Show MORE ON THE CANAL 4 I By Judge Sncw SALT LAKE CITY April 5 1880 Editor Herald In my letter of Lbs 1st in6tJ published pub-lished in the HERALD of the 2dJ I said I intended to go to the polls and vote yes but hia is not because I think the water Question is or baa I been exhausted In my judgment it i ia not I added a postscript After the election I intend to spend a portion por-tion of my time in trying to solve the insolvable puzzle This water que3tion truly doea contain I con-tain some puzzles to the uninformed myself among the number True L can sep eo crn others seen I r a see-n u al reservoir of water in Utah L3Ke euppuea or filled by no less than nine streams of water flowing from the mountains into that lake with only one outlat flowing direct to 8 > lt LO Oount Tblsia no puzzle Ve can sea it We have all the light on this pait of the subject which la needed We I cnn EGO that tbis is a 1 natural law and may be dependei upon hut how to store more water there and draw oQ tho water in time of need is i where am puzzled The uninformed tell me build a dam with Rates That dont puzzle me yet it does not relieve me from my puzzles I want to know as well as engineers surveyors sur-veyors etc can tell me how it eflects the inhabitants of Utah County whether they will be injured or not I by the dam if it be built if injured I how much This ts me is of primary pri-mary importance It is the axis around which the hub the spokes and the felloes revolve Again suppose all ia right at this axis all goes well there The water will store and flow Then at what point bebw must the water be taken cut to come fast and be separated from the mass flowing further down the river Here again is work for the engineers It puzzles me We want perhaps I should say I want that water if it comes here to go as far east and as far north as it can consistently with safe engineering be made to go Here comes again my other puzzler I puzzle-r sea the City Council have Ead drops were to be made I do not know the point of elevation where the water is to be taken from the Jordan consequently I do not know how much fall if any is ost but for tho drop3 Now concerning water it is said continued drops will wear a stone Dr Franklin used to fay little leaks sink great ships My tuitional powers if I bave any might approve of them but my intuitional powers absolutely rebels against them Again I do not like two canals side by side They may be best but they look to me like disunion instead of union The selectmen of the county by an act passed last session were made ex officio water commissioners and were authorized to see to tho distribution distri-bution ol water Can it be material where the task is placed The same power that put them into office and defined their powers put the Cily Council into office and defined their power Union is strength Union is wanted Now Mr Editor I am going to build an air castle I hara built many They look well on paper To do this I am going to Utah Lake for my starting point The City Council eay that Utah Lake covers a surJase of above 137 square mile > and the amount of land that can be irrigated from the River Jordan on both sides will not exceed eighty square miles stating further that the water in Utah L3ke il it can be made available avail-able will irrigate all the arable land in Silt Lake County Now I do not know whether this statement is made from data or like myself from intuitional intu-itional powers My intuitional powers tend to the same reault If this be correct then Utah Lake holds in store millions of dollars millions of pounds of bread No wonder I have water on the brain But to the air castle Eighty Equate miles contains 51200 acres of land which at 10 per aero is 512000 coin dollars Mr Editor which with labor and skill combined can bo made worth at least 15 per acre more This will make the value of the real estate 1275000 Add to this about one half to represent the personal l property of the owners of the real estate and it makes 1912000 again you divide 51200 acres of land into larms forty acres each and it makes 1280 farms furnishing employment for many a poor man I respectfully submit Mr Editor that though this air castle is only on paper it is not an overdrawn picture A goodly little item to be drawn out of the water Pharaohs daughter drew a little babe out of the water and to make his name significant named him MosbaMosee which RimifipH to draw out of Ilia water This babe has given science law and religion to more men than you and I ever saw But suppose the water in the lake could be stored and uaed when needed and suppose further the engineering department is sufficient for tua emergency emer-gency and the caual is built ai rfghr Tne waer so adjusted that Salt Lake City gets her fair supply how much of that water does she now need or will eho need if f we were 50000 in numbei D nt forget Mr Editor dont forget If WE bring it east say as far us the blufi and north a 3 fir as South Tempi ttrfctt and we irrigate with it all south 3td rett cf these points how much land U there within with-in these limits escludinq bioats Juet think I will call it for this purpoie two and a halt square miles equal to a little more than 1600 acre something more trm one thirtieth part of the linoAhis will contain only about onefi irtietn part of the water one drop in thirty drops that is ell To complete my air taitle I must suggest nothing moro than suggest that if the inlet into the city nt the northeast corner be only three feet and the water iuai only at square foot eecjcd let the the rate of one per engineers ttll us the safe velocity it will pour into this city in 100 darPJran ning night and day over 7000000 I will 01 cubic feet of water This foot of 1600 acres cover each square one foot deep if there wai no evapor ction nor percolation and leave more than OIXOCO of solid feet of water If I am wrong in my computation let be Wiseman family correct me I know and you Mr Editor unless know you are wilfully ignorant may that in some years past the water in an early palt of the year had flowed down from the mountains liKe mountain moun-tain torrents and in seeking its level has nearly inundated the lower part of the city and other low lands wbile tho inhabitants of the Eighteenth Twentieth and Twentyfirst Wards hava been looking down upon us seeing us in a owning condition but they were cot 10 foaiie they did not make the water It ia i within the knowledge of the writer that thousands upon thousands of dollars have been spent by lha inhabitant in-habitant having low Mnda and low lots and by others fr their reli f Canal after canal has been dill to carry away the surplus water These i canals will still aid Should the writer hereafter further trjNJo solve the insolvable in-solvable water puzzle1 be does not want it uudeistood that be Toted yes because he Itosght the matter had I been ccmpletely exhausted and in all respect fully venthied Ho did not believe that Yet he does believe in the efficiency of the power behind ho throne When that power commands com-mands it is 1 k ly to be obeyed I do not know which aide will prevail yea or no Yours truly trulyZ Z SNOW |