Arizona republican., 1919-07-26
Los Angeles Pointed to as Example of City Growing When Pure Water Caused Bringing of Industries by Score to Augment Her Population

So far as The Republican has been able to determine, there is very little opposition to the proposition to be voted upon today of bond issue for the purpose of bringing to the city of Phoenix an adequate and practically unlimited supply of pure and soft Verde river water, but if there is any Phoenix taxpayer that has any doubt in the matter, he should carefully consider the water supply of Los Ang- eles and wh$t it has done for that city.
 Los Angeles brings her supply of pure water a distance of 250 miles, all the way from the high Sierras of Gen. tral California, down through and across the mountain, across the Mo- have desert and the Antelope Valley, across the Tehachapi range that di- vides the state across the middle, and on down to the city, an engineering feat second to none in the world, and that cost the city of Los Angeles nearly $25, 100000
 Many years were required to com plete the work Tunnels were bored through mountains, inverted siphons built across canyons, miles and miles of riveted steel pipe big enough to
 
 was constructed, many miles of open and covered aqueduct built-but Los Angeles got the water.
 Los Angeles is situated in a portion of California with no more special ad vantages than any other portion of California; in fact, if San Francisco is | to be believed, she has less advan- tages than the northern city. Yet it is an undeniable fact that while San Francisco had 250000 people when Los Angeles was Mexican pueblo of 30,000, that the southern city has far | outstripped the northern one in growth | and prosperity, having passed the l 1000 population mark, at least 900 | ahead of her northern neighbor
 Water, pure, unlimited soft water is 1 one of the biggest reasons for this | phenomenal growth of Los Angeles. | This being true of Los Angeles, it is i logical that it will be true of Phoenix.
 Only few weeks ago Los Angeles secured what is destined to be one of | the biggest single manufacturing in l dustries in the southwest, the textile 1 plant and tire factory of the Goodyear | Rubber company, and President Sic berling stated emphatically that one of the reasons for the selection of Los
 
 1 that will turn out 1000 tires per day was the fact that there was an un- l limited supply of pure water available Phoenix might have had the Arizona | Eastern roundhouse and shops that went to Tucson had she been able to offer plenty of soft water instead of chemically impregnated water that de- stroys boilers.
 | PhOaniy ruioht bava bad Q nocoa r0p and paste factory a couple years ago | The finest hard maccaroni wheat in the world is grown hera, but there is no market without a factory to use it, and no factory can come until there is soft water.
 There are numerous types of manu- featuring that might be secured for l Phoenix-if she had plenty of soft | water, and there is no doubt that they will come when the water is secured On the strength of the fact that she was soon to have plenty of good water Los Angeles was able to secure indus tries in advance of the actual delivery of the water, so that the factories were built and ready to begin turning the wheels as soon as the water arrived The same thing is possible in Phoenix
 Another, and not the least, reasor why good water has been a blessing tc Los Angeles is the fact that the pos session of the only reliable source o good water by the city of Los Angele. has enabled her to increase Tn territory until the city stretches from the harbol to the upper San Fernando valley, { distance of 50 miles, for the simpl, reason that the city would not supply good water to any district outside the city; therefore the districts that wanted the water wanted to be an. nexed to the city.
 The domestic water used by many of the thickly inhabited sections near Phoenix, which really belong to and are in the city, is dangerous, and the consumers know it, and when Phoenix gets Verde water to distribute there will be no further opposition to the annexation of these outside districts
 The simple and inexpensive gravity system proposed, B miles in length, is not a new proposition. Rome built a gravity aqueduct to bring water to the city more than 270 years B. C., an6 brought the water 391z miles to the city, which was smaller than Phoenix 1 is today.