Los Angeles aqueduct builder dies

William P. Mulholland, nationally known hydraulic engineer and builder of the Los Angeles-Owens River aqueduct in California, died at Los Angeles, Calif., July 22, 1935. Doctor Mulholland was born in Belfast, Ireland, September 11, 1855, and came to the United States in 1872. From 1886 until his death he was with the Bureau of Water Works and Supply of the city of Los Angeles, Calif., as chief engineer and general manager. The work for which he was the best known was the construction of the Los Angeles-Owens River aqueduct which was built by the Bureau of Water Works and Supply, at a cost of $24,500,000, for bringing water 250 miles to the city from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, north of the city.