| Show WELL CLEAN CLEANUP UP lip BANKS Of COTTONWOOD Officials Join Hands to Remove Remove Remove Re- Re Ret move Menace to Health I of City l' l PLAN TO PROTECT J CITY WATER SUPPLY Prosecutions May Hay Follow If IfLand IfLand Land Owners Fail to Obey Orders x Big fig Cottonwood canyon ono one of ot the principal water sources of Salt Lake City will be cleaned from the mouth of the canyon to Brighton one of the many summer camps in the tho canyon The cleaning will bo be done at once and andt t the o p property owners or renters in the canyon will have to bear the cost This i the substance of a decision reached at a meeting held in the office of Mayor Bransford t this is mornin morning which I was attended by the mayor Dr T. T B. B Beatty secretary of the state board of health A. A F. F Doremus a member of I I the state board of health and Commissioners Commis i J. J D. D Murdoch r and W. W J. J Burton Bur ton ton- The work of cleaning up the canyon will mIl commence at on once e and will be pushed as fast as a lar large e force of men can can can do do the work worl Some three weeks a ago o Dr S. S G. G Paul city health commissioner discovered two cases of typhoid fever at th the Maxfield Maxfield Max Max- field ranch in the tho canyon the patients being taken out at once But BuL tic he ho health officers feel that danger still lurks in inthe inthe inthe the canyon that the germs of the fever may remain in iu filth piles and that a heavy eavy rain mi might ht wash them into the stream to be carried to the tho city intake several miles below and thence through the city in the water pipes j I Dr Beatty stated this that unless un un- un- un less the can canyon on was cleaned up at once I i the health haIth of the entire city might be In danger dangel The city and county officials decided decided decided de de- de- de to take tale immediate They vill v.-ll put a force of men in the canyon j wilh instructions to clean up and to destroy destroy de- de stroy every bit of filth that they can find According to the statement made this morning sanitary conditions at the Maxfield Maxfield Maxfield Max- Max field ranch one of the tho favorite camping places In the canyon and at Brighton are far from flom what they should bo boo May Start Prosecutions Under the state statute as well as a county count ordinance every person guilty of depositing or leaving filth within a certain distance of f a public stream which Is a source for culinary water Is liable to prosecution It Is possible that a number of actions will be filed in the near future The mayor nayor and county commissioners however decided this morning that before any suits were filed they w would uld give the land owners and land leasers in the canyon canyon canyon can can- yon a chance chanco to bear their part of the expense which will be attached to the tho thorough cleaning up of the can canyon on Should they fail fall or refuse to do so the suits will follow At the tho close of this mornings morning's meeting the ma mayor or and the count county commissioners were emphatic In their statement that the entire canyon at least where whore there is any possible danger dang from germs would be cleaned up at once What Emery Reports Refuse from cow corrals and ho hog pens overflow from closets and all an of filth from camps are some of the things which have been getting g into streams from which Salt Lake City's water supply supply supply sup- sup ply Is tal taken according to a report made yesterday by Frank C. C Emery state sanItary sanitary inspector inspector to Dr Beatty Mr Emery had made an inspection of conditions con con- on the tho hanl banks s of Cottonwood con The inspection covered the district from the mouth of the canyon to Brighton I Inspector Emery sa says s 's that all through the canyon where camping parties have been during the summer filth may be found Horses have been left been left tied near the tho banks o of the stream and campers he ho says left decayed fruits refuse and filth of alt all kinds At Maxfield the tho report shows there were cases o of typhoid fever during durins the summer summer sum sum- mer nier and the refuse matter from irom those camps may have found its way to the tho stream Closets it is stated are overflowing overflowing overflowing over- over flowing and plies piles of manure manuro arc lying about and arid oozing into the stream Conditions at Brighton At t Brighton the report sa says s 's the camp Is unsanitary and with rain the whole bunch bUllch of refuse matter mattei would be washed Into the stream At Atthe the head of Brighton ton is a cow pen in which arc are from twelve to fifteen cows and the only drainage for the pen is into the stream A bi big hog hoS' pen In which are five hogs has its drain rain in the tho Cottonwood channel Dr Beatty says that In August this year car there were double the number of cases of typhoid fever there were in August 1909 1901 and the condition of the I stream may have had something to do with i th this The greatest danger however howe Is In the future said Dr Beatt Beatty Beatt It If the rains set In the refuse matter from these un places will be washed into the stream Asked as to his opinion of the condi condi- I in Bi Big Cottonwood canyon Dr S S S- H H. Paul city health commissioner wh who visited the place early this month agreed I that he hc did not regard it as any worse there than It is in Parleys Parley's and other othe r can canyons ons from which the city derives It its S Swater water supply Of or course said Raid Dr Paul it Is easy enough to tell those people up there that tha the they must clean up But how are the theto they to clean up That Is something which i ithe the health officials must work worl out As As to the typhoid germ g-erm this much L isto is isto to be said There were t. t two o cases o of L typhoid fever at at- tho the Maxfield ranch which Is possibly six miles above the tho city intake We went 1 up there thero and a at I. I once had the patients taken from th the can canyon on We 0 were ere careful to do what wha I. I we Ye could to safeguard the city health heaR ri there then If the material in which the t typhoid J S germ exists is thoroughly dried in th the 6 sun the germ will not live more than thai twelve to twenty-four twenty hours If it l is burled without first being thoroughly disinfected the germ may live twelve to eighteen months And you cant can't kill it b by freezing it Usually it is believed th the thi germ is dead after being carried a few rew miles In river water This Is a difficult matter to determine however inasmuch as ns there thera are cases on record where the germ genn has to travel a very considerable considerable consid consid- erable crable distance in rn water I III believe that the canyon streams should hould be under strict supervision at least as far up as ten miles miles above the intake of oC the cit city water works which would take talu it up to close to the Maxfield mine After Investigation of conditions t there I hm am am led to believe that while something must be done at once some means ought to be taken to have the health conditions there brought under the control of someone some ono one central authority |
