Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-23

tinguish the debt. and after It shall
be paid the revenues from water VIII
go far toward defraying all expenses
of government and taxes will be les
sened II not dispensed with altogether.
The profits of the owens river enter
prise will not 60 to capitalists but to
all the people. Municipal ownership
will make us all stockholders I'm the
enterprise and all will share In the
result.
Profits Will Be Enormous
"The indirect profits will be enor-
NOUS. OF the S23, ,O00 600 to be expended,
from SIS, 900, 900 to s1S,000,00 will be ex-
pended for labor The growth of the
city. caused by the certainty of the
ADEQUATE water supply, will be great
and continuous. Hundreds of miles of
streets and avenues will be graded
and severed. Many miles Of electric
roads will be built. Thousands of
houses and hundreds of business blocks
and dozens Of skyscrapers Will be
erected.
''The enormous outlay for these pur-
poses will be expended at home and
will go into the pockets of the laborers,
mechanics, merchants, manufacturers,
architects, dentists and doctors of the
city. and possibly even the lawyers
will put their money into the water
bonds will be governed by spirit of
Yankee thrift as well as of western en-
terprise. They will say: Twenty
three millions of dollars Is a large
sum. That is, 1t would be large sum
to some communities, but 1t isn't so
much for us, for we've got the pop
ulation, and we've got the pluck, and
we've got the money, too We are
not dependent upon other places-east
or north--for the cash to carry through
the owens river project; we know that
the investment is a safe one; we have
the money ready in the vaults of our
banks and trust companies, and neither
a man nor a woman. nor a child, nor
a bird, nor an animal, nor bush, nor
a tree, nor a garden lawn between the
Sierras to the sea, shall go thirsty, if
it takes all the money we can raise to
give them a drink.
Work So Far Done Quietly
zone of the most commendable and
marvellous achievements of the gentle
men who have engineered the owens
river project to its present status, is
the quiet and efficient way in which
they lodged the grafters and evaded
the 'butters-in.' and secured sufficient
title TO the necessary riparian and
other rights without contributing to
those blackbirds who hang around
great projects as their feathered proto-
types hang around a horses feet in
summer for insects his tread disturbs.
Beautiful California;! With what
wealth of sea and shore, of forests and
mine, of field and orchard did the AL
mighty endow his favorite child! Here
July suns scorch not and January
storms freeze not. Overcoats in winter
are an encumbrance and fans an i'm
pertinence in summer. There was
never case of sunstroke or hydro
phobia in California. Spring is too
busy attending to her flowers to spread
any lap for winter to linger in, and
autumn never bids winter get any
sleighbells ready.
winter indeed exists only in the
almanacs and on the mountain tops.
Los Angeles knows him not. Here ma
ture arrays herself always in lovely
toilets and the loveliest of all is her
Easter gown. Acres of wild violets and
fields of scarlet poppies. Banks of
lilies and heliotrope. Hedges of roses.
Orange trees on which belated fruit
and pearly blossoms may be plucked
from the same bough. Forests of red
wood and pine in the mountains
Groves Of oaks in the valleys, and the
attired does this beautiful and affluent
California outstretch her motherly
arms to guard the health and happi-
ness of her children. Will Los Angeles
maintain her ratio of growth. or must
she divide her kingdom with some
rival?
Will Never Lack for Water
"The people of Los Angeles will
Ia "a. hot
in the skies are ever working for them.
The heavenly drawers of water, with
ropes of golden sunbeams dip their
silver buckets down in the vapory
amethyst that hovers over the ocean
and lake and river. Thus they lift the
raw material for clouds to their work.
shops in the upper ether. There they
weave the white fieeces and load them
upon the backs of the winds and send
them forth.
"The water falls upon the mountains.
and thence it seeks natural or artificial
channels, and under the lash of graV-
itation 1t begins its journey to the sea.
1t comes to us along conduits that
cling to the mountain side; it hurries
through dark tunnels from which it
! emerges into the valley and it glints
in the sunshine and sings and laughs
as it comes.
THE grasses lift their dropping heads
to welcome it. The heart of the red
rose throbs with joy to meet it. The
lilies bare their white breasts to its
embrace. Garden and lawn, shrub and
tree, orchard and meadow, forest and
| field hail it's beneficent presence. And
all join in acclaim to Eaton, Lippin-
colt, Mullholland, McAleer Mathews.
Kelly, the board of commissioners, the
| journalists who wrote articles for it.
and the capitalists who wrote checks
for it, And the Owens river fume
will reply:
I am fed by the melting rills that start
Where the sparkling snowpeaks gleam
| My course is free, and with fiercest glee
leap in the suns broad beam.
! Up from the valley, up from the HILL
Up from the rivers side;
For / come with a gush and a torrent s
rush,
And there's wealth in my swelling tide.
PERKINS SAYS WORLDS