Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hetch Hetchy: Its Origin and History
Forty years ago my first public experience for San Francisco was in projecting new streets such as Market Street over Twin Peaks and via Sloat Boulevard to the ocean, and the extension of Potrero Avenue northerly and southerly to the County Line, coinciding practically with the existing Bay Shore Highway, so that it was with some hesitancy I again entered the City's service.
All my other experience has been with Public Service corporations, such as the sugar plantations Of Hawaii, where I served as Chief Engineer in building three large aque ducts from 1900 to 1906, and from 1907 to 1912 as Chief Engineer of the Southern California Mountain Water Company, San Diego, working directly under two Old San Franciscans - Mr. John D. Spreckels and Mr. A. B. Spreckels.
San Francisco was engaged in the midst of a controversy in Obtaining rights on Hetch Hetchy, and all those matters are recited in this book from my actual contact with the subjects. I never handled any proposition where the engineering problems were so simple and the political ones so complex.
I am very happy that the work is completed, at relatively moderate costs. This is due to the efficient camp and labor conditions I established and the good order and discipline which prevailed in all of our camps. One may forget the minor controversies that developed on the project. They have no bearing on its historical character and hence I confine my discussion to major problems. It is a great undertaking that has been brought to completion.
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