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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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ple to visit them, and there wasa trading of glass beads for black tamalesand a fruit like a cherry (the Cerasusilicifolia, over half an inch in diameter,with a large kernel). This encampment was at the lagunaGrande of Whitneys map (1873) abouttwo miles south of the western entrance toSan Mateo Canon. It received and dis-charged the waters of the south branch ofSan Mateo Creek, and is now covered bythe waters of the Crystal Springs Lake orreservoir ... It may be asked why Por-tola did not follow the north fork of the SanMateo Creek through the canon, because itwas evident it must reach the Bay. A veryshort reconnaissance must have satisfied himthat the crooked rough bed of the streamlying between high and rocky banks withmany overhanging trees, was not a practicalroute for his weary animals and his largebody of sick people. . . . November 6th. It has been customary toassume that the party continued its course tothe southward of Laguna Grande over the April, 1927 SAN FRANCISCO WATER 13
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Father Crespi was unusually struck with the beauty of growing things in this region. Charits name from Don Caspar, of course ing Portola Woods takes ligh land five hundred feet above the sea atrive or six miles from their encampment of:he 5th. This high land, about a mile in ex-:ent northwest and southeast, divides thewaters flowing northwest from those flowingsoutheast. Then down the southern waters:hree miles farther to a point near Searsville;ind from this place turned eastwardly andiown the San Francisquito Creek to theEstero or Bay of San Francisco. On this-oute the party would have passed theaotable Twin Redwoods at the railroad:rossing between Menlo Park and Palo Alto.There is now but one of these trees standingind it is the smaller one, with a height ofibout one hundred and thirty feet. The length of this route is eighteen statuteniles to the bay, and it must be rejected. . . . The days march was through a beautiful:ountry; the hills to the west were coveredwith redwood, live

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