Salt Lake Herald | 1900-08-02 | Page 8 | City Buys Canyon Rights to Increase Water Flow

u CITY CIT Y BUYS CANYON TS TO WATER flOW In accordance wih with the agreement 1 made yesterday be between tween Mayor Thomp Thompson son anti and l Roberts n of the 1 counci council finance nanc e committee lop representing I the lit city and owners of land and water rights in Parleys canyon the municipality paly wi come into immediate pos possession possession session of about glons or of water additional daily for the pipe System This at r represents the volume that has been lost by evaporation and and seepage by br reason of having been diverted by the owners of land in the canyon who have used it for irrigation The increased fo wi will help materially to check the water famine that is the city The Tue agreement referred to provides that the city wJ will pay William Naylor for hIs acres in Mountain Del Dell fork wih with prIme water right for I about forty acres that Edward Laird I wi ivill get his ninetYfour acrs acres in the canyon and prime water right for about sixty acres and that Laird jr vill i take 1000 for hi his smal small tr tract t of land and water right right The purchases are conditioned upon the cit city attorney passing favorably upon the abstracts of tte title and the surveys surreys to be made to determine the he acreage of each tact tract However the city will today take irn im mediate possession of the water rights i it has agreed to purchase and tur turn the diverted flows into the canyon creek thus increasing to aI art appreciable de degree degree gree the volume of water that comes into the pipe system from Parleys canyon These purchases wi will not only enable the city administration to crr carry out the policy this season of increasing and purifying the waters from Parleys I canyon but it wl will make i it a less dif dUll cul cult task to acquire tite title at moderate prices to other land and water right rights not already owned by the municipality