Show CITY 15 FIB FOR FIRST IT OF DAM Letting of Contract Must Await Return of Absent Commissioners to Duty The c ty comm s on reached the con clua on j esterdaj that a a ab e mone n the water bond fund will perm t onlj of the construct on of the first unit of the Parley s canyon dam More bonds w II have to be issued before the dam can be raised to the ma mum planned by the c ty When the contract is let t wl be for the first unit only The first unit w 1 be 105 feet above bedrock and w U mpound 300 000 000 gal Ions of vater wh ch s ess than one third the amount that cou d be stored f the dam t ere bu It to a ma iraum height Consider ng1 the financial question es terday the coram ss on learned that the city's limit of bonded ndebtedness has been reached but that under the new law calling for assessment of property at cash- value the limit will be extended and a further issue w 11 be poss b e. There is now availab e n the iater bond fund a balance of $168 66 26 includ $1-5 000 worth of bonds yet to be so d The Parley s dam must be bu t out of th s fund and $SS 000 must be used for the proposed enlargement and ex tendon of the East Jordan canal and the purchase of add t onal water rights It is possible that some legal way of using the canal improvement fund for the Par ley's reserve r can be found in wh ch case it would be pos ble to bu Id the dam to its full height provided the cheapest type of construction were adopted fa V Stewar representing the .m burson dam type met with the comm s slon to urge the merits of that type o er the multip e arch t pe and the gravity dam. He dec ared that the mburson type has a much higher safety factor than e ther of the other The city engineer has given t as h s opinion that any of the three types would prove satisfactory so that the question of cost s the principal one No agreement has been reached as to hlch t -pe shall be used and on the board s decision rests the awarding of the contract since no one contractor iB low on all of the types. It a probable that the awarding of the contract will ha e to be laid over unt 1 Mayor Samuel C Park s able to be present or unt 1 Commissioner "W H. hearnmn retu ns o the cit in order to obtain a major t vote The three commissioners who compose the board at present appear unable to reach a unanl mous dec s on |