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Protest to Board of Public Service Commissioners of City of Los Angeles, August 1924

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Title	Protest to Board of Public Service Commissioners of City of Los Angeles, August 1924
Date Created	1924-08
Date Range	1920-1929
Description	Protest from Big Pine residents against Los Angeles in buying up the land and water and damaging the future prosperity of Big Pine, signed by A. G. Barmore, Louis Joseph, Rafael Rossi, W. A. Sanger, J. D. Black, A. R. McDonald, R. A. Higgins, W. W. Mendenhall, and H. R. Williams.
Note	To meet the need for water of its growing population, the City of Los Angeles began acquiring water rights in the Owens Valley in 1905. The Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed in 1913 to bring Owens Valley water to the city. During the 1920s, the City of Los Angeles began additional large-scale purchases of land in the Owens Valley to increase its supply of water from the valley, resulting in the city's almost complete control of the valley's agricultural land. This led to a decline in the valley's agricultural infrastructure and economy.
Physical Description	1 page
Genre	Documents; Typescripts
Subject	Land use; Legislation--California; Contracts; United States. Bureau of Reclamation; Los Angeles (Calif.) Board of Public Service Commissioners; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles; Real property--Purchasing--United States; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Geographic Location	Big Pine (Calif.)
Repository	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Title	J. D. Black Papers
Collection Number	CSLA-15
Container Information	Series 1. Owens Valley Water Controversy Records; Box No. 9; Folder No. 11
Identifier	sc_jdbp004570001
Copyright	http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/#d.en.3004
Sponsor	Support provided by the Metabolic Studio.
Type	Text
Format	image/tiff
Language	eng