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3 both the City and the Districts would think I was working against them, whereas I desire to do what I can for both of
them. In this connection I call your attention to illegible copies ofcommunications from myself to the Directors of the IrrigationDistricts
and, to the Honorable secretary of the Interior,under date of Aug. 3rd, /07, which I am also illegible to you. You will thus
see, from., these several communications, that we seek to control the waters and the storage of the Cherry-Eleanor branch
of the Tuolumne River, and that we have offered the storage waters of our reservoirs to the irrigation districts for their
use on terms which will barely pay us interest on the cost of storage. If the Districts will thus use our waters they should
have less objection to the city obtaining waters stored in some reservoirs on the Main Fork of the river. Then the question
would come up to whether there are other sites than Hetch-Hetchy on that main fork which could be to advantage used by the
City. Personally, I think there are such sites, No doubt, you think so too. I suggest that in your writing to the Honorable
Secretary you might say that you have seen these communications of 03933