Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-07
OWENS RIVER
IS PURER THAN
SUPPLY NOW
Workingmen to Have
Good Jobs
Speakers Tell Big Audience at Labor
Hall the Truth About the Bond
Issue and Its Importance
to Los Angeles

'They tell us that the Owens river
water has alkali In it, 1t has, but it's
70 per cent purer than the water we are
drinking today, and the supply we will
bring here will be so per cent purer. III
have been drinking this alkali water
we now have for forty years and Pm
still feeling well, thank yOu.'
MAYOR ARTHUR HARPER.
"The 10000 horsepower we shall gem
crate with the Owens river water
means work for thousands and tens of
thousands. 1t means general prosper
fly for the community. 1t means corn
beef and cabbage. 1t will put flour In
the barrel and potatoes in the sack.v
WILLIAM MULHOLLAND.
"YOu may have heard that the water
in Owens lake is salt. Owens lake has
no outlet and the water in any lake
without an outlet is salt for the reason
that all water carries mineral salts.
The salts in Owens lake have been left
behind by countless years of evapOra-
tiOn. natures process of distillntiOn.
There are trout in the tributary streams
and in the main river. Trout do not
live in salt water-not that kind of
trout"
j.. B. LIPPINcoTT.
81 went up into the Owens valley to
see If we were getting n square deal,
and L believe we are. The water is
good and the water is plentiful. We
can get 10000 inches from there with
out difficulty. And 1t will be cheap
water, cheap even If 1t costs twice
what we contemplate having to spend
for it."
COUNCILMAN DROMGOLD.
"Every job developed in Los Angeles
is an asset for you and for me and the
Owens river project means thousands
of Jobs. L want you to give the Owens
river bonds the biggest vote you ever
gave anything; even bigger than you
gave Arthur Harper last November"
STANLEY b. WILSON.
At the close of the Owens river meet
ing held in Labor hall, $40 San Pedro
street, last evening, Councilman Harry
Lyon, who presided, called for a rising
vote on the bond question. Practically
every man in the hall voted aye. IL
was so nearly unanimous that the antls
didn't count.
occupied when Mayor Harper was in
troduced as the first speaker.
In opening his honor declared that
he had but one wish to express in con-
nection with the Owens river bonds:
IT only wish" he said, that I had
money enough to take them all my
self, but the banks of our state have
sent word that they want the first is
sue and 1 suppose we shall have to
give it to them.'
This, as a reply to knockers who
have declared that the bonds, under
prevailing financial conditions, Will
prove unstable, seemed unansWeraple
and the mayor continued with the
statement that his estimate of the vote
TO be cast next Wednesday, based on a
careful canvass made during the past
several weeks, showed victory for
the bonds in a ratio" Of about five to
one Regarding antagonism to William
Mullholland, the mayor said that 1t
was no new thing.
MuIhoIIand's Rise
"Why. 1 remember years ago." ne
said. "they used to swear at Bill Null
holland. Later they swore by him. He
was accused Of giving us water with
rats in it and one morning reao IN
the naper that Mayor Hazard had
drawn a dead mouse from his water
nine IT must have been true, too, be-
cause the paper had picture OF the
mavor and of the mouse. Then the
citv bought the water system and sud-
denly Mulholland developed into
GOOD citizen. With time he became
better citizen and now we are begin
ming to realize he's really a big man,
who is working for the city OF Los
Angeles all the time
n twin infn the ValIeV and
what did I find there? A watershed
ne 12O miles of mountains having an
aee altitude of 10000 feet; river
carving from $4,000 to 1900 inches OF
water in the spring and fall and as
high as 10000 inches in a summer,
when the SHOWS are melting.
"The water at Charley's Butte con-
tains some alkali, but it is 25 per cent
nurer than the water we are drinking
today. We shall add to that a supply
of absolutely pure water from the
mountain streams and the supply we
viii bring here will be so per cent
nurer. have been drinking this al
kali water we now have for forty
Years and I'm still feeling well, thank
you. .J
.Ue lave every evidence that this
water can be brought here for $23,OO0,-
000. Messrs. Mulhollard and Llppln-
cott saw so and prominent outside en-
gineers brought here by the city nave
agreed with them.
.'The money will be expended largely
for labor: for labor and cement chlefly'
and that is a point worthy of your con-
sideration. 1 want you all to vote on
this bon1 proposition and to vote
Yes" ,,s
7. b. I.ippincott's talk was Illustrated
with lantern slides showing views IN
the valley and on the Sierra water
shed. maps of the route to be traversed
by the aqueduct and charts illustrating
comparative water flows, the cost OF
the proposed system as compared 10
other systems in the country, etc. lie
explained that present plans call for
the construction of four storage reser"
voirs with a fifth in Long valley to be
built later when it is needed. The
first of these reservoirs will be at Hal-
wee, the second at Fairmont, where
the power plant is to be established,
and the third and fourth in the south
end of the San Fernando valley. Inc
cost chart showed that only one city
in the country, Chicago, has a cheaper
water supply, figuring the volume OF