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Show as' THE CHRISTMAS NEWS, -- DECEMBER 15 1923- - PRIMARILY to prorrara stringent iconora, made Bsosanuy to affact a alight raduo-Ua- n la tha city tag rata mu aid pal work during pubUo Improvement tha 081 yaar waa omaw hat cur tailed. Tha revenue available waa sufficient for llttla more than nWira. ' maintenance, though tha city earn mlealon atrova Inaofar aa'poaalbla to make t flora Improvement, which ware moat necessary In keeping DUB , With X good public policy. Mambera of tha city eommlaalon racognlaa a publlo demand for low or taxes, and it la to thta end that they have at riven during tha year Just ending Notwtthatandlng this, howavar. there have baaii aome PubUo noteworthy achlavamanta. Improvement contracta calling for wera work 1100,7(0-0eoeting awarded prior to Oct It, Hit. and an addition!)! MO.KO.Il worth of contract work will have been lot before tha end of the yaar, In addition to tlila, work eoeting 1111,074.11. contracted for In waa oompleted thla yaar. , . till, Water Supply of City Steadily Increasing to tncreaao CINTIMUINO pinna aupply under taken whan Mayor. C. Clarence Noalen aaaumad Jurladlctlon over tha waterworks department ala years ago, a great deal of Important work haa boon accomplished In tha last 11 months. To tha average tax payer much of thla work la Invisible, for tt Includes vain eble water exchangee by which tha elty la enabled to taka.tha para canyon stream waters In exchange for water from Utah lake, the letter being furnished to farmers for Irrigation purposes Today Balt Lake City pwns practically all tha waters of CSty, Creek- - Parleys and ltlg Cottonwood canyons, ami during the year now ending It has acnulred title to portions of the flow of the Utile Cottonwood and Mill Crook at roams, Recently a deal was consummated between the city end the board of governors Of tbs Irrigation project by which the city the waters of the wrath acquired fork? of ltlg Cottonwood canyon. Tbla Includes the watershed which feeds Lakes .Blanche.' Florence and Lillian, and at a point below these lakes It Is proposed to dam the canyon and create a mammoth stomea reservoir. Thta project la merrily planned, of course, but the water already hog been made available., t Acquisition of additional water In Llttla Cottonwood will make necessary the construction of dams In that canyon, and also tho building Jof a conduit 'from Little Cotton-woocanyon to Big Cottonwood jeanyon to carry the additional waiter Into the city mains. In connection, with these exchanges the Hty has been obliged jto build for the farmers Incite Cottonwood end East Mill Creek districts pipe line systems to furnish them with pure water for culinary kiss.1 The contract for the East 1 Mill Creek- avstem. costing, waa awarded this year and be Improvement la now practically completed. I Work also has been commenced on the Upper Canal exchange sysdistrict tem In the Cottonwood will cost .127.104, according J thirty o the estimate! of the city engl- -reerlng. department. years 'the average dally Supply of water to, Balt lake City has grown .from B1.4 million gallons to 91. million gallons, 24 alias of new water timing have boon laid and six miles of netv mip-nl- y Curlines, vjaot to mention the Bunley's canyon eondutt er.J tho , even 11, Tieemit. there of same time period Jysldebeen 19 mil.es u new stieet of new side. poring! laid. 2 9 miles Walks. 19 miles of rttrblngr and 2 of sewers, seven miles gutterlbs. miles of storm sewers, end a five not new parks opened, Including' a tjhe Nibley park golf course, gift toi the city by Bishop ' x Itilbley. j A notable Improvement under- - . take by tbe waterworks department tibia year waa tha placing of Creek water chanthe bpen City nel into a ronifult between what Is known as the old brick tank and tbe Twentieth ward tank, a distance of approximately 2.004 feet. This Improvement, effected at of 1 IS. 000, makes poeslhle the formal opening next spring of the lower part of City Creek canyonla r- publlo park. The water contamination and protected from station and purifying omening tattoos are eliminated at a saving ."It affords me sincere pleasure extend Christmas nestings te fellow eitisens of Balt Lake City to- and Utah. "The past year has been one' Of prosperity and advancement tor the oily end amte; may tha yeiar to coma aaa even greater progress. "Novor ,ln her history haa Bnlt Lake hnd brighter future. My one dualre la for peace, prosperity and progress, with hnrmony and good will between all. C. CLARENCE NK8LEN, : f' t : v , Brown-Bsnfor- d dl I 11.-(77.7- t , C-'- . , SMT LAKE CITYS KIJICTIVE OKPICUltS. 1 Artlinr F. Mayor C. (Inrenm Ntvlen, txneilewkilvT. rtf Water Supply nrul Wnttvweritk. IVnrunloilerwT Streets tPmmlwIoiHV Ik'iwflineut of Hnfety. h Theodor T. HurtoM, 11. of tkxnraliwleiiir A lmen. Auilltiv. llurman n, and ltililr Ittipriiumettix. t Alvin Kr-liurt, City" 0 Ur, M. It. Stewart, Oimmlwdoncr of Burks aval 1uhliu ITojicrty. Public Affairs and 1imuea I ItanieM, to the city of from 12.000 to 13.009 a year. Ths lower part of the canyon already has been set asldo as a opening park, though Its formal new enawaits tho opoulng of a been trance, a project which haa Necesyears. underway for severalnow have been sary rights of way obtained, however, and the new entrance from North Templo street will be e realisation next year. Ae publlo park City Creek canyon la without a parallel in Balt it Ioike Valley. Not only does lend Itself naturally to conversion into a park, but It is extromely' appropriate to perpetuate ae , ouch since It, formed the original of the Utah pioneers. A month ago It was announced that 0 per cent of tho water services In Bnlt Lake City are now metered. This means a material saving In water since It has been proved that there la a Substantial reduction in waste on metered In 1J1 only approxipremises. mately 20 per cent of the services weret metered. I. pipy-grou- nd 1 I,- Streets and Drainage Given Close Attention from the public con- work ovif which the street department headed by Commission er' T. T. Burton, luw Jimsdction, the department Itself has done a great amount of work this year. perhaps the most conspicuous achievement of the street ilepart-- i of a ment was the commencement north-wasin the big drainage of the city," which, m when completed, will "forever remedy the serious flood conditions during the high water seasons. Not only will this drainage ye-thelp the northwestern part of the city, where thousands of dollar damages have occurred almost annually for years post, hut it also will provide a means of , carrying off the surface waters from the eastern hart of the city. The Jordan river is the natural t Leake valdrainage outlet fojr Salt ley. IteaUotng that It must be so Burton Commissioner conserved commenced the took of dredging It, beginning at the mouth In Davis county, which had become filled with silt and gravel carried down v , ths river. A new outlet was constructed by means of a stream drag lino. This outlet is about on mile long, 41 test wide and between f and It ASIDE i O feet deep. It affords a channel for the water to flow into tho rivor unimpeded, whereas for years it has been backing up and flooding thousands of acres of marsh I a ruin. Another channel is sow In course of construction, leading between the river a mile south of the outlet and a point near the Cudahy packing plant In North Salt Lake. Two additional chonnols of laterals, running north and eonth will be constructed in connection with this ditch, and by their means the territory between the Thirteenth South street canal, which nearly overflowed two years ago, and the northern city limits wilt bs effectively drained. Furthermore this improvement will form on of the moat effective parts of the campaign against the mosquito lost pest, which was updertaken ' spring. means modernized of methBy ods Including motor equipment the street department has been en- -, ablc1 to cars for many more ,mlles of streets than in any previous year. The most effective method of surfacing a street with what a hard surface paving approaches is what Is termed penetrated , constructed With crunhed rdek w.th a tar binder. Among the more notable improvements of this character have burn made on C street between South Temple and Third avenue; D street. between South Temple and Third avenue; Twelfth Fast street between Sec ma-ead- rr ond and Third South streets, D street between Third and Eleventh id Hoventh West street avenues, between b rond North and Ninth tiouth street. , Forty miles of streets have been oiled thla season, making spring-lin- g unnecessary nnd providing a Much much improved highway. of the city garbage which is now hauled by the' street department has been used for filling of low places tn connection with street paving. Through arrangements with ths United 8tatge war department arrangements have been made for the construction of a boulevard through the Fort Douglas military reservation and the xprork is now, underway. This right 'of way will connect the Eleventh avenue boulevard leading out of City Creek canyon with the Wasatch the footDrive, which encircle hill to the east of the city About half of tbe grading already luis been completed, and in the spring motorists will belven an additional link in what is to become a drive 6econd between the territory drive will be Surfaced with gravel and oiled. The various streams within the efty were dredged by the street department lost spring and the serious floods averted. Work contracted for tn 1922 but completed this year included curbing and guttering and construction j A.. k II te Connell & Co. pp-r- i ra ' I f 4 -- c X ' a Funeral Directors and Embalmers t South West Temple St Salt Lake City. Wasatch 6461. Branch House, Bingham, Utah. 225-22- 7 II :s . |
