The San Francisco call., 1908-11-03
MONEY is PROVIDED
!. FOR WATER SURVEY
Supervisors Receive City AttOr-
ney's Opinion Affirming the
Legality of Scheme
Engineers, Senators and Others
Approve the Hetch
Hetchy Plan

Action in furtherance of the Hetch
Hetchy water project by the board of
supervisors yesterday was directed to
minor factors, but was significant of
larger matters to follow.
Without a dissenting vote the board
set aside 81 900 to prosecute the neces-
sary surveys of land lines and locations
in the valley and at Lake Eleanor.
Pollock, upon the reading Of the city
attorneys opinion affirming the legal
ity of the city's procedure thus far, ex-
pressed his satisfaction. To Gianninf
statement, Il said all along that Long
approved our acts" Pollok responded:
We have now what I have been
seeking for months, the definite opin-
ion written IN the records of the city
attorney on these matters. The respon-
sibility is now where it should be. The
written record is better than any man S
word on the subject
Pollok left the chamber before the
vote was taken on the $1,000 appropria-
tfon, one of the last measures put
through, and his present attitude in re-
gard to active steps for the project
remains to be developed.
Engineer Desmond Fitzgerald's letter
to Giannini indorsing Secretary Gar
fields grant as most favorable to the
city. as well as the city attorneys
opinion and Senator Perkins and SEN
ator Flint's offers of aid at the coming
session Of congress were received by
the board and referred to the public
utilities committee.
Senator Flint in part said: Il am In
favor of the passage of a bill carrying
out the agreement between the city OF
San Francisco and the secretary of the
interior for the reservoir site at Lake
Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy valley, and
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power to have the necessary legislation
/ enacted TO enable the city TO carry out
the plans that have been suggested for
the purpose of acquiring an adequate
water supply for the city of San Fran
cisco. I do not anticipate there will
be any trouble in passing this bill
promptly in the senate"
Engineer Fitzgerald in part said: AT
least one of the newspapers in Sar
/ Francisco has misstated what l said
before the board of supervisors the
other day in connection with Lake
Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy matters
The more 1 have studied
that instrument (the Garfield grant
the more convinced I became IL was the
clear intent of the government to give
the people in and about San Francisco
a good water supply, and an ample one
so far as they could do so. and thai
they viii ever do anything Wnlcn VII
vitality imperil the storage of water fol
that purpose I can not believe"
Fitzgerald then pointed out the fact
that the water allotted to the irrigation
districts was the natural flow of the
river TO the maximum of 1850 second
feet at La Grange, far below the city's
intakes and drawing water from g
wide area below the city's proposed
dam sites. Fitzgerald held that not
more than 35 per cent Of the 1850 sec
ond feet maximum claim Of the irri-
gationists was according to the stipu-
lations to be drawn from the territory
contributing to the city's proposed sup
ply In other words, that the runof
area above the city's dam need no.
furnish more than S22.5 second feet a
i any time.