The Owens River Aqueduct

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 8, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 14.

The Owens River Aqueduct

The Panama Canal has been called the "wonder of the age," but there is a work being done in connection with the city of Los Angeles that is not a little thing, by any means. The Owens River Aqueduct, now almost completed, brings an actual river of water from the snow line in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada range, over mountain chains, plains, and deserts, for a distance of 240 miles, to the city of Los Angeles. Another thing is that the work is nearly completed on scheduled time, and is within the estimated cost, put at $23,000,000. Such a stupendous undertaking would have been regarded an utter impossibility a few years ago.