Los Angeles Celebrates a Great Achievement

Los Angeles Celebrates a Great Achievement

The Aqueduct and Exposition Park celebration began to-day in the city of Los Angeles, Cal. The announcement sent out by the commission reads as follows:

“不自the days of Caesar and his Roman aqueduct has the world recorded engineering accomplishment, aqueductorial, equal to this great gathering of the waters from the snow-capped peaks of the Sierras and their conduct o’er mountain and plain, 250 miles to the salvation of the half million souls which now are added to the half million soon to be in that incomparable city of the golden west—Los Angeles. Eight years of ceaseless application of brain and brawn and twenty-four and one-half million dollars constitute this heroic monument to the ability of man and the devotion of a people. The Los Angeles aqueduct will bring pure mountain water from the main range of the Sierra Nevadas, a distance of 2(i0 miles, across deserts and through mountains, in sufficient quantity to supply a city of 2.000,000 inhabitants. It is a gravity system throughout, no pumping plants being required. It will deliver 258,000,000 gallons, net, every 24 hours into reservoirs nearly 1,000 feet above the city. The Los Angeles aqueduct consists of 98 miles of covered cement conduit, 40 miles uncovered, 21 miles of open canal. 12 miles of inverted siphons. 43 miles of tunnels through mountains, 10 to 13 feet in diameter, and four reservoirs along the line, each capable of containing three months’ supply. This entire work was conceived and carried out by Chief Engineer William Mulholland, assisted by Assistant Chief Engineer J. B. Lippincott and an able staff. The water power will be utilized in its descent of several thousand feet from its source in eventually producing 120,000 horsepower peak load of electrical energy, which will be used for the city’s light and power, and the sale of which will eventually liquidate the bonds and interest of both the aqueduct and electrical plants. The Los Angeles aqueduct, when completed, will constitute one of the largest engineering and water-transmission undertakings in the world.