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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hises were forfeited. At thfltime a Citizens Committee, of which Colon)W. H. Heuer, U. S. A., was chairman, recormended the purchase of Spring Valley, IIthe supervisors ignored the recommendatioDuring the early stages of the fight f;Hetch Hetchy at Washington, Spring Vailopposed the citys representatives. Mr. Tailor says: Attorney Edward J. McCutchen aiHermann Schussler insisted that the muricipal administration was attempting jwreck the Water Company in order that jmight be bought up cheaply. They insist 1rates had been reduced so that it was iipossible for the Company to finance need!extensions. In addition to this they said tlHetch Hetchy project had been injected ;a big stick. In 1910, during the administration ■P. H. McCarthy, the first Spring Valley 1chase election was held. The proposal wjto incur a bonded debt of $35,000,000purchase all the Companys properties. T;necessary two-thirds vote was not obtain<;The vote was: Yes, (Continued on page / LY. I926 SAN FRANCISCO WATER
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3y lovely Pilarcitos—the footpath along the creek leads from the picnic gr to the Stone Dam. tquisite scenes, <^A Day at Pilarcitos (Contributed) )ILARCITOS lies embosomed in thehills, its two arms of gleaming argentlbracing the emerald ridges where the ver-ire runs from hill crown to waters edge.Wly is the beauty of the lake, virgin itsrests. Its silver expanse, more than a thou-nd acres, reflects daily a hundred moodsJ wind and sky, now gray beneath the morn-g and evening mists, placid as a mirrorid as clear at noon, reflecting the turquoisey; dimpling beneath the kiss of the breeze,stung to fury and rebellious wavelets ine rain storms of the warm, wet winters.The way to Pilarcitos lies by very pleas-it places. Branching westward from thead that leads southward from San Fran-sco adown the Peninsula, the way leadsross the dam at the southern end of the San Andres Reservoir, a famous bulwark ofearth cored with clay, the irregular curve ofwhich shows proof of the elastic strength

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