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Excerpt from The Spring Valley Purchase: Facts, Figures, Arguments The City of-isan Francisco is' submitting to its voters the proposition. Of acquiring the properties'of the Spring Valley Water Company for the sum of plus capital ex tensions and betterments, made and to be made by the com pany between March 1, 1920 and the date at which the purchase shall becompleted, not exceeding in amount, and to authorize bonds bearing 5 per cent interest -to cover the pur chase price. In presenting to the people' so complex a propo sitiou as the question of acquiring by purchase nearly acres of land with all the water rights and appurtenant water works structures, more than usual care must be taken that au thentic facts and figures and well considered arguments are advanced. With this in mind the following facts and figures based on a careful study by competent men of authentic data, are presented, together with a brief summary of the argu ments which have convinced all those who are intimately familiar with the situation that this purchase should be made and should be made now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.