Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
San Francisco Pleads Only for
Its Rights in HetCh=HetChy


Hetch Hetchy is the most talked of and least visited
scenic spot earth AS matter of fact other love nature
we'll does Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson and those who
much familiar with the Hetchy than pos
sby be quite that the charm of the Hech Hetchy will
be enhanced by turning the swampy floor of the valley into
beautiful mountain lake.
But setting aside the difference of opinion the
mains that the needs the health and the very safety million
American and children highly paramount the
ehec enjoyment Of the two three hundred who
nuay undertake the rather arduous trip Hetch Hetchy
Senators should bear in mind that the rainfall Calor
MIA great mountain watersheds does flow down
in great rivers happens in the east The great bulk of the
water descends sudden eshe underground through
the immense gravel beds underlying the floor of the ancient
which the twin valley of the Sacramento and San Joaquin
To any waters they must stored
If the great agricultural valleys had sufficient rainfall for
crops the question of obtaining supply
cisco would not be acute That city might at cost aban
don Hetchy and utilize the waters of the McCoud the
Sacramento the Eel River But every drop those
needed in the future the farmers of the
Sacramento Valley.
the surplus of the Tuolumne which
destructive foods be stored in the Hetch
Hetcy reservoir and drawn upon San francisco its
without dprvng the irrigated lands of that region of
the water the farmers need So that not only the necessities
of the great communities clustered around San Francisco Bay
will be ministerd by the Hetch Hetchy PLAN but the vital
tere of the people of the two great interior valleys will be
fairly and honestly conserved
For the Hech-Hetchy BILL now awaiting action in the Sen
specifically guards the rights Of the farmers the first
of the waters and San Francisco only the stored
surplus flood waters which 20 to waste
And this Senator's should sufficient
favorable votes San Francsco reasonable request
But Senator'S there other opposition different in
character from the honest and mistaken opposition John
and his associates and of this should be appraised That
opposition financed and fostered by the corporations which
rights acquired careless times song
held for sale figures And particularly this
opposition stirred by corporation known the Yosemite
Power Company.
Two miles from the Hetch Hetchy lower the Tue
umne stream this has of the water rights
q
grants San Francisco the right store the Tuoumne
the reservoir the rights Of this private
poraon are not worth the filing fees If Congress refuses that
% request the water rights of this corporation whose hold
ngs not under Federal control worth 900
money. The difference between $15O $4,000 OO0
Senator'S exactly the ferveny and zeal and penacy
of the opposition to San Fanccos use of the Hetch Hchy
reservoir.
This corporation San Franoisoos petition disregarded
waters for PRIVATE PROFIT and will compel the city Of
San Francisco and the farmers of the gabe regions pay
power developed than the water and
the together would cost the people of San Francisco and
the farmers you Senator'S permit that city to carry out its
This milk the reason Senators
are perssently besieged by nature lovers That the
has real charm for these esthetc patriots
The beautiful vision which enrapures their conempave
expectant souls is not of sky and peak and clouds and
set 1t is vision OF 900 in hard iron dollars
Senators Of the United States have freely granted to
Seattle to Portland Los Angeles the of the
era the ranges the serras and the
Coast Mountains And the people of San Francisco reoced
with their neghbors the bounty of the National Congress
What has San Francisco done she can not have the
generous the hands Govern
men? Why she beg for twelve long years the same
boon graousy extended to her sisters? Are her people
pariahs lepers?
Senators San Francisco has stood bravey under
the like of which fell with enormity loss
upon city the history of the world Her people Meth
whined nor begged will they But they suffered
Seven after this awful destruction they preparing
to hold great exposition for the world they not asked
the National Government for dollar though every exposition
ever held this country has been aided Neither
in their struggles build again city so
dear to them have they appeared asking aims the Congress-
but have the proud that they have
selves like American they
asking only fair play and their national rights use the
waters OF their mountains for the vital necessities
people
Senator'S give San Francisco her rights!