The San Francisco call., 1909-12-05

Francis hotel, and talked SloWlngly Oh
the properties. He went even further
than he had previously ventured and
predicted that the system could be
made TO supply up to 2OO,Ooo,ooO gal
ions daily
SCHUSSLER GROWS ELOQUENT
He said in part:
The very people who have made such
4 great success in undertaking. tne
Spring Valley water companyS s system
before the date Of election have, since
this event, had a change Of mind, ana
now declare that the cOmpany's system
is worth all of S35.00O.o0o; and. further-
more. that the purchase of this system
viii save in the cost of the Tuolumne
scheme $4,000, ,099
on the properties and watersheds
now in control of the Spring valley
water company. and including the
coast streams between 125. 10000 and
15o.o0o000 gallons day can easily oe
developed, but with other properties
wholly or partly controlled by The COM
pany. the daily supply can be eysnIu-
ally increased to between 100000
and eco 000. 000 gallons. which Is about
FIVE times the present daily conSump-
lion. and will suffice for a population
of from 100000 10 100000 people.
POSSIBILITY OF WATER FAMINE
It might be possible for corpora
tion. thoroughly experienced, to con-
struct the TUolumne system IN six or
seven years, provided the iron were
obtainable; but il would take 10 years
or more for the city TO complete II.
Consequently. If no improvements are
meanwhile made in the works OF the
Spring Valley water company. i IS
easily seen from carefully compiled
IA BILE of probable future increase IN the
consumption that, as soon as the De-
mand begins TO exceed the present 1ur-
niShing and supply capacity, the calam-
ity of a short supply is rapidly APP
preaching, which viii primarily be felt
in the upper portions of the city.
The city proposes to install )nlS two
IS inch pipe lines between Hetch
Hetchy and San Francisco, each of 3d.
100000 gallons day capacity. But h.
the time the Hetch Hetchy works could
be developed and brought TO this city
as proposed, the amount of water re
Quired viii have risen TO conSldeca5lE
over 50. .000, 600 gallons day, and con-
sequently a third pipe line viii have
10 be completed about the same tine
with the first two, with 30,00o.009 gal
lens additional capacity
FIGURES COST s6O.OOO,OO0
He figured that it would cost ap-
proximateIy s6O.00O.O0o to bring in &c.
100000 day from the Sierra
BY using the coast streams of the
San Mateo watershed and raising the
crystal Springs dam 45 feet in height,
the Spring Valley, said SchussIer, could
bring in $4,000 600 gallons a day from
the peninsula.
The city administration decided posi-
lively yesterday to 20 forward with
the plans for the submission OF Tie
fwofold wafer proposition TO the voters
January II. This conclusion was
reached at meeting of the public
utilities committee of the board Of sd
pervisors and at a conference with the
city's legal advisers
REPEAT FORMER ORDINANCE
At tomorrow's meeting of the board
Of supervisors the ordinance calling for
the election on the Sierra project De-
cember IS viii be repealed. The oriSi-
nal declaratory ordinance stating the
necessity Of a bond election TO acquire
= water supply viii stand. Then The
preliminary statutes win be passed for
the dual project. The fun legal forms
can not be completed snder the present
board, but il is believed that che in
coming administration viii carry the
plans along.
The campaign for the bond issue will
be organized during the coming week
Meetings viii be arranged at all the
Improvement club nails and speakers
familiar with the water question viii
address the electors.