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

scenic spot earth AS matter of
well does Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson
much familiar with the Hetch Heohy than he pos
sb 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 difference opinion the truth
mains that the needs the health and the very safety million
American and children highly paramount the
eshetc enjoyment of the three hundred persons
nualy undertake the rather trip Hetchy
Senators should bear in mind that the rainfall Cafor
MIA great mountain watersheds does not flow down the
in great rivers happens in the The great bulk of the
decends sudden eshe goes underground through
the immense gravel beds underlying the floor of the ancient
which the twin valley of the and San Joaquin
To make real of these waters they
If the great agricultural valleys
crops the question of obtaining supply for San Fran
cisco would not be That city might great
don Hetch Hetchy and utilize the waters of the McCoud the
or the Eel River But every drop OF those waters
needed in the future to the farmers of the
Sacramento Valley
But the surplus waters of the TuOumne which would other
in destructive foods be stored in the Hetch
Hecy reservoir and drawn by San Francisco for its
without deprvng the irrigated lands of region
the water the farmers need So that not only the necessities
of the great communities clustered around San Francisco Bay
will be minered to by the Hetch Hetchy pan but the vital in
terests of the of the interior valleys will be
fairly and honestly conserved.
For Hetch Hechy bill awaiting action the
ate specifically guards the rights of the farmers to the first
of the waters and San to only the stored
surplus flood waters which go to waste.
And this Senators should be sufficient to obtain
favorable votes San Francisco reasonable request
But Senator'S there is other opposition far different in
character from the honest and mistaken opposition of Mr. John
and his associates and of this you should be appraised That
opposition financed and fostered by the corporations which
water rights acquired careless times for song and now
held for sale figures And particularly this
opposition stirred up by one corporation known the Yosemite
Power Company
Two miles from the Hetchy lower down on the Tue
lumne stream this company has possession of the water rights
in the canyon known the Poopenaut Valley Congress
grants right Tuoumne
poraton worth the filing fees Congress refuses that
cys request the rights of this corporation whose hold
ngs control worth 100000 any
ones money The difference between $3.50 and $5OooOOo
Senators exactly fervency penacty
of the opposition to San Francscos OF the Hechy
reservoir.
This corporation San Francisco petition is disregarded
and the Hech Hetcy grant refused will mpound these
PRIVATE PROFIT and will compel the city of
San rgabe regions pay
developed
the together would cost the people of San Francisco and
the farmers if you Senators permit that city carry its
This is the milk in the That
perssently beseged by mature lovers That the
scenery which the real patriots
The beautiful vision which enraptures their contemplating and
souls sky and peak and clouds and
1t is vision of SIS 100000 in hard iron dollars
Senators States you have freely granted to
Seattle to Portland to Los Angeles the of the water Fed
era the ranges of the seras the
Coast Mountains And the people of reioiced
with their nghbors bounty of Congress
What has San Francisco done that she not have the
generous the Govern
ment? Why she beg for twelve long years
boon gracousy extended her sisters? Are her people
pariahs lepers?
Senator'S stood up bravely under dis
aster the like of which fell with such enormty of loss
upon city the history of the world Her people
whined nor begged, will they. But they suffered
Seven after this awful destruction they preparing
to hold exposition for the world and they
the National Government for dollar though every exposition
held this country has been aided Neither in their dis
in their great struggles to build again the city
dear to them have they appeared asking aims of the Congress
but have the proud consciousness that ey have them
selves like American and and they
asking only fair play and their national rights the
waters of their for the vital necessities of their
people
Senator'S give San Francisco her rights!