Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
CITIZENS URGED TO
VOTE FOR BOND
ISSUE
InvestigatingCommittee
Makes Report
Plans of Commission En-
tirely Feasible
Municipal League, Chamber Of Conn.,
n1erce and Merchants Association
Convinced Owens River
Is True Solution

Feasible In all the details of finance.
satisfactory in the quality and quantity
of the water, few engineering difficult
ties to be overcome, imperative if the
future welfare of Los Angeles Is worthy
of consideration. This in substance Is
the report on the Owens river PROPOSE
tion which was submitted last night by
the Joint committee from the chamber
of commerce, the Municipal league and
Merchants and Manufacturers assocIa-
ton, which for the past two weeks has
been engaged in an investigation Of the
subject.
Every assertion made by Superin-
tendent Mulholland, Fred Eaton and
the water board on the subject of an
inexhaustible water supply for Los An
geles from the Owens river district are
reiterated in the report in even stronger
terms than those used by the men who
made the project possible.
Reports commendatory
The report of the committee of the
Merchants and Manufacturers associa-
ton will not be ready for publication
until Tuesday, but on reliable author
ity II is stated that it will be as COM
mandatory of the proposition and the
men who are behind 1t as is that of the
chamber of commerce and the Munich
pal league.
The Joint committee first inquired
into the present water supply of the
of data on the Owens river project OBJ
tained from sources other than that
of the water board, it called in engin-
eers OF high repute for their opinion
on the subject, it made estimates
of the probable cost, it took samples of
the water from where Los Angeles
future supply undoubtedly will now
come and had them analysed at the
State university experiment station.
Finally it went foot by foot over the
Owens river district.
The result Of their findings has been
this: The present supply is entirely
inadequate. The Owens river is the
one source from which a sufficient
quantity may be gained. The project
is eminently practical. If anything 1t
will cost less than the amount speci-
fled by MuIholland.
The analysis of the water shows 1t
to be of better quality than that of
Los Angeles at the present time The
quantity is a sufficiency
Bond Issue Certain
rr,I.- of@ l,a
mittees, say prominent business men,
will insure the voting of the first bond
issue, the election for which will be
held next Thursday, by a vote of more
than ten to one What little lack of
confidence which may have been
builded, upon misleading assertions and
fictitious atterances of the yellow jour-
nal will be swept away, they say, by
the statements made by the men who
composed the committee. These men
are ones who have been successful in
business life, who are not accustomed
to carry out plan before they have
thoroughly investigated and found it
practical.
In their visit to the Owens valley
they found that to a large extent the
inha bitants have been misled by re-
ports sent out by Los Angeles news
paper, the aim of which was to per-
vert the sentiment of the community
in which it was published.
To convert this antipathy into
friendliness the committee of the
Municipal league has recommended
that a delegation of citizens from the
Owens river district be invited to visit
Los Angeles and learn for themselves
the spirit, which is general from the
individual to the city government.