| Show A preventive PROJECT WE learn from mr nir cyrus il II gold a property owner in ia the district adjacent to this city recently flooded by the jordan river eiver during high water season that the residents of that locality are arc working up a project for the permanent avo avoidance dance of any such disagreeable I 1 gree able and arld destructive condition in ill future the proposition is to cut a by which a large portion of the waters of the tiie jordan can when floods prevail be carried earned directly into the salt lake i in con cou conversation with surveyor jesse W fos fox of the subject we learn from I 1 him hlin tills this undertaking king could be bei bej consummated consuilo in a ted tea with but small expense compared with vilh its magnitude and the extent of the benefits it ic would co confer 11 fer there is a natural channel most of the distance that wo would uld nid be traversed its head is at the south end of E F Litt littie little letlo lelle farm on the west side of the river niver where it joins the county road and at a point where the water has already broken over from the reit ruit sweeps around in a northwest direction li to tile tiie salt galt lake bake in the prosecution of this work the surveyor expresses the opinion that a greal great 9 reat deal of expense would be saved by utilizing two alkali lakes that are near the line of the partly formed channel by doing the excavating that we bill needed between them thus saving further work wyk wuk for tor the entire length of both in addition to thie thic amount of excavation that would be required it would be necessary to construct two short tiu fiu blumes flumes mes to edli conduct duct the stream over the tile brighton canal at the points where it would have to cross that acque duct net A bridge would have to abe bc built to allow passage for the water under the utah and nevada railroad track and several bridges over public roads encountered on the route and on the lands ot of private parties through whoso choso grounds rounds it would woula pass A strong head gate at the opening would also be in 1 dispensable had this outlet been in existence all the trouble anxiety work and expense inturre incurred d by this seasons flood would have been saved as it would have lowered the river about eighteen inches it is never too late to mend however and the project of anadel an additional outlet for jordan river biver is presented as a preventive of subsequent damage from the same cause surveyor fox expresses the opinion that it would be a permanent solution of the overflow question in tile tiie locality interested saving 11 a large breadth of county and and city property from damage by flood or seepage of which especially the latter there is more or less less every year besides the large lare lh interest terest in relation to the subject in this county a number of davis county farmers are arc involved and would probably be willI willing nIg to bear their proportion of the expense we are informed by mr gold that the property owners of the district are taking steps to present a petition setting forth their views and proposals on the matter to the county and eity city authorities in view of the importance of the subject we believe it would be well for the county and city to jointly ordera order a survey of the proposed outlet and an estimate of the entire cost of the project and aad if it be found that the the fhe outlay would wo u id be warranted in view of the benefits ben eILLS ellus to be derived from such an enterprise to make an equitable arrangement man ran gement in regard to the proportionate bearing of the expense from the public treasuries and the pockets of tile the people more immediately interested tho thu plan bears the impress of feasibility upon its face aro are eighty three prisoners pr loners in the penitentiary at present |
