Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

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second only to the Cochituate plant,
which IS the largest in the world.
Boston Grows Rapidly
This water supplies over a million
people, and it is believed by the experts
that the supply will not be adequate
twenty-five years hence. Many who
have made a study of the subject assert
that ii will yet be necessary for the
Boston people to carry out the late
Benjamin Buffers original idea of run
ming a vast conduit system to Lake
Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire They
say that if the project. as originally
outlined. had been carried out an mex
haustible supply of pure water drained
from the great White mountain district
would have been obtained at less cost
than the present system.
THE experts claim that metropolitan
Boston must ultimately take this step
which so closely parallels the Los An
geles- river enterprise.
metropolitan Boston is increasing in
population from 15 to Is per cent each
ten-year period. This may look small
to Los Angeles people, where the an
nual increase reaches such an enormous
figure, but when one takes into con-
sideration the vast population of Bos-
ton it is easy to understand what Il
tremendous advance this eastern city
is making.
THE metropolitan district of Boston,
at the time of the last census had Il
population of 1,262,S41; within the 25-
mile circle in the thickly settled imme-
diately outlying cities the population
is 1,722, 509; within the 50-mile limit the
eY iot
are again doubled and the population
is $685. 159.
Has Regular Rainfall
"A great portion of the water taken
from the various systems which supply
Greater Boston are used for manufac-
turing purposes. We must remember,
however. that Boston is in Il section of
the country where rain falls every
month in the year, and compared with
the Los Angeles precipitation the
figures are gigantic.
In Los Angeles we still have to face
the possible emergency of dry years..
Every investor In Southern California
is vitality interested in the owens river
water project. Things progress so
rapidly here; business enterprises
spring up on every hand; new rail-
roads and immense factories are bound
to come if sufficient water supply is
secured.
Plenty of water will insure tourist
crops as well as citrus and agricultural
output.
Los Angeles people should profit
now by the mistakes made by big
eastern cities which wrestled with the
water supply question and came out
second best.
Tells of Great Undertakings
"Boston neglected the Winnepesau-
kee opportunity and New York built
the immense Croton aqueduct which
was looked upon as a seventh wonder
of the world but which has now proven
to supply Greater New
York. The Croton watershed contains
$50 square miles and the Croton reser-
voirs are marvels of engineering
achievement.
Now Greater New York plans to
the great Catsldll aqueduct
which will go into the mountain of
upper New York for it's water supply.
Needless to say the expense of this
will be much more than it
would have been had the work been be-
gun a decade ago.
"Boston will have it's Lake Winnepe-
saukee supply, New York its Aseokan
and Catskill reservoirs, Los Angeles
will have it's owens river water supply
while the city is yet a mere nucleus of
the vast center of population which
must ultimately come. Citizens of Los
Angeles have heretofore shown rare
business acumen, and they cannot in
the future fail to carry out the work
which its engineers have shown to be
possible.
Give Railways a Chance
Great railway systems will event.
ually center here if given "a chance,
and Los Angeles cannot be short
sighted enough to overlook it's oppor-
Iunities. Give the railways a chance.
Let them live and grow and they will
help Southern California to live and
grow. Railways are built and man
aged by men who do not seek to op-
press the shipper but to give him an
opportunity to produce a greater out
put; to enable the shipper to become
a larger consumer of products from
other parts of the world, thus slim
ulating a great commerce.
To the unobserving, railway rates
may at times seem high but when we
take into consideration the vast
stretches of desert land through which
run to reach the Pacific coast;
when we remember the tremendous ex-
penditures which come upon these
transcontinental lines in times of flood
and disaster we cannot but see that the
profits which we have heretofore con-
sidered large are brought to an ex-
tremely reasonable figure.
Another thing to be placed to the
credit of railways and railway men is
he vast amount of advertising which
hey do for Southern California. They
ire the leaders in the fight. The gov