Show SEEKIO MORE WTEft Kelsey Makes Appropriation for City FROM COTTONWOOD CREEK Proposed to Save Water Going to Waste by Percolation and Evaporation Evapora-tion and to Develop Underground Flow by Making1 a Tunnel Would Greatly Increase the Citys Supply at Comparatively Small Cost State Engineer Gemmell Approves the Plan Present Rights Respected City Engineer Kelsey on behalf of Salt Lake City yesterday lllcd in the office of the County Recorder notice of appropriation of all of the unappro priated surplus undeveloped and lost waters flowing In and of Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood creek and collected and flowing from the watershed of the creek and cnnyon underground at and near the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon and for ten miles up from the mouth of the canyon It appears there Js a loss by seepage and evaporation of about 23 per cent of all the waters flowing in Big Cottonwood creek In ordinary years from a point where the weir of Salt Lake City Is now located for a distance down the creek of about two and a half miles to time hcadgato of the Green ditch In the creek It Is the Intention of the city to save the water thus wasted by laying a pipe or conduit thirty inches in diameter In the channel I chan-nel of the creek to carry all the water from the weir to the Green ditch It is the intention to deliverthe quantity of water so saved Into another pipe at a point near where the lull race of the old Granite paper mill empties Into Big Cottonwood crock thence by a 48Inch pipe for a distance of ten miles Into the citys system of waterworks RESPECTS RIGHTS OF OTHERS The notice of appropriation says no interference with or diminishing of the quantity of water flowing In the creek Is intended but the full quantity of water they arc entitled to will be delivered de-livered to all other persona owning v > a tcr rights in the creek and the city will respect the rights of Brown Sanford San-ford McGhle Chrlstcnsen Harper Taylor Upper canal Ellison Newman Gunderson Tanner Knudsens mill power Sevcrson Green and all othor I rightful appropriators The maximum flow appropriated Is seventeen cubic feet per second TO CATCIJC UNDERGROUND FLOW The appropriation also says that it la the Intention of the city to develoo and collect from the watershed adjacent adja-cent to Big Cottonwood creek and canyon can-yon such water as sinks Into the ground and has never been used or appropriated appropri-ated and can never be otherwise used To do this it Is intended to run a tunnel tun-nel four feet wide and six and a half feet high from the old Granite paper mill to the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon to connect with the ISlnch pipe carrying the other water to the I city By the tunnel It is intended to develop thirtyeight cubic feet of water per second In regard to saving the waste water of the creek Mr Kelsey says he has frequently measured the flow at the two points and finds the waste to be about 25 per cent of the entire flow of the stream He Is careful to state that the rights of present owners will be respected and no attempt made to take any but the water now going to waste He says to develop that supply by the pipe or conduit would cost about 530000 and give the city a flow equal to that It Is now receiving from Parleys canyon can-yon STATE ENGINEER APPROVES State Engineer Gemmell has also made measurements of the flow and obtained the same results as to waste as Mr Kelsey He says the plan is very feasible and he entirely approves of it He also says its execution would not interfere with the rights of the present users of water from Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood creek I REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION Notice to Delegates Special train carrying the delegates to the Republican State convention at Provo September 1th will be run on the Oregon Short Line as follows Leave Logan at CI5 a m Leave Brlgham City at 725 a m Leave Ogden at S15 a m Leave Salt Lake at 005 n m Arrive at Provo at 1020 a m Special train returning will leave Provo immediately after adjournment of the convention Half rates from all points In Utah on the Oregon Short Line |