Show jordan narrows scheme the preparatory arrangements for foi the establishment of an electric generating plant in jordan narrows to which the enquirer has before made reform e ise BS ma his to have taken bract cal shape Weare ve are informed by the salt lake papers that on wednesday a party of thirty prominent men went down from the capital to jordan narrows as the guests of mr allan G lamson vice pros president ident of the jordan narrows electric power company among the party were the members of the board of salt lake county Commissi commissioners eners benibe s of salt lake city council and many of the officers of both county and city the object of the trip was to afford the city officials and others interested an opportunity to see for thease them themselves C ves the site of the operations projected by the power company mr lamson explained that it was the intention to tho the capacity of the le utah and salt lake canal BO ao tb that at the enlarged canal for a little less than two miles be used to carry all the water now cow carried by the city canal the south sooth jordan canal and the river at the end of the two miles this heavy flow les ies le ie s the regular lipply of mhd abd utah and salt lake canal would be dropped down under a head of ef fifty five feet through throng the companas comp anys power wheels and then borne across aud returned to the city and south jordan canals allowing the necessary flow of the north norsh jordan canal to pass back to the river bed the advantages of the change it was s stated were obvious the electric cc would undertake the maintenance of the dam and about two miles of canal thereby saving the canal companies and city that heavy expense all of the canals mr lamson said would be protected in their water rights and the water which at times goes to waste in the river would either be stored or used for power now it Is plain en enough congh to so be seen thattie th atthe execution of the scheme can not fail to on oil the rights of others besides the various salt lake canals to carry out this project the promoter 3 will necessarily have to raise the dam in order to maintain permanent and efficient power and it i is just jast this very thing that wili will revive tha taa old difficulties the owners in utah county of the land lying along D the shores of the lake are directly i interested 11 te in the operation of this a and ua all other schemes affecting the rais ing in of the jordan dam as while the company of capitalists now organized to carry on this project may realize pecuniary advantages there are hundreds of people who would thereby be practically ruined rained the tae probability of the renewal of difficulties seems to have occurred to some people in halt lake county and it has been suggested that the electric power company might in in case of need build levees on an the th lake shorland shore and along the banks of the tributary Fit reams which will protect the lands from or where this is impossible buy the land at private sale or by condemnation proceedings ce there may mav be a way out ont of the d dif if faculty and the company be enabled eru bled to carry ont gut their scheme but it appears to us na that the electric power company will have to grapple with a bigger question in this section of the i country conniry than they have seemingly met with in ia salt lake county before they will be able to either build those leveis or enforce their demands by it condemnation |