| Show VIEWS OUTLINED BY W. W G. G TUTTLE Realty Man Says City Is in Greater Danger of Flood Than of Earthquake Salt Lake is in more dan danger r from a great flood from the tho dam being built In n BI Big Cottonwood than It is from an any earthquake ho which might bo be brought on onby onby b by the tho called so-called Wasatch U fault tault n a ac according cording to W. W O. O Tuttle of Tuttle Bros realty firm Speaking of this subject recently Mr Tuttle said eald- Salt Lake Liko City's commissioners have haYo had lad tho the work started on a big dam darn up Dig Big Cotton Cottonwood hut there is ts still time timeto to head oft off tho starting of ot work on ho tho Parleys Parley's canyon can on dam darn In City Creek they decided ed to do away aay with darns dams and to use basins Instead The Tho of ot siS is js and in thelong tho the long ong run cheaper since sinco they bring no noall noall all 11 devastating de floods on on the city was suggested b by myself to tho the ct city These ha basins aro are connected by b pipes lower than tho the natural flow low of ot the tho stream So If It the tho ho city's water supply runs low Jow all th they have havo to do Is to order tho the water turned on from basin No o. o 2 or 01 No C 5 G. G sn say Then the this water flows down naturally into the stream into tho the eft city mains All the tho time tho the water Is kept pure niro since sinco tho the basins overflow Q each Into nto tho the one ono below it It thus keeping the water aerated h by the these twelve to twenty foot falls This does docs away with th thu necessity of ot installing expensive o ii pumps lumps mp i to keep p V the water terl in motion moHon or oro orto orto to o bring it to the tho proper height ht to give Ive the he required pressure for COl city uso uso as asIs ass Js Is s needed in case of ot the dams than True rrue they cost something moro more dams clams In the first place but In the thelong thelong long ong run tho the expense In case of ot a break In n tho the dam would more than double the cost of ot these theae basins A As for tho the n d danger cr from earthquake for tor Salt Lake I hold hoM that Is not In existence Many many men often arid and often otten have talked to me mo about bout thin i f-i- i Wasatch that fault that break lc Inthe Inthe in inthe the terrain here In our city's vicinity which sonic some da day will slip an and will cause a a. va vast vas t earthquake e which will swallow up lip Salt Lake Lal e entirely Educated men havo have written learnedly and worriedly worried about this matter When Lake Lak lInt But let mo trio tell you ou Bonneville disappeared It went at once Tho fact that thero there is only one water waterline line lino throughout the entire state stata of ot this tremendous inland sea and not a aeres series eres of Vater water lines left lert as Its memorial memo memo- rial Indicate that it went at once Thero There was no gradual receding But Dut my theory Is this Salt Lake need fear fearno fearno fearno no earthquake because when Lake Donneville Don Don- neville disappeared It went through tho the cavity in tho the earth carth caused causel by tho the fa famous famous La- La Wasatch W fault tault adjusting It Itself eJr to the correct geological formation and arid position Hence tho the earth beneath our city Is as firm and antI solid as nn any section section section sec sec- centurIes centuries cen cen- tion of ot tho the globe globo Lake Lako tunes ago went down Into tho bowels of tho the earth or oT out cut to tho the sea through tho the vast st fissure which yawned awn be beneath beneath be- be neath Its waves when tho the fault tault corrected corrected corrected cor cor- Itself |
