Show FACTS ON WATER Special Committee of All the Details of Mayor Mortis Morris Man to for Salt rake Lake flow the Waters of Big Cottonwood Are To ToBe e Secured How They Are To Be Brought Into the City low ow the Water Vater for Exchange Is IsTo IsTo To Be Secured ad ld What It All MI Means leans To the People of the City 4 or R It P MorrIs lorris and those asso dated with him in advocating the plan pan tor or the increase or of the water are determined that the people of Salt Lake are to be thoroughly well posted osted on the proposition before they are asked to 10 cast CaRt their ballots The addIe prepared some time ago ago by the joint committee has been issued in form and n a copy or this is to be placed in the hands of every citizen or of Salt Lake This action is taken in with a resolution adopted by the city coundi counci authorizing the printing and circulation o or the ad dress Every material point is covered in this address It is given herewith in full rull To the Property Taxpayers 5 ot of Salt Lake City rhe city council having ordered a special election to be held Jan 3 1905 for the purpose to the qualified voters the proposition of the issuance o of 1000 4 per cent bonds with which to obtain money to secure n a permanent and adequate water sup supplY plY and to make nece ary sewer ex cx it is deemed advisable that this address be given the widest pos possible sille sible pUblicity amo among g the people to be affected The advantages will ac rue to Salt Lake Cit City and and count county by favorable action upon the momentous QUestion involved are GO co manifold and so manifest and the objections so 50 fe few and sd so groundless that there can be doubt as to the outcome of the Is Issue Issue sue when then the taxpayerS shall have assed upon the same at the polls The success of the plan means mearis a Greater Salt Lake a larger larSer and nd richer r permanent solution of a pr b bm em m that has impeded the growth and progress or of our city for many years p one that now threatens to bait its ex cx altogether unless it shall shaU be bes s satisfactorily disposed of The Th means If r solUtion Uon are finally at hand band It re remains remains mains only for the taxpayers to ratify them That done the future of Salt J Lake ake elt City will be assured Naturally K very every citizen will vIIi want to know just hat is proposed what the abil Hies are and what the cost will be On O all of these points he will be given fly accurate information based upon official lal records and obtained from the mOst conservative sources What the City Gait Cnn Borrow orrow the law the city has the right to borrow for water artificial light and sewer improvements the sum of The proposition that the city council has ordered to be voted up upon on Is for the Issuance or of in bonds or of which sum is to be utilized In securing a permanent wa water ter several times the volume of what we now low have and for the southern and west western rn part o of the CIty lt an improvement that would be worse than useless unless more vater is secured to make it ef fert ual By way yay of Information the taxpayer will probably ask specifically how the i interest is to be raised on this issue or of bonds and whether It means an In rease in taxation The answer will doubtless be more pleasing than he imagined It may be stated first ot of all that no increase of taxation Is con contemplated contemplated An examination of the of the waterworks department covering a long period of years ears proves that the revenues in that branch or of the municipality alone are lore than ample to pay the annual L t of the proposed water bone L issue Besides revenues are con increasing u itt t a cite exceeding i S 5 per cent each year and that too In iii Inthe L the face of an inadequate water sup supPly Ply Iy and retarded growth in population figures figure which follow entirely jus lAfy the conclusion that with a flu of people an in increase crease rase In Wf w alth aith and property improve and consequently a great tax taxpaying paying capacity that there will be a aI s L I till gr greater ater revenue from this depart How the Water Sy System tem Pays Paya FOr several years past there has beer been a sum averaging over for water service betterments l redemption of oC scrip Increase of water i r works stores and reserve fund every r cent of whIch has been derived from the department nt itself which at the th tame ratIo atio after paying the In interest terest on the bonds will I Eave a margin of 1000 The beginning with the year ear 1900 art as follows follos 1 13 eo 1 And the records for fOl 1904 disclose the fa fact t that th there re will be a I rn proportionate te increase in the same 5 me de i il I l this thia year Surel Surely such a as this should inspire the tax taxpayer payer with full confidence ence in the abU abil ability ity Hj of the waterworks system of the dt to support itself including the lamel l of the Interest on the I bond hond issue und Slid leave a handsome an lual margin In addition that must j J grow row larger with the he and whIch 1 I hould be applied to the redemption of 01 C th bonds themselves I nother important fact to r ri jg i that at the vel very outset the annual I Idrain drain that has been made mude upon the fund for betterments wit will willa I ease a ThI highly desirable k ku u ill be made Jo possible ible by tile tite that requires a prompt expenditure of oi C to make all improve heretofore undertaken and car cal out in pl emeel fashion Present City Water Supply Providing water for a city that Is F I situated In the very heart of this rain rainless less region is a work fraught with I difficulties unknown to other places I Many problems must be solved for foi r which there is no precedent for a guide Originality therefore becomes necos a tilty In dealing with many matters that thai I Iare arE inseparable from the question of o c providing an increase inthe In the water wate r supply or of this city Due allowancE I rI should be made for this b by the tax who are called upon to ode decidE thi this important que tion a question Involves growth and greatness 3 o of the city ty T present water vater supply of the citI p i h d derived from four separate These sources und and th quantity of WR wa water tt ter that each supplies daIb during the I 6 season of minimum flow are 8 sa fol ow City nty creek gallons S I I migration Emigration creek gallons 5 Parleys creek gallons I l Utah Lake re reservoir gallons I dally daily sUPPly gallons gallon Of this total daily quantity only the creek water gallons I it suit sult suitable C able for drinking The remainder r gallons which comes from fron 1 the Utah Lake reservoir Is suited only T for irrigation and kindred Uses T Ti e reek creek water comes Into the city from tron 1 the mountains through three separate S Sand and substantial conduits Tour Four Districts in the City The distribution system comprises I tour four districts or zones known as the thi lower ower the upper the Thirteenth street I and the Capitol Hill districts The lower and the upper dia are arc each supplied wIth the corn com commingled mingled waters of Parleys s Emigration tion and City creeks The 1 street and the Capitol Hill ElU R nr are both supplied from C City ty creek e ci The Utah Lake reservoir water rater 15 1 S 1 t I brought rought b into the CIty through an open channel hannel c known as the Jordan Joroan Salt Lake L ake City canal The Th water from this source s is used for Cor Irrigation partly by bythe the t he farmers in exchange for Parleys reek creek c and partly through the system lo f irrigation ditches which ramify the cit c ity All the creek water comes comess from the c canons and Is distributed by gravity thus hus t Insuring the least possible cott for f or carriage and distribution The reservoir water originally ran out o ut of the lake into the Jordan river and a nd through the canal to the city by g but during the last three sea seasons sons ons S it has been necessary to pump the he t tc water from the lake into the river channel hannel c on account of the water In Inthe the reservoir having receded to a point below elow b the level ot of the river outlet So fur far as quantity Is considered the c itys present water supply is sufficient for f or many years to come The gorea greater ter portion p of the water however IS not notor or o f the quality required for general use and a nd the need is therefore of more wa of the required quality People Demand Large Supply On account of the dryness of the climate c an the consequent need for fora a liberal use o of water ater in lawn and street treet s sprinkling It has been estimated that hat t a daily supply of gallons per c apita is not an excessive requirement and a nd be made the basis for tor tie de determining t the needs On this nasis It is clear that the resent present p supply of potable water I 8 74 gallons Is only bout half enough to t o properly supply the present population ion tion t Such a condition points out more than words c can n do d o the need for early and united ef efort ort fort f to supply this deficiency and at attie ate t e saine same time provide In a reasonable d tie gr gree for the future growth and needs o 0 the city In considering any plan for relief relie from f rom the conditions that confront u the should k keep ep in mind the facts that wherever we go gothe gohe the he t water supply has already been ap appropriated by others and cannot be betaken beaken taken aken t by the city without just corn com compensation that the sum o of money which it is proposed to expend for or In Increasing creasing the water supply Is only 0 00 and that there Is practical no way a aby by w which ich this sum can be materially increased I Costs Too Much uch to Buy uy If f water Is 19 purchased the price of the water must include the value of the theland theand land and l and all appurtenances upon which the water is now new being used To take the water from the land its I ts degradation and the practical de destruction destruction of all improvements that are upon it itIn In ease case of condemnation the obliga obligation tion to provide the price or of the water taken not be removed nor could the loss of time and increased cost due to such procedure be avoided In addition to the price o of water that might be procured through either pur purchase chase or condemnation there must be provided a sum sufficient for the con construction of a conduit In which to carry the acquired water from Its source Into the cit city and it is absolutely impossible ble to accomplish both the purchase and the carriage of the needed water with the sum suni of Coming into the valley valle from the nearby mountains on the east are the veral streams known as Mill creek Big Cotton ly i The water from each of th e it f o of well known knon purify and is s so situated 1 that it can lie De i brought into the city b by grav gravity I through works which will cost Infinitely than t those ose needed to bring in an Ln equivalent supply from rm any other pos possible i ible ble source But the water from these streams has already been appropriated and is used by a large number of in individuals to irrigate a considerable area of land that lies adjacent to the cit city This Thi water walE r must therefore be acquired before its use b by the city can be made possible What Can Be Sec Secured red From careful and repeated measure measurements ments it has bas been ascertained that the E daily supply of water which these sources afford in seasons of lowest flow fion is as i follows rin reek gallons I Big Cottonwood gallons Little Cottonwood gallons I Total rota I daily supply I I It is proposed to fo acquire the water from the sources and so make avail avaU available I I able for city use ue during times of oC lowest low flow the following daily supply ol of potable water Present supply gallons Increased supply Total daily supply gallons gallon At the rate or of gallons daily lany per capita capito this would provide am amply ply Ij for the needs of at least double out our present population and so relieve the theL present unfortunate condition as well L as in a reasonable measure lot for forthe the future That It Is practicable for fot the city ity to acquire this additional quan quantity tit of po potable able water and construct a i conduit for bri ging it cIty at al ala n a cost coot in mone money not net to exceed the available for water purposes s Is shown by the following statement of r of the land upon which L this water is now used lies below belo the t canal and there are no physics I difficulties in the wa way 0 of irrIgating these lands with water from the canal The owners or of this land have a willingness to use water vater from the canal in lieu of their present from the mountains mountain and the city has ha taken options for the exchange In this thit manner of the water of Big Bi Cottonwood creek Negotiations are an pending by which It is expected that thai I practically 1311 the waters or of Big Cot Cottonwood and Mill 1111 creek will be acquired acquire I by x hange and leaB as well as the tha thaI 1 waters of Little CottOnwood as soot soon I r the city shall re i iThe The Terms of Exchange The terms of exchange are r the same me as those rotating to 3 creek except that in inthis this instance the city is to pa pay a bonus of 10 per acre t to the farmers and give ghe them during the Irrigation season an additions additional Quantity of 25 per cent ent more canal cana water than tI receives of mountain wa water ter the best terms that care car carnow S now be m and they do not seen seem unjust st when th the difference lit In value irlue be between between tween the mountain waters and the wa waters tens from Utah lake I Ir t It Is proposed to acquire such por portions of the waters of these mountain mountair port t streams as ar are used on lands above the cIt city canal by b lease for tor a long Iong term or o and assurances have hae been giver given t that such uch leases can be t at 11 I very low rental It In the options to t grant and selI to the city cit r rall all ot of t th t rights to the p per r use us of f the thc mountain water un unless unless 1 less default Is made b by the city In fur them the exchange water and andIn andt In that event they reserve the rl ht t to use the mountain water only dUring the time that the default continues but bu t there can be no forfeiture of the con contract tract unless thE failure of the city to tE tES fUrnish the exchange water continues S for tor d of six months and then it I t tj optional j with th whether r ct shall or not W fie a ld d unconditional I o x of the wat wats S of the moun lain for the ke water I be b e more desirable still the city runs I Ino no n o risk of forfeiting the right to use the I mountain m mo water because by carrying I out o ut the contemplated plan and making the he t available supply of water yater at Ut Utah h lake ake l absolutely certain it would render any a ny forfeiture or even een default or inter r in the use of the water e ally impossible The essence of the proposed p exchange agreement lies in inthe the he t ability to furnish a sufficient and a nd certain substitute for the moun mountain tain t am water The quantity of water that will be ul t required daily for the ex cx hange c of mountain water under the plan proposed be bc as follows for a period p of ISO days For F or Parleys creek u gallons For F or Mill creek c ek gallons For Big 88 gallons For F or Little Cottonwood gallons For the 25 per ct bonus gallons Total daily daib re require requirement ment for da days s or I during exchange pe peI gallons I At the lowest known s stage e of water which occurred last year ear there was at att t the e end o of thE Irrigation season In the Utah laker lake reservoir gal gallons lons I ons or of unused water ot or this quantity q or gallons the itys c share |