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the Interior for determination and that said board may call upon 

 the Geological Survey or other bureaus of the Department of the 

 Interior for such assistance as any such bureau may be able to 

 render in the premises. 



It is further understood that said city will, as soon as practi- 

 cable, submit to said advisory board a full exhibition of its 

 proposed plan of development and utilization of water under 

 said permit, together with estimates of the cost thereof, and 

 also a full statement of all outstanding water-rights, both for 

 irrigation, power, and other uses, on the Tuolumne River and 

 Lake Eleanor Basins and the proposed method of providing for 

 the protection thereof. 



All questions as to the validity and legality of said permit of 

 date May 11, 1908, are hereby expressly reserved for decision 

 and determination until said final hearing. 



Dated this 27th day of May, 1910. 



R. A. Ballinger, 

 Secretary of the Interior. 



In connection with the foregoing order. Secretary Ballinger 

 is reported as having made the following remarks at the hearing : 

 "I have had, gentlemen, a rough report made to me (I say 

 rough — it has not yet been thoroughly finished by the board of 

 army engineers, although they have communicated to me the 

 substance of their report), pursuant to the adjournment taken 

 yesterday on their conference with the engineers representing 

 the various parties. 



"The substance of the report is that they believe and so advise 

 me as secretary of the interior, that it will be necessary, in order 

 to secure such data as will allow them to advise intelligently this 

 department on the sources of water supply necessary for the 

 present and prospective needs of San Francisco and the bay 

 cities if the Hetch Hetchy Valley be eliminated, to have detailed 

 investigation and inquiry into the conditions of watersheds and 

 the like. 



"In pursuance of that report, I feel it my duty to make an 

 order continuing this matter for further investigation, in order 

 that the department may be equipped with all necessary informa- 

 tion to make a final and proper disposition of this question. 



"The authorities of San Francisco should present to this ad- 

 visory army board, from time to time, the data that they acquire, 

 so that the army board may know the progress that is being 

 made, and also should outline to this board the scope and plan 

 of the investigation which the city proposes to make, so that the 

 board can proceed in its way with a perfectly intelligent view 

 of what is going to be done, and the general details of the 



