SALT LAKE USES W WATER ATER IDA 1 i Chlorine System Used Pun Puri Purifies fies as It Eliminates Colon Bacilli I THIS VIE VIEW OF EXPERT EXPER I City Health Officer Ashle AsIde Has J Just Concluded Examination Exam 1 Water Supply used in Salt Lake WATER V V comes from Big Cottonwood an Parleys Parley's canyons canons and amid front from Cottonwood creek creel Is reported to sho noticeable traces of oC chlorine In accord accords anco with an analysis of several sam sam sample f plea of city water which Just has be bee completed b by Herman Harms stat chemist The Tho r report will be turned ovo ove I Ito to Dr II II R W V Ashley city health com corn missioner today for Information of or th tin city hoard board of or health and nd city authorities ties In general Dr A Ashley y visited BI Big canyon yesterday with ith the thc purpose o 0 examining the tho condition of the wate supply Informed that the report o 0 Mr Ir Harms had shown traces races of or chlo duo chlorine mine rine he said that ho was not surprised surprise adding that the trace doubtless 1 lit Jg ex cx small and can have ha no effee on the tho water ater for drinking purposes u o 0 otherwise Tho chlorine comes fro the Installation of chlorine tanks I 1 Ithe Ithe the Big BIS' Cottonwood anti and Parley Puley flume and In the hO Little Cottonwood flume fumo fo the tue purpose of eliminating colon bacilli In In the thc purification of tho the water vater water th chlorine system h has been e successful and particularly In the thc slim elim of colon bacilli bacil said Dr AhIe Ash shi Ie Icy I am nm Inclined to doubt if I chlo rimie actually can bo be noticed in Il cit water by citizens and find even if I It it would not be injurious to health Ite i tho te slightest degree After wo we had Installed c chlorin p tanks a man came to me mc and said sid tha ha he ho thought tho water ater had hn made hi throat sore and asked If IC I did no think that the thc el chlorine was a responsible sible Chlorine Clorine instead of causing sor or throats cures sore throats throats In man maD preparations for tor sore soro throat chlorin Is u used cd and while It is beneficial t the throat it i also is Js used for sore achs lu In certain instances r Testimony of or p r. r But dont don't misunderstand me me- meI I am amnot urn aa not trying to encourage chlorine o or anything else elso in the thc city water I water I wan tho ho water to be as pure uro us as it is PO pos poz sible to make It and experiments experiment allover all all' allover al' al over the tho country have havo shown that ehlo ehlo- mine tanks purify the water and thc they arc are used quite extensIve extensively Experts seem able to show that It It I requires from el eight ht to ten pounds of It chlorine per million milon gallons of oC water to make chlorine chlorInE noticeable in the tho water wa water wa- wa ter tel Wo We aro are using at an average a of not more than three-fourths three of ot a pound of or chlorine to each million gallons allons o of water at the Big Cottonwood and Par of Ie ley lej flumes fumes and at the Little Lito ane Cottonwood Cotton Cotton- Coton wood t flume and that tat is not riot enough make water smell or give any evidence o of chlorine in r my roy opinion A A Achem chem 1st of or course can cali ascertain that there ther may be le a slight trace by the tho silver vcr nl- nl nl-J nl Irate test Inspectors of oC tho the city board of of health collect samples of water atel from within tho ho city and from Its Is water sources from time to time and turn tre tur them over o er to Mr l Harms for tor analysis Consequently I will wi be he very Interested In his report on tho the latest samples we we collected for him because I am highly interested to know kno how chlorine la Is actIng actIng act- act 1 Ing lag and I have studied it very ery closely It I certainly purifies the thc water and in In I addition It is quite Quie Ine inexpensive e