Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-01-28 | Page 4 | Snow Would Help Water Pipe Situation

WOUlD HElP I THE WATE VATER PIPE SITUATION It I I too t-co that snow is predicted said Superintendent C. C F. F Barrett of ot the tho waterworks department this morning If wo we can pet ct about a foot of it in Salt Lake it will ill relieve tho the frozen pipe situ situ- It will act as n a blanket and 3 warm tho the ground With about fifty additions today to toI the already long list of ot applicants I whoso whose water connections arc rc frozen the total number still remaining to be cared for is inci increased eased to about Assistant SuPerintendent Allen Me- Me of tho waterworks department c estimated this that it will require re ro quire quiro about three w weeks week's ch to reach them all Four Pour gangs are arc orl a averaging in sixteen hours bours a day dar in thawing tha pipes The Thc Utah Li Light ht an and Traction company has two machines that arc aro at the service of tho the people providing pro the service is pala for Cor Many sufferers not not content to wait vait for the city are aro paying pain for or this 8 service r Tho Thu cit city is gorc greatly hampered tampered by b pipes freezing again after laying having been thawed About cases of this lund kind ha have Vo been reported This is canned b by people in the houses affected failing fo keep their water running If If those in iu the tho frozen sections will keep tho water moving mo this will ill not happen is tho the statement nt of Superintendent r n. n Barrett