San Francisco water . Above: Installing a new line from Laguna Honda Reservoir. A twenty-inch connection at SixthAvenue and Lincoln Way between the twenty-four-inch cast iron and the new thirty-inch steel main,looking toward Golden Gate Park. Below: The new 36-inch steel main in Sixth Avenue, in the SunsetDistrict, placed in the trench ready to be welded. Due to the sub-soil being sand, every foot of thetrench had to be supported as shown. fCLY, I926 SAN FRANCISCO WATER. Above: Forty per cent of San Francisco will benefit by the new line from Laguna Honda. The new 36-inch steel main in Sixth A
San Francisco water . Above: Installing a new line from Laguna Honda Reservoir. A twenty-inch connection at SixthAvenue and Lincoln Way between the twenty-four-inch cast iron and the new thirty-inch steel main,looking toward Golden Gate Park. Below: The new 36-inch steel main in Sixth Avenue, in the SunsetDistrict, placed in the trench ready to be welded. Due to the sub-soil being sand, every foot of thetrench had to be supported as shown. fCLY, I926 SAN FRANCISCO WATER. Above: Forty per cent of San Francisco will benefit by the new line from Laguna Honda. The new 36-inch steel main in Sixth Avenue looking toward Golden Gate Park, showing the bridges required for automobiles. Below: Crossing the baseball field in Golden Gate Park. Work was started on a Monday morning, and by the following Saturday noon the ball ground was again in use. 10 SAN FRANCISCO WATER July, 1926 [Continued from page 7] the harping ofthe breeze in the boughs, the call of thebirds, the murmur of the shy world of theforest. You can trace these smaller arteries of thesystem till, moss covered, they lose them-selves in a jungle of ferns, tall woodwardias,and the graceful plumage of less stalwartthough no less beautiful growths. The glens,the glades, the deeper forests, are riotouswith vigorous life and leafage, born of themoist mists that never fail from sunset tosunrise, the rains that, wind-brought fromthe sea, surge over the ridges nearest theocean and curl down into the Pilarcit
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