The San Francisco call., 1908-05-22
ATTACKING THE HETcH HErcHY PROJECT

TTHEN the opened by action OF the government
w San Francisco to acquire and install municipal water
supply from Sierra suppose
every interest bound up with the prosperity of this city
would Loyalty and earnestly forward project designed
imperative need But apparently the Chronicle does
things in that light 1t unable anything but obstacles that
block the cs In melancholy article the Chronicle finds
the water supply situation hopeless. We quote:
# Valley distributing system every
n CITY must be torn up at enormous cost and awful discomfort to install
obtain equal capacity leading
these things once while raising money
own 5.s B buy Wy Rs d Sc S8 a y; ]
pd s % upon its plant m % @ main @ supply into
for If how this comply with all these
1t torents the soul of the Chronicle
generally supposed be located in the comfort
speak tear up the streets buy reservoir sites
install distributing system and go without
in progress 1t is gloomy future that the Chronicle
San Francisco This is the very gospel of futiy and
raise difficulties and standing still
San Francisco will and conquer these difficulties they
but they will be met by sitting still and mumbng like old
The Chronicle everything relation Even
the conditions of the national of rights do please
We quote again:
to the Hetch Hehy and Eleanor city
b secretary interior which May H. 1908 authorize BY us' t~o
thirds vote the issue Of the bonds complete the work. secondly
with due % fa @ so @ b ese @ % % @ & P9seeTte m & the work WORK
Msy H. I9c8 " "' the same 'n' DC competed WITHIN u years from
paragraph is sufficient to say that it is based on
Misrepresentation OF fact will appear from reading the conditions
made by Secretary Garfield, in these words
grant % & % eod 9pny % S74 70. will gb n two ,ed after M the
nit the question said supply required
will the actual construction of the Lake Eleanor will
reservoirs may be completed within five Years after the mi
specified be extended by the
y S E % 3 G n unless % ds % oTn g the a @ M te
% % d % 0 e % y o & county & ano sao %Gk Is conn commenced carried
UndeP shall Peyeft to he All rights granted mere
Nothing whatever said therein about Hetchy site
The limitation applies only the Lake Eleanor dam
that there full provision for such extensions of time may
needed The objection like the others purely
captious spirit of hostility to the whole project
Again quote from the Chronicle
these sites by viii % be s tamp THAT With the & f s5 ds5ou a b
piled with our rights lapse 1t certain that we shall not need the Sierra
apparently buy developed its full paey 3Ps ''s' plant winch we
One thing certain the city will comply with the condi-
ons if the Chronicle Any further information
may be desired this subject supplied by Spring Valley
water company. The Chronicle proceeds
prospect agreement paid for with bonds 't's w
u9erisors NAV make Our readers can estimate the any Sanc % tia neh the
a well
expected Chronicle will help the CITY
in making its bargain with Spring Valley If helps anybody
will be Spring Valley The Call does know prospect there
may be Of concluding reasonable bargain for the part
OF the Spring Valley plant but does know that as the
supply the present the corporation will
be held The Chronicles threat that the dis
any water to the city is vicious and stupid nonsense The Spring
Valley company will take step Justify the for
eue of its distributing system the city, provided by the
constitution.
many objections and they are all
conceived in the captous spirit of hostility the
Francisco The motives that hostility NAV
be readily understood They writ large the history Of
the Chronicle.
Los Angeles city, undertaken much bigger
project blocked hampered by spirit backbing or
knocking and where anything of that public
told the babters, unmistakable ways, that they
keep still get of Los Angeles This the spirit that builds
great cities. It is not done by whining.
newspaper that hangs like milestone neck of