Show THE CITYS WATER SUPPLY TC most Jiecessary and extensive urvUertaking by the City of Salt Lake daring the jijast year was the Improvements Im-provements to the waterworks sys tern The Improvements completed I nnil m n m llrr lltJ 111 n rf lfA ed 5 J li 0 i oo Vktll VUSU ilUUUl 4 OVUUV V but this only represents a small portion of the general plan which has been mapped out and which It Is the Intention Inten-tion of the City Council to push to completion with as much rapidity as possible The cost of the entire undertaking un-dertaking will he over 1000000 but it will give the city an unfailing supply sup-ply of water which will be sufficient foal fo-al purposes until it shall have attained at-tained a population of 200000 The principal increase to the supply is to come from Utah lake and as a natural consequence the greater part of tho money will be spent In developing that source The recent decision of the Supreme court to the effect hat the city may incur an indebtedness of 1 per cent of the taxable valuation of time property within the corporate limits for improvements to Its water system enables the city to Issue 1 bonds foe a sum equal to the full amount of the cost of the Improvements so That the expense will fall lightly upon the present generation of taxpayers leaving a goodly proportion to be borne by those who shall reap a large share of the benefits The completed Improvements include the new distribution distribu-tion reservoir on the cast bench at First South and Thirteenth East streets I is i cement lined has n capacity of C000000 gallons and cost 35OCO Its principal function Is to insure equal distribution of water allover over the city I was conslruclcd from plans drawn by City Engineer Kelsey and under his supervision by thc Excelsior Wooden Pipe company company of San Francisco and has proved a success Another Important improvement improve-ment now almost completed was the laying of new and enlarged water mains in the eastern part Q the city This was greatly needed as what previously existing mains there were In that part of the city were too small for thc demands upon them and In many places extensions were imperatively impera-tively needed The contract for layIng I lay-Ing and supplying the pipe was let toP 575000 to-P J Mo ran and the cost will be about WATER RIGHTS Almost 60000 was spent very advantageously ad-vantageously In purchasing land and water rights from the farmers In Parleys canyon By this move not only was the citys water supply materially ma-terially augmented but by the city acquiring ac-quiring the land it is enabled to keep the stream free from filth and prevent contamination by the removal of stock pens and outhouses which were maintained by i the previous owners of tIme soil and which weie a constant menace to the health of the inhabitants in-habitants of the city by perculatlon into the stream There will be about 575000 of the S250COO bond issue Just negotiated available for development of the < Ulan lake source of supply The plan Is lo dredge and in some parts cut a new channel for the Jordan river fon a distance of seven miles from the rivers 4y source at Utah lake to what Is known as time Upper Dam By this means the eighteen inches of water ever the entire surface of the lake appropriated by City Engineer Kelsey about a year ago on behalf of the city can be drawn off for the citys use Utah lake water however not being good for culinary and drinking purposes the proposition is to exchange the water from time lake for an etiual amount of exceptionally excep-tionally good waten from Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood creek The farmers who now tists the Cottonwood creek water are quite willing to make the exchange as Utah lake water Is better for irrigation than the Cottonwood water It Is then proposed pro-posed to pipe the Cottonwood Toiler lute the city thus Insuring a practically practi-cally unlimited supply The cost of DREDGING THE RIVER and other necessary work to bring the additional supply to Cottonwood torn exchange will according to the estimate esti-mate of the City Engineer bo about 5175000 S The work has boon prosecuted to1 some extent since the appropriation wns lllod ft vear aco and from this time forward It will be followed with more vigor An effort Is being niado to arrange with the four canal companies com-panies which take water from Utah lake through the Jordan river whore by they will Join with the city in tIme dredging scheme and bear a share oC time expense proportionate to the advantages ad-vantages they would receive 1C this can be done It would lighten the cost to the city The expense of bringing the water from Big Cottonwood a distance dis-tance of ten miles by a pipe forty > eight inches In diameter will be about 3COOQO provided wooden stave pipe which is highly recommended by both local hydraulic engineers and engineers on Iho coast and In Denver where It Is in use Is employed If foit pipes were used it would cost double that amount The litigation between the city and timc Salt Lake CltyWnten and Electric Power company over Utah Lake water lies proved very vexatious to both sides JTho Power company which erected extensive works for the generation of Oloctrlclty at Jordan Narrows claims to have a right to onesixth of tho water of the river which alleged rights it acquired largely by purchase appropriations made by various parties in 1S07 The city con lends that those rlghls were never perfected because the appropriatora failed to do lljo development work necessary CITY CLAIMS The city also contends that Iho Power company has only a right to time surplus sur-plus water which really means that It has no rights at all The Power company however has been using considerable water from the river to run its work and were it not for the fact that the flower company after the water pusses over the power wheels delivers It back Into the Jordan along a-long way from Where the city lakes Un water out of the river and at so Iowa Iow-a level that It could jiot be brought into time city without pumping there would not be so much objection on two part of the municipality to the Power company usln the water to turn Its wheels A multiplicity of suits between be-tween the city and the Power company are pending which will probably bo brought to trial within a few months and not till then will thq rights oC the litigants be determined Another part of the general plan oC waterworks Improvement Is to lay anew a-new and larger water main from tho tanks up City Ciook to time oily This would cost about 10000 Various Improvements Im-provements the water mains in the city arc also eonlcmplalcd and a system sys-tem ot street sprinkling with water from the Jordan river it a costo about 330000 will probably be inaugurated inaugu-rated |