Show P PLAN AN City Cit Officials Inspect Canyon Jf For or a Reservoir Scheme 4 OBJECTIONS ARE AR CITED t CrED SALVAGE SAVAGE FROM FROM BONDS DONS WILL WITT GO GOTO GOTO GOTO TO INCREASE ICE WATER WAT SUPPLY i Since it i has been ben agreed by the te municipal munIcipal pal administration to put oft off of till tl next spring the e work of ot making the canal serve sere a duty dut of furnishing water for forset street set sprinkling by b a stand std pipe pip system the tho theme teme uppermost in the minds mind of ot otMa Mayor Ma r Thompson and members member of ot his hla official family faintly faily Is la how the set apart from the anticipated proceeds of the 50 0 worth of water Improvement bonds bond for fortis this particular scheme f c can n be expended best in other directions With the te Idea Ide in view of expending the fe money in City Creek canyon cayon a a little tour of inspection was w taken take yesterday after afternoon ater afternoon noon Up tip the e canyon by the mayor Chair Chairman Chairman man Dooly of o ar the board of public hf works City Cit Engineer Enner Kelsey Keisey Waterworks Super Superintendent Superintendent Hines and Councilmen Councilman Davis Davs Canning Hewlett Robertson Roberton Tuddenham and Whittemore Through an oversight in i sending out invitations Contractor P PJ PJ PJ J Moran Morn did not net go on n the he junket junet trip tp Instead of going g with the te rest of the party pat Mr Dooly who wile is said sid to have suggested the trip went wen in Mayor Ma or Thomp Thompson Thompsons son sons s buggy thus giving him an opportunity opportunity bugg to exert eert his persuasive logic upon the executive In furtherance of or his proposition slon that the 46 should be b expended in City Ct Creek Crek canyon to build a distributing inn ing reservoir near the high line Une tank about tre three and ad a half hal miles mies up and ad make a start on a new ne or larger main down the ann which would cost coat ct probably probably ably Money Can Ca Go to Better End Ed At the outset the members member of the e emma coun council con conci elI cil ci believed that It I would be wiser to use whatever money noney wilt will be available from a aready ready eady contracted for are paid out to toward toward toward ward Big Cottonwood canyon in making a start tart to Increase the e supply of water which W is ia not possible in City Creek can canon canyon Canson t yon son on After making the Investigations the tiie te solons were more convinced of the sound soundness soundness ness nes of their original conclusion conclusion Whilo it I was admitted that it i would be bea a very good thing I when the city can better afford the t improvement p re te to have v a distributing reservoir In tho the canyon simi simlar similar similar lar ar to the one just completed complete at the te heed head he of First Firt South Sout street and that at It I would also be eminently I proper to have a adl larger feed eed bil main down to the business district r front from the City Creek Crek canyon can tanks it was conceded by b all al except Mr Dooly that tat he the first fr consideration should be to in increase increase crease the water ver supply One way W Wt suggested to accomplish o this is to o de do develop t the recent c appropriation ri of o the right to save the surplus water waters lost from the mouth of Big Bis Bi Cottonwood canyon c on westward mou and ad to develop the te underground flow It I was mis ws pointed polle out in objection to the scheme Rheme to build a concrete and cement lined Ined distributing reservoir near the high highline lne line me tank that It would cost probably The site sie Intended Is suitable for fora or ora a reservoir capable of holding only about aut 00 gallons of water and the te sur surrounding surrounding surrounding rounding earth Is such that the walls ls even eyen below the surface and the te bed would have lave to be constructed much thicker ticker and andr at far fr greater cost t than was necessary for x r fRe the reservoir on tt the t ae east s bench n which h holds OO gallons glons and cost about New Mew N Tanks Favored k Superintendent Hines Hine is anxious that tat the rotted rte flume nume fume and ad dilapidated small smal tank of or the high line lne system be replaced with witti i a vitrified f pipe for the b bI intake I and anda a cemented settling trl tank of t small ca capacity capacity re built buit in such a a way that hat in future years year it i could be added to and ad made mae a aart apart art distributing reservoir The coun councilmen councilmen part of a e f e composing o the ilme waterworks corn com committee were about abut persuaded that this thi should be their recommendation to the te hill full council fl cuncic Such c a thing as constructing n anything fr J like m a large a storage reservoir in City Creek canyon can was wa ridiculed by the officials of dale for the manifest reason ren cited cie by Engineer cas EDg er Keisey Key that there mee is I ne tie n natural basin adjacent to 10 an upturned ledge any anywhere anywhere anywhere where In the tho canyon cyon Viewing the te splendid road making work of oC the city prisoners In the canyon cyon called forth an exchange of congratulations that this scheme was undertaken last spring |