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Show WATER OUTTLOOK-BETTTER to m OF WATER Supply Will Be Shot Off Where Taps Are Left Open. HASTY PREPARATIONS TO HELP CONDITIONS Arrangements Made With Farmers to Borrow From Ditches. Every water riser of Salt Lake City who allows the taps to run to prevent freezing will have the water ahnt off without notice. Water will not be turned on again until a meter la installed. Order for the shutting off of the water of ail such water users wss jMtieu mis morning ty w . IL Korns, commisaioner of water works, following; a conference) with Mayor Kamuel C. Parle A short time) later "force of thirty men started out to semrjr tho eiiy for open taps. The force includes in-cludes the regular -force, from the water works depsrtment and members of the police, fire and health departments. The imperative im-perative order is given to all men to torn off the water without with-out explanation in every case where they find it running. At a special aeesioa of tho.eity eom missies held thla morning an appropriation appropria-tion for a pump to be installed at tbs artesian we.lls at Iiibertr park was made. Tho pump was ordered a few minutes later aad wil bo la action by tonight. This will add 1,000,000 gallons gal-lons daily to tbo water mains, , Millions of Gallons Added. Late yesterday afteraooa 8. Q. Can-son Can-son of tbo city engineering department made a special trip to tho Cottoawood .district, where ho mads arrangements with tho farmers for tho use of water during tbe present cold snap. Late bat night tbe extra flow of tho big ditch, amoostiag to about 1,500,000 gallons daily, was turned luto the Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood conduit and reached tho eity mains shortly after midnight. Thii morning the water of the J. P. Cahoon ditrh waa turned into toe conduit. The flow - approximates 0,000,000 galloni every twenty-four hours. It was turned into tho conduit about 11 o'clock this moruing and should reach tho city maim about 3 o'clock or 4 o'clock this afternoon. aft-ernoon. At noon today Commissioner Korni said that he hoped to have a flow ol between 10.000.000 and 11,00.000 gal Ions daily flowing into the city main-before main-before night. Korns Denies Carelessness. Cooimlaeloner Korua took exception etlmrnta that propw car. had not twei takan t kcp tbe -anyon atrmuns opn II. 1 lrl that nce Hnnrtay mornlni an extra fore, of m.n had lMn ensoae. In .ach of th. canyons which supply hu city with wat.r. --Jt ts almost Impoe alula, how.v.r, to keep the stream opan.' said h. "Aa fat aa they are opened th. wat.r IrmsH. W. are dnlnar evarythint In our power to rell.v. the present aitua-tiou aitua-tiou and will twii up th work until ar abt. to ssy that th.ra Is pitiity vl it for nil. " DurlrisT th. morning the members the cllv commiSMlon wcr. In constani I touch w:lth each uth.r on the water question. ques-tion. Fverv posslol. thing that can rx don to rllee th. situation Is baini done. Kallroad Situation Sasy. The Oregon Utiort Ltn. ehope aod sin., ar. oclna run with car. of even drop of water Uwl -n be curtd. Whiii th. cnmpiiT Is wcthttif HtUe or no ws tnr from tho eitr main, th. oonipatiy li nut asriously citppll owtns to tit. far that It haa a .iipoly of wal.r of its owt st th. north yard shops. Th. .nxtriae er. b.lne- tlllwl from a lam. artesian w-owoed w-owoed by th. t'tah V ana Kturas. com pany, nar First orth an4 fourth V e. atresia. While not seriously handicapped, th. 11nvr Rio Or.ndo ta havlnc i-onsid rsblfl trouble today owln t tn. short as of water at tlie shops. Th. .naioc r being- rilled with Just crouch .te to carrv them saf.l to xtidal. wher tne company lias a Isige supply of wa tec. An ena-tne from th. tire department ss sent to th. rlot.l 1 Uh this morning- art- Kumtxl 10,000 gallons of watvr into tb ot.l s private vesevvotr. |