Show SALT LAKES LAKE'S NEW PUMPS LARGEST IN THIS COUNTRY Within the next few days two of or the big bh centrifugal pumps at the Utah lake Jake plant will be In operation and two others should be ready for business In Inthe Inthe inthe the two weeks following The plant which will lift JIll water out of or the lake for tor the various canals nals In Salt Lake valle valley will be the largest pumping plant In the United States Each pump will be propelled by a power horse Westinghouse motor the current coming from the Jordan Jordon Narrows Narrow's plant The rhe pumps have ha a pipe suction of or Cort forty Inches diameter and nd a n discharge of or forty eight Inches making a n. capacity of ot morn moro than cubic feet o of water per second which Is equivalent to a n flow Bow of ot gallons every twenty tour hours With the two pumps going the river flow will be trebled The relief relict comes rather late to be o of benefit to crops this season The delay Is chief chiefly due to the failure of the makers of the pumps to ship them from San Francl Francisco co on scheduled time Former City Engineer Frank Kelse Kelsey Is directing the engineering work and the plant will cost when completed The expense expense ex ex- pense of ot the operation will be about 2000 monthly Utah lake is now V three feet lower Jower than compromise point and within three inches of ot the lowest water mark The further lowering of ot th the the- lake by hy artificial means may Invite the objections of the owners of land Jand along ulong Its IUS shores and an Injunction suit against the I IR Is threatened |