The Water-Power Fight in California.

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  • Author(s): Laidler, Harry W.
  • Source:
    Nation. 11/4/1925, Vol. 121 Issue 3148, p508-510. 3p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      HYDROELECTRIC power plants; ELECTRIC power production; PG & E Corp.; BAKER, John E.
    • Subject Terms:
      SAN Francisco (Calif.); CALIFORNIAReport Available; UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      The fight of most immediate interest is that centering around the Hetch Hetchy power contract in San Francisco, California. In 1913 U.S. Representative John E. Baker secured the passage of a bill popularly known as the Hetch Hetchy grant, giving to San Francisco water and power rights in the Yosemite National Park. The bill provided for the development and use of hydro-electric power by and for the people of the municipality and forbade the sale of these rights to private corporations for private gain. The supervisors failed to develop a city distribution system. They appointed a committee to estimate the value of San Francisco's privately owned plant, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., with a view to purchase it. The city ultimately bought the company's Los Angeles plant and since May 1922, has operated it.