Identifier: sanfrancwat4192581930spri (find matches)
Title: San Francisco water
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Spring Valley Water Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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Site of Crystal Springs Reservoir as it appeared in 18S7, when work started on the huge concrete dam 14 SAN FRANCISCO WATER October, 1926
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From this hill the stone was quarried for the big Crystal Springs Dam. TheMr. Burke visited Careys progress when Then we crossed the stream to the southside of the canyon, proceeded up the gradepast the stately dam that holds back theCrystal Springs Reservoir, and, reaching thesummit, looked out over the water shimmer-ing before us in the afternoon sun—our firstglimpse of the Spring Valley lakes. We reveled in the wonderful beauty of thescene. The work of man had fitted so wellinto the plan of nature that the lake seemedthere by right of ages of occupancy, despitethe lichen-grown dam below us to our rightand the grass-grown dam farther up the val-ley to our left, that between them held thelake imprisoned. All in one harmoniouslandscape, they seemed as if they had alwaysbeen so. We started down the grade alongside ofthe lake, and again those memories of thehotel at San Felix began to shape them-selves. Careys place must be just beyond here,I said as we turned to cross over the dam. B

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