Beaver County News | 1920-12-22 | Page 1 | Los Angeles Aqueduct

LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT The Los Angeles aqueduct is 235 miles long, cost $24,500,000 and' delivers de-livers 400 second feet of water, or 258.000,000 gallons of water each . twenty-four hours. It. has a fall of 1960 feet and is capable of generating generat-ing 500,000 horse power of energy. This cheap water and cheap power is making Los Angeles one of the great manufacturing dities of .the country, and especiallly is it attracting attract-ing the auto tire business on account ac-count of its nearness to the vast cotton cot-ton fields of the Palo Verd and Imperial Im-perial valleys, where the long staple ' ton grown for the tire maunfacturer Pima, cotton is raised the best cotton cot-ton grown for the tire manufactur- . er. Los Angeles is destined to become be-come the success rival of Akron, O., in the tire business. a