Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-03-21 | Page 3 | Blair Files Appropriation

a IE I BLAIR FILES APPROPRIATION ILE Lays Claim to City Water Bights in goc Big Cottonwood I George E Blair yesterday filed In jIir4 the office of the County Recorder noun no-un < > II IIi tice of appropriation of water In Big Ltbl Cottonwood notices of which were 7 posted by him on March 6th The ap 3ir I f propriation piactlcally covers the same eon rights as appropriated on behalf of tho hate 5 city by City Engineer Kelsey last August t n Au-gust and Includes the proposition to ett et 1 save 25 per cent or a maximum of jjev rlSt eriteen cubic feet per second In Big 1 < < Ii Cottonwood creek now lost by seepage j Cfr 1 and evaporation In its course from the cnc city s weir for a distance of two and t a half miles down the creek to the runCo headgatc of the Green IJ ditch The ru PI plants to pipe the whole flow with a une1150p 3Glnch pipe for hat distance and eier i then to bring It Into the city with vai jt other water by a 18Inch pipe tntl The appropriation also includes a 1 r plan to develop thirtyeight cubic feet t 8V of water per second by t sinking to son bedrock and making a tunnel four feet dJ wldf and < lx and a half feet high from 10lj near the old Granite paper mill to near J I fI the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon I SEBY The purposes for which It Is stated Oflu l jNa gji I the water Is to bo used are for generating gen-erating electrical poweiv for Irrigation et and for the domestic use of the In habitants of Salt Lake