William Mulholland and the Southland Water System

The Romance of the Ranchers. Los Angeles 1836, citizens fight mission over water rights. Owens Valley, 1908, World's Greatest Aqueduct System Started. Colorado River, 1936, fight to save mighty damn projects. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles presents the Romance of the Ranchers.

A weekly dramatization of the march of events which founded our southern California today. Each week our wandering Viqueiro Frank Graham returns with another colorful and dramatic true story from the days of the dawn. Most of us paid a larger income tax last Monday than we ever paid before.

And yet probably none of us ever paid a tax so gladly, while we know that much of it will go to pay for weapons and supplies that our armed forces will use against the enemies of our country.

But even these new, higher taxes are not enough to meet vital war needs. In a matter of months, we must equip ourselves to conquer enemies who have been arming themselves for years. We can do this through our purchases of defense bonds and stamps.

This money will come back to us later with substantial interest, so it's an investment in our own financial future as well as in democracy. But the need now is urgent, so buy a defense bond tomorrow.

And now here to tell us the story is our wandering vicarro Frank Graham. Buenas no ches cignores y cignores. Tonight our story is probably the most important story to each and every one of us of all the events we've presented on this series of programs.

For it is the story of how a parched semid desert area was turned into a garden land for over three million persons, their homes, farms, and cities. It would never have been done without water.