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Identifier: sanfrancwat4192581930spri (find matches)
Title: San Francisco water
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Spring Valley Water Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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he dam. But on the other side the road started abruptly up the hill on its way to Half MoonBay. There was no hill of this kind on theway to Careys. As a matter of fact therewas no hill such as the one we had just comedown from the summit to the dam we werecrossing, nor was there such a hill as weclimbed out of the canyon. In bewilderment I stopped the car half-way across the dam and looked up and downthe valley, picturing again the old roadsidehotel, the gateway of rocks, the fields ofgrain, the road up the hill to Half MoonBay, and the teams plodding back and forthat the foot of the grade. ... A light brokeupon me. I know where Careys is, I said, andpointed out over the reservoir stretching tothe north of us. It is at the bottom of thelake. There could be no mistake. Careys, thevacation spot of my boyhood, had been in thevalley that now was filled with water. Thedam where we stood was where the teams hadbeen working; the gateway of rocks where the October, 1926 SAN FRANCISCO WATER 15
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In this party that inspected Crystal Springs dam-site in 1887 are included Hermann Schussler, chief engineer ofSpring Valley; John Perry, Jr.; George Schussler, assistant to the chief engineer; W. H. Lawrence, general super-intendent; Lloyd Tevis; Thomas Brown, president of the Bank of California; Charles Mayne, director of SpringValley; Charles Webb Howard, president; and Daniel Meyer. toll-gate was now formed the resting-placefor the shoulders of the great concrete damwe had passed on the way out of the canyon.The only things left were the road along thecreek and through the canyon on the wayout of San Mateo and the road winding upthe hills to the westward to Half Moon Bay.All the rest was under water! As we lingered on the dam ponderingover the change in the landscape, more mem-ories came to me. I remembered that whenwe went to San Felix the second time, alongthe road and around the hotel were strewnlengths of large-dimensioned cast-iron pipe.I had good reasons to remember these, f

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