Water and power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park

Washington, D. C., March 14, 1914.

I can assure you that your clean, clear presentation of the matter was admirable and much appreciated.

John E. Raker.

(Member of Congress from California and author of the Raker Bill).

San Francisco, Cal., February 4, 1914.

I think it was a valuable contribution to the data on that subject and indicates a considerable study upon your part.

Andrew J. Gallagher.

(Member of Board of Supervisors, City of San Francisco).

San Francisco, Cal., February 2, 1914.

I read your article in the Chronicle on Hetch Hetchy and want to compliment you on the thoroughness with which you handled the subject.

J. S. Dunnigan.

(Clerk, Board of Supervisors, City of San Francisco).

San Francisco, Cal., January 29, 1914.

I ... feel that you are entitled to considerable praise for the concise and clear manner in which you have covered a very comprehensive subject.

Wm. McCarthy.

(Member of Board of Supervisors, City of San Francisco).

San Francisco, Cal., January 29, 1914.

I read with much interest and satisfaction your very comprehensive and accurate article on the Hetch-Hetchy.

James D. Phelan.

(Ex-Mayor of San Francisco and U. S. Senator elect from California).

San Francisco, Cal., January 26, 1914.

I beg to compliment you on the clearness and conciseness with which you have stated many of the controversial points involved in same. I have had so much of it in the past year and I had to take up so many angles of the conflict that your resumé is decidedly refreshing.

M. M. O’Shaughnessy.

(City Engineer, City of San Francisco).

San Francisco, Cal., January 29, 1914.

... I beg to say to you in person what I long since wrote to the editor of the Chronicle. I stated to him that the article was a very valuable contribution to the literature on the Hetch-Hetchy subject, and was the best general exposition of the case that I had read in any newspaper and that, furthermore, the article was practically free from error. I have long since added it to my scrap book.

Alexander T. Vogelsang.

(Member of Board of Supervisors, City of San Francisco, and member of law firm of Vogelsang & Brown).

San Francisco, Cal., February 6, 1914.

I consider it the best resumé of the Hetch-Hetchy scheme that has been written. I sent to the Chronicle for ten more copies after reading it in order that I might use it in the future.

I trust that the article will have a very wide circulation, for it cannot but help convince every fair minded individual not only that San Francisco’s application for rights has not been hastily considered but fair play demanded the grant.

Speaking for myself, I thank you very much for your kindly interest in the matter and for your very careful and comprehensive article.

Percy V. Long.

(City Attorney of the City of San Francisco).