous line, but there was grievous mis-
take somewhere. The railroad company
found some on the west side of the river,
some on the east side and some in the
middle of the river. and some they could
not find at all. The city had granted
them rights of way over certain streets
which they found had been laid out in
the middle of the river. To build a track
over that sort of a layout would have
required about 600 miles of track to get
through the city, and bridges and tun-
nels galore. The company split the diff
ference and piled the old thing down
where it was most convenient and "let
her CO."
The council might be astonished to
find where some of the streets were
placed by the ordinance in 1.-The case
made and provided" Hoff street, by or
dinance, strikes out aimlessly over the
hills to the Elysian park, but if any one
wants to travel it and follows his nose
along it to its termination he will find
himself in Pasadena. Give stranger
the field notes of most of these streets
and he would make map which would
look more like a design for a patent
gridiron than anything else, and about
one in ten runs in the direction the ordi-
nonoa aol1c for