Category: History - American

Water and power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park

Vilas, Martin Samuel, 1870-1953· 2 chapters· 6,845 words

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1. Part 1

I beg to compliment you on the clearness and conciseness with which you have stated many of the controversial points involved in same. I have had so much of it in the past year...

2. Part 2

“That when the said grantee begins the development of the Hetch-Hetchy reservoir site it shall undertake and vigorously prosecute to completion a dam at least 200 feet high, wit...