Show subterranean WATE iii the western part of south america Aiu erica are found the ruins of an ancient aqueduct constructed construct edof of solid masonry extending ig upward sr of tour hundred I 1 ades ail ed we think thia as a ity we have spent considerable labor in this line liae but our efforts in comparison with this stupendous work are but bat as a drop in the bucket when the population latto a shall warrant it ft we w may have haire to resort to permanent work of this natu rebut not to this ek extent tent salt lake city requires many many million gallons of water daily part of this comes from city creek and other ether adjacent streams and part from the jordan canal yet the ahe supply is far from beins being equal to the demand especially ally is toils the case during the summer months various are the plans that thai have been revised for the pur m p apse ose qt of increasing the requisite supply not only for this city but elsewhere this has been done mainly by means of erecting dams and constructing ting reservoirs and aqueducts aqueduct athe the latter in some extending lor for many miles and only maintained by a very considerable annual outlay to cover the costs of constant breakages break ages in the embankments and aind to meet the inevitable demand for damages to the F property of those people living along the lin estoy these unexpected and unavoidable boods in order to escape some of these evils and to a certain extent su supply alythe the increasing demand for water it fyda as been thought for some parts of the territory there is a more excellent atay wax it Is not that this plan will work in very every locality but abatt will A the desired purpose pur poise in many places lapes there is little reason to liouba it titas has been amply demonstrated there are subterranean streams and i reservoirs of great capacity in many parts of the territory which if they could collid be brought to 0 the surface would in many cases casear amply supply the dem demand an d what that tois this is a a ase fact t is ully fully borne out by the many flowing streams q wined obtained by driving aites artesian itsu wells wells in in it evari 8 ous places these streams vary in their air flow from fifteen to upwards of fifty gallons per minute it is further fow found that by sinking other shafts near wells veils already la ba full now flow additional I 1 streams can be obtained w without ith I 1 apparently in the least diminishing minI shing the previous flow this C clearly arly demonstrates that the sace 0 of f supply Is not easily exhausted why it pot be feasible in view oi of these facts to dri drive v e say twenty or thirty of these thase wells i in n two lines contiguous to each other nd ind connecting each by a short branch pipe to a central aqueduct of large capacity thus thug raise to the surface a stam of a ca pacify macit commensurate as near as practicable ti r e with that of its subterranean source we ve are reliably informed that these mils of average depth can be driven at a cost of ab about out jorty forty cents per foot and that when once oace the water imes rises to the surface the flow ii coustant constant land the cost of maintaining the absolutely at an end in in consideration of aiese well known facts why would ll it not be adv isableo pursue this course and thus instead of resting satisfied with 4 single small isolated stream from this source I 1 secure as near as practicable the entire amount of the subterranean stream |