Show MAY PURCHASE WATER RIGHTS Council Discusses the Advis Advisability Advisability Advisability ability of Getting Control of Three Small Lakes DEMAND BECOMES URGENT SUPPLY FROM CREEKS IS CON CONSTANTLY CONSTANTLY CONSTANTLY DIMINISHING Realizing that the city should secure for tor all time every available water right available to its use the council water waterworks waterworks waterworks works committee has begun negotiations negotiations lions to purchase the small mountain lakes at the head of Big Bg Cot Cottonwood Cottonwood d canyon in the vicinity of ot Brighton Among these are Laky Mary Lake Minnie and Lake Blanche Although the of such pro procedure procedure procedure was broached over a year ago by Chairman Mulvey of the committee and I L C Kelsey city engineer noth nothing nothIng nothIng ing has ever been done until recently and it was not until yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon that any definite proposition was made to the owners of the lakes J W Barnes and H B Cole The of offer offer offer fer was 2000 but the owners wanted and the committee will continue the negotiations In hope that a com corn compromise compromise promise may maYbe be reached Present at atthe atthe atthe the meeting yesterday afternoon wore w re Mayor John S Bransford Franklin S Richards special counsel for the city in all water right matters L C Kel lCd Kelsey Kelsey sey city engineer A F Doremus as assistant assistant assistant engineer Deputy Auditor Ste Stevens Stevens Stevens vens and Councilmen Mulvey Martin Tuddenham and ODonnell of the wa wafer water fer ter er works committee The meeting was held in the mayors office and was fol tol followed followed lowed by a general discussion of city finances which even the reformers admit are in a precarious condition Reservoirs Out of Lakes It Is proposed to make reservoirs out of each o of the lakes which the city is endeavoring to secure These lakes are fed from innumerable mountains streams and springs and most of the I water is wasted By building reser reservoirs reservoirs reservOirs i this water could be stored dur durin durin durin in the summer season and in case of shortage in the city during the winter could be diverted into Big Cottonwood and brought to the city by the conduit It is Impossible to state before a sur cur survey survey curvey vey is made just what size reservoirs could be built bunt but it Is known that the amount that can be stored would equal the present supply of the city during the winter months Engineers admit that the time Is not far distant when the creeks which supply the city will diminish In size and that it will not be many years before Salt Lake will have to face the water problem again notwithstanding the building of the conduit The prospects of a diminish diminishing ing water supply and a great Increase in population make it necessary now to secure all the available rights and the water committee is bending every en energy energy energy ergy in that direction Little Cottonwood Next Another step in the enlargement of the water supply will be the securing of rights In Little Cottonwood creek I Negotiations to this end have haye been pending for some come time but nothing of ofIa Ia definite nature natura has been e accomplished pUshed When the Big Bi Cottonwood conduit was built it was so planned that an extension from It could be run along the mountainside four miles to Little Cottonwood and thus enable the city to care care for whatever water rights it should secure them at a comparatively small expense The proposition of con rights In Mill Creek has also been under discussion In this connection tion The providing of water for the city for all time is one of the most serious problems which has confronted the va various various rious administrations for tor several years past Mayor Morris was the first to grapple with the question In an en enlightened enlightened enlightened lightened way and it was through his efforts that the Big Cottonwood rights were obtained Salt Lake at present has an ample supply of the purest wa water water Water ter in the country Needed to Fight Fires But water is not alone needed for ir irrigation Irrigation irrigation and domestic purposes but for f r fire fighting and fire protection and as the supply of water Increases the in insurance Insurance insurance rates decrease For this rea reason reason reason i son local insurance men say that when the new water supply mains being laid on Fifth South street are ready for use there will be a mat rl lr in insurance In Insurance insurance rates ratos h business district In line with this Idea of giving giving ing In the city both good water and cheap water as well as water available for fire fighting the city engineer proposes that a gallon reservoir be con constructed constructed constructed at the high line Intake in City Creek canyon By thus constructing it and connecting the high line Une with the Twentieth ward rd and d brick tanks ta n ks ample protect jIt afforded the e entire city in casCo fire l re reduction reduction reduction in insurance rates would result |