Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-11
COUNCIL STUDIES ROUTE OF
GREAT OWENS RIVER CONDUIT
Junketing Party Travels Across Desert in Wagon
Train, Living Close to Nature-Ex- Mayor
Eaton Pilots Los Angeles officials
BY w. @. Lewis
pJ w. ~ EuWio
orrespondence to The Herald.

Special Correspondence to The Herald
COYOTE HOLES, Nov. s.--Drawn
by horses so jaded they could scarcely
set one foot In front of the other, thir-
teen members of the councilmanlc
junketing party reached this place
about Q o'clock this evening. with the
exception Of q few short stops. where
ex-Mayor Fred Eaton pointed out some
of the features that would enter into
the construction of the conduit to bring
the Owens river water into Los An
geles, and half an hour for lunch at
Barrel springs, about 4 o'clock this af-
ternoon. neither men nor horses had a
minutes respite from the tedious jour
ney since $3.50 o'clock in the morning.
when the party left Mojave.
Five wagons compose the caravan,
which Ia needed to convey the mem
bers of the party and the supplies The
commissary wagon headed the process
sion, carrying beds, bedding and pro-
visions which the small stations along
the route are unable to supply In suf-
ficient quantities. This wagon was fol-
lowed by one containing the feed for
the horses, guarded by Councilmen
Ford, Healy and Kern. A third wagon
bore exMayor Fred Eaton. pilot of the
party, with Consulting Engineer Frank
Olmsted, who made profiles and maps
Hitler and Houghton and Minute Clerk
Charles Wilde, with the driver, made
UP the party in the fourth vehicle,
and double team, with three-seated
buggy conveyed representatives Of four
Los Angeles newspapers, chaperoned
by father of The council, G.. A. Smith,
from the Fifth.
The day could not have been more
perfect for the journey II 1t had been
a. - A L.. t.~l.k
before had settled the sands Of the
Mojave desert roads and In several
places they were almost as hard as
dirt roads.
The members of the party had spent
most of the night before In telling
stories and discussing their plans in a
spirit OF good fellowship and 1t was
very late before most of them sought
their downy couches in the railroad
hotel. AS they were called out of bed
in the cold gray dawn to prepare for
the trip only few of the members Of
the party looked as if they had enough
sleep. But the rich, wine-like air OF
the high attitudes of the desert put
new life into them and 1t was a jolly
crowd that started on the forty-flve
mile drive to Coyote Holes.
Location Of sIphon
About sixteen miles from Mojave
Pilot Eaton called a halt and pointed
out Pine canyon in the Tehachapi
mountains, where it will be necessary
to build an inverted syphon of 1876 feet
pressure. The Tehachapi mountains
will be used to build the conduit which
will be given a fall of about one foot to
the mile In this valley. The conduit
will deliver As, 900 inches or ten to eleven
feet. The fall Is light but the amount
of water is great.
At Jawbone canyon, FIVE miles from
Pine canyon, another halt was called
and the place in the canyon pointed
out where very large inverted syphon
with 1000 feet pressure will be built
Surveyors for the city were at work at
this point today.
The Tehachapi mountains form ma
tural contour for the conduit and 1t will
be built over. this range around Mo-
jave, and between Soledad peak and
the main range of the Sierra Nevadas,