>>13497184 LB

>Why do I say that.

>RUMORS about the Chinatown movie \ back then, related that the story was a true one about a very powerful family in Los Angeles, In the story line that the movie leads into, the family became astronomically wealthy by bringing water to the San Fernando Valley, having previously bought up all the land there.

>I never did find out the family the movie pointed out until today.

>The movie was connected publicly with a true story of what happened in the city of Los Angeles

>So the movie is likely about the Chandlers. I thought it was about the Mulhollands; and maybe they were part of it to. Or one family member?

SO VERY INTERESTING YOU BRING THIS UP TODAY.

i watched a video last night becasue it caught my interest. its a Mortuary series by this lady and she did an entire story on MulHoland the water rights and the dam that was built. It wasnt Mulholland tho, he was the engineer and the dam failed it killed 600+ KNOWN and nobody knows how many unknown were killed. one of the worst disasters in US History and pretty much erased.

The man who bought up all the land and water rights was Frederick Eaton and he bacame Mayor of LA and made God knows how much on those water rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Eaton

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Eaton lost everything after that Dam accident so dont know but this is for that anon to do a little more in depth for that very interesting connection to Rachel Chandler

Fred Eaton used his inside advance information about the aqueduct project to enrich himself and his associates at the expense of the city of Los Angeles and the Owens Valley landowners.[3] Eaton claimed in a 1905 interview with the Los Angeles Express that he turned over all his water rights to Los Angeles without being paid for them, "except that I retained the cattle which I had been compelled to take in making the deals . . . and mountain pasture land of no value except for grazing purposes."[12] A portion of the land owned by Eaton was originally planned by Mulholland and Los Angeles to be used to build a storage reservoir. The Round Valley, Eaton's "mountain pasture land," was strategically located on the Owens River in Inyo County upstream of the Owens River Gorge and Owens Valley, and an excellent site to purchase. Eventually, Eaton's demands for a million dollars to sell it became so entrenched that they ruptured his relationship with Mulholland.[3]

William Mulholland refused to authorize the purchase and explored other areas to build the reservoir. Eventually he settled on an area which he had considered for a potential dam site during the process of designing and building the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a section of San Francisquito Canyon located north of the present day Santa Clarita Valley, and built the St. Francis Dam. In March 1928, the dam catastrophically failed due to unknown weak bedrock formations. The flood caused much destruction and many deaths downstream along the Santa Clara River. Eaton's finances crumbled, also in 1928, and his ranch was acquired by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, where Crowley Lake was created for the aqueduct system's new storage.[3]

Fred Eaton died in Los Angeles in 1934.

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both and checkaroo