Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
GREAT CONDUIT IS
FORERUNNER Of
PROSPERITY
Los Angeles Profits
by Mistakes Of
fasteners
Board of Public Works
Convinced by Trip
to Valley
Boston Man Predicts Success of Great
Enterprise Started by Eaton and
Mulho holland-Tells of Co.
chituate and Croton

Twill Los Angeles have a population
of million within the next decade
That depends on Los Angeles people
or rather Southern California people
see no reason why this should not bt
achieved" said A. p. Massey of Boston
to a Herald representative last night.
1.-The future of Los Angeles is as
sured. The increasing prosperity of the
whole country is continually recruiting
the ranks of the pleasure seeking
health and comfort hunting people who
will at no far distant future fill the
great valley between the mountains
and the sea with small communities
and towns which will, to all intents
and purposes, if not in fact, be Los
Angeles. The same as the suburbs OF
Boston, on the Atlantic. make Boston
the second populous community of i
given area, so this community will
make Los Angeles the first populous
section on the Pacific coast.
your steam railroad connections
with the world at large is constantly
increasing and your sub and inter-
urban electric service is second to none
in America. Your hotel accommodations
have kept abreast of the constantly in
creasing population, catering to all
classes.
Water the Great Problem
1.-THE continued excellence of these
factors means the continued increase
in your population and the great prob
lem of maintaining continual in
creasing population is water.
''The enterprise of Los Angeles and
Southern California people in acquir-
ing the Owens river supply will solve
this problem. This action is the great
est issue of the day 1t makes no diff
ference about the minor details of the
purpose, it has been obtained and it
is now but a question of engineering
and the availability of the money to
carry the project to a successful issue.
Those who mention the expense and
call the figures enormous should look
into the future and try to understand
the absolute necessity for this supply.
The great city of the future is mere
Pigment of the imagination without the
water supply to make the dream a
reality.
Is an Authority on Subject
''With water the great valley can he
made and maintained the garden spot
of Amerca-the most beautiful place
in the world"
Mr.. Massey is travelling passenger
and for fifteen years has been an an
nual visitor to Southern California. He
is familiar with conditions in and
around Los Angeles and has been d
close observer of conditions. Mr.. Mas
sey knows the Pacific coast from Sc
attle to San Diego and has facts and
figures at his finger tips.
Asked for his opinion regarding the
feasibility of the Owens river project,
Mr.. Massey said:
THAT is a matter for the engineers
TO decide. ] understand they have al
ready expressed their convictions that
the enterprise can be acrried out. A
fairly explicit working plan has been
outlined.
II do not believe the undertaking
is any greater than that which the
Boston people have just carried to d
successful end.
Must Seize the Opportunity
when it comes to a question OF
whether Los Angeles can afford to
carry out the Owens river project
moments reflection should convince
one that Los Angeles cannot afford to
neglect the opportunity.
Boston has just spent $50 1000, 900 to
get a water supply for the rapidly
growing city. 1t cost them $5,00O00O to
clear away the great valley in the CEN
Il
twenty-throe miles along the Boston
e Maine railroad the valley was de-
nuded Of all vegetation and the entire
railroad moved fourteen miles to get it
out of the basin.
a "The town of West Boyston, con-
tanning several hundred houses and a
number of large brick factories, was
entirely demolished. One of these fac
tories was a large woolen mill employ
ing about 400 hands, but all had to be
moved away. and where the thriving
Village once stood is now the site of a
vast lake. In clearing away for the
reservoir all trees underbrush, vegeta-
ton and surface loan was taken away
4 by the contractors and dumped outside
the valley.
Tells of Great Cochituate System
''In order to carry out this stupendu-
Gus task the contractors built and
operated $40 miles of railway dunn car
tracks. number OF locomotives were
employed in the work, and in fact a
complete miniature railroad system.
with dispatchers' office, block signals
and everything that goes to make up a
complete modern dirt moving outfit.
AT Clinton, Mass, a stone dam
which cost $5,000,00O holds the vast body
of water in the valley. The water from
this immense reservoir is carried by
gravity through a conduit about fifty
two miles long. This conduit is partly
subterranean and partly on the surface.
This aqueduct carries an immense
water supply to the Cochituate water
works.
From Cochituate the water is pump
ed to a high service reservoir at Spot
pond in Melrose, sixteen miles from
Cochituate. The Spot pound reservoir
is the original basin and has a natural
granite and sand bottom A special
high service reservoir about quarter
of a mile from Spot pond supplies the
metropolitan district of Boston.
1T cost $3,000,0OO to clean Spot pond
and build the pumping plant, which is