Show COMMITTEE CO ll TUE LIKES UK ES MOUNTAIN LAKE Wi Recommend Purchase c of Water in Both the Cottonwoods WILL BUY THEM THEA City Hn Engineers Engineer's Plan Is to Build Dam Store time the tle Waters of ofF F Fifteen lC n Ln Lakes I I CIt City En Engineer Kel Kelsey e and th the Waterworks committee of the cit cH council counci will wi the purchase of or small smal lakes In Big lg and Little Litle Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot Cot- canyons canons and the Beaver dar dam at the tho mouth of or Little Cottonwood t to tobe be bo Ufe used by hy Salt Si Lake In Increasing the th Ui city city's s water supply J. J M. M r. r Thomas rhoma who claims to ow own the fifteen lakes nine of ot which ar aro situated In Big Dig Cottonwood and six bc I In Little Cottonwood will wi sell the whole string for or 3 and throw In th the Beaver elam dam tam for tor good measure II 10 accompanied four our councilmen the tho cit et engineer his assistant as and two newspaper now news paper pater mon men over the mountains at nt th the head of Big Dig Cottonwood and overlake evernice over ever overy nice lake e was vas visited It I Is thu tho Idea to bull bulla a a m. m damn dam tam at the outlet of or each take lake t I tn JIg Cottonwood and to hold holt time the sur sur- plus phul water that runs runt down from th Ui tho mountain In tho th he spring instead c or H IL f go g to tl lit in the th Jorda Jordan river lver In damming tho ho mouth o of th la akes keH r reservoirs Will bo bl created d. d Th Tho lake itkes average C ten acres and In Bl Bi Dig ca Cottonwood would create a storage o c- c of ot nearly a billion gallons While tho ho visited all aU o oho olie of ho tho Dig Big Cottonwood lakes lake embodied In n the made by Mr rhomas rhom is as ts th they did not have ha time to go Ink the lie Little Litte Cottonwood proposition I IS Is I Is s believed that the they favor the pur pur- chag of or tho the lakes Inkes as they the will wi af aC- oid ConI a supply of oC water that will wi be o ol or service at once an and will wi ill help to mulct he the Interior of or the lie Dig Big DG Cottonwood a little llo damper than thun It ft ha has hash h icons een cn all summer Co COSt t t of or Hams Dams Twin Lakes which are at nt the thc head could be he utilized ad ad- of f the lie canyon It I would cost tc to mild build a n dam am an and get the lal lakes s in shape o 0 that lint the outlet could be bo controlled without damaging the Interests ol oC who now use the stream Mary Marj lake ake has perhaps perhaps more water than an my other single lake Is well wel situated mod md when converted convened into a u reservoir site ite would cover about ten acres with within sie in an average depth of twenty feet Ceet ac- ac according cording to Mr 11 Thomas Dog lake this the smallest of the tho lot hot Is situated In Iii an deal Ideal place for or a reservoir but doe does not lot drain drin so productive a v. territory lakes is as an any of or Iho tho other Lal Luke Lake Blanche Banche three miles mies to the south of or the thc main road in Big Dg Cot- Cot ton onwood wood can canyon on an and up UI a perilous rail Is perhaps the bost best proposition or f any In Big Dig Cottonwood so far Car as sites are concerned With Florence and amid Lily Liy lakes lying In close and an arm Ideal place for lor alam a alam adam lam dam to handle hallo the outlet of all al three of or wat water ateI It is believed that this site stands t In the choice of oC lh the I illy officials who Inspected I it Lake Blanche the lie largest of or tho the three threes lies les lesIn In n mi the tho shadow oW of or th the Twin peaks It I of vater ater and there thero Is a v. las has as plenty down th the the- steep steel stream flowing own and merging with the Ito waters of f Dig Big Cottonwood creek I I Il l il In lum LI t a The three White Pine two Red ned Pine ine and tho the Minnie lake lako In Little will wi be Inspected by the lie Ity engineer at a later luter date These akes lakes were Involved In Iii litigation two had constructed constructed con con- Ir Thomas homas years ars ngo ago Mr dams danis with wih a view to creating reservoirs Farmers who use the tho reser work stream tream tome lore away some of his and md he brought suit before Ju Judge ge Hall Hal Halto and Lo to 0 quiet title In the prop property rt prevent reent the tho tte farmers runners trout from 1101 further tamperIng tampering tam tarn with the lakes The court coUt sold held and amid It I was 85 later affirmed b by time the Supreme court that the tho farmers had hal hala a 1 15 right to the water of ot Little Litle Cotton Cotton- Coton- Coton wood an and to the tho source of or supply supply o ol of hat that stream Yet it is t caime claimed that the city by the tIme surplus water vater b by creating reservoir Ing sites can obviate tho ho legal lesal of ot tho ho hovater obstacle by giving to u users er water vater just as much as the they are now appropriating and holding In reserve a x t big supply for use In the months when water Is scarce By fly building a alam alam 0 lam dam and anti holding holdin all al of the water the lake and allowing that lint runs Into u i L stream of ot the time present capacity to tofo low loti It Il Is calculated that no one will Ifer fo an aim objection As to th the title tto to he the lal lakes es Mr 1 Thomas s oma f will wi guarantee that lint It Is clear and amid any an expense at- at ached to proving his claims will wi have by himO him to o be A Atla O Ten Acres The lakes lukes will wi average ern e ten acres In size nize with wih an average depth of twenty Ceet The water irater is clear cleal as crystal old cold as Ice and ami pure as mountain air aim al' al Mr lii Thomas Thomaa has con constructed small smal lams hams at the tho outlets to most o of them jut but it is the tho lie plan I If the cl city buys the lie akes lakes i to lo build concrete dams of oC suf- suf dimensions to hold an enormous supply of water wah l' l without encroaching DU on li adjacent claims II it I would woul cost co t about r to lo Improve ea each h lake lal 5 1 t r A S 'S l c 0 11 J 1 d I jo counting Blanche Florence and Lily Lilyas Ily as one Another feature of the plan Is to dam darn up the tho lie Ilk lakes s In Jim Little Litte Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton Cotton- Colon Colon- wood In a similar manner to that employed em em- In Dig Big Dg Cottonwood then Ihen to lo utilize Heaver Beaver dam at the mouth of ot the canyon and pipe pile the water vater two or three miles niiles mies to the tIme mouth of ot Big Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot Cot- canyon canon where the stream would be merged mer cd with th the the- Big Dg Cottonwood Cot Cot- and turned ned Into the conduit conduit Perhaps the city can cn Induce In uce Pat Moran to lo build another conduit to connect with time the one he lie Is just completing The Little Collon Co project Is more lo 1 costly Hum the thc work worl planned In Big Dig costy Cottonwood and anti some of tho cl city councilmen who tho went over tIme the proposition eltion are aro not in iii II favor avon avon- of using those sion lakes lukes However It Il Is pointed out that the city could take them all al in with the offer ofer and If Ir it I is not thought a advisable to improve them they could coul be lal laid aside until needed J Kelsey lI Will I Report City Engineer Kelsey Kelso will wi prepare a report to the committee on waterworks waterworks water water- wOk works In which he will wU sum up the tho whole proposition showing the tho location location loca loca- tion of lie Iho proposed reservoir sites ton their capacity and anti tho the benefit the they would be to tho the cl city Also he ma may beable be beable able ablo to suggest a scheme to raise mise tho time lone money Cy S S S i i. f u t A J o f |