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The San Francisco call., 1909-10-31
I axe Eleanor. Showing Saddle Through
Which Cherry Esver Is to be D'ousa'
by a Short Tunnel.

this important picture of Hetch Hetchy
valley completely flooded through the
courtesy of d. Fl. Knox of Alameda.
The most imposing monument
Hetch Hetchy valley is Kolona. whose
perfect dome rises 2,200 feet above the
floor of the valley and seems to cut it
in two. Above this dome the valley
comprises about 500 acres and below it
there are about $50 acres. Six-eIev-
enths of the area of the lands in Hetc-
Hetchy valley is owned by the city
and county of San : rancisco.
wapama or He:ch Hetchy falls come
down cascade $500 feet. and the walls
the cliff which so much resembls FL
Captain in Yosemite are $500 feet in
height The floor of the valley is over
5000 feet wide at this point and the
valley is fiat and even in surface for
about three miles and half
The canyon below Hetch Hetchy,
where it is proposed by our city en-
gineers to construct the dam to hold
the waters of Hetch Hetchy, is only
about 40 feet wide at its narrowest
point. 1t is proposed to construct a
dam here ESQ feet in height. This will
collect the waters of the Tuolumne
river during the spring freshets in May
and June and will furnish a supply of
water to San Francisco sufficient for
the needs of 10000 people. This
water now actually goes to waste. The
snow waters of the Sierra are so tre-
mendous that when the warm spring
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Hetch Hetchy Valley in Flood Spring
Freshets Cover the Floor TO Depth of Five
to Ten Feet
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Cherry creek into Lake Eleanor reser-
voir
BY the terms OF the Garfield grant
the Lake Eleanor reservoir must be
developed to its fullest capacity be-
fore the waters OF Hetch Hetchy val
ley can be used 1t must be borne in
mind that the waters Of Lake EleanOr
flow into Cherry river and that Cherry
river empties' into TuOlumne river
few miles below Heteh Hetchy valley
Lake Eleanor is 1854 feet in eleva-
tion. while the floor OF Hetch Hetchy
valley is 1850 feet In elevation The
point OF diversion for the municipal
water works is below the union OF
Cherry river with TuOlumne river
When we have developed Lake
Eleanor to its fullest capacity, which
is about $4,000. 900 gallons of water a
day, and the city Of San Francisco has
grown so that it win use 6O,000.00O
gallons OF water daily instead OF the
$4,000. 600 gallons that it now uses, the
city will then have the right to con-
struct the dam in Hetch Hetchy val
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Floods Make a Lake

The Hetch Hetchy valley lies but a
few miles below Rancherio point. and
there for seven miles the Tuolumne
river. which has been taking its tu-
multuous way through the Grand cam
yon, flows SO smoothly that hardly
wave marks its course until it reaches
the canyon at the lower end of Hetch
Hetchy valley. There the walls of the
canyon come together so close THAI
when the 450 square miles of wster-
shed tributary to Hetch Eo.ohy are
yielding their melting sn ~. -uring the
months of May and June sometimes the
valley is flooded from five to ten feet
in depth. This year the SHOWS melted
so fast after an unusually heavy win
ter's snowfall that for days the gorge
was unable TO carry away the waters
that came down the Grand canyon of
the Tuolumne and the valley OF Hetch
Hetchy was deep food. 1t would
seem that when God Almighty makes
an occasional lake of the valley the
Sierra club should not go into such
a spasm over the proposition to make
it a permanent lake in the interests OF
the present and future generations OF
San Frar -isoar. am able to present
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Vast TuoIumne Meadows

The Tuolumne meadows are the larg-
est in the Sierras. They are about 10
miles long and from half mile to a
mile in width and are at an elevation
of s.5s4 feet One of the pictures here
with given is of the Tuolumne mead
ows. 1t shows a combination of mead
ow and river and forest and snow
capped Sierras that make this scenery
so wonderful and impressive. l am
told that snow lies on, the meadow. set
forth in this picture for eight months
in the year. and that during most of
that time it is 20 feet deep The snow
capped mountain in the distance is
Unicorn peak Go.s4s feeD, and even
late in July it was covered deep with
snow. AT each camping place on this
trip we We're always within the sound
of falling waters. When night came
the air was so still and the sound car
ried so perfectly that the water falls
made by the melting snow could be
heard for miles. and the sound of run
ming streams or dashing cataracts was
never absent
From the Tuolumne meadows my
route lay TO the east of the Tuolumne
river and up the canyons that lead to
the highest of the Sierras. I passed
Mount Conness. l2.556 feet high. and
came to Matterhorn canyon, which takes
its name from a fancied resemblance to
the famous Alpine peak of that name.
Going over Bensons pass we had
view of the most jagged peaks of IN,
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Charles Wesley Reed <Ss
~ on the Crest of
sthe sierras.

Sierras. called sawtooth ridge, 10000
feet. From Bensons pass we dropped
down to Rogers lake. whose waters
flow into Tuolumne through Rogers
creek. L successfully visited Benson
lake, and IL other unnamed glacial
lakes, at an elevation of from
5000 to f1,00o feet. finally arriving at
which splendid view of the Grand
canyon of the Tuolumne river can be
had. From :Rancherio point the
Tuolumne river flows 4.045 feet below
and the cliffs on the other side are
5000 feet high. We could see the
Tuolumne canyon for 25 miles. The
air is so pure that the mountains can
be seen accurately with the naked eye.
The distant Mount Dana Q3,050 feet),
Mount Conness (l2,556 feet), Mount
Gibbs (12,70o feet, Kuna Crest .(I2,951.
feet), Mount Hoffman (10,621 feeD
and Mount Tuolumne (10.S75 feet) were
ALI in plain view The ice and snow of
the mighty sierras are the sources Of
the Tuolumne river The mountains
are all of granite formation and moth
ing that / have ever seen can equal
the grandeur of these great masses of
rock that have been smoothed and
planed away by glacial action in ages
long gone by and that now lift their
heads above the timber line, SEEM
iAglv the top of the world. When one
has toiled for a hundred miles up and
down these rugged slopes and realizes
that only for two 81 shres months of
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Is presented Of Lake Eleanor shows
the outlet and was taken before sun
rise in order to get the reflections
of the mountains in the water. To the
north of Lake Eleanor is Cherry river.
which has also a large watershed. 1t
is proposed TO save the flood waters of
Cherry river by conducting them along
the sides of the mountain which sepa-
rates Cherry river from Eleanor creek
and by short tunnel through the sad
die, shown in the picture OF Lake
Eleanor, to bring the flood waters of
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force Is to be given to the people Of
San Francisco forever. If they in good
faith comply with the terms imposed
by the secretary.
One of the most interesting lakes in
the Sierras is Vernon, from which the
waters of Fall river rush toward the
Hetch Hetchy valley and make the
Wapama falls. I made the journey to
Lake Vernon during two days, going
from Hetch Hetchy in the morning,
camping by Lake Vernon and returning
the next day. This lake has been carved
from the mountains by prehistoric
glaciers that have scooped the granite
out and left a great basin for the col
lection of snow water. Everywhere the
marks of the glaciers are plainly seen,
and in some places the rock is so
brightly polished that it shines like a
mirror In the sun
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Lake Vernon a Mirror

The picture of Lake Vernon shown
here was taken before sunrise. and the
mountains mirrored in the lake are 10
miles away. Lake Eleanor has an area
of $50 acres. The dam site for this res
ervoir is about two and a half miles
below the lake proper, where dam
$50 feet high is to be constructed. which
will collect enough water to yield co.
900 gallons daily. This is about
twice the present capacity OF the Spring
Valley water works. The picture that
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OF the dam at Eleanor lake shall Re
commenced within three years and
pushed to completion as rapidly as pos
sible. or that all the eity's rights shall
be forfeited.
Whether San Francisco is to have the
finest water supply on earth or not de-
pends upon this election. and a two
thirds vote viii provide the authority
and the funds An adverse vote will
throw US back into the unfaithful arms
OF the Spring Valley water company,
discouraged and helpless
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sun melts the SHOWS the waters rush
down into the tributaries of the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin rivers in such
volume that floods inevitably result
and millions of dollars OF damage
often occurs.
BY the terms of the grant by the
secretary of the interior the ordinary
flow of the Tuolumne river is re-
served for irrigation in the San Joa-
quin valley. but the food water which
goes. to waste with such destructive
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Tuolurnne Meadows and Unicorn Noun
tain Meadows Are Ten Miles Long and
Covered With Snow to Depth OF Twenty
Feet in Winter

ced river into the watershed of the
Tuolumne river.
! took pictures of all of the i'm
pressive sights that came to view in
travelling through the Yosemite valley
and up over the Sunrise trail but it
was not until we dropped down into
the Tuolumne meadows that our views
began TO be pertinent to San Fran
cisco's water supply.
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the year they are accessible to human
beings, one can get a just appreciation
of the purity of this water and how
perfectly it is protected by nature
from any possible pollution. One of
the pictures that is on this page is of
the Tuolumne canyon. and the United
States geological maps shoy that from
the bottom of the canyon to the top the
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Gorge Below Hetch Hetchy. Water Col.
Iected From $50 Square Miles Of Water
shed Must Flow Between These Narrow
Walls.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
Tafts Bring Sweeping Changes to the Social Circles of Washingte

and one who keeps in practice. If she de-
sires she is able to sit down at the piano
and play a very considerable program Of
classical selections.
The presidents wife was one of the or
ganizers of the Ladies' Musical club in Gin
cinnati, from which was later formed the
Cincinnati Orchestra association. OF this
Mrs. Taft became president, a position
which she occupied for a number of years,
and she is still a member of it's board of
managers.
Mrs. Taft is of middle height and still
possesses a slender and graceful figure.
Her hair is OF a lively brown shade, though
1t is just beginning to show here and there
a touch of gray that is far from being I'M
becoming. In matters of dress she is as
unpretentfous as in other ways, but her
gowns are all of fashionable cut and we'll
adapted to her personal style. In per-
sonal appearance she will make a presi-
dents wife that the country will have
every reason to app.ove
As to intellectual attributes, those who
know Mrs. Taft well are a unit in declar-
ing that never within the recollection of
Washingtonians of today has there been a
woman resident in the White house to equal
MS. Taft. She is an excellent conversa-
tionalist in the small talk manner, but she
is something much better and bigger than
that. She is able to talk well on any sub
ject of contemporaneous interest. She has
always kept in close touch with the pubic
life Of her husband and is probably far
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

better informed regarding the great gov
ernmental problems that President Taft
has to face han many men who will occupy
ministration.
Even in politics the presidents wife is
shrewdly versed. She knows where votes
come from, where party influence resides
and how best to move II, and there is no.
body who knows how much the president
relies on her advice who doubts that many
important questions of politics that have
come before him for decision nave been
held up until Mr.. Taft could ask Mrs. Taft
how about 1t.
And II isn't merely her ''woman's in
tuition that the president values. It's her
judgment as well. Her knowledge of gov
ornamental problems has been largely in
creased by the fact that she has been her
husbands companion on many of the now
famous foreign travels that he has under
taken. She was with him on his famous
trip aDund the world and she resided in
Manila during most of the time when the
president was governor of the Philippines.
1t was at this time, too, that Mrs. Taft
acquired a pretty thorough knowledge of
the Spanish language, which she still
speaks with fluency, being also able to
negotiate some Of the many native Philip
pine dialects with considerable skill. In
addition to this she reads and speaks
French excellently.
Mrs. Taft's old-fashioned training is evil
dent in many details of her character be-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

sides that of lack Of ostentation. For ex-
ample, she has a strong dislike of SUNDAY
entertainments of anything like a formal
character, and 1t is safe to say that they
will play no part whatever In the social
life a. the White House.
All the members of the presidents fam
lily excepting himself are Protestant Episco-
palians. Mrs. Taft and the children when
they are in Washington will attend st.
Johns church with regularity, as they ave
been doing now for some years.
The president himself is a Unitarian and
attends All Souls church when he gees to
church at all. But his attendance has al
ways been sporadic and not regular. The
country still the extraordinary
circumstance that in the course OF the
presidential campaign the middle west was
flooded with tens OF thousands of circulars
demanding of the voters: "Are you
going to vote for a nan for president OF
the United States who denies the divinity
of Jesus Christi" Apparently a good many
OF them did so vote.
Miss Helen Taft, the only daughter OF
the president and his wife, has a strong
facial likeness to her father. while her
two brothers, Robert and Charlie, look
more like their mother. The daughter
bears her mothers Christian name, how
ever, and is in many ways not unlike her,
She is a rather tall and slender young girl
of IS years. with plenty of brown hair and
a pair Of thoughtful brown eyes.
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Preparations for Roosevelt Trip
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CONTINUED from Page One.)
compartments. In addition TO It's capacity
for carrying twenty-eight pounds of food
supplies. this box is built to contain a
large kettle, a f%ryingpan with folding
handle, a grill with t~elescoping handle, and
a saucepan capable OF boiling a large pud-
ding or a round OF meat.
Inside the pan are a flat-lidded kettle,
with tea-infuser, and also two neatly-fit-
ting canisters for tea and sugar. The box
and dishes. and a cooks knife, fork and
spoon. Very ingenious among expedition
cooking utensils is a nest OF five sauce
pans, with lids, one within the other, the
same handle taking any one of the five.
Lord Harmsworth's answers, in a re-
cent issue, stimate that apart from his
camping and hunting outfit. one man on,
a three-months' big-game hunt requires
about fifteen ''chops." A chop is a box
of general provisions, such as timed meat,
flour. jam. bacon, soap, and. in fact. every
kind OF dry goods. Each 'chop" weighs,
complete. sixty pounds, and is one boys
load.
The medicine case, with it's tabloid rem
edies and surgical bandage. Is another, very
important item.
Among the c~ontrivances not already
mentioned which make for comfort in big
game shooting are a combined folding
spade and pick for trenching around the
tent. in case OF rain; folding metal boot
trees. hair clippers and safety razors, bar
bers being scarce In Uganda; a portable
weighing balance, which enables one TO
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
ard County Where Peace and Plenty Follow the PlowmanlsT Trail

In wealth per capita. There are ninety
four school districts IN the county and
there were $64, 900 levied for school purposes.
The commercial interests OF the county are
handled by fourteen banks. Three Of these
banks are located in Seward and have a
deposit OF 100000. The vast incomes Of
the county consist principally in wheat,
corn. pork and beef. Last year the county
produced 10000 acres Of corn and 5000
acres Of wheat, also 5000 acres OF oats. Its
hay crop amounted to $1,000 acres. The fruit
industry is becoming more and more i'm
portant every year, as they have $500 apple
trees, 5000 pear trees. 1900 peach trees,
5000 plum trees and 1900 cherry trees; also
4,S00 acres OF timber. While the entire state
Is somewhat backward In the dairy indus
try, Seward county has 10000 COWS and
ships out each year 255,ON pounds Of but
ter and $50, 600 gallons of cream. The ship
ment OF dressed poultry amounts to l37,oOO
pounds. But 1t is in the shipment of hogs
and beef cattle that the county largely re-
lies. Last year Seward county sold and
shipped out 1000 head of beef cattle, 1900
head Of hogs, 1, 100 horses and 1000 sheep.
The grain shipments amounted to 1,7OO,O 600
bushels of corn, about Loo, OO0 bushels OF
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give figures TO skeptical friends; a patent
pump filter indispensable where the
water Is thick and muddy; a mincing ma
chine, an alarm clock, and a walking stick.
which at the will of the owner, becomes
a stool. upon which he can set himself to
wait for big game without undue fatigue.
"Mr. Roosevelt viii be just ais safe in
British East Africa as he y in Oyster
Bay, and probably safer than he would
be here in Chicago" .
SO declares Carl Akeley, taxidermlst at
the Field museum, I'm reply TO the asser-
tion made by Prof. Frederick Starr OF the
University OF Chicago, to the effect that
the former president, II he persists in his
intention to explore darkest Africa in
search OF big game. viii never return to
the United States alive,l
Mr.. Akeley has been there twice, his last
trip being OF a years duration, from the
fall OF 1905 till December, 1906. and what
is more he was accompanied on this trip
by his wife.
I'VE went through practically the same
regions that Mr.. Roosevelt will visit" said
Mr.. Akeley, land we remained in good
health"
Mr.. Akeley is going TO repeat his little
pleasure trip into the fatal" region again
In about six months. and his wife will ac-
company him this time also.
with the exercise OF a little discretion
a white man may pass through even the
fever belt in perfect safety says Mr..
Akeley. "Mr. Roosevelt's trip will take
him into regions comparatively more dan
gerous than those our party was IN, but
he will not stay long enough to be IN any
great danger"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

NAAA1o1 ~ w.
Just boosters, that's all. The Conn
mercial club has sixty-four members,
and in the ten years that they have been
organized, they have been instrumental in
building a new court house, costing $4,000,
that is not only strictly modern, but one
of the best to be found in the state. This
club has also established a splendid city
park that is up-to-date in every respect,
and now they have just begun the erection
of a SIS. 600 city hall, and they are putting
a $500 clock in the court house tower.
The city also has two good hotels, a mod
ern Touring mill, with a capacity of 300
barrels a day, operated by water power,
and a brick yard with a capacity OF 100000
brick a year. In the southwest corner of
the county are many flowing wells that
are Of much value and convenience to- a
large scope of country. In this part of the
county 100 acres OF land that was bought
five years ago for 1880, has just been
sold for $4,000. There is not a board or a
plank walk in the city Of Seward, and the
streets are largely paved with brick and
kept in first-class condition. The city has
$500 in it's general fund. Not only the
city, but the whole county has an air OF
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moral and relig1-
Gus life of the city.
Seward. county
g G at of Seward
county, is located
almost exactly at
its center. so that
this thrifty little
city of $500 people
is of such import
ance from a COM
meroial standpoint
{ h a I I h e entire
county Is tributary
to It. The business
men of Seward are
lacking in one
thing. and that is
business ~jealousies.
If there is a coun-
ty seat in tn state
whose citizens are
thoroughly united
for its upbuilding.
that city is Sew
ard. They have no
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

wheat and 20S, 600
bushels of oats.
They also shipped
from the county
1900, 900 pounds
of O and 49,
100000 pounds of
mill feed.
The first home
stead taken in the
county W a s b y
Louis Moffit. in
1855, and from
that time forward
the county has
had unusual pros
perity-n all
s u n S h | Q, of
course, for thu
dark days were
quite apt to come
to the pioneer at
some time in tn cir
early history of
development.
There is quite a
s XII ng of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

Wei, there was a gallon OF whisky
there was a gallon of whisky The flus-
tered defendant could think of nothing
else.
II knew a gallon OF whisky was a load
for a man" said the Judge dryly. but 1
didn't know it was a load for a HORSE
Ldppincott's Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
Selections from the Story Teller's Pack

cused of having stolen and butchered,
owing to the fact thst his two pack horses
were heavily loaded with other things.
One horse. he had told the jury, was
packed with his fur overcoat, mining inn
PIGMENTS, etc.
And what was on the other horse?" In
quired the judge.
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- week, he called loudly, Jones
lSNfiSI against Johnson"
- A dignified gentleman came
10 bar and said; II am DIR. Jones, your
honor. the complaining witness. My chick
ems were stolen and found in the posses
sion Of"
One moment, Doctor" the Judge inter-
rupted. I'VE must have the defendant at
the bar. Jones against johnson! Jones
against Johnson! Is the defendant pres
emit? Is William johnson in court?"
A tall and stumbling negro shuffed to
the bar, ducked his head, pulled his woolly
forelock in token of respect and grinned
a propitiatory grin.
Abs Willyum Johns'n, please sub,
jedge," he said. A doan' know muffin
bout no PENDANT, sub. Ah'm jes' de man
wot took de CHICKENS"
Don't talk like that" the court warned
William. You ought 10 have a lawyer
TO speak for you. Where's your lawyer"
A ain got no lawyer. jedge-"
Very well, then" said his honor. TN
assign a lawyer to defend you"
o no, sub; no, sub! Pie-e-ease don
do dat!' William begged.
why not?" asked the judge. 1T won't
cost you anything. Why don't you want
a lawyer"
well. ah'H tell yo'. u n said william,
waving his tattered old hat confidentaIly.
Hits jes' dis-a-way-ah wan tuh enjoy
dem chick'ns mase'f.'-Harpers Weekly.
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thrift and prosperity, and no class of peo-
pie in this entire county are more entitled
to the credit of this prosperity than the
Omish settlement in the southern part Of
the country, who are ranked among the
very best farmers and take the lead In
raising a high class of heavy draft
horses.
In short, the possibilities Of Seward
county are almost incalculable. with the
incoming OF more homeseekers to divide. up
some OF the larger farms will create a de-
mand for more factories and a larger
market for the products OF it's farms.
From the day of Seward ~county's or
ganization its individuality has been felt
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

AsHINGTON, March 1S.-Next
in Importance to the admins
trative change that took place
in Washington on March 4 are
the changes in Washington So
ciety that accompanied the de-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
Loaded.

Judge w. L. Walls Of Cody. wyo., has
a sarcastic humor which has made many
culprits squirm, and among the number
was a defendant in a recent cattle stealing
case who was trying TO explain that II
would have been quite impossible for him
10 bring into town the beef he was ac-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
Wise william.

HEN Justice Buffum opened
court in a small town in south
ern Georgia, one morning last
week, he called loudly, Jones
against Johnson"
A dignified gentleman came