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


The Hetc Hechy the most talked of and least visited
spot earth AS matter Of fact other love
well does Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson and those who
much familiar with the Hetc Hetchy than pos
sby be quite that the charm of the Hetch Hetchy will
be enhanced by turning the swampy floor of the valley into
beautiful mountain lake.
But setting aside the difference of opinion the truth
mains that the needs the health and the very safety million
American and children highly the
ehec enjoyment Of the three hundred persons who
nualy undertake the rather arduous trip Hech Hechy
Senators should bear in mind that the rainfall Cafor
MIA great mountain watersheds does flow down the
in great rivers happens in the east The bulk of the
dcends in sudden eshs underground through
the immense gravel beds underlying the floor of the
which the valley of the San joaquin
To make any real of these waters they
If the great agricultural valleys had sufficient rainfall for
crops the question of obtaining water supply for San Fran
would not be That city might great aban
don Hech Hetchy and utilize the waters of the McCoud the
the Eel River But every drop those
needed the the farmers the
Sacramento Valley
surplus the Tuolumne which
wise to waste in floods be stored the Hetc
Hchy reservoir and drawn by San Francisco for its
without depvng the irrigated lands of that region Of
the the need So that only
of the great communities clustered around San Francisco Bay
will be minered to by the Hetch Hetchy plan but the vital in
rests Of the people of the two great interior valleys will be
fairly and honestly conserved
ate specifically guards the rights of the farmers to the first
of the waters and empowers San Francisco only the stored
And this Senators should be sufficient obtain your
favorable votes upon San Francisco reasonable request
But Senator's there is other opposition far different
character from the honest and mistaken opposition of Mr. John
and his associates and of this should be appraised That
opposition financed and fosteed by the corporations which
water rights acquired in careless times for and
held for sale at figures And particularly is this
opposition stirred up by one corporation known as the Yosemite
Power Company
miles Hetch Hetchy lower down on the
umne stream this company has possession OF the water rights
in the canyon known the Poopenaut Valley. Congress
grants San Francisco the right to store the Tuoumne waters
the Hetchy reservoir the water rights OF this private
poraon not worth the filing fees Congress refuses that
ngs not under control are worth any
ones money The difference between S5O and S1500O0OO
Senators exactly the ervncy and zeal and pernaCy
of the opposition to San Francisco of the Hetch Hetch
reservoir.
This corporation if Francscos petition dsregarded
and the HetohHechy grant refused will mpound these very
PRIVATE PROFIT and will compel the city
developed from these than the
the power together would the people San Francisco and
the farmers Senators permit that city to out its
This the milk in the That the Senator's
persistently besieged by nature lovers. That the
scenery which has the real charm for these ehetc patriots
The beautiful vision which enapures their commemorative and
expectant souls not of and peak and clouds and
set It is vision of $1b,OOoooo in hard iron dollars.
Senators of the United States you have freely granted to
Seattle Portland to Los Angeles the of the Fed
'ne ranges Oh .he SefIs ne 0ascaoeS ana tne
with their neghbo the bounty the National Congress
generous the hands of
ment7 Why she beg for twelve long years for the
boon graciouy extended to her sisters? Are people
pariahs, epers?
Senator'S San Francisco has stood up bravely under dis
the like of which fell with such enormy of loss
upon city the history the world Her people Meth
whined begged, will they. But they suffered
Seven after this awful destruction they preparing
hold great exposition for the world they
the National Government for dollar though every exposition
held this country has been aided Neither in their dis
in their great struggles build again the city
dear them have they appeared asking aims of the Congress-
have the proud consciousness that they have borne them
selves like American and women and they
asking only fair play and their national rights the
waters of their mountains for the vital necessities of their
people.
Senators, give San Francisco her rights!