Geography 321, Chapter 15 - California and the aqueduct.

(Terminus of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, November, 1913.)

If the man from Madison changed his mind, move to Los Angeles instead of San Francisco, he might catch up the construction of  Los Angeles Aqueduct which will complete in 1913.

If the man can get a job on aqueduct, working with dirt may sounds easy. But he have to faces the dryness and coldness of Owens Valley, and over timing works with steel pipes and dynamites. 

This hard finally ends on November 5, 1913. The man attended the opening day ceremonies of the Los Angeles Aqueduct with  30,000 people at Cascades.

The man hears his boss William Mulholland says "There it is. Take it." to him and 30,000 peoples. Then the man can looks for easy jobs like being a farmer at San Fernando Valley to raise citrus. He might plants some orange trees so the students of CSU Northridge can enjoy to pick them on decades later. 

(November 9, 2014. 101 years anniversary of L.A. aqueduct.)

Even so, the man later will feels he deserve to get a cup of water from aqueduct and condemns the saboteurs from Owens valley farms to destroy the aqueduct he was worked for.


http://waterandpower.org/museum/Construction_of_the_LA_Aqueduct.html
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