| Show CITY WATER mayor clark sends a message e to the council BIG cottonwood G PROPOSAL 0 pressing itcan for lit aa increased or supply presented council U r ad to take steps to negotiate with the runners big bl cottonwood agreement with lull creek people for exchange of water city engineers eions the water supply question came up in the council meeting last lait night light with its usual praiseworthy regularity tho the discussion was started b by Y a special on the th subject handed la in by mayor dark clark it ollow follows august 10 ism to the honorable president Preal dent md and city council gentlemen A V auprly auppl Y ot of water tor for domestic uses tor for tho the 0 of flox and for street 0 r 1 Is if absolutely to rho iho ec a li li and protection protect ton of every c city an and d lor for a X city built zi olad rs ln inhabited h ab sted aa a silt lake Is 13 there Is 13 ot of necessity n cally sity an extraordinary end tin an unusual requirement for water for Aprin sprinkling kling laure and tile of trees and cardona tho the health and comfort of the people aro are of gramount pir Pr amount InI importance and these ojo are 61 flen dent largely upon the tha conen lenco tho the purity and the of the ibo water supply put dut there are other important I 1 considerations to lo be taken into account I 1 I 1 in dealing till this problem the growth and 1 deally I e niolon of the city an aa well cd as its in in industrial d 1 I p are arc which we wa should evor ever hoc hale in mind the thought tor for the ibe future never being from the care for the preterit present the present season indicates tile the nece FI alty ty f for or tho the procurement benl of on an increased libater supply for or salt anke city IN hit alle there may have ve been seasons when tile the water sources under tinder the control of the corporation have dwindled or faded fadd a as 9 they have done this summer the increased n population sine since 0 a previous shortage has haa occurred hao greatly segmented the consumption and demand necessarily re reducing during the per capita supply and causing great annoyance and U it mu rout mut t tw be recognized by bv all that an in crossed water supply Is 13 necessary Pary for the growth and prosper prosperity t ty of salt lake cliv city and although oi we amny rest not noi the immediate ensuing of another such cuch year of oc scarcity such auch a season Is 1 not improbable in my roy opinion the danger dancer Is in sue out to demand that wo we tako take such pre cautions an may he be within our reach con with tho the limited means at our oil dl bonal rosal to guard against a future water alln BIG cottonwood PLAN members of former city councils havo have lad had under consideration the propriety of 0 this corporation a portion of 0 the big cottonwood stream but so BO far as aa I 1 am aware no official action was ever taken in the iho premises As aou ou are aware set como years apo ago there was an arrangement made attai certain farmers owning water rights in parley s can on creek for or their share sham of the waters of said creek tho the results of the edcha alge have been so satisfactory to 10 the farmers as to lend lead to the belief I 1 that hot a 9 similar arrangement may he be made with mith parties owning rights in the big cottonwood conversations certain of these owners encourage me to bellee believe that satisfactory exchanges can be made and that the present Is a rood good time to commence negotiations to that endi am of the opinion that if satisfactory ar arrangements tangent ants can bei be made along the line horold her the city may without great coat increase its water supply by a volume eual equal to the average now flow of at city creek our present chlof chief dource 9 0 urco of supply cupple in view of the outlook for or the favorable result of carefully conducted negotiations 1 tiati ons and realizing as aa we all do the necessity or carl early and successful efforts to secure an liver increased d and adequate equate water a t er au iv I 1 recommend that the matter 0 of en endeavoring e to ng to effect the exchange herein beret su cot ho he referred to a comi matto itt for investigation atlon an add to rt to your honorable ra I 1 oly body in thin connection I 1 would I 1 3 t the propriety ot f associating t the 1 tv n n r the sup superintendent rin of 0 ater N works 0 rk a and I 1 the he waler ater M laager la ater tar with till tho the committee for the consideration of this subject yours gosp adulla JOHN CLARK mayor MILT MILL CREEK AGREEMENT when thon deputy recorder ed sloan who presided at the desk on account of oc the miless 0 recorder Back maji maxi had bad finished reading mayor clarks clarka chairman hone of 0 a special ini estimation committee filed a report to it was waa attached an agreement that it if carried out may assist in the solution of the problem it was as follows trl titis Is to certify that we e the under signed owners of 0 the one half of tho the mill creel stream la ia salt lake county utah are tilling TO make an agreement with the of 0 salt lake city utah tolf to lf that for the consideration of a certain amount of jordan river water or other waters owned slid and controlled by said co corporation oration we aill w give thi ee fourths 40 t of that nm e of mill creek 1 water I 4 1 C 1 I 1 pr procida oNidA that if the city fails to 10 supply 11 0 1 im with bald waters we shall then be entitled to our fornier formo or present rights of said raid mill crook crock waters provided further thai that all ss by transferring transit exren said waters waier sand and at ou further expenses expense ti and repairs upon canals etc to convey sald eald waters I 1 anio nto our ayn ti n ditch ditches ahu bo paid by the city chiy corporation the agi ement was sigried by daniel lunn and thirty tiara L others ho he own all the land bordering on sim mill creek and arri n led from its N waters aters sir mr howo howe suggested that in line with the I 1 mayors mayora message it a committee ot of five members of the council be appointed to 10 make further inquiries toge ther with city engines kelsey superintendent caine and wain master sedda the in atlon carried and president darrice appointed councilmen diehl iloco callister Cal llster ciari margetts att ctt and weiler WATER ATER RI RIGHTS G this b by to no means disposed of 0 tho the water question city engineer kelsey submitted a communication on the subject ab embodied some suggestions and add recommendations as aa follows 1 I agoan respectfully call your attention to the necessity of 0 having some boma city officer look a efter fter the cites vater lights in the barlous streams sarc ama from which the city obtains its supply cupply the tha volume of water in parleys creek creely has boon gradually diminishing until last frilay friday fri lay hen it il suddenly decreased over gillons per pel day till creek creeh has remained it at A low stage staga mince that time making it impossible to fill the reservoir at the head ot of it alis conduit 1 I am reliably informed that parties 1 in parleys canyon above the darn dam who have no right to the water are using it ft tor for irrigation and that they axe are cutting timber on the cites land and the city entered into 0 a contract with the owners of tho the primary rights of pat pai leys leya creek bolow below the head of the conduit in which it agreed to protect their this the city lias lee failed to do the th rights ol of a great creat many of at the tha co owners of c this stream it in the canyon are not of record they row 5 car after s I 1 year and the owners tae the tin ater ter chril lien they please their rights should mould be determined and a record made and there should be some accurate method 0 of measuring and dividing the water it Is alto also very important that the timber on the cites land should b be protected as it prevents the snow heing being melted early in the season when thero there to Is an abundance 0 of nater it T III take lake all of one mans mani time to look alter 0 ter this matter POOR POOH 1 distribution SYSTEM another maiter that I 1 dire to in call your attention to 1 in the distribution systems sy Biero improvements and sioni have been made tn in the lh past Alt althous hout plans or without regard to lo the he size of 0 pipe that crould be used and the system tem ts in now a network of 0 small fate rals without distributing in one r case two and one hall half miles of six inch I 1 literals laterals late igral rals ls are ace connected to t the system 1 I one four inch pipe this method has been followed allowed contrary to the advice ot of the city engineer there are a great crest many ciany other dt de feet facts in the th fy s tom which should be remedied remedied to ma mak ke it part I 1 barly ar ly the method of dividing tho the city into districts dl which M are supplied tup plIed from the differed dif feren I 1 I 1 in conclusion city engineer kelsey r renewed ills his request for or authority to i make surveys and procure tho the data 0 to enable him to make 0 a report on the present system the most moat callable avalLi ay blo method 0 at increasing the ills water m at er supply the communication 1 was waa referred reec to the special committee already appointed appoint od I 1 WATER OFFICE PROPOSED with till a view to promptly approving at af least one ona of tho the city engineers I 1 ideas councilman diehl introduced IL I 1 resolution directing the city attorney to draw up an ordinance creating the office ot of land and water commissioner choso duty duly it shall bo be to agate and make a record of 0 all witter water rights in the in ahleah th the CRY city IS 1 interested te the resolution also provided that it should bo be tho the duty of the new official to protect the cites rights and prevent the destruction at 0 timber on the cites land the resolution was a adopted I 1 STAND PIPES FAVORED this the sprinkling committee becom I 1 1 mended the n of mr diehls resolution appropriating SOW for or the th e erection of 0 ten stand pipes to connect w with ith tile tho jordan and salt lake canal for sprinkling purposes councilmen callister and romney objected to a consideration of 0 the report and under the rules rulea it went over for or ono one week earlier in the meeting mewung peter moore atho he described himself as on an old mao man ta 3 years of 0 ago ae and in poor health not able to t 0 walk much lied filed a ii petition aski p g that it i few inches of ater be turned into parleys creek canal in order that he ha might have water with which to irrigate his little garden and orchard moore stated that unless tho the council took immediate action in tile the matter he would be financially ruined because he gained his big living from tho the sale ot at fruit and vegetables without Irrig irrigation ution water r it would be impossible for him to gain it a livelihood after dis dim cusino the matter for ten minutes the council voted down a motion to refer the petition to the irrigation committee with power to net act an amendment providing that the committee report at tho the next meeting was carried |
