The San Francisco call., 1906-05-09
CITY IS URGED
TO ACQUIRE BIG
SUPPLY Of WATER
League Petitions
Supervisors to
Act.
|HetCh-Hetchy Ba-
sin Is Favored
as Source.

The Independent League of Califor-
MIA has sent to the Mayor and Board
OF Supervisors the following communi-
cation, urging the acquisition by the
city OF municipal water supply:
ITO the Honorable, the Mayor and
Board Of Supervisors of the City
and County Of San Francisco:
The Independent League, Like most
citizens, having the best interests of the
| city and State at heart, think this an
opportune time to ask you to officially
request the secretary Of the interior,
!, through the President of the United
/ States, to grant this city and county
the right to take its supply Of water
from the Hetch-Hetchy basin and to
construct dams, lay pipes, and do every
thing else necessary for that purpose
within the jurisdiction Of the United
| States.
As you know, the attorney general
Of the United States has recently de
cided that the secretary Of the interior
has the power to grant this permission,
and in view Of the repeatedly expressed
desire Of the President and other Off
| cials and representatives Of the States
and United States to help this stricken
city, the grant will Immediately follow
your request.
"That it is the most available and
best water supply, has been admitted
for years and is still admitted by all
competent to judge and not having con-
| ficting interests. In view Of the fact
that the city will not have to pay any
thing for private rights to the supplw,
as is the case in all the bids to furnish
water supplies and systems recently
submitted to the Board of Supervisors,
there ought not to be, and undoubtedly
will not be, the slightest hesitation in
Immediately making the request
through the President Of the United
States in these days of expressed pat
riotism.
Especially Is this SO when we know
that nearly every dollar expended will
be paid to workingmen and mechanics
of all kinds, and not one dollar to pro-
moters, however worthy they may be.
Thus the problem Of the relief Of the
people and city will be in a great meas
ure solved by furnishing remunerative
employment to the largest number sof
people and thus enable them to build
or repair their own houses and buy their
own food, clothing, ETC., just as they did
before the fire, and which is absolutely
necessary to rebuild the buildings and
| business Of the city.
| eff it is said that 1t will cost more
than the other systems offered, who will
object when the city will know from
its own supervision of the construction
that it is properly done and will not go
back on us when put to the test in a
crisis like that Of April 18th. When it
is admittedly the best supply consid-
ering the best interests Of the future
great city that we hope for and are
talking about; and especially when
every dollar Of extra cost (if there II
any will go into the pockets Of me-
chanics and other working men whose
prosperity is the prosperity Of this and
all great citiesf
"We therefore most sincerely and re-
spectfully petition you to Immediately
CALL-ELEVEN-Wright G May7
DAILY DOPE
make this request through the patriotic
President Of the United States, and viii
ever remain,
H.THE INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE
OF CALIFORNIA,
"By JOHN L. POLITO,
ttIts Secretary"