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Show City Creek Canyon Is Favored as Park 0 9 S3 ' Art Commission Would Improve Ingress TIjEAS AiJT VALLEY, into wcl) City Creek canyon widens as it swings to the eastward at a point about two I I i- and a .alf miles fiom the mouih. View from northwest side of canyon, looking northeast. : Water Line Extension to Safeguard Supply Now Sole Obstacle. IT IS just possible that City creek canyon means to many residents of ( Salt Lake only the not over-attractive gulch that makes it difficult to get over from the northeast bench to the capitol grounds without a flying machine or a working combination of sturdy legs and hob-nailed shoes. The canyon mouth is the original piece of camouflage practiced by nature in Salt Lake .valley. Some day the entrance to the canyon doubtless will be beautified to make it in keeping with the canyon proper. That is the dream of the city art and planning commission, now exerting exert-ing every effort for improvement of a way of ingress to the canyon by the opening of North Temple street east from State street. But the possibilities of the canyon itself as a public park, a vast acreage of cool resort in the sweltering days of summer, already have claimed the attention of the city commission. For years past use of the canyon as a resort has been and now is rigidly restricted for fear of contamination contamina-tion of the city's water supply. "We should have City creek canyon for a park," City Commissioner Herman TL Green of the park department said recently re-cently during an informal discussion of various matters at a meeting of the city commission. "It would be agreeable to the waterworks water-works department if tho purity of the I water of City creek could be insured," commissioner C. Clarence Neslen asserted. as-serted. "It should be piped from far up the canyon," said Commissioner Green, to which Commissioner Neslen replied that such improvement is a pet dream of his. The other commissioners agreed that the piping of the water from a point above where use of the canyon as a resort is so desirable is an improvement that will be realized before long. Under such arrangement, only the overflow over-flow water of the creek, In time of surplus, sur-plus, would gurgle down the creek bed at the risk of contamination. For the greater part of the year it would be sufficient suf-ficient to preserve the picturesnucness of the canyon and water the trees and , shrubs that line the creek banks. The dozen miles of canyon, swept daily by cool breezes, extending from its mouth to North Fork, a distance of twelve miles, Including Pleasant valley, by which name the widar portion of the canyon is known to its admirers, would give to Salt Lake a picnicking ground within walking distance dis-tance and having all the attractiveness of being far removed from the city. |