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Show .um, bam mo mayor. The moment our plans become public prices for land and rights would jump up, jst as real estate would enhance in value in the neighborhood of the proposed site of a contemplated public building. 11 WATERjDESTION. i fjca of Supply Surrounding the Oitj and How to Utilize Them to ' .Advantage ' ;3AT MAYOR SCOTT HAS TO SAY. rtesian Well8 Considered as a Means of Providing for all Demands Made. XheSaltlake water supply is the ques-ii ques-ii of the day. There is not a subject mr before the public which demands ore prompt auction than docs this, i(S solution depends entirely upon ie wisdom and lawmaking power of municipal government. Mavor Scott was seen today by a ,',n;s reporter, and that gentleman l(jily admitted the paramount port:ineo of taking immediate steps ,. providiug the city with .jtddi-nial .jtddi-nial and adequate means for obtain'' 4 more water. The subject is one hifh has never been lost sight of by mayor, and the proper committee tie 'council is also considering what test to be done. Mayor Scott says ;,l there is plenty of water to booh-Incd booh-Incd in and about Salt Luke, but it ill require money to make these sour-. sour-. available- Ho- expressud the hope ,,tit -A-otiM be'possible next year for ,. city to borrow a .'sufficient sum of linov to carry out a system of itei'tvorku that would settle the ?$-, ?$-, in v, satisfactory manner for ,uv years lo como. Tho mayor did say how he expected this money to ijiiii'nweO, but ho left the impression tin! reporter's mind that' congress-tal congress-tal action would be taken to iucreaso city's borrowing power if neces-x neces-x lie also implied that there would ilwnt a million dollars more collect-on collect-on this year's tax levy than there was last year's, which result would come im the increased valuation of taxable inerty. and that if this view of the -i' is realized, there would be money ugh lb provido amply for water- irks. .!.:'.' ' ' ' Hie discussion then took the direction what sources tho city could' depend mi for water. The mayor said that -oiiling to the latest report of the :er commissioners, made last Jauu-:. Jauu-:. the daily average consumption water in Salt Lake, supposiug eity to have a populatioa of 30,000, about 31,000,000 gallons. Between lil and the middle of last November, y creek showed an average daily v of 5,187,21!) gallons, and between y and December only 3,738,384 gab,, s. During tho next month the flow raged t,8M,710 gallous a day. This 'am was shown to ,loso by seepage a' North Fork over a million gallons ly, but much of this conies to the face again and joins the main stream r Pleasant Valley. Between Tlcas- Valley and the head of tho water- ks considerable actual loss occurs-, occurs-, Butte aud Emigration -canyon ks had an average daily flow last r of 1,000,000 gallons per day during season, but the only available nut of water from Red Butte yon is the excess over, the refluent re-fluent of Fort Douglasr There a good site for a reservoir lie mouth of Emigration canyon, but ctions have been raised to building rvoirs in the direct course of the mtain .streams. ; lie city lias acquired by purchase by exchange of water drawn from canal eighty-two one hundredths of rolumo of water from Parley's creek a total daily flow, averaged last il, of 3,5117.236 gallons, exclusive of t was used on farms in tho canyon, diverted to tho city: 'Water in i ukewas unprecodeiitcdly low lust '. and when the city most needed it supply from this source had to be ff for the benefit of the farmers. water is only fit for irrigation, 1 being too much solid matter, in-mg in-mg alkali, in it to render it of use ;iliiiai'y purposes. It would bo ad-w. ad-w. therefore, to take advantage of ." opportunity to appropriate die" r of the eity crock for city use. 'ttonvond c-reck water is superior i d of either City creek or Parley's k' To purchase rights in this sup-oiihl sup-oiihl prove expensive, and the '"c "f transportation, about t welve 1 would materially "add to the Mill creek has also excellent ' hut is subject to the same object- Cottonwood. Tho Hanatier I "sh-r mill streams aro likewise l to as a water supply for the ' reasons. rtesian wells," said the mayor, ,kl undoubtedly furnish a first- "PPly of pure water. The expo-." expo-." UL'!U' Liherty park has been very 'l01T' A nine-inch pipe down ' produces a Qow of about half a II gallons daily, which rises four "we the surface of tho ground. cost about $3.70 a Wow the depth of 115 1 uld average about $3.23 . ' 0ther wells in the same vi-"i've vi-"i've demonstrated tho fact 1 sure sppiy of good water can be ' "lined. By a pumping system "no reason why this source of ,;. co."'11 ur,t bo utilized .with profit 1 city. The average daily flow ne city's wells, ' measured last :.' as over 5.000,000 gallons, , ;tnat of City creek. This sup- he increased indefinitely." -' -ls Sreat loss of water, by evap-' evap-' d leaking, in the present sys- tvnM V,yin St 'U l,eU CallalS- '"Id obviate this, and a large - result. The supply furnished the city c.anal rom thc Jonlau , SmenttMl-to 87,831,630-gallcnis .,; .f WUons in the gradients "biis Jung a flow four feet in wilucmg these dimensions to emenU of the city, the cost of K ould be about $21,000 a mile. 'if mill!8 a,,out twenty-seven and ; 'fSeott intimated that the water i of Wer studPng I'P some other f , 1 s,II'Ply Mithin its knowledge, I t'JV potent reasons whv it i advisaWe to speak freely soject just now. "The citv d too carefully iu this |