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Description
Full page article with continued column on back narrates entire Owens River Valley trip to view the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Trip comprised of government officials and notable Los Angeles citizens who took multiple cars from Los Angeles to the valley with stops along the way in key cities. Article contains pictures from the trip. Article has been broken into five sections but should be read as one complete page from top to bottom for each column.
Anecdotes Aqueducts Aqueducts--California Automobiles Automobiles--Societies, etc Canyons Caravans Caterpillar trucks Chauffeurs Dams Dams--California Deserts Drilling and boring Engineers Ford automobile Jails Lakes Lindley, Walter Locomobile automobile Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.) Mayors Mountain passes Mountain passes California Mulholland, William, 1855-1935 Ranches Reservoirs Reservoirs--California Sheriffs Songs Springs Taxation Valleys Valleys California Vasquez, Tiburcio, 1835-1875 Water-supply Water-supply--California Water tunnels
Place
Bishop (Calif.) Independence (Calif.) Lone Pine (Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.) Mojave Desert Owens River (Calif.) Owens Valley (Calif.) San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Whitney, Mount (Calif.)
Source
Newspaper clippings, 4.5 x 7.94 inches, 5 scanned pages: The Los Angeles Aqueduct, Dr. Walter Lindley Scrapbooks, Miscellaneous, box 17, personal, volume 2, page 116, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
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