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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Spring Valley has placed ten miles of Lake Merced trails at the disposal of the riding public. Signs explain thehistoric interest of the rancho, and direct equestrians to scenes of beauty and significance, notably to the site of thetragic Broderick-Terry duel in 1859. the last resort to the code in California. 18 SAN FRANCISCO WATER :: 1 ^^^ J&;.---, 1 ; ■j*;^/^ w$ ■ 11/ -*C^ There are six golf courses on the Lake Merced Rancho—the San Francisco, the California, the Lake Merced, thetwo Olympic Club courses, and the Harding Memorial Course maintained by the City. This view is from the porchof the Harding clubhouse, looking across one of the sporty municipal holes to the silver expanse of Lake Merced.
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The first built of Spring Valleys three major distributing reservoirs in San Francisco is Laguna Honda, at SeventhAvenue opposite Ortega Street. When Pilarcitos water was first brought to the city in 1862, it was delivered here,and this deep lake has been part of the city system ever since. At elevation 370 feet, it supplies high city areas. SAN FRANCISCO WATER 19

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