Show CONTRACTOR IS PUT TO ROUT o Nichols Wit With Pup Pump Offer Baffled By Questions Before Co Committee DOREMUS DOUBTS SUCCESS CITY CITY ENGINEER ASKS GUARAN GUARANTEE TEE E OF WATER 0 For a an hour and a halt half last night G u Nichols who on MondY Monday sub submitted a to j install tal a pumping plant at Liberty D park k was under a coss cross fre fire at at the meeting of ofte te the special c cOuncil committee op on water supply Members lember of the he tom com appeared loaded wih with fats facts on water pumps atesian artesian wels wells bae bac tera teria strat strata supply etc in quantity to make the he head of at a la layman an swi swim Technical Information was available from George GeorgeW W Rier Riter city engineer his a assistants George M Bacon and L F Zulick and from A F Doremus who had been invIe invited to dat data was supplied by Fk Franl L Hines city superintendent of w waterworks who drove most of the wels wells at Liberty pak park by Mr Doreus Doremus who was 1 city engineer at the time ad and bv b veteran members of te the counci council In addition to al alJ thes these C A A Erickson cit city pak park superintendent Va present and furnished information concerning the mater matter consideration Reports by the Commercial cub club committees on the water ater question And nd Heran Herman Has Harms analyses of the water were of offered fared in evidence 11 Mr Bacon from time to time produced a a graduated eliding scale with which ho he produced results in the waar of calculations tons Mr Ichols put up a a gallant lat fight At the cose close of te the meeting he be wiped his perspiring brow and feebly sighed What at can a simple contractor do against a a proposition like this No Action Taken The committee rose without taking acton action on Mr r NIchols Dla elan He a an that he woud would submit te tene the ne next meeting of the counci council n a better proposition ad and with this understand Ing acton action on hi his present scheme deferred of the comite committee ad and the engineers refused to admit that Mr r NIchols could develop a as muck much water a as he clame claimed he could produce from the wels wells J It was wa contended b by the engineers ad and and ad admitted by 11 Mr NIchols tat that the stir sur face water and the water from at least one of the wac was unfit for use The engineers insisted that not notto notto to exceed gallons of god good goodwater water could be pumped out of the park In the da day yet Mr Nichols declared his belief that from to be developed Te The queston question ot of I price was a als also dis at length The councilmen lengh contended that the ct city could on a I bais basis of gallons dan daily secure 11 its water for 18 Lents nor er 1000 gal Ion Ions a as a against Mr Ir Nichols charge go of cents per 1000 glons gallons Mr 11 Nichols against this arge argued that the cost of installing te the water eye tem tam tons should be figured in the calculi Doremus Is Doubtful In response to a request of Counci Council Councilman man Hewlett who occupied the char chair Mr 11 Doremus briefly reviewed the his tory of the wels wells and advanced his conclusions S SI I predict that these wells els wi will n never Yer be utilized by pumping Into the present system m 8 as Mr Nichols pro proposes poses said Mr Doremus In Mayor Scotts Scotts administration we went into the mater matter thoroughly and i it has been gon gone into completely several times since since but i It always turns out out when nhen YOU te take Into consIderation the cot cost of installing pumps an and machinery capitalization etc that the cost Is too high If they ae are utilIzed d i It wi will not be by pumping the water up into the air 30 feet or so and then drop I ping it back as agan n My t opinion and the opinion of othe others who have made investigations is that i it would be best to cut out a In the low lowest lowest est parts of the city and by putting in ina a smal small pumping plant supply water to that territory This would relieve te the deman demand on the rest of the system to that extent and would not require pumping the water up to the lavel ot of the mouth of fy creek or Parleys canyon only to let i It run back to where i it was Ever Every once in a while somebody discovers these well welts in Lib Liberty Libarty arty erty park ark and finds that they produce gallons daily Yet the they on i I guge gauge Mr Doremus did not dis dispute ute the claim tat that much of the water in the park was goo good but he was unalterably ably opposed to any proposition that contemplated installing pumps to toI I I meet tIe the hed head now obtaIned by the I gravity system 1 would favor favor Instead puti putting th t I mone money Into Emigration canyon where ever every pound of powder expended wi will give ghe a yield of water he said I Councilman Fernstrom and oters others predicted that b by July 15 1906 the city would hoe have more water wate than thad i it would need at any tIme a as a re result ot the schem completion of the Big Cottonwood Is No Philanthropist Mr Ir Nichols ls did not he was working purely for the good god godI I am not here for any DhIan purpose said he but is its purely a mater matter o of cold with me I beleve believe I can do this thing wih with I profit to myself and to the city VIll yOU undertake to supply 3 glons gallons a day or no pa pay tn in I Mr Rier Biter think it over replied Mr Nichols wih with a laugh I Wih With Mr Ir Nichols declaration that he would submit another and betterS better I proposition It at the next counci council meet Ing th the committee rose At an afternoon meeting the commit committee te tee voted ote to recommend to th counci council I the Ule purchase of 1600 sh shares ra of the he i stock of the Eat Best Jordan Canal corn com pa for t h wih with I Mayor Morris on that subject I II IThe Te The streets held a short session to listen to owners of f prop property property I erty on Mali Main street between n Fifth South and Ninth South An AnI alternative ve proposition paving the street CO fot a width o of sixty I si feet from Fifth South street to NInth South street wih with sIx Inches or of ma macadam cadam wit with a top dressing of three I Inches a of asphalt wa was As Assistant t City Engineer said this could c be done at a cost ot of 6 per front foot oot f The cost of at the he regular asphalt paving p Is estimated at per front fot f oot Action Acion wa was deferred for one week to give the property owners an o to consider the two pro propositions I positions The counci council wi will met meet itt in special sos ses session ion sion s this evenin evening I |