The San Francisco call., 1908-10-18
PROF. MARX SLATED
FOR MANSON'S AID
Noted Engineer May Be En-
gagged to Assist in Construct
ing Hetch Hetchy System
Transfer of Land in POOpenaut
Valley May Be Used to Embar-
rass City in the Future

Prof. Charles d. Marx of Stanford
university viii probably be engaged as
consulting engineer TO assist in the
construction of the Hetch Hetchy water
system. No official announcement has
been made. but there is every evidence
that Marx Will be selected for the posi-
tion. He has made a study Of the sub
ject and has inspected the water
sources of which the city intends TO
make use.
Marx accompanied Manson to the
Sierras during the latter's recent trip
and assisted in the inspection of the
water sources of the Tuolumne river
and Lake Eleanor Marx also made an
investigation of the reservoir sites and
colIaborated with Manson in mapping
out the district. He is known as an
enthusiastic advocate of the Hetch
Hetchy system and agrees with Manson
as to the general method Of construc-
ton.
Marx was formerly in the city's en-
plOy and carried CONSERVATION into the
camp Of the Schmitz freebooters when.
with Engineers Hunt and McKinstry,
he resigned the Office of consulting en-
ginee- when the Gallagher board with
drew their first instructions to report
on the comparative merits of several
Sierra water propositions and ordered
the experts to report solely on the
TeVis Ameriean-COsumnes river, or
Bay Cities project.
one Of the most treacherous mis-
deeds of the boodling board-its formal
abandonment by resolution of the city s
rights and claims in Hetch Hetchy val
ley and at Lake Eleanor, secured by
filings under the state law-was re
paired at the time Marx and Manson
were on the ground during their re-
cent trip. Engineer Drenzy Jones, act
ing under Manson's orders and for the
city. posted the formal notices of ap-
proprIation OF 5000, 10000 and $1,000
miners inches of water at the three
principal reservoir and diversion points,
the Lake Eleanor dam site, that of
Hetch Hetchy and at the juncture OF
the main Tuolumne with Cherry creek,
Lake Eleanors outlet.
These $4,000 miners inches, the equiv
alent of 800 cubic feet OF flow per Sec
ond, viii give a total daily supply OF
2OO .Oee zee gallons of water, or 100 gal
Ions per capita for 2,000. 600 people.
Jones completed the citys initial ster
in appropriating the water under the
state law by filing the claims at the
TuOlumne county recorders office al
Sonora Manson's contention is that
the old filings of 1901 were not invali-
dated by the act Of the Gallagher board
but the present re-entry has been made
as q precautionary measure. The ques-
tion of priority is also involved. The
present filings are, of course, subse-
Quent 10 certain state claims set up by
Ham Hall during the last six years OF
his activity around Lake Eleanor, but
nonuse has likewise operated to in
validate whatever merit his filings, sub
sequent to the citys former appropria.
tions, might have had.
Manson stated he had been appriseC
of certain developments in the Poopen-
aut valley. which may be used TO en-
barrass the city in the future. The 81
acres Of land acquired in that valley
and bordering on each side of the mair
TuOlumne stream only a few miles
below the site of the city's proposed
Hetch Hetchy dam, were recently pUr-
chased by State Senator Curtin OF
Tuolumne and Mariposa counties, the
sum he is supposed TO have paid be-
ing $500. Curtin has sold the land il
is stated, for $4,000, to the Visalia light
and power company, and it is rumoreo
that the company plans the erection OF
a dam; the impounding of the rivers
waters in the natural reservoir formed
by Poopenaut valley and other develop
ments. which would interfere with the
city's project.