| Show FORMAl r Of City Officials and Business Men Entertained 4 or Moran MORRIS MADE IT POSSIBLE SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN HIS HISTORY ORY OF SAt LAKE 4 Ke Keynotes notes by Speakers 1 consider this the g day 4 4 in the history of Salt Lake City 4 and county when we celebrate the 4 completion ot of this that Is Isto isto to pure sparking water the Wasatch range to the in 4 habitants of SuIt Salt Lake Would Newhouse and others have bave under undertaken p taken the construction of the great 4 skyscrapers that are to mark the 4 of yonder city bUd 4 they not been oJ of a plentiful ful supply of water for Cor a rapidly growing population In benefiting Salt Lake City it benefits also th the farmers ot of this valley for fol the In 4 of city people and coUntry 4 4 people are mutual James arc 9 Donald at tile the banquet 4 4 lag ing the completion ot of tile the Big Cot 4 conduit 4 I want ant to the for former 4 4 nier mer administration for ori originating 4 4 and the present tl n for 4 4 completing this gratia which 4 Is to furnish a water s supply for 4 Ezra 4 Thompson 4 4 I 1 take pleasure in calling upon 4 former Mayor Richard p MorrIs 4 4 the man who made It possible for fOt fOtus 4 4 us to be here on this on 4 4 MarUn chairman of the 4 water works committee 4 4 I 1 desire to congratulate the 4 4 present administration for its sue suc 4 4 carrying to td completion of 4 this work and Contractor Moran 4 for his and carefulness 4 in carr carrying out his work I would 4 gho full praise to the en 4 4 department which 4 planned and the 4 Mayor IB or Richard P 4 Morris 4 4 This Is the UlE beginning of ofa a great 4 work It is the entering wedge edge to 4 procuring an adequate water suP supply IJ ply for the future of 4 this F Dorem s con 4 4 suiting engineer t t t f t r The fornal Corma opening of the Big Cut Cot conduit Into which the water turned turne for tor the first time last Tues lues Tuesday da day was yesterday estl ay fly y the of Citizens ns and dily at C at u r an on Un qin 1 t rep for fot about f l t ot Thie loh credit t oc cn lon lonAr Ar AroUnd nd the t f board were wire sent 01 d of all shades ot of political Ion but were united In one thought that It was a grand day for tor Salt Lake City whEn the limpid wat rs of our greatest stream were turned the waler system of Salt l ke Mel Ien of the present ga gave Ye praise to the former tr for tor originating the plan and p it on Its way to fruition While those of the former u gave g v cr credit lt to th their lr S successors CC for su sf lly corn com nc grand work bY them solves Bu men mer acknowledged the benefits benefit that have hae and are to accrue to the city from fron the erm addition or of this water to sup supply pl ply acknowledged that In the the they f exchanged their rights in this stream fr for Irrigation irrigation tion water from the e supply at Utah lal lake e they were benefited for it meant toP the bu up or a great city here that would afford n a better market for or the of 0 the soil soU And over it aU all Patrick J Moran the thc contractor who undertook the construe construction thin tion of this giant waterway a and carried it to te completion In time smiled for the great cc cement struCture ture had withstood od the severest tests and ann had provEn Suggested by Morris One therE was who had a right to feel proud of oC the day He was a t and una unassuming suming man b t he had bad the or of the city at heart when he first suggested the matter or of ing rights in tile the flow of Big Cotton Cottonwood woo creek of constructing a conduit more than se seven n mn miles s In iii length to bring the water into touch with the city elty system anil of voting for the That man vas Richard P Morris for forner ner iner mayor of Salt Lake who through all aIt manner of assailants pursued his steady coursE and before th the end of his term had th the satisfaction of signing contracts f for l the entire undertaking the completion of which was celebrated yesterday Others had dreamed of thus increasing the tys water supply an providing for tor a populatIon atlon of DIck Morris acted nd the city It coun council cil backed him UP and thus the dream became a reality There in sight of all men was flowing over th grent darn dam something gallons or of mIe Dure clear Into the well weir which divides the S Continued on Page 6 FORMAL OPENING Of BIG CONDUIT Con Continued from Page Pace 1 portion of the how flow or of the lit tie tle over oer 40 per ent Into tile conduit to bo In march u it little more than seven miles inbi the lr at tho Ito mouth of Par Pur Purs Jeys s whence It is brought through the Parleys conduit Into th tha I city to provide for tle wants of Salt q population in the years that are aro to eire Did City a Service Tbt There lc W vito s visual un theme w none tf q Slin gainsay uy the thu wisdom of course of 01 Mayor Morris none to sa say ho not niLde u a wise vise trado with sIth the tho I to say he hud had not done don the city u a In II the purchase of oC the Eust canal stock by w which ich the ho WitS vai put tin du Possession of this Yn t now flow of it ity pon InvItation or of Contractor oran and Chairman of the the tho water ot of the city council about eighty gueSts tool took special cars nt at yesterday morning for Murray At the smelter city it wagons were In waiting to take mite the party to Camp Mo Io ran An hours drive over roads far than maui man of oC Salt Lakes streets brought the party part to the point where tile the waters of Big Cot are dl Into the city conduit Contract o or and others had gone ahead In Mr Morans hIS big touring car and were awaiting th the guests Jt at the camp Nearly nn an hour was ws spent In Inspect lug ing the reservoIr and dam which are arc models of and construction work and In fn posing for pictures when Councilman directed the party to the big mess tent where a feast was spread them that would tickle the palate of an epicurean n Blue poInts on the oyster oster soup fresh fresn L mountain trout turkey roast beef sal n ads s apple pie Ice Ica cream cakes fruits coffee and cigars with ith liberal potations potatIon of amber beer constituted the bill ot of fare There Thore was no stingy serving in Iii banquet style but every guest had all ali 1 and more than ho he could comfortably accommodate The Tha tables were deco decorated decorated rated In carnations and the tho feast was war spread In most tempting style Mulvey Was Toastmaster Councilman Mulvey acted as master and the Re Rev Petar A Simpkin I isas as chaplain Toastmaster roa Mulvey r Ir called first upon Ezra Thomp Thompson son who spoke lii In terms of high corn com compliment for un all conc in the of the great work We w have reason to the thc u former administration he said for in Inaugurating and the present admin for tor carrying to completion this I work Is to provide a water sup supply supply ply for a city O of the population of We C have reason also to congratulate late the engineering department for its iti part In the designing anti and superintend superintending ing the work and the contractor on tractor for foi forthe the energy nerg and Interest he has din pla played With this conduit completed Salt Take has now Ute the greatest water waters s system stem for n a city or of Its size In the United States Toastmaster Mulvey then called or on I f Mayer ac the pian Who h i ihas has m made de it possible for tor us all to bi be i here horo today Mayor Morris briefly with wiLl n modest prIde for UH the of this 3 greatest monument to hIs complimented the present ad ac administration ministration fol or its successful carrying into effect o of the plans for Increasing the water supply Ue He also gave o and others who I him In th the work of con City Engineer Louis C elspy elsey next nex I spoke as aa follows What eJ elsey ey Sa l My Iy friends we gathered hel tod to brate the thc completion of a I IKi Ki r nt at There are c many gentle genUe around table who have u d forWard for y years ar to the time timi wh when n the City of Salt at Lake would be d 4 water wafer froth this rang mag t stream Big Cottonwood Is the thi arg st and em df f the purest streams stream S that inU the S Salt lt Lake Lale valley Ih tt I Ihas t St has n a minimum flow of gal Ions a nUL maximum flow of over 40 gallons per day The conduit you have just Inspected I Is seven ansi miles In length with capacity of per pera r day a It required cubic yards a f cubic yas Qt of Coin Coine re e and yards ards of Dr cement cemen t plaster t to the WM Tl ri nt t f el th that It c ot h ve on t S I construction C of conduit so success successfUlly fUlly ully f had Jt It not have been for the h lIar lr n attitude of aU all concerned To 10 our present mayor maor and city coun ii belongs much of the tho credit for tor the c lass of work which has hils been done one herp lu luth cre notwithstanding once In iii t a while thc th e opposition has made n a little tIght fight iM In i n the council I want vant to sa say that when M hen It became necessary for the good or o f the work for them to help the tiui pros administration e eth nt Hey tiey boosted with the th e rest and their oppositions were I Imay may m ay say to their credit more than thun half b luff I wish also to thank the chairman and a nd members of the thc board of public wor w s who have In eor every Instance act acted ed o d In unison with the council an and 1 the e nt for the grand and a nd final success of the work Next gentlemen I wish to thank on our o ur host the contra contractor tor who has fur n the money to carry on this work a nd who through the whole or of this eon on s has been ever willing to aid aidus us u s In the of a perfect piece ot o f work Difficulties Experienced There Thare are sonic some of Df you gentlemen who rho i have huye had experience in contract Ing l ug and who know w that in the begin beginning ning n ing ot of such work many discourage discouragements monts ments have beset the contractor Ma Material onal t is not just what It is supposed to t o be the excavation cost a little more mora than han t figured The engineers want things done d one a little different from what was expected e and labor costs more I wish to t o sa say gentlemen gentleman that during the ruin flis tOl t ory of contract work worl in this vicinity abor l has never been as scarce nor cost costas costs as a s much as during the building of this conduit c Our friend here has never neer murmured never neer asked the city to give him more time never complained of difficulties d but paid out his money like a man Inan But out greater debt of gratitude must he be to the man Who has hus had bad charge harge c of this work Frank Gawan for forthe the he t energy with which lie he h has s followed up the construction of this piece of due respect to out Gour hast I wish to say work from the very beginning With all al I that to Gawan more than any other man m an belongs the credit of an honest S construction on this million c worth of work I Some share of our gratitude should L 1 be extended to George O 0 Chancy Chanc prin principal principal cipal assistant engineer L L Parke f engineer and other ol of tile the engineering n t whose services ices i ces have hae been faithful and efficient Word for the Farmers And now I will sa say a word for the thc farmers and the men with Ith whom wc have dealt during the last two years oars In Iii some Instances they thoy have been beon will willIng m ming ing to take the will and endeavor for foi forthe the actual deed They ha have e not In al I I cases held us to the letter of the con contracts contracts tracts I wish to assure thorn them that thai their favors will be remembered and I I L hope and believe that the citizens of ol Salt Lake City will remember and re rc turn turin like If chance shaH hali give them the occasion Let u mu not forget the men who have hav performed the actual labor on this thim 3 work Some of the thc men man here Iere have lIed I in tents arid and bunk Houses for nearly a year and a t half to help us m in this great great I Improvement History of Project And now gentlemen I would lII like e to t give you OU a 3 little history There Is with us today a man who wh was o our r first city engineer His name nami is A F Doremus and I am glad to say sa that it is a name we can aU all be proud of In A F Doremus d the thi city 1 that some da day we would wouldn I n necessarily come to this etee creek to t fret ge t I to drink I believe gentle gentlemen gentlemen men that Mr Ir Doremus has lived to see two things consummated consummate J that he most mon t is the ot water wate r coming to our fair city from this S rS stream and the o other her is the gravity gravIt r outlet for our sewerage Gentlemen from the time that the city engineers office was created down downto 1 to the present mOment each engineer r has hns recommended and dreamed of the tb time when Cottonwood creek should i pour her flood into the tue water mains ana furnish a practically inex inexhaustible supply of water to her peo people pie The city engineer in 1897 1597 Inaugurated I Ian an Jn investigation to obtain datA on om which to base the fons for this omS S water Along Alon In 1898 a canvas weir r was stretched across this stream m Can Cal i Cale you realize It tint Salt Lako City one once e upon a time imp had a 3 lam dam made ot of u bit bitof bi t biz of rag a bit of timber a piece or of Iron irom z and about two tons or of rock And it I t was vas in a good dam too and we mean meas measured V tired that creek on a weE web I rot fifty feet teet from where here that concrete e darn lm stars today EJ ht years ego ago we r a d two wo weir i h ye ve in Ja last t fall faU i when ihen tHey vere nosed to Got Cot Goto o 0 onwood t to the e waters ers of that stream S i First Move Is Made ThO O efforts were J b by the en j g n to get the people i it t o r realize alIz th the need ned or of tills water but nothing n was done cl no un till January 1905 I wilen th b bond Issue was voted Plans and a nd sUre surveys s made ev r o one e ivan as a anxIOus to hav thc work well done men m en worked to jon jolly up the farmers t to gt g et them in a humor to de I sa s ay that the tho on this creek did not n ot jolly easy and they made rather ather a ahard hard h ard bargain for the r i of their heir t rights But eyer every man Js is bound to t o protect his interest Fo For the construction of this work there here t were just six bids submitted Ot Othe the he t six one was informal The bids submitted s for tor that part of the thc work from f rom the bank of Big Cottonwood to the he t bank of Parl Parleys ys canyon ranged roan to the bid of P J Moran Tile The total cost of the conduit to toJan Jan J an 1 1901 was The Thc total cost ost c of this work when fully completed i be 1 less 8 than fir I am proud to have haye been the thc en engineer g ineer to finished this great work I feel gratified gentlemen that the s that I mud for fo tile the better betterment ment or of the construction were were and aud I am satisfied that tire the will stand tand s a monument to the tho enterprise of Snit Salt Lake Cit City and her citizens for forages ages a to come conic Speech by a Farm Farmer r rJames James McDonald n a sturdy Scotch fanner of the who had given valuable a lii in the past to the cit officials In their work worl of preparation ion tion l for tn taking in tile the water or of Big Bib Cot Cottonwood t the hit of the day in n a spirited speech delivering the keynote quoted at the beginning of this article H He regarded this as the greatest step eV t taken talen for foi the building up of Salt Lake City and county without which L the city would not now be on NI the high highroad road t I prosperity with rearing their heads ns as though to vic ie with the vast peals of the I range and everybody confident confidant of the coming Mr lr McDonalds speech was vas greeted with n a round or ol h rl applause which the thc |
