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Show POSSIBLE RESERVOIR SITE IS INVESTIGATED An inspection of a possible reservoir site in Little Cottonwood canyon was m"ale yesterday1!) the city commissioners, commission-ers, trie city engineer and the city attorney. at-torney. While tho chance of acquiring or using us-ing tlie site in question is regarded ;is verv remote, it was found apparently feasible. The water right would have to be purchased by the city, if it should ever bo done, and the venture would cost not less than $1,000,000 to complete it to the point of bringing the water into the city, it is estimated, i The possibility of Little Cottonwood as a water source is regarded by the commissioners as a sort of insurauce of the city's chances of growth, to become be-come available only when the population popula-tion has been doubled or trebled. Tho stream is enough higher to make it possible pos-sible to connect a conduit with the present one from Big Cottonwood, and the site examined yesterday is au admirable ad-mirable natural reservoir site, i |