San Francisco water (1925) (14597149819)

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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From this placethey moved ... to another camp named LaRancheria de la Casa Grande . . . Theycrossed the present Whitehouse and Gazos Creeks, and encamped a short distance eastof Pigeon Point, where there is a roadsteadopen to the south. Here they found arancheria with a large, notable sphericalstructure which they named the CasaGrande, but of which we find no record ortradition . . . On Tuesday, October 24th, the partystarted under the guidance of two Indiansfrom Casa Grande, and traveled four leaguesto a camp at a rancheria not named by Cos-tanso, but which we fix at the San GregorioCreek . . . On Friday, the 27th, they traveled twoshort leagues in three hours, and encampedat a stream with little water and no firewood.We place their stopping place at the Puris-sima Creek, on the south bank. . . . On Saturday, October 28th, Costansowrites they traveled two leagues northwardfrom the Rancheria de las Pulgas to ElLlano de los Ansares (the plain of the wild April, 1927 SAN FRANCISCO WATER

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Ortega, the great scout, explored this region of Crystal Springs Dam, ancnear the southern end of the reservoi geese), and Father Crespi and Father Gomezsaid mass, and then the train started at tenoclock and made two leagues in two and ahalf hours. They encamped close to themouth of the Pilarcitos Creek, one and one-third leagues north from the Purissima.From this encampment Costanso writes: To the northwest we saw a great point of landthat reaches far into the sea, and at theextremity much low land with many greatrocks which appear as farallones that run to the westward. Later he describes two faral-lones of very irregular figure with peakedtops. The point of land lying to the northwestand forming the roadstead of Half MoonBay, open to the south, is the Pillar Pointof our charts; it is an extensive mesa thatrises to 181 feet at the middle, and was calledthe Corral de Tierra by the early Califor-nians. One of the two principal faralloneslying one-fifth of a mile from the point isabout o

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