The San Francisco call., 1908-09-16
HALL RECEIVES
CITY'S ULTIMATUM
Told TO Submit Absolute Offer
ShOrn of All Entanglements
to the Supervisors
Lake Eleanor Property Owners
Are Informed That 100000
Is Not Excessive

After an hours conference with VIII
liam Ham Hail. whose Lake Eleanor
properties the cfty- desires TO purchase
10 complete It's holdings for the Sierra
reservoir site. the supervisors public
utilities committee and City Engineer
Manson submitted yesterday to Hall
two propositions which he was re-
Quested TO transmit TO his associates
who hold title 10 the lands. This Hall
agreed 70 co. and an answer may be
expected within g few days
The city asks the Lake Eleanor prop
erty owners 10 submit an absolute Of
fer. cisentanglsd from any power or
other reservations. as such exclusive
meet the demands OF the secretary OF
the interior or give the city the Sc
curity IN its future water supply which
IS imperative Halls money demand
OF 100000, he was assured. the COM
mittee did not consider excessively IN
reasonable. but he was informed the
offer must come 10 the city OF an abso-
lutte title.
The form OF proposition dictated by
City Engineer Manson and agreed upon
between the committee and Hall, and
which he viii submit 10 his associates.
is as follows:
Hail 10 give an unconditional and
unrestricted offer of sale of all lands,
reservoir rights. claims and apprOpria-
Iions upon Eleanor creek throughout
its entire length without any reserva-
tons or other claims whatsoever And
give an unconditional and unrestricted
offer OF sale OF all lands. reservoir
rights. claims and appropriations upon
Eleanor and Cherry creeks and Cherry
river throughout their entire lengths
without any reservations or other
claims whatsoever.
Manson laughed al story printed
in & morning paper 70 the effect that
the stipulstions in connection with the
Hetchy- Eleanor grant agreed upon be-
tween. himself for the city and Secre-
tsry Garfield for the federal govern
ment had given away 10 the TurlOck
tuslly ell. Il not more than all. the
waters which could be stored in those
TWO reservoirs He said
The TurlOck and Modesto districts
are given nothing. Their acquired
right 10 the natural flow. of the river
up 70 e maximum OF 2.s50 second feet
is fully protected and guaranteed The
Tuoiunne's how is sometimes as low
as 200 second feet II sometimes
reaches 5000 second feet Il aver
ages throughout the years. dry and
wet. from 2.eop second feet 10 1000
second feet The natural flow up 10
and including 1850 second feet be
longs 70 the districts The excess Of
flow OF the river when IL exceeds 1850
second feet viii belong 70 the city and
nay be-stored- When the natural flow
falls below 1850 feet the wild claim
has been put forward that the city
must dole ont its waters 70 make up
the difference 10 the districts Nothing
IS farther from the truth The sIipu-
lations guarantee their rights 10 the
natural flow up 10 1850 second feet.
When. 500 second feet is all that Is
flowing into the reservoirs 500 second
feet is all the city must release at the
dams for the districts use.
AS for State Senator J. 3. Curtins
lands. HIS 50 acres lies in the national
park I believe him TO be friendly 10
the city's project, but even il he were
not. he could not secure from the fed
eral government any privilege 10 store
the waters. just as ". Ham Hall has
been refused that specific privilege and
for the svoEed reason that the govern
nent would cede such a right only TO
municipalities for their domestic use
tins ranch and viii continue TO do So
He could divert no appreciable part Of
Il. nor can he contam1nate tt"
Senator Curtin. when seen yesterday
about his lands in the national park,
said Yes; I purchased that so acre
tract IN May. I haven't any idea OF
holding up the city. however. II is
true I didn't get the place for a home
stead I am not living up there. I
have been buying land in that country
for the last 20 years Ipis good land
70 hold But you can say for me that
no -holdup' scheme, If it were possible.
is contemplated"