Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

Hetchy talked and least visited
scenic earth AS of fact other
well does Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson
much familiar with the Heth Hetchy pos
sby be quite that the charm of the Hech Hetcy will
be enhanced by turning the swampy floor of the valley
beautiful mountain lake.
But setting aside the difference of opinion the
mains that the needs the health the very safety million
American and children highly
esthec enjoyment of the persons
nualy undertake the trip Hetchy
Senators should bear in mind that the rainfall Cafor
MIA great mountain watersheds does flow down the
in great rivers happens the The great bulk Of the
water dscend sudden feshe underground through
the immense gravel beds underlying floor
which the twin valley of the Sacramento and
To make real of these waters they be stored
If the great agricultural valleys rainfall
the question of obtaining water supply for San Fran
cisco would not be acute That city might aban
don Hetchy and utilize the waters Of the McCud the
every drop those waters is
needed in the future the farmers the
Sacramento Valley.
the surplus Tuolumne which would other
wise to waste in destructive floods be stored in the Hetch
Hehy upon by for its sus
tenance without depng the irrigated lands of that region
the water the farmers need So that only the
great communities around San Francisco Bay
will by Hetchy plan but vital in
teress of the people of the two great interior valleys will be
For the Hetch Hetchy BILL awaiting action the Sen
ate specifically guards the rights of the farmers to the first
of the waters and San Francisco only the stored
surplus food waters which go waste.
And this Senator'S should be sufficient obtain
favorable votes upon San Fanccos reasonable request
But Senator'S there other opposition far different
character from the honest and mistaken opposition
and his associates and of this you should appraised
opposition is financed and osterd by the corporations which
own rights acquired careless times for song and now
held for sale figures And particularly
opposition stirred by corporation known the Yosemite
Power Company
Two miles from the Hetch Hetchy lower down on the Tue
umne stream this has of the water rights
in the CANYON known as the poopenaut Valley IF CONGRESS
the
the Hech Hetchy reservoir the water rights of this private
cys request the rights of this corporation
ngs under Federal control worth SIS 100000
ones money The difference between 81 so and S5 600
Senators exactly the fervency zeal and pernacy
of the opposition to San of the Hetch Hechy
reservoir.
corporation petition dsregarded
and the Hech Hechy grant refused will mpound these
for PRIVATE PROFIT and will compel the city of
San Francisco and the farmers of the gabe regions pay
for power developed from these than the
the together would the people of San Francisco and
the farmers Senator's permit that city carry its
great undertaking.
This is the milk in the cocoanut That is the reason Senators
persstenty beseged by mature lovers That is the
scenery which has the real charm for these ehetc patriots
expecant souls not sky and peak and clouds and
set 1t is vision of S15 100000 in hard iron dollars
States you freely granted to
Seattle Portland to Los Angeles the of the
ranges Srras Cascades and the
Coast Mountains And the people of San Francisco rejoiced
with their nehbors the bounty of the National Congress
What Francisco that can not have the
generous the hands of
ment? Why must she beg for twelve long years for
boon gracousy extended to her sisters? Are people
pariahs, lepers?
Senator'S San Francisco has stood up bravey
the like of which fell with such enormty of loss
upon city the history of the world Her people Meth
whned nor begged will they. But they suffered
Seven years after this awful destruction they preparing
hold great exposition for the world and they have asked
the National Government for dollar though every exposition
held this country has been aided Neither in their dis
their great struggles to build again the city
dear to them have they appeared asking aims of the Congress-
but have the proud that they have borne them
selves like courageous American and they
asking only fair play and their national rights the
waters of their mountains for the vital necessities their
people
Senators, give San Francisco her rights