The San Francisco call., 1908-08-27
OFFICIALS FINISH
HFTCH HETCHY TRIP
Supervisors Enthusiastic for
Proposed Sierra Water
Supply
William Hall Will Submit Offer
of All Private Holdings
About Lake Eleanor
srEcrAL pIspATcH To rHR GALL

YOSEMITE, Aug. 26.-The super
visors' party completed its seven days
journey into the wilds of the Hetch
Hetchy valley and the Lake Eleanor
district today and disbanded upon ar
rival here this afternoon. City En-
gineer Manson left at once for San
Francisco, most of the board members
deciding to. stay over for one or two
days to visit Glacier point and the Ne
vada falls canyon. Manson heartily ap-
proved a suggestion of Supervisor Nc
Leran that the representative civic,
commercial and labor organizations of
the city should be urged to send up
100 or more leading men of the city
to survey the magnificent possibilities
of the two sites which the federal gov
ernment has agreed to grant to San
Francisco.
Seeing is believing" said McLeran;
I'VE know now what the Hetch Hetchy
valley and Lake Eleanor will be for
the future, but the more men who see
them the better"
MANSON WILL VERIFY SURVEYS
Manson will be returning to Hetch
Hetchy this fall to verify the final
surveys now being made by the seven
engineers of the city under the direc-
tion of Drency A. Jones. "I want to
see with my own eyes that every foot
of private ground has been secured
by the city, SO that there can be no
slip, he said. II will probably not
have time TO personally conduct such
a party, but I will arrange an itinerary
and recommend efficient guides pack
ers and camp helpers for the party.
The trip would be an eye opener and do
good"
Every supervisor expressed himself
as satisfied with the possibilities of
the two sites. TT would be criminal
not to secure these magnificent granite
walled basins as reservoirs for San
Francisco's future water supply" said
Payot.
'Hetch Hetchy and Lake Eleanor are
both grand catchment basins" said
Pollok. "Hetch Hetchy will make a
great reservoir
When San Francisco has grown to
be the metropolis of the Pacific. rival
ing London, Paris and New York as
the worlds center, this valley, Hetch
Hetchy, can supply It alone with the
purest water known to man." said
Giannini, head OF the public utilities
committee
WOULD DEVELOP Roth SITES
Murphy pointed out that the govern
ments condition that the city should
take both Lake Eleanor and Hetch
Hetchy, developing the lake first. was
an advantage. ITO bring the water of
one source from the Sierra peaks to the
county line of San Francisco will cost
S19,0OO,O00, to bring that of both only
S21,000,0o0,'' he said THE city VIII
insure Its future by securing this sun
ply Tor the millions of people to come"
The next thing for the city to do. .
Manson pointed out, 'is to rivet San
Francisco's title to the lands and the
reservoir concessions This should be
done before the present administra-
ton goes out March next Secretary
Garfield and President Roosevelt are
our friends Their successors prob-
ably will be, but they would not know
the details that have been perfected.
All the city has to do now is to per-
feet its rights. A bond issue of $780,
600 voted by the people will do two
things. 1t will voice for the federal
authorities San Francisco's will that
this gift may be hers, and that a COM
paratively small amount will in all
probability suffice to acquire all the
private rights which have grown up
during the years of the citys in
activity"
SUBMIT PRIVATE HOLDINGS
William Ham Hall will next week
submit his offer of all the private
holdings of over 1000 acres about
Lake Eleanor to the supervisors and
the latter have stated their willing
ness to pay a reasonable sum for the
lands. One or two supervisors inti-
mated that they would not be sur
prised IL Halls hackers were found to
be men interested in Spring Valley
intent on asking the city an out
rageous price for the holdings to force