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Show SALT LAKE GAINS Exchange of Rights Gives 11,000,000 Gallons Daily for City Use. Negotiations long pending and just completed for an exchange of water rights between Salt Lake City and the stockholders of the Big Cottonwood-Tanner Cottonwood-Tanner Ditch company will give Salt Lake 11,000,000 p;illons daily more of the natural flow of the water of Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood creek, according to City Comm.s-sioner Comm.s-sioner C. Clarence Xeslen, head of the department of waterworks and water supply. The city will now have right to nearly 60 per cent of the Big Cottonwood stream, compared with 33 per cent heretofore. here-tofore. The stockholders of the ditch company get, in lieu of the water of the canyon stream, water for irrigation from Utah lake and a piped supply of Big Cottonwood water for culinary purposes The city must construct the necessary pipe lines, under the agreement. The irrigation ir-rigation water supply will he furnished through extension of the East Jordan canal from Little to Big Cottonwood canyons, can-yons, at an estimated cost to the city of $40,000. Under the agreement, the farmers get an even quantity exchange during the months of April, May and June and during dur-ing the summer months a supply in excess ex-cess of that obtained by the city from B g Cottonwood creek, giving prom'se of I solution of the problem of shortage of water for Irrigation. The deal was negotiated for tho city hv Commissioner Neslen. City Engineer Svlvester Q. Cannon and V". K. Burton, superintendent of waterworks. It was first undertaken several years ngo. Sue-cess Sue-cess of the exchange is expected to open up the possib lity of the city's eventually eventu-ally getting the entire flow of adjacent canvon streams, including Mill creek and Little Cottonwood, as well as l'ig Cottonwood. |