The herald., 1897-05-12
MADE QUICK WORK OF IT
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
WATER SUPPLY
~ Full Schedule Of the Water Com
pany's Property Presented-Po-
lice Commissioners

Silver In the. chair, and the following
members present: Messrs. Baker,
Order, Nickel, Mathuss and Toll.
Messrs. Ashman, Blanchard and Hutch
ison were absent, though the member
from the Third ward came In before the
proceedings were concluded.
It was 2:15 o'clock before the meeting
was called to order, but when they did
get down to business no time was lost.
The gas and light committee reported,
recommending that the franchise Tor
transmitting electricity and electrical
energy be awarded to L. D. c. Gray and
the board of public works recommended
that the telephone franchise be awarded
to the Home Telephone company, and
the San Pedro street electric railway
franchise to John C. Lynch. The city
attorney reported the necessary ordi-
nances. and they were passed in their
order by a unanimous vote by those pres
ent, under suspension of the rules IN,
their regular order, and transmitted to
the mayor for his signature. His honor
was in his Office waiting, and promptly
affixed his signature. Copies of the ordi-
nance had in the meantime been sent to
the official paper, and as soon as the
mayors signature was affixed the neces-
sary publication was made and the ordi-
nance became law AS the new law reg
ulating the granting of franchises goes
into effect today, it will probably be some
time before another application is made.
THE WATER QUESTION
The council committee on water supply
presented the following report:
In keeping with the instructions of
your honorable body authorizing this
committee to open negotiations with the
Los Angeles City Water company for the
purchase of their plant by the city, in the
event it should appear advisable to pur-
chase the same, we have prosecuted the
commission entrusted to us to the extent
of procuring from said water company
full data pertaining to this plant.
1t has been the prime object of your
committee to secure this information to
such degree of completeness as to rem
der verification easy on the part of ex-
perts as we'll as to enable any inquiring
mind to form proper conception of the
extent of the plant, uponlan examination
of the schedules and maps. 1t matters
little how ardently the committee might
have labored along this line its efforts
must have been without avail had the
water company not evinced disposition
to crafty every reasonable request for
information and afforded every facility
for acquiring sufficient data.
This information is herewith presented
to your honorable body both in schedule
and map form. The schedule showing
items under the following heads:
Real estate rights to develop water,
rights of way conduits, tunnels, pipe and
flume lines. distribution pipe system. fit
tirgs, reservoir sites, reservoirs, pump
stations, stock on hand, water sources
and Developments, and the map showing
the exact locations of all these properties
throughout the city and adjacent ter
ritory.
Naturally the committee regards its
work incomplete in its present state. in
asmuch as it is unable to communicate
the figure at which the water company
will part with its plant. The desire of
the company to secure concerted action
Of all its members in approving any price
its local representatives may name has
occasioned some delay in furnishing the
final figure to the committee. We are
assured, however, that this information
will be forthcoming in two weeks
Approaching the necessity for making
rapid progress in overcoming the steps
preliminary to the proper decision upon
the germane question a issue, your COM
mittee takes the liberty of submitting
the data above mentioned, awaiting the
transmission of the water company's
price until such later date as It may suit
their pleasure to communicate the same
to this committee.
In order that no time may be lost at
this juncture your committee would re-
Spectfully recommend that the city en-
gineer be instructed to proceed at once
to determine by use of the data here sup
piled the following conclusions:
F1rst-The correctness of the data
furnished by the water company
Second-The cost of new plant identi-
ca in all respects with the present plant.
Third-The present real worth of the
old plant.
Fourth-lts available value to the city
as part of an ultimate complete plant.
The report was accompanied by the
following schedule giving in detail the
property Of the company, with maps.
etc:
Schedule of real estate, water rights,
improvements, etc, owned by the
Crystal Springs Land and Water
company and the Los Angeles City
Water company.
REAL ESTATE
4.01 acres in Crystal Springs tract.
improvements on said tract, consist
ing of wooden warehouse 40x36 feet.
dwelling house fer family and two port
able houses.
80 acres of land purchased from Fer
guson and Mitchell.
23.15 acres of water land, on the
Rancho San Rafael, purchased from
Glassel ct al.
Lot on the corner of Marchessault and
Alameda streets and improvements con-
sistirg of two-story brick building, the
offices of the company.
Lots 1S4, 8, rs, 9, 40, Al, 42, As, and 144.
Victor Heights tract
improvements on s1me-one frame
cottage, one frame barn, one store
house.
Lot 31A, Highland View tract, con-
sisting of s acres.
Lots / and 2, block A. Florence Terrace
tract
Lot %. block 26. and lots 21, %, "a, block