 | Los Angeles (Calif.) Bureau of the Los Angeles Aqueduct - 1907 - 298 pages
...the municipality, it must be at same rate that it sells to those within the municipality. "I am also impressed by the fact that the chief opposition to...to be served by putting the water in Los Angeles), come from certain private power companies whose object evidently is for their own pecuniary interest... | |
 | 1907 - 220 pages
...the municipality, it must be at same rate that it sells to those within the municipality. "I am also impressed by the fact that the chief opposition to...to be served by putting the water in Los Angeles), come from certain private power companies whose object evidently is for their own pecuniary interest... | |
 | William L. Kahrl - Nature - 1983 - 605 pages
...While he acknowledged that the concerns of the Owens Valley were "genuine," he concluded that this interest "must unfortunately be disregarded in view...to be served by putting the water in Los Angeles." In a formal letter to Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock drafted June 25, 1906, in the secretary's... | |
 | Neil L. Shumsky - Political Science - 1996 - 436 pages
...the few settlers in Owens Valley (whose interest is genuine, but whose interest unfortunately must be disregarded in view of the infinitely greater interest to be served by putting the water in Los Angelesl, comes from certain private power companies whose object evidently is for their own peconiary... | |
 | Craig Taylor, Elliott Mittler, Le Val Lund - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 314 pages
...others, convincing Roosevelt to adopt the position that the interests of the few Owens Valley settlers "must unfortunately be disregarded in view of the...to be served by putting the water in Los Angeles." Roosevelt agreed with this policy because it matched the express purpose of the Reclamation Service... | |
 | Rebecca Fish Ewan - Architecture - 2000 - 252 pages
...hidden behind the giant Sierra Nevada, stating "the opposition of the few settlers in Owens Valley . . . must unfortunately be disregarded in view of the infinitely greater interest to be served by putting water in Los Angeles."11 Roosevelt's words mark a pivotal point in the Owens Valley's land-use history;... | |
 | Catherine Mulholland - History - 2002 - 476 pages
...this bill, aside from the opposition of a few settlers m Owens Valley (whose interest is genuine, hut whose interest must unfortunately be disregarded in...view of the infinitely greater interest to be served hy putting the water in Los Angeles} comes from certain private power companies whose object evidently... | |
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I am also impressed by the fact that the chief opposition to this bill, aside from the opposition of the few settlers in Owens Valley (whose interest is genuine, but whose interest must unfortunately be disregarded in view of the infinitely greater interest... 