Show HYDROGEN OXIDE SALT LAKE Crrr March 30 B Editors Herald I is almost impossible to make any pecuniary estimate upon the enhancement en-hancement of the value of property which will reaul from an additional supply of water for our city No one appreciates this fact more than myself my-self but I must admit that I am with many others a little bit dissatisfied dissatis-fied with our city fathers in the means they have adopted to accomplish this end Is it really e fact that Utah Lake has ever been regarded as the source from which Salt Lake City its main supply must in future draw mlin Is of water This may be the opinion of come but surely not of all Even if this were tho case it does not fol i low that the canal is a necessity A certain city in New York State containing con-taining 50000 inhabitants has lately given a contract for supplying their city with water for 200000 The supply is the Hudson the waters of which are to be forced into storing reservoirs above the city by the Holly Byatem of pumps and turbines tur-bines Why would nct the same method supply the few hundred families fam-ilies on the bench with water at half the cost With a few storing reaer voirs constructed in City Creek Cafion there would always be a sufficient cent supply for everyone else But the Council has decided to spend our money in a UUGK CANAL Which it now becomes my duty to rehash Messrs Smith Doremus have plainly shown that the first section with a fall of thirty inches per mile and also the third are capable of carrying sufficient water to overflow the banks of the second and completely wash it away Hence where is tho economy that we are boasting so much about event the sacrifice of every thing that is nice and beautiful I will only add a few more words about this part of the i canal After the completion of the Ganges canal tho water was lot in which tore on with such velocity as to cause a great deal of damage Investigation In-vestigation showed an erroi in their formula which gave too great 1 velocity TLat velocity wa 2 75 feet per second But the surveyor of our canitl Bays the velocity is to be 35 feet r er second I would also say that the inclination cf part of our canal is that which I one foct greater than i caused a disastrous result in the Ganges I have made a hasty calculation calcu-lation on the I FOUR MILE LEVEL which is to supply ha city with 226J cubic feet of water every second The fcraula used was obtained trom a comparison between the formula of Weisbach DAubuiEaon Piony Eljtetwem and other hydraulic authorities bv Professor D M Green formerly deputy sat engineer for New York I have made two suppositions suppo-sitions viz first that the canal is tapped at several places inits course through the city and second that the minimum depth is two feet Substituting the given data in the formula I find the maximum discharge dis-charge to be 40742 cubic feet per second which la less than that of Smith Doremua on account of my assuming the elope of the sides to be 21 imtead t 11 Assuming the minimum depth to bo onehalf foot I the dirchargo is much las and should there be a heavy growth of aquatic plants and willows as we find in the old canal at the SugarHouse Sugar-House the discharge would be hardly perceptible lu this condition it out be ueeEaury to have several feeders along its course to make it even useful as a boat canal The Council failed to say anything about the OBDISAliY AND EXTRAOED1KAR EE 1 PAIR After tie completion of said canal Perhaps they deemed it too insignificant insignifi-cant to bring before the voters But ws the rising generation kayo got to consider this for they actually threaten to leave this elephant on our hands aaa legacy Would we rather have this dirty canal always filled with frog leads and pigsa swimming hole for dirty bay than a nice quiit sytteu of grand pumps and turbines with two or tbree beautiful reservoirs Or we would be more thankful for a system of conduit con-duit piped bringing the water over the same course This would also require re-quire a storing reservoir in which there might be placed a fountain throwing the water over a hundred feet in the air purifying both water and air A legacy like this we might appreciate and be perfectly willm to help pay off the bonds when due say in nineteen hundred and fifty I penned the above by request of several Salt Lake voters as 1 subject for reflection between now and next Monday Hoping that every one will be convinced which ia the right way to vote before that time I remain yours truly COMPOS MENTIS C E lOne of the rising generation |