Show INSPECT WORK ON NEW CONDUIT City Officials Take Trip to Big Cot Cottonwood Cotton ton Canyon OBSERVE PROGRESS MADE IMPRESSED WITH STEPS TO IM IMPROVE IMPROVE IMPROVE PROVE WATER SUPPLY T 0 appreciate fully tully the theand TO I and early progress of ot the this great work of bringing ID the waters of ot Big Cottonwood C to Parleys canyon Salt Lake must go o to the scene of ot ac action action action tion or rather scenes of ot action as aa did dida didin ja in a score ot of city officials yesterday In eluding Mayor Morris and nine coun n Even these theae men inca who haw have been instrumental in gaining for tor Salt SaIf Lake a greater water supply who have hav seen on paper bow how the thing was going and and what It meant could not restrain their surprise and favorable comments yesterday as they gazed at th the growth of the groat groot project Imagine a great row of undulating ridi os es covered with sage and scrub oak a zigzag streak running north and south following the steep sides aides now losing itself in a tunnel no now v leaping lost on n one side and found again on the tIle other creeping grade gradually ally lower Jowel and low lower Jower er until after a L journey of seven miles it slips into Par Pay Parleys leys heys Ie 8 canyon This is 18 the route of th hs conduit and already there are men working on four miles of the space At Atthe Atthe Atthe the upper end a gang is placing wood wooden woodI en concrete forms forma in m place farther tarth 1 south excavation is ia being pushed trenches later to be filled by the con concrete concrete crete forms and in turn by the con concrete concrete concrete crete itself are being dug du Then a further Jump of ot a mile JnUe south finds men menat menat menat at work on the longest of the tunnels feet A little beyond and another tunnel is being made this to be feet long lon And at intervals during tJ fl first four miles of the concrete rout r ut great clouds of ot dust show to tho in inthe Inthe inthe the valley below that graders are a at work In turn wonderment at the of the tho thing sues gives way to admiration at its Us simplicity and at the plans plane which have made possible ible the to Salt Lake of Big Cottonwood creek Members of o the Party The following city officials made the lbs trip hip to Big Cotton Cottonwood yest rda morning and spent the afternoon in ex ec examining examining various phases of the work Mayor Richard P Morris City Er Ir George W Riter Biter Engineer ji HI Charge George A Bacon Consulting Engineer A F P Doremus Dor mus Special Cou i iset set sel F S Richards Auditor C B Fri Felt Recorder John S Critchlow C Watt Superintendent Frank L Hine aill a 1 Councilmen F J Hewlett F S Fw F strom T R H Black E A Thomas Thomai Hobday George e D Dean T r Davis Da s A F Barnes and J II IT 0 t f Mayor First to Leave The Unit party to l leave ae consists c i Mayor and r L Li 11 i i mu iuS sad aDd Richards They wint diri dirito to the die r mill rom of ot R H Knudsen Iz i examined the water rights hi i Knudsen claims to have at two tw ent places on his property Ono Onn Oi i fI these thelie for 32 3 was d for the purpose of running tr U mill Knudsen claims a fL second pra gra grat t of water rights which he says he hr h i r T tends to use in the development of i d IP Ic trica energy The other members of ot the Ule party par h a as named followed later about a d z leaving the city and county building in at a m in The first officials to arne arm armat arnat at the scene of operations w were ere M sr r Bacon Davis Black Fernstrom I ar n z Hobday Critchlow and Hines Tn Til reached the point of diversion lon of or tr tL Big Cottonwood about 1115 1113 o ocl lo hi d dand i and at once proceeded to go over th tI first mile of the route Working on Concrete Forms Their attention was at once called to o othe the wooden forms the laying of or h hi began Monday The forms are ar brut brutin bt lt in sections the short Il being necessary nece sary because of or the Art Artto to be taken These forms are built t f accommodate a 8 concrete flume flum thre and feet wide by b four f t 1 deep The purpose of the forms to ms is t tallow tallow allow the concrete to harden In m prope shape this process pr taking about se sete P days The floor and sides of or 11 conduit c will wm be laid first then the t ji While the concrete has not yet f t her ber b x t placed in fn any of oC the forms tin the th ex expectations e are that work in this u ti will begin in a fe few days das Jt It IB is calculated that between and 00 11 feet can be e laid daily From the upper end of the conduit then are to be seen a number of these forms form in place ready for cor C J crete To divert divort the water Into the tl conduit a dam is i to be built thin height of which has haa not yet been b en d de determined Beginning at this point approximately a dozen miles mUes from Salt Lake the Ule city officials yesterday moron monin began their inspection Nor Was vas it ita i t one Into trenches through rows of or laborers o othe OVI os the roughest kind of up hn hii ii and down they pursued their wa a a And their astonishment grew as th thy went on Busy at Every Step The work pork ork appears to be not l progressing but something faster than tian that th term Like the advance line Une of some gome army arm scopes of laborers throw throwing ing up pp dirt from trenches and making makin grades confronted the visitors Not one stop step of the entire mile of or grade mad mart by the Utah Light Railway con cn pany pRay for its Ita proposed new plant but hut what presented some phase of the ui work And when the city fathers els Huoi st puffing and blowing at the end of db tb mile grade rade they were taken to tunnels Nos Non 1 I and 2 These Thee are br bl bring bling I ing made to obviate the necessity o I erecting expensive piers to support UI tm conduit in a Ii jump across a deep gui gul h hi hNot Not that tunnels tunnes have he hew been n i ito to piers along the entire route roUt bu i here they seemed preferable Having reached this point the c ci 0 i a i oilmen were there with question Some Somo were ere sore re that the conduit voul I have luie to tp climb up hill to get gat et to the firc fir ft tunnel These were told that the fun ful fa I here was between four arid add five f fIt fIt tt It was explained fully that ii trenches were being built the tile ton on Oil d l d would eventually lie under two o f t earth earths and that the conduit Itself d to have a free space above Water about el III six inches tiding ding to In li I ventilation and keep t C the tile water iuni IJ and sweet Up Lp to Ihl t this point the tOil con feet had bad been tUm treading i perilous edge of a ft ni Q of oft deep ra raged a agod god ged ditch several tIn in depth i hi i from the roadway y r a mile beo bek loo iiI like nothing n but a yellott tt t ric rehi Scramble for r Lunch fe kon En shoe and a it df ti f II learn must give sive way tat ll lland and hard roads and alter after tt t the theU U l do d dOn tn n the hill hII to ts l tt P J Morans lorans headquarters l n Jh Y e w 1 tc had never cV 73 pre preL t L ted tod itself to the councilmen councilman before i I iney we realized before borore they t ey completed c descent v 1 Vr hr y arrived tit nt the commissary commissar to tOt I 1 o Oln clock arid woj tater later i Fecund party including those thoe tho not nota a dh i a la the tho mayors mayora party Contac Conte Contact tj t J Morn Morten Mor was w 6 mein host ata at din r hid entirely an appe appet t I te which had haa b been en egged on by the 1 Lu Ii trib trl Talk With Meanwhile th Us the mayor and his party ld I id been bee I aing a busy forenoon at T I Knud Jw 11 ere they were Joined r J L ur ar II r by those thole who had hd gone none farther up tit canyon anyon The Tha party visited the Knudsen property and saw ia where he 1 j 1 1 built a flume to aid Rid in his Dower power Dowerin r 8 in rn was taken at the theLt i Lt h home lien hen Joined jolle by the other officials ls al ab i L d t u p 1 m In Mayor Myor was asked i iY y definite arrangements had been beai i P with ll He stated that n i r rc e had been boen concluded that they had hud hadT tt 11 1 been over the ground M 1 T did not no care to make maker r c v save ve in reiteration of off i f w Jt haM hag ha already said mid namely that j 1 L n vvs ve he haa hae 11 a valuable water I Iw w u Inch tho th city should set get AU At j two t p became separated c rf V i 1 and as a re real al jl IE only a ft small number accompanied a j r I acon to a point on the conduit iUt at but one mile from Mill MUl Creek and andi andl i l a l four tour and miles from the I At Ad i t of diversion of ot Big DIg Cottonwood Within Few Miles of Parleys T fi rii s furnished 1 one of the treats of or oft ort t Ja aa u a it l shows show with I hat sPeed the project is being n t h hi d 1 Hero at Rot a a R point three miles illes ih th of ut Parleys canyon CAn ca on tin thron to ridges t b be tunnelled and lind already work j i 1 Un on the largest e The rue council t o i who ho arcQ Engineer Bacon t h this tins point were Hewlett Howlett Black Blacki i i Dean und and ant T Lk i k and ad took the i u 11 I hecl a ft barrowful or two out of ot the i 1 o enjoying the Uti proceeding as j 3 u h 11 i as did the laborer whom they j 1 11 1 1 x d 1 pro tern tem ternI I Irom the point whore these three sf i 3 are ar located a ft magnificent view uirt t t conduit on route is 11 obtainable ira ing ng the work already lrea y completed I Bacon showed how the big r i n te flume would hug up close to tor toft ft r hills lulls after passing Mill MUl Creek Creele and uld drop with a trade into Parleys I From om Knudsens the mayors party f nt t UP to the tho conduit beginning go goS S over practically the same ground T did the earlier visitors A second secondI I J t containing a number of council T HI It h and officials went directly to Salt Sal SaltI I Ike alte from Knudsens Produces Good Feeling trip was waH not in fn the na nat tur t rr of or the celebration of or any formal If Sinning ginning f of ot tho the conduit It was J 3 Uve however of a great deal of or Rood good feeling among the councilmen councilman one aptly expressing f It as ps s the Moran Com Corn Commissary ar when he said This is no precinct or district this is je J Salt Lake referring to the day It was declared that no more moz e profit profitable able nUe half day could be spent by any who is desirous of seeing what the present administration has to offer iu Ia the way of a 8 solution of the Ule water than by making the trip to toB B DS g Cottonwood In the first place no adequate conception can be gained of ot the project excepting by a 8 personal 1 I Probably there is no one in Salt I ako ak who does not know more or less definitely that a 8 contract for fOl a concrete concreted conduit d has been let and that the eon con c n Is to bring more water Into Salt SaltI I Ilk ike City But to see brains and brawn overcomIng every difficulty dI engineering construction n I problems with amazing celerity is Jl sight Uie the remembrance of ot which will willI I the spectator a thrill as ho he wIt wt r esses the bringing to Salt Lake next of ot the tho purest water in Utah Big Dig Cottonwood |