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# # The canal leading from the dam site to the pressure pipe is not more than 8 miles in length, and is intermittantly a tunnel and open canal, until it reaches the head of the pressure pipe. A very steep wall leading from this : point to the power house site affords a favorable place to con­struct the pressure pipe, and the elevation of the dam being 6650 feet above sea level, and the power house site at Big Round Valley about 4600 feet, would give an effective fall or head for the water power, of about 2000 feet. TRANSMISSION LINE.- The transmission line from the power house at Big Round Valley to Los Angeles goes along the railroad and the wagon road, through the Mojave Desert, in which the conditions for an effective transmission of electricity are almost ideal, on ac­count of its dryness and absence of rain and snow. The length of this transmission line is about 280 miles along the railroad and wagon road, but on a straight line from Big Round Valley to Los Angeles, it will not exceed 260 miles. TRANSPORTATION.- The entire line of transmission is within 10 miles of the Car/son & Colorado Railroad, and the Railroad running to Randsburg, as well as the Southern Pacific between Mojave and Los Angeles, with the exception of 60 miles, which gap is only reached by a wagon road from Randsburg to Keeler. The power house in Big Round Valley is reached by a good wagon road from Bishop, Inyo County, California, within a distance of not to exceed 16 miles from the Carson & Colorado Railroad, and this 5