| Show CITY'S W WATER AIER FAMINE TEMPORARILY ENDS PLANS FOR PERMANENT SUPPLY Weather Director Murdoch Says Big i Storage ora a Reservoirs Reservoirs Res Res- es- es Should Be e Built u uto to Hold the Spring Precipitation L. L II If Murdoch director o of the weather bureau is 19 a zealous advocate of at the storage reservoir as the best means meana of or furnishing an adequate water vater I supply for tor the city No No modern modem city said Mr III Murdoch can afford to be without an abundance of or pure water It Is 15 ab absolutely necessary necessary sar sary to health an and prosperity and ItIs Itis It ItIs Is time that tho tho people of Salt Lake realized that the they must provide a system system tem that will r the nc needs ds of or a a. growing city There is plenty of or water water wa wa- wa- wa ter Ilea here but It goes to waste during the floods of at sprinGtime Suggests a Remedy My belief Is b that by the of t 9 I WATER VATER FAMINE COMES TO AN END f The water famine Carnine that has been oppressing Salt Lake City since f ff f Judge Morse enjoined the tho city from using the waters of or Parleys Parley's creek f ff f almost two weeks a ago o has come to an nn end Today roday the eft city city- Is taking Into f Its mains all the How of or Parleys Parley's creek claimed b by the farmers sad and nl a n. afi fi l i full tull now How In the Jordan canal enables It to give s the farmers all nIl the water water wa- wa f 4 ter that I Is due them In exchange and still have some left for Cor Irrigation Irris 4 f purposes for the residents north of Ninth South street Moreover the fc f condition of the canal Is Improving all the time and by this evening f there will be plenty of ot irrigation water for all f i ff f Mayor Thompson in approving the contract by which tho the city re- re ref f selves one-fourth one of the water pumped b by the canal companies out of off f ff f Utah lake lalta plain plainly made It un understood that he was surrendering on the tho f ff f best terms possible Ho Iro clearly looks upon this contract with the pumpIng pump- pump t InS Ing calm canal companies comp as QS a case of at making a no virtue of oC necessity but ut anything anything any- any f ff f thing thins was preferable to playing ga game o of chance with lire fire or dr r disease f l l 4 44 4 44 4 44 4 44 4 jj one or more storage 1 above the city cly there would be no difficulty In 8 securing un an abundance of or water atall atall at atall all seasons of at the year Of Ot course thc they would d have havo to be very solidly constructed We can run no risk of or a repetition of ot the Johnstown disaster but the skill of ot modern engineering can cnn take tako care of that side of at the ques QUes- question tion Uon You sa say It would be very expensive Suppose it is Suppose it costs 1000 The taxpayers v would not object Continued on Page 3 f MAYOR APPROPRIATES SI FOR BIG RESERVOIR BOND ISSUE NEEDED Force Will Start Work of Building Watershed ast as So Soon n as Bedrock Is t F I. I Located f t i. Continued from Pago PaJO 1 1 k It If tn taxes es were Increased ed 40 per pcr cent provided thc they could s se see some real benefit ben ben- em coming from the use tire of Ot their mony mon- mon ey y Opposes Artesian Wells VeIls i What do I think of Or the plan of Ot sink sink- I Ins ing artesian wells They are not nat to be Depended upon An artesian well has hast t its source of supply in tn n the annual precipitation pre nrc- the the water percolates the rocks rock and toll roll seeking a Il lower level t and lud collects In bodies where it is reached reachel by 13 bO n A succession of ofF r F years In which there Is an accumulated Jated at d deficiency In the precipitation al always at- at ways t has a pronounced effect upon upen ar artesian artesian nr- nr I wel wells eIls You Yeu may observe this In Inthe Inthe inthe the wells in Liberty park Their how flow I is not more than one half ns as great rent as ns asIt asit it was a few years ago The precipitation precipitation tation for the la last t ten years alS al'S Is 1173 feet i less than normal and If the dr dry cycle y remains with us a few years cars lon longer cr r artesian wells cannot be relied upon I believe that thal to pipe the water from Bear r c river would cost more than the building of ef storage rp reservoirs and nd I think the storage c plan will be adopted before eCore the water question Is properly f settled I f r- I am glad to s o e the agitation of I this subject O by The Telegram It should be productive of Or much good to uie l ci ell city ty |
