El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-01

| seeming insurmountab1e difficulties
! ing overcome, but it is remarkable
! cause it is a public work which
been built at much greater speed Il
! was promised and with less mod
| than it was stated would be requirI
| The city is doing the building with |
own workmen and with its own ]
gineers, one small contract excepted
In a Forest Reserve.
To insure a water free from aka
I Los Angeles has gone 80 miles abb
the mouth of~the river to build the
take of the aqueduct, and the supsz
that the city will use in the future
be of almost half the mineral conteS
that its citizens are now drinking
There are a few scattering settlement
in the valley, but the rugged mou
tain chain which yearly sends de-
it's floods offers scant- encouEa gem
to the settler. Moreover, the COVE
ment has included the territory W
in a forest reserve, so that free6
from human contamination, appRE
ly, is forever preserved.
Securing the Land Rights.
The ranches which carried y
rights were purchased for cas1
hand Land was cheap then in d
valley. Los Angeles bought -120 50
did this so quietly by the use of wa
works funds that spectators who
low city in its enterprises like d
follows in the rear of an army VI
unaware of their opportunity until
late Compare the expenditure for
item with the millions which
York city has paid TO insure the pu
ness of its new supply
So much for the prize for which
Angeles paid little more than a millfU
and for which it is now expend
S23.0oO,000 to bring within the
1imitSi Now, ito follow the sinu
course of aQueduct building, maj
today by hundreds of tents and
painted buildings strung out along
desert, or perched high on noun
sides. or hidden away in canyons.
The big water course is designe
deliver daily supply of 100000
gallons to the two storage reser
at its lower end.
The first % miles. from the in
TO the toe of the Alabama foothil
in canal so feet wide and 10 feet d
uncemented and at a slightly hia
elevation than the river. The excs
ton is here being done by three
trio dredgeS working night and
and with eight miles completed
l, 1910
At the Alabama foothills we st
into the mountain side, where a
crete ditch Is feet wide and Is
deep Is being constructed. This
receive the flow OF half a dozen g0
sized mountain streams in additions
that of the river. and will carry
water, at an elevation of zoe
above the surface of Owens lake, .
lance Of SO miles to the Haiwee res
Yoir
The StOrehouse es the Waters.
The Haiwee basin is the old cout
of the Owens river before the stres
was damned into Owens lake, and
a time when mother Nature was ma
Ing over the western hemisphere
When the hydraulic-filled dam is COM
pleted, the reservoir will have an are1
of Is square miles, and will serve foI
storage, regulation. and Qualification
the summer floods Once full, If il
supply were to be cut off entirely, tn
storage capacity is sufficient for I'll
needs of Los Angeles for more thai
three years.
The Concrete Conduit.
From the Haiwee reservoir the wal
ter will be carried southwark D
a closed concrete conduit for
distance of 125 miles, following, as
rule. the contour OF the count
which it passes. Sometin
the snaky thing OF dirty white W
lie along the surface of the desert;
other times it will rest in inches
in rocky mountain walls; canyons
will descend on one side. then asc
the other as a large cylindrical
shell nearly an inch in thtckne
which forbid ascent win
burrowed. When at length the nor
ern base of the coast range has b
We waters viii be given
In the Fatrmont reservoir, but O.
How the Water VIII BE Relayed
From the bottom of the basin, wa
is one for regulation, the water
pass $3.50 feet through tunnel un
the coast range, to come out on
edge of San Francisquito canyt
thence for II miles through condt
and tunnel to be shot down 500 fe
upon the restless wheels Of two Ian
hVdrO-efQc1ric nla0tS- thence for sew