Show H AN UNSOLVED ENGINEERING PROBLEM Well no one can say the authorities of Salt Lake have solved the engineer engineerIng Ing problem concerned in the matter of caring for that volume of flood water which comes down from the hills First South and Second South and Brigham streets from Third East to the high ground are in bad shape They have more water than they need Inci Incidentally Incidentally dentally and also they have more rocks and a great deal more earth than is good for the surface of asphalt streets Down every street comes a perfect torrent of water from the hills hUls West on the Intersecting streets rushes a mad tide of mingled water and drift a forbidding barrier for every everyone one who wants to cross or even get to the car tracks And It will willbe willbe willbe be so until the snows are all melted and after that It will be so again after every hard rain all summer And next spring the same trouble will wUl be repeated Paved streets have cost a 0 good deal of money So have tho the sewers and gut gutters gutters gutters And they do not take care of this problem of water a condition which existed we should Imagine even be before before before fore the first attempt at Improving the streets was made This is not written In a spirit of complaint com complaint complaint plaint Men Yen do not always solve their riddles at the first trial But here are the conditions A range of hills to the north and the east a succession of streets and a great city below Water runs down hill hUl and rains and thaws I of snow are to be counted on That forms the data of the problem Surely there Is some solution Surely en engineering engineerIng engineering science which can burrow under rivers and through mountains can prevent the flooding of at the streets But it been done as yet In Salt Lake |