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Show PLENTY OF WATER FOR UTTLE CASH City Council Will Tnko TJp the Emigration Em-igration Canyon Project at Once, INCREASE of the city's water supply sup-ply by utilizing the underground How of Emigration canyon Is a proposition which is likely to ro-eelve ro-eelve active attention at the hands of the City Council, A visit to the canyon can-yon for the purpose of Investigating conditions (hero was made yesterday by tho Water Works committee of the Council, accompanied by Mayor Richard P. Morris, City Engineer Snow and Land and Water Commissioner Luco. The committee ugreed last night that It would not be ready with a recom-mcntloned recom-mcntloned before next Monday night, but It was plain that the members were favorably Impressed with whut they saw on the trip. "It was my first visit to tho canyon," said City Engineer Snow, "and, while I have no desire to forecast the action o? the Council on the matter, I nm free to convess that I regard the conditions such as to warrant a thorough Investigation Investi-gation of what can be done In tho way of Increasing the water supply from that source. It is my opinion that a shaft sunk In lieu of the old sump which Jiow needs repairing, the shaft to be connected with the canal further down by tunnel, would strike an underground How If water which would be well worth going after. I know of places which looked far leas promising whero large supplies of water have been secured in that way at comparatively small cost." Councilman Black, who has long been an advocate of this method of adding to tho water supply, la confident that thero Is an underground How of from five million to ten million gallons per day In Emigration canyon which can be secured by the city with an outlay of only about 52500 The street commlttco -oted at last night's meeting to lay over the matter of paving State street until after the report of the Finnnco commlttco on tho stato of the city's finances should have Decn received by the Council. This committee com-mittee was waited upon by a delegation of women from the southwestern part of tho city in the Interest of further drainage work In the vicinity of Eighth West and Fourth and Fifth South streets. The city engineer was Instructed In-structed to make in Investigation and report upon the feasibility of making further Improvements In that direction. City Engineer Snow presented a new model for the Improvement of Brlgham street. It embraces some of the better featuros both of the plan offered by Col. Wall and the one presented by Spencer Clawson. and, it Is believed does away with some of the objectionable objection-able features of each. The Council will probably consider It at the next meeting. meet-ing. A new three years' contract with tho Rocky Mountain Bell telephone company, com-pany, by tho terms of which the city Is to have forty free telephones in lieu of the license on telephones, was approved ap-proved by the Committee on Laws. The city has, during the last three years, had the use of thirty telephones for the some consideration, the belter terms having been offered to meet the competition compe-tition of the Utah Independent telephone tele-phone company. The special committee appointed by tho Council to Investigate the proposition proposi-tion made by Garff and Sons of Logan to provide the city with a municipal lighting plant appointed ntixt Wednesday Wednes-day night as a time for meeting with '.jurns oums sip iu yjnou ojoui 5uij.ioa. take up the matter with them with a view of arriving at a perfect understanding under-standing of the proposal. |