| Show I CREDIT FOR NEW WATER CATER WATER AND SEWER i SYSTEMS BELONGS TO R P MORRIS i f The American party has taken the I credit for tor the building of the new in intercepting inI I In sewer the th new water sup supply supply supply ply mains the extension of the gravity sewer and the Big Cottonwood con conduit conduit I duit besides acquiring all the water rights in Big Cottonwood creek necessary necessary i sary nary to make the conduit possible i Statistics obtained from L C Kel Kelsey Kelsey l sey soy city engineer and an American party supporter show on their face and beyond any an doubt that the admin administration administration of Richard P Morris was responsible re responsible responsible for tor alt all these improvements and that through Mayor Morris the most Important water rights were se so secured secured cured On Jan 3 1905 a special election was held In Salt Lake for the purpose of voting yoUng on the question of issuing In water and sewer bonds The proposition was placed before the i people by Mayor Morris and It was through his efforts that the ho he bond issue was approved by the people Immediately thereafter steps were taken to secure se ur water rights in Big Cottonwood canyon in order to enable the building of the proposed conduit I A settlement was soon made with the owners of the principal rights for tor 41 and plans were made for the con conduit conduit conduit duit and the contract let to P J J Mo Moran Moran ran The work was completed under the present administration at a total cost of of which was paid as a n gratuity for plastering the Interior of the conduit The intercepting sewer contract was as also let in the fall of 1905 1903 as was the contract for the extension of ot the gravity ty sewer from State and Fifth South streets to Fourth East and Ninth South streets The total cost of this work will be about r the cost of the pumping station for which the th present administration alone has to let the contract Conceived Canal Plan In addition to all this Mayor Ia or Morris conceived the scheme of havin having the city purchase of the stock st ck of the Jordan Canal Irrigation compa up to This led to the buildIng build buildIng buildIng Ing of ot the Jordan Salt Lake canal which conveys water from Utah lake and delivers it t to the farmers who surf sur surrendered rendered their water rights to the city inRIg in 3 ig Cottonwood This property Is a ac c asset to the city and the policy Inaugurated by Mayor Morris 11 orris of giving Utah lake water Cater In return for water from the creek reek still continues and imd has proved of inestimable advantage advantage tage to the city c ty The only water rights secured by the present administration were the so 50 called Knudsen rights which were re recently recently recently purchased for Mayor Morris also expended of the bond fund in building a substantial conduit for the Jordan Salt Lake c nal through the city The work was done by Hanley Ritchie Besides securing the Knudsen water rights the present administration only let one contract for Improvements pro provided provided provided vided for by the bond issue and that was the new water supply main which Is not yet completed and will cost P PJ J Moran has the work This main could not have been built by Mayor Morris as It would have been of no use until the conduit was com completed completed completed It was reas however included in inthe Inthe Inthe the i general scheme of improvements which he Inaugurated and was planned by him This new main runs on Fifth Filth South street to Mt lIt Olivet et cemetery where it connects with the pipe line from Parleys canyon reservoir which Is supplied by the conduit It runs through the heart of the city will fur furnish furnish furnish nish water enough for all aU time for the business district and will always be bea bea a monument to the genius of Richard RichardP P Morris Credit Belongs to Morris From this review it will clearly be seen that the American administration tion has had absolutely nothing to do with the extension of ot the water or sewer systems of Salt Lake as It claims and that whatever credit it ar arrogates arrogates to itself Itsel for this work is deliberately deliberately stolen from Richard P Morris Most of the work has been done during the tho past two years and nd some of o It Is still uncompleted but it was all aU planned financial provision for it made and with the exception n of one unavoidable Instant e all aU the contracts let during the administration of Rich Richard Richard Richard ard P Morris The engineers estimate of ot the cost of the various undertakings shows that when all the Improvements are made the bond fund will have been be n over overdrawn overdrawn overdrawn drawn This however would not have occurred if the plans of Mayor Morris had been carried out and If the council had not made a gift gUt of tt to P J Moran for plastering the conduit It is safe to say that had Morris been In office during the past two years there would be a balance In Instead Instead instead stead of an overdraft In this bond fund on Jan 1 1908 How this over overdraft overdraft overdraft draft Is to be met is one on of the problems problems problems lems that the administration is trying to solve and even oven If its claim regard ing the condition of the finances fin be true at the end of the year year this overdraft alone will wipe out all bal balances b balances l lances ances in the contingent g nt or general ex expense expense expense pense funds and will leave a large de dc deficit e |
