Show z 1917 THE CITY WATER WORKS for some time the th mayor and city y council have been working to improve our water system we have ver very y poor water and no one is better belter aware of it than the aforementioned bunch I 1 about six weeks ago they filed on three springs which are lo 10 caad cat cd about four miles direct west lest of the city they are nam ed cd the black raw haw telephone and peppermint about a month ago a man tn an was sent out to th develop deve lop the black i ailt haw iv spring at A trench rench was dug which tapped the spring six feet below the surface but it was found that it would take at least eighteen 91 eteen feet to get to bed rode rock this would necessitate a trench labout about two hundred feet long so for the time being this spring was abandoned and the telephone honc spring will be next developed surveyor or harmston was taken out to this spring last friday to find cut where to dig a trench and tap lap this spring at bed rock billich is estimated it at sixteen feet to bed rock the telephone is is the largest of the three springs and we sincerely hope by this time next week we will be able to report at least fifty gallons of pure water to the minute lehen all these springs are developed to tf a receiving reservoir the water will then be measured and it if it is found to be ample for a city of at least then the city will hold a bond election if it carries then the water later will bs be piped to the reservoir and the people of roosevelt can truthful truthfully I 1 say they have the finest wat er in eastern utah the water 1170 from in any of these firings has a taste similar to the dug wells in hancock ancock II cove and Is icy cold all around the springs is 13 vegetation and show a particle of alkali showing on the surface of course a sample will bs be sent to the state chemist bo tn be analyzed in order to be absolutely 41 sol safe on the proposition ra p position ion some soma rna may ask ak how we can bond in roosevelt we have a valuation ion this year in the city of roosevelt and we can call bond 8 9 of that amount which would be we have already alrea dy bonded for foi that would I 1 leave eave we could bond 1 ond for this purpose that would he be ample for water works in this city it is estimated that to put the water in a cement reservoir near the present one it would cost about the L he other could bs be used for extending the mains in tle the city proper which i would V duld be in the neighborhood of one ona and a half miles of mains the elevation of these springs are feet higher than the hill on which the reservoir is located and the cost of taking the water from the springs to the reservoir would be nothing after the mains were in the ground there is only one piece of hard digging from the springs to the reservoir which is from the hancock cove to the bench afi on which the reservoir is located |