| Show THE SEW SYSTEM Work on the Waterworks Extension Exten-sion TIgroroniUy Prosecuted Work wa commenced in earnest on Monday on thIS longtalkedof extension exten-sion of the city waterworks system A visit to City Creek Canyon yesterday revealed about thirty men and six or seven teams hsrd at work ploughing scraping digging trencbe gmbbing iou > brush etc A point about two rods further up the s ream than tbe mouth of the flume wbioh was constructed to crfrry water to tbe now defunct marble works and about 3000 feetfrom the b building has been selected as the site for the new reservoirs which are too b to-o < built som what similarly to those now in use and these wil have capac ity of 00000 gallonsor 30 COO gallons each Prom these pipes ar to be laid W Prospect Hill n ar the tower recently erected by Mr Robert Anderson From the tanks to the brick building the pipes will b6 of wood twelve cues in diameter dia-meter and at that point they will connect con-nect with an debtinch iron nin trltirh will be used for 1000 feet and a six Inch pipe continued to the Hill This will give a head of 127 feet or a pressure of nearly sixty pounds We will then said MrOttinper to i a HERALD reporter yesterday carry the main along Sixth Street as Jar as the City Cemetery But how wll that affect the unfortunates un-fortunates who live above Lath Street i There has been a fear expressed by Siiiie of the residents of the locality mentioned that they would be I ft out in the cold The idea is as I have be ore intimated timated to run the main along Sixth Street to the Cemetery but we will have sufficient force then to carry the water np as high as Fourteenth or may be Sixteenth Street and along each of he ten streets running east and west from Sixth to Sixteentn In other wordsyou will be so situated as to be able to supply the entire bench Exactly This of course you understand un-derstand is but the plan of the upper bench system which will beinde > endent to a great degree of the system nOw In vogue In audition to this the tanks ow in use on the lower system will be discarded and a couple of reservoirs re-servoirs holding 300000 galons will be constructed in the brick building recently re-cently roLled in Fro n tbe present works to this point a 24Inch main will be laid and there is a fall of sufficient magnitude to raise the pressure at the Eagle Gate from fifty to eightysix pounds How much pressure will this afford in the business centersay within the fire limits Well of course the pressure decreases de-creases each time of water service is connected con-nected but we shall bave as near as can at present be estimated 70 pounds pressure duilng the day time which will of course be increased during the winter and night time In abort this arrangement will bring us back to the same pressure attained when the system sys-tem was first inaugurated in 1370 and when there was but four miles of pipe as against the fourteen now in use From what point will the systems be guarded 7 hIt is the intention to move the residence resi-dence of Uncle Openshaw to a point near the brick building and a valve located at this point will enable him to bave full control of both lines of the mainsWhen When will the present work be completed com-pleted As to that cannot say but it will be nnhed forward with all possible Slfedvieit A visit was then paid to the yard of Mr Elias Morris in the rear of the UobertdEIIerbeck Block where the wooden pining reierrcd to above IE Len bound with iron and coated and this process is said to make the pipes a strong and as tough as iron Altogether the cry benchers have reason to congratulate themselves on the prospects now before them of obtaining ob-taining a good supply of pure and wholesome water > |
