Show SAW pUMll4O PLANT Citizens and Officials Visit Utah Lake TRIP SPOILED BY A GALE City Council and Thirty Enthusiastic Citizens and Officials Visited the Pumping Station on Utah Lake Yesterday and Spent the Day Discussing Dis-cussing Water ProblemThe Plant Shut Down All Day on Account of High Wind Some Solutions of Prospective Difficulties Offered If the elements hadnt been contrary and refractory yesterday the new pumping station at the headwaters of the Jordan river would have been seen In operation by twelve City Councilmen Council-men four Water Commissioners ten Commercial club committeemen a I number of city officials and several canal company representatives Thirty I cntlmalastlc citizens and officials made their way by an early morning Short Line train to the Lehl valley for the express purpose of Inspecting the pumping1 station and probing Into the water problem A LchI valley breeze spoiled their plans for the most part It bore down the valley from the north nt forty knots an hour Incapacitating the pumping plant from action and making the junketing trip an unpleasant unpleas-ant experience Notwithstanding that fact a profitable profit-able day v aa spent In discussing the water question In Its various phases and those who accompanied the expedition expe-dition had ample opportunity to learn The workings of the pumping station were thoroughly explained as was the contemplated plan of diking a portion of Utah lake In order to decrease the loss of water by evaporation The benefits ben-efits of the trip will undoubtedly assert themselves at the special meeting which Is to be held Wednesday evening in the Council chamber at which the Council and Commercial club committeemen commit-teemen will take up the water problem with a view to adopting some definite plans looking to a suitable solution WIND BLEW A GALE When the party reached the valley of sugar beets shortly after 10 a m the vind WTS blowing a gale An old resident res-ident of the region asserted that It was the first real gale In years and that It did not begin until the train bearing the Junketing party rolled around the point of the mountain Into the valley The trip of four miles from the Lehl station to the pumping plant In open carryalls was anything but a pleasure trip The monotony was broken at intervals In-tervals by the sight of some hatless statesman frantically pursuing his headpeaY which had been ruthlessly borne away by the gale STATION SHUT DOWN Upon arriving at the pumping plant It was found that the pumps had been shut down because the wind forced the waleq back toward the lake leaving the supply channel so low that the plant could not be operated to advantage advan-tage For a couple of hours the party remained about the station hoping the wind would tire Itself out but they had miscalculated Its staying qualities The wind was still master of the situation when the party left the valley for home atSprn BROADENING THE CHANNEL In order to obviate unfavorable conditions con-ditions of the weather and to utilize the pumps to their full capacity the channel lending front the lake Is i now being broadened A dozen scrapers were on duty In the water yesterday and will be kept at work until the channel has been broadened and deepened deep-ened While this channel will suffice for the present It Is generally conceded conced-ed that any considerable lowering of the surface of the lake would render the station useless and thus cut off the supply o water from that source Several remedies v > ere discussed for such a condition of affairs a majority agreeing that the erection of a dike across certain large arms of the lake would be most upt to Insure a continued contin-ued flow of water Into the channel that feeds the pumping station The reclaiming re-claiming of the lake bottom of these arms would decrease the area exposed to the sun and thus decrease the loss of water by evaporation LOSS BY EVAPORATION It Is asserted that the loss by evaporation evap-oration at present Is far In excess of the water gained from tributary rivers xV second system of perpetuating the utility of the pumping plant that met with much favor consists of dredging the supply channel for a distance of fifty or a hundred yards out Into the lake However the diking system was generally gen-erally held as likely to prove the most economical and effective In the end There was also much discussion of the feasibility oC trading the water for Big Cottonwood water which could be piped to augment the citys supply Tt wus agreed that some such action will become necessary In the course of a few years provided the dry seasons continue con-tinue ILAD BASS DINNER As an appetiteproducer the ride in the wind and the subsequent discussions discus-sions were a decided success A bays dinner was served to the party at Saratoga Sar-atoga Springs where the attcndanlM looked on In wldeoycd wonder at the rapid manner In which their provisions disappeared After a rest of a couple of hours the party returned to Lehl a number visiting the beet sugar factory fac-tory AMONG THOSE PRESENT The party was made up of Councilmen Council-men Qottrell Hewlett VIgua A J Davis E II Davis Robinson Spence Sharp Tiiddenham Arnold Fernstrom and Eardley City Engineer Kclsey City Auditor Riser F M Ulmer W P Neber Water Commissioners Dore titus Mllncr Lorenzo Argyle and J CL M Barnes Commercial Club Committeemen Commit-teemen Col E F Holmes George C Lambert William Nelson F A Druehl C S Kinney George A Lowe George M Cannon L L Terry and M A Daugherty Canal Company Representatives Repre-sentatives Angus M Cannon S M T Scddon II T Spencer M R Porter and Peter Larson |