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Show WANTS RESERVOIR FOR FORT DOUGLAS Special io The Tribune. WASHINGTON. Deo. Hi. Sona Inr Smoot Ih endeavoring to secure from the war depart met it reservoir rights in t Fort Dnimlas military reservation for the Fniversitv of l.Uah. in otvW Ui increase the water supply for that Institution. President J. T. Kingsbury of the Cni-versilv Cni-versilv of Mali said last night that some time iig fh'1 nialter of obln ining a reservoir res-ervoir site on the Fort DouglaH reservation reserva-tion w;ts taken up with the, war department, depart-ment, liii I. on a i -count of so much red tape, (he Idea had been abandoned. What is now wanted, he said, is n right of wav for a pipe line through the reservation res-ervation from Red Butte canyon and permission per-mission to nun .some of the surplus wnter from H.cl Bui te creek. At t he present time Ine university lias no exclusive wa-ler wa-ler rluht and has to depend upon Die city i fur its supply. 1 ruler the arrangement I now in effect, sufficient water Is not available to care, properly for the lawn, liT'f-s and oiher vegetation on Lhe university univer-sity property. |