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Show MI LAKE'S WATE5 'SUPPLY IS ElOlffi-? : ; THAN DOUBLE' AKOUNI:OELAST:YEAR business. In one of the largest hotels in the city it was impossible to get water on the third floor after 3 o'clock in the afternoon on account of the low pressure. . Popperton Has Suffered. . . ' So far this year everyone has had all the water needed, with the exception of some of the residents of Popperton. This place and the surrounding neigh- , borhood are under what is known as 1 the Highland system, being 5000 feet above sea level, which necessitates taking tak-ing the water out of City creek about four and a half miles from its mouth, in order to secure enough pressure to force the water to this height. This district is fed by a 12-inch pipe, and the scarcity of - water In the highest parts is caused by residents in the lower districts taking more than their share to use in sprinkling.' It was at first thought that no hour restriction would be placed on the sprinkling this year, but unless lawn owners are less wasteful they will be restricted to certain cer-tain hours daily. Ordinance Governs Sprinkling. Many Salt Lakers do not know that there is an ordinance which regulates the irrigating of lawns. According to the ordinance any person is entitled to thirty minutes' sprinkling to every 100 square yards of lawn in the upper portions por-tions of town, and twenty minutes in the lower districts. With an average pressure of 60 pounds, 450 gallons will run through an ordinary nozzle in thirty minutes, which seems a good deal of water to put on 100 yards of lawn. It is estimated that there are about 700 acres of lawn in the city, or 3,374.000 square yards. In the grounds of the city and county building there are 13.000 yards of lawn, and about 59,130 gallons of water are used dally to keep it going. Much Water for Streets. To keep the dust on the streets down requires about, 2,500.000 gallons daily. This is about "one-sixth of the water supply of last year. After May 1, 1902. there was no waste or overflow until the fall rains. This year the gate at the intersection of Main and North Temple streets has been used constantly to back up the waste water running down City creek and force it into four streams, one on each side of Main and one on each side of North Temple streets. These streams are subdivided at each corner and are used for irrigating purposes. City Has 28,000,000 Gallons Gal-lons Daily and Snow in the Mountains Will Last All Summer. - ! O CITY SHOULD SAVE . . SURPLUS WATER TO ., PEEVENT FAMINE. . 1 9 ""While City Watermaster, HInes ! S) does not anticipate a water famine I in this city. for many years, he says 3 It Is well to take good care of what 8 we have. With this end in view plans for the construction of a num- ) k ber of reservoirs in the different ' I canyons to take care of the surplus ) water ere under consideration. It is 1 hoped that the City Council will 1 3 take these stops to insure the city's water supply so the experience of I s) last year may. not be gone through again. () w There Is no longer any danger of a scarcity of water In 'this city during , this summer according to the present situation. In this respect the city md j . Its peaple are about twice as fortunate as. they were one year ago, when water was almost at a premium and a water j famine seemed Imminent. The danger of a reservoir- conflagration has also been reduced more than 60 per cent on ! . account of the increased water pressure. pres-sure. During the month of June, 1902, there was very seldom more than fifty pounds pressure registered at the water-master's office, while so far this month the register has ranged from' 105 to 125 pounds, more than twice last June's ' record. ' j On the 6th of June, 1902, the water supply measured about 6 inches. On the same date this year, measurements were taken which showed 15.20 inches, an increase of nearly two and a half ' times the former volume. Much Snow in the Hills. On the first day of April last year there was little or no snow in any of the canyons, and what little water did . come down to the city came from springs far up in the mountains. There is now more snow in City Cre,ek" canyon can-yon than there has been for Ave years. As it still continues cool weather where , the supply of water heads, the snow is packed and frozen so bard that it J is doubtful if even the hot days of -july and August will melt it all and it is thought that a quantity of it will remain re-main where it now lies until next summer. sum-mer. From this snow all the water supply of the city comes and upon the quantity stored in the mountains depends the amount of water available. There is now about, 13,000, 000 gallons daily coming com-ing from Parley's canyon and about the same quantity running from City Creek canyon. This, taken with other sources of supply, aggregates about .28.000,000 gallons which could be used if use could be found for it. , Shortage Last Summer. Compare th"is with the supply last year. There were many days during the summer months when it was almost impossible to get 12.000.000 gallons daily which were required for sprinkling, domestic do-mestic uses and for animals. Nearly one-half of the present supply cannot be used, as it is impossible to handle more than a certain amount owing to the size of the water-mains in some districts. 4 There are at present 150 miles, or 792,000 feet of pipe line laid in the city. Of this, 113 miles are from 6 to 24-inch pipe; 2S miles, 4-inch; 8 miles, 3-lnch; and t miles, 2-Inch. If none of these lines was less than 6-inch pipe a considerably con-siderably larger amount of water could be handled. During the months of June, July and August, last year, many restaurant-keepers restaurant-keepers and hotel men were unable to secure pufflclent water to conduct their |