Show ARMY TO LEND CITY FUNDS TO TOLAY TOLA TOLAY LA LAY Y NEW MAIN MAII Pipeline Will Supply Ordnance Plant Work Soon to Start The army will lend Salt Lake Lake City to finance initial construction con con- construction construction of permanent w wa water a t e e r mains to the Utah ordnance plant Lieutenant Colonel Elmer G. G Thomas constructing quartermaster ster s- s ter in charge of plant construction construction tion n notified the city commission Wednesday Also at the commission meeting a possible solution to the problem of ridding the arms plant site of drainage water was found after Gus P. P Backman chamber of commerce commerce commerce com com- merce executive secretary warned the commission construction was in danger of being closed down City Attorney E. E Ray Christensen Christen- Christen sen and the engineering department department department depart depart- ment were directed immediately to begin preparing specifications and legal details for the pipe line job Plan Inch 16 Main 1 MainA A inch 16 line is to be installed along California avenue 1300 South street east to Third East and Thirteenth South streets where it will hook into a inch 30 main supplied from the Murray artesian basin and Big Cottonwood and Parleys Parley's canyons A priority rating will be furnished furnished fur fur- the city by the he army on onhree three and a half miles of pipe needed Lieu Lieutenant ten ant Colonel Thomas said The contract for forthe forthe the he loan will arrive from i San Francisco in two or three days he said saia- The loan will be repaid by the city through the furnishing of water to the plant city officials explained Pipe will be obtained from a firm in Birmingham Ala and will not be received for 30 to 60 days they explained Between 15 and 30 days will be required after its arrival to complete the job It is planned to later build ad additional additional additional ad- ad lines to increase the I amount of water available at the thep p plant n I Shutdown Threatens Mr Backman r reported ported that ground water at the plant site is hampering placing of footings for Buildings and that construction may nay have to be closed down uness unless unless un- un less ess some means of disposal is found found- r S 'S Sevc V p Clubs Clubs' lubs and companies s. s have lave protested a request of Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu- Lieu tenant Co Colonel opel Thomas that permission permission permission per per- mission be granted to dump the water into the surplus canal and the city commission was informed by ay Mr Christensen that a state stale supreme court injunction issued in February 1898 forbids the practice The court found water adjoining adjoining adjoining adjoin adjoin- ing the canal contained salts and alkalises detrimental to crops Continued on Page Nineteen |