The San Francisco call., 1910-07-12
WATER HOLDINGS
CALLED USELESS
Manson Makes List of Spring
Valley Property He Says
City Doesn't Need
Under Engineers Report, Nego-
tiations for Purchase Will
Be Reopened

Those portions of the Spring Valley
company's plant which the city does
not want in connection with it's water
supply system were enumerated in a
report of City Engineer Manson, ap-
proved by the board of works and for
warded to the supervisors yesterday.
This lists submission marks the pre-
liminary step toward obtaining new
offer for the sale of the properties.
When Mayor Mccarthy and the super
visors several weeks ago asked for a
reopening Of negotiations, with view
to purchasing those parts of the plant
in use or usable' for San Francisco s
water supply, President Bourn of the
company suggested that the engineers
of the city and company should make
a list eliminating the portions not to
be considered.
The chief portions of Spring VAL
ley's holdings which Manson reported
were not necessary or desirable for the
eity's use were the upper Lake Merced
lands, the company's main building in
the city and its more outlying proper
ties bought for the purpose of fore
stalling oppositions.
MANSIONS LIST
The list of properties not to be pur-
chased follows:
Clear lake lands
Manzanita water company tPortolab.
San Francisco lands and improvements
Searsville tunnel. dam. lands and improve
ments.
Upper portion of Lake Merced lands.
Pescadero lands and improvements.
Purisslma lands.
Sausalito water works.
Buchanan and Market street reservoir lot.
Brannan street reservoir.
Islais fume.
Lobos creek. nume. lands. pump and wells.
A M0nt6r6
mountains outside the drainage basin OF the
Peninsula reservoirs
Lafayette park pump lot.
Ringgold street pump lot.
San Pedro pumps and works.
Lake Merced old pumps.
Thomasson lot Ashbury heights
Lake Merced coal yard lot.
Old office lot and building. California street.
San Francisco city water works
Stevens creek lands.
All lands adjacent to but not in the drainage
basins of the peninsula system OF reservoirs, as
portions of Poiheinus tract etc.
Santa Clara and San Benito county, Pajaro
Hey lands. Miller & Lux purchase.
Camp Howard lands.
McCormic tract. San Gregorio creek and all
Ravenswood and Gusdaloups swamp lands, ex-
cept direct right Of way for pipes.
"Of these properties said Mansen
there may be a few minor pieces which
have already been disposed of by the
Spring Valley company. All of the re-
naming
listed in the communications already
before the supervisors, are used or can
be made useful in the reasonable de-
veIopment of the existing sources of
supply, and in the opinion of this office
should be included in any offer which
may be submitted by that company.
1T is desirable that such an offer be
made at as early a date as possible, so
that it may receive full consideration
A. Il
submitted to the electorate of this
city"
Old Suit to Be Heard
After a lapse of eight years, the first
injunction suits of the Spring Valley
water company against San Francisco
will be argued before United States
District Judge E. S. harrington of Ne
vada in the United States circuit court
on July s.
The attorneys for the contending
sides appeared yesterday in court and
asked for the cause to be set for final
hearing as all the testimony in the
cases had been finished before former
United States Commissioner f. H. Hea-
cock and that they were ready to argue
the case in open court.
The records of the case so far make
UP several volumes. The arguments in
the cases will probably occupy a week
Judge harrington will then take the
records to Nevada for further study.
Whatever the decision may be an ap-
peal will be taken by the losing side
to the United States circuit court In
all probability an appeal will be taken
from this court to the United States
supreme court.
their slow way through the courts
there are cases pending every year
since 1905. Four of these later cases
were continued yesterday by District
Judge William c. Van Fleet until
July 8.