Petition from the Hypatia Women’s Club of San Francisco in favor of Granting San Francisco Water Rights for Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy
Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Petitions and Memorials of the Committee on the Conservation of Natural ResourcesFile Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents, which were Referred to the Committee on Conservation of the National Resources during the 61st Congress
San Francisco, February 5, 1910
Hon. Frank P. Flint
U. S. Senator.
Dear Sir:-
The Hypatia Women's Club of San Francisco has voted to request that the permission granted by the Government to San Francisco to take water from Lake Eleanor and the Hetch-Hetchy Valley be not [underlined] revoked, for the following reasons:-
1st. San Francisco has no other available supply of pure water that is sufficient.
2nd. Under the permit Lake Eleanor is to be first developed.
3rd. The Yosemite Park is an immense tract, while the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, where a reservoir is proposed, is a very small space not over a mile wide and not more than three or four miles long and is often flooded for long periods during storms and high water and the making the same as a permanent reservoir rather beautifies than injures this small piece of land.
4th. Yosemite Park of which this valley is so minute a portion, is a vast domain of almost inaccessible mountains, lakes and streams at a very high altitude and largely a regoin [sp] of perpetual snow. It is not, or never will be visited by large numbers of people at any one time.
5th. This vast supply of pure water is running away to the ocean while San Francisco is suffering for a supply of pure water.
6th. The individual who adores every bush or tree that has ever become a familiar object and who sacrifice the rights and needs of a great city for pure water to a more aesthetic desire to permit the slightest modification of scene, is irrational and unjust.
7th. This matter has been fully discussed in every phase at Washington, D. C., for many years before the permit was granted and Government experts have fully reported to President Roosevelt's Administration favorably.
8th. After complete campaigns in San Francisco, the vote to issue bonds for such a water supply was substantially unanimous.
9th It is not at all denied that at all times since this permit was applied for, that its chief and open opponent has been the Spring Valley Water Co., which has a monopoly of the present undesirable and inadequate water supply of San Francisco.
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