| Show t to ANALYSIS OF DRY CANYON waxen WATER KOT essentially detrimental TO HEALTH IMAO I 1 1 1 1 university OP 01 DE Di deseret SERET 1 SALT SuLT bake LAKE CITY october octoba oth 1884 I 1 I 1 editor deseret A few months aab ago a number of our citizens were cons a feted because of a report that the water issuing suin from dry canon canton and used as drini drinking ing water by residents bf the north bench mas was was so Imp impure umas as to be dan dangerous erous elous to the health of those drinkins I 1 rig it to io obtain something definite iii in regard to the matter at the request of several interested parties an analysis of tho the dry canon calion water wat erias has bas been made with the results as given below THE WATER WAS COLLECTED in july 1884 one sample was taken from the ine stream in the letthand lefthand lett iett hand fork another from the stream in right hand hana fork and a third sample from the main stream a combination of the two from the forks the water was clear and add had no unpleasant taste and was accompanied compa nied with no fetid odor i TILE tiie ELEMENTS the sample from the left lef lefthand t hand band fork contained in one gallon twenty two and nine hundred and twenty tive five 25 grains of solid matter consisting of the following substances Chlo chio chlorine rine rint sulphuric acid carbonic acid nitric acid phosphoric acid little more than a trace sodium iron oxide silica s I 1 ca I 1 I 1 0 r j the water from the right hand fork holds in solution thirty fiffe ardd anid five tenths grains of solid matter in one gallon the third sample obtained from the main stream has lias in one gallon thirty four toun and five tenths grains of saline substances made up for the same constituents as were found in the water from the lefthand leit left hand fork of the thirty four and five tenths 3 grains of solids per gallon in the third and one hundred and twenty live nive thousandths grains are thrown dorrion down on boiling leaving but twenty one and three teree hundred and seventy tive nive thousandths 21 3 grams grains the amounts of lime magnesia and sulphuric sulp snip hurie hurle acid per gallon were found to be as follows follow sr grains per gal lime 1 magnesia sulphuric Sulp hurie hurle acid gew gem IT IS GENERALLY GENNEI gennel ULLY that when there Is no more than thirty or forty grains of solid mateer per gallon galion in water no injury results from its use as drinking water on account of the quantity of of solid matter in incises incases cases however where one or two substances constitute almost the entire solid matter there is a probability of the waters acting injuriously on the human system for instance when there is ii considerable sulphuric acid or a large quantity of lime present there may luay bo be fears entertain entertained ell eli with respect to the constant use of the water magnesia may de hel hei held heid don dAn in solution in too great amounts and sometimes silica and iron oxide are in ili ex cx ce cess ot 0 the limit for health |
