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Show BIG ITER WIN City Engineer McGonagle to Present Estimate to City Council. MEANS MUCH TO PEOPLE ON NORTHEAST BENCH Cost, It Is Estimated, Will Be in the Neighborhood of $135,000. City J-lngincer George V. McGonagle tonight, will present plans, with an estimate es-timate of cost, to the city council for tho building of an cighlecn-incli water-main water-main from a point one and ono-halt' miles abovo tho present, highlino intake to Thirteenth avonuo and J street. Whilo this main is intended to feed the northeast bench, it will materially, help the situation all 'over tho city. Tho prosont twelve-inch main, which feeds this section of the city, will bo utilizod then to supply Capitol hill and adjacent territory, and as tho syslom is an intercommunicating ono tho new line will materially increase the water supply throughout "the rest of tho city. By reason of tho increase in height of the source of the supply the now main will outer the city at Thirteenth avonuo and .J street with a pressure of eighty pounds, Tiho pressure of tho present twelve-inch main is only eight pounds. 3 a addition to supplying that part of the city oast, of State street, if that thoroughfare extended to the city limits on the north, and north of Brig-ham Brig-ham streot, tho new line may bo used in cases of cuiorgcncjr to help furnish the city with watQr throe or four blocks south of Brighani street. This will relieve re-lieve the Emigration and Parley's canyon can-yon lines to a great extout. Will Cost S136.000. The length of tho now line, which will be of cast iron, will bo approximately approxi-mately in,000 foot, or closo to four miles. Tho cost will bo an tho neighborhood neigh-borhood of $135,000, and will be paid out of tho water bond fund. Inasmuch as there is approximately $160,000 in this fund, there will be plenty to build tho lino, with somo to spare, ttecontiy $05,000 was appropriates out of. this fund for water mains under the head of emergency work, but only about $15,000 was used, leaving $50,000 to be returned to tho fund. Whon tho council receives the city engineer's estimate of cost and plans tonight Mr. Mulvoy, chairman of tho waterworks comniittoo, will move that the board of public works be instructed to call for bids. Tho intention is to award the oontract and got all tho pipe and fittings on the ground this fall and start work not later than March 15. Tho line should bo got Tcad' in timo to obviato tho usual summer water short-ago. short-ago. To Abate Nuisance. Some action wilt be taken tonight looking to tho carty abatemont of tho Ninth South street canal nuisance, of which residents of tho southwestern part of tho city are bitterly complaining. complain-ing. Evontually a concrete conduit will be built ovor tho canal from Slate street to tho Jordan river, but it is doubtful if this can bo done this year, inasmuch as such a step would cost anywhere any-where from $65,000 to $100,000. The protcstants want a wooden flume, four by six feet in dimensions, constructed con-structed over the canal from State streot to tho Jordan river, but this would necessitate the widening of tho Tenth South street canal to something like twenty feet to take caro of tho surplus waters in the spring, and it is doubtful if this will be done. Another drawback to this scheme would be that inasmuch as tho middle of Tenth South street is the boundary lino between tho city and the county and the Tenth South canal is all on tho city side, most of the street on tho city's sido would be taken up. |
