Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-27 | Page 13 | S. L. and State Talk of Swap in Land, Water

S LAND L. L AND STATE I j TALK TAIL OF OFIN SWAP I IN LAND WATER Meeting Presents First Step Toward Possible Negotiations Representatives of Salt Lake City and Utah opened negotiations Thursday which are arc likely to lead both In the future to a conference table where an offer to swap land for lor water rights will be discussed R. R K Brown superintendent of construction for the state buildIng building building build build- ing commission appeared before commissioners with a joint resolution resolution resolution reso reso- lution of at the legislature authorizing ing negotiations in behalf of the state to take title to a parcel of land now owned by the city by feet at the southeast corner of Second North and State streets Counter Proposal City commissioners immediately countered with a proposal that the city take title to water rights at attached attached attached at- at to lands now occupied by bythe bythe bythe the state prison The prison site is soon to be abandoned for lor a new one near Point of the Mountain and the land subdivided into home- home sit sites s. s Would S Separate parate Rights Under such a deal the stAte slate would be asked to s separate parate water rights from the land before it 1 is I. subdivided and convey the water about gallons per day accruing accruing accruing ac ac- ac- ac chiefly from Parleys Parley's creek to the city The wat water r is valued roughly at and in consideration of its acquisition by the city cUy the latter would deed to the state the parcel of land now being eyed by the legislature Probability of the city adding other land to make the swap equitable is not remote under another phase of the situation observed observed observed ob ob- served some city officials The water finance and park commissioners were named to meet with Mr Brown No date was set for their first conference