Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-09

the water becomes very bad and unfit
for USE That does not mean that the
water of the Los Angeles river is neces-
sarily bad; 1t only means 1t has be-
come bad after passing certain point.
Ten Years from Now
I wonder how many of us can realize
what a beautiful city Los Angeles VIII
be ten years from now. With the water
from Owens river we can irrigate all
the surrounding country, make every
hillside a flower garden, fill the lakes in
our beautiful parks with fresh water
and keep them filled in fact, make
Los Angeles the real "City of the An
gels" The last few weeks we have seen
what we can do with plenty of water
to keep our business streets clean, There
was no complaint during Shriners' week
of dust In the business part of the city.
With plenty of water we can wash our
streets instead of having alternate mud
and dust the result Of sprinkling In the
old manner.
Besides all this, not least is the power
which will be developed through the
Owens river aqueduct. If we have
plenty of cheap power we can estab-
lish all kinds of manufactures, give
employment to our own people here
now, at good wages, and to the tens of
thousands coming.
One thing in connection with the de-
velopment of water we must not forget,
1t is that you cannot take from any
catch basin more water than falls with
in that basin. A certain basin may con-
tain an amount of underground water
which has been stored there in years
past, but the time is not far distant
when that stored supply will be ex-
hausted If you draw a greater supply
from that basin than falls from the
heavens, less necessary loss by evapo-
ration and absorption, the underground
storage must be exhausted. Nearly all
our artesian wells have stopped fiow-
ing, some permanently, others during
dry seasons. The writer we'll remembers
artesian wells that flowed big streams
of water which have long ago stopped
flowing. indicating that the channel
from which the water came had been
greatly diminished.
Water Naturally Stored
For many years it has been proposed
to store the winter run of water from
the Big and Little Tejunga creeks
for the city use. Now that very thing
has been done by nature. The waters
have been stored in an underground
reservoir for ages in the San Fernan-
do valley and the water of that under
ground reservoir has been used by the
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than a hundred years, and with less
loss and expense than if the water had
been stored in surface reservoir.
The waters of the Tejunga creeks we
get through an underground channel;
some of the water may pass our pump
ing plants up the river, but cannot
pass the bedrock tunnel back of Ely
sian park, which crosses the LOS An
geles river and Arroyo Seoo.
The city of Los Angeles is in need
of more water, and there Is no other
place than Owens river from which
it can be obtained.
The amount of money, $23, 900, re-
quired to bring the water from Owens
river to Los Angeles is necessarily
large. Yet the expense is not great
compared with the benefits derived
Four-f1fth of the amount of money to
be expended will go to labor in the
of the aqueduct, which
means that the money required to build
the aqueduct will be transferred from
the capitalist to the laborer. Every
body knows that with plenty Of labor,
employed at good wages all are pros
porous
So let US make the vote on the bond
unanimous.
JOHN ]. JONES.