Show RIGHT OF WAY ASKED FOR CITY RESERVOIR Salt Lake yesterday esterday asked Uncle Sam for a permanent rIght of way thrOugh the Wasatch forest reserve In order that the city may nave have access to the Twin lakes reservoIr and the Lake Mary reservoir from whIch the municipal water supply Is to be In Increased increased creased In the application flied filed In the theland theland land office the city promises promise not to todo todo do any damage to tha forest reserve but to keep It free from fallen Umbel timber and to help fight forest fires free of charge whenever necessary The application sets forth that the city has acquired right to a total of acres cres of water in Its various lakes near the head of Big Cotton Cottonwood Cottonwood wood canyon The water was acquired principally from Francis McDonald J JM JM M Thomas H B Cole and by the own filings Emphasizing the need ot of the right of way being granted the application goes to describe the phenomenal growth of Salt Lake and also shows the people peo people of the city need much more water per capita than they would In an east eastern eastern ern city where Irrigation of lawns and gardens Is not practiced The application further states that the Twin lakes reservoir and Lake Mary reservoir project will be created from lakes which are situated In a rOCkbound basin that could be enlarged en enlarged only at a great expense and that even oven after a big dam of masonry was built It would not be a profitable site for a government reservoir although as It stands now It Is a tine fine reservoir for the city The application will be forwarded to Washington o |