Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-24

two cars did not reach here till o'clock
yesterday, four hours past dinner
time, and the ten hungry occupants
fell to like savages when Landlord j.
Wilbur Hall of Big Pine hotel set be-
fore the visitors a royal spread.
BIG PINE, Cal, April 10, 1880 p. m.
Partly to rest and partly to keep up
the autos, Mayor Harpers party re-
mained at Big Pine over night instead
Of proceeding to Bishop. They arrived
at 8 p. m. after Drawing a hard sand
storm. What Superintendent Mulhol-
land describes as young rocks" landed
on the bearded and bronzed faces Of
the autoists. They drew blood and
scratched and irritated. Despite gog-
giles, which everybody wore. the fine
sand got into the eyes Of mayor, coun-
cilmen and smaller fry, sparing none.
So pleased with what they have seen
are all members of the official party
that no one is afraid now to express
opinions. Here are few:
Mayor Harper: I'VE have the big
gest thing in our history in this Owens
country, the melted SHOWS of the big
gest mountain range in the United
States ready to flow past our doors as
soon as we build the big conduit. The
early work has been we'll done. Our
trip proves that. 1 am speaking in a
general way, but I say 1 am pro-
foundly impressed with the magnitude
of the enterprise, is necessity to Los
Angeles and Southern California and
of the completeness of the preliminary
work."
Superintendent William Mulholland:
This trip ought to silince any criti-
cism that may grow out of lack of in
formation concerning our enterprise.
We have put in years of study and
used the best data of state and govern
ment engineers and scientists, have
made our own tests and measurements
and stand by all our reports. The
average Owens river flow, If anything,
has been underestimate, but we stand
by our past statements and leave the
rest to the people to furnish the bond
money to carry out the project"
Civil Engineer ]. H. Dockweiler of
San Francisco: 1.-THE Typographical
and other work has reached a stage
where we engineers can make what
we call paper plans. We can lay out
the aqueduct and estimate everything
exactly. That is part of my mission,
when I have all my data, to make a
report for Mayor Harper such as the
experts made for the aqueduct board.
This is a magnificent plan in concep-
tion and in execution as far as it has
gone. The saving which will be made
in construction work by developing
horse power on the route is immense" "
INDEPENDENCE, Cal, April TO-
Preparations were made early this
morning for a drive five miles east to
the Owens river by Mayor Harper's
pilgrims. The visitors have not as yet
had a near view of the river. The city
controls fifty miles along the banks
northward from the owens lake. The
city owns the land itself, so there never
will be any question about control in
that strip. The Hickey ranch was pur-
| chased mainly for that reason and
other properties were gradually ac-
quired For this skillful work Fred
Eaton is given credit.
IF Los Angeles ever builds a big
monument to any man that man will
be Fred Eaton" said Superintendent
Mulholland, and many of the coun-
cilmen acquiesced.
Independence is all worked up over
the railroad and power projects that
are talked about here. The mining ex-
citement adds to the fever. On top of
all the aqueduct project offers the
greatest inducement for profit and
speculation. The dwellers here are
figuring fortunes on paper now.