Show I CITY GITY WANTS TREES j ON PARLEY LANDS LAND Council Memorializes Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture to Plant on Ground TO HELP WATER SUPPLY Farm of Acres Does Not Nol Help Grade of Water for City Purposes The Tho city council has memorialized the Secretary o of agriculture at Washington to to o plant trees trec on the lie elt city turin furm at loun tn In Dell DelI in Parleys Pailey's canyon Tho Tue tann aria aim lands are arc still used b by the city cILy foi 01 or agricultural purposes 8 Instead of oC to ho tile best hest a advantage of or tho the city's city water supply most of oC which finds finas Its In Iii n and near the lie farm and aUlI the lie following follow follow- lug ing memorial 11 a I has hs been prepared b by CH City I Engineer Kel else Kelt-eJ- et hid and indorsed by the thc council for the lie secretary of agriculture ture nrc Your the lie mayor and city council of or Salt SI Lake Luko City respectfully respect respect- Cull fully 1 represent that hat said city is the theOter Oter O of oC a considerable of the tho lands comprIsing compiling the lie water shed of Parleys Parley's Canyon creek that thai a L tract of about 00 acres of this laud land which was purchased h by the tue city Crom iou the several sc individual owners thereof In lii order to lo remove C certain curtain causes eaues of contamination contamina lion ion of or the lie water vater of oC said ml cn creek cl has for foi man many years calS been seeded with alf alf- alfalfa alf alfa timothy re red tops lOps and ami other oilier grasses which h mire have yielded rl IC a abundant coPf crops of hu hay that said grass land Is IsaU all aU lu un under er ditch ant and I Is well supplied with water for fOI v Lion that the lie primary purpose of the thc ell city Is to utilize utilize utilize util util- ize the said land lanI In such uch manner as aswill aswill will vill best conserve conservo the water supply of f said ml creek against both waste and anil pollution that sal said elt city is the lie owner of or r practically all of the water of or Parey's Parleys Parley's Par Par- ley's leys creek I which Is con c conveyed e in a concrete masonry conduit from tho lie mouth of oC Parleys Parley's can canyon n to said city ami Is I there distributed through a t suitable suit sult- able ulle pipe system for tho lie uso use and nOlI benefit bene- bene H It of ot the inhabitants of or sal said city that fiat the lie spring and early summer now low of So aid stream am Is greatly In excess of oC the tue s of said cit city while the lie late season sea sea- son SOil How flow is S I Insufficient I for or such needs that for tor or the lie purpose of equalizing this variability In flow How a portion of the flood water vater has been pread upon the lie above c described lles tract of land to the lie end n that fiat till Hit lie seepage a Is returned to tho he natural channel of the stream all and augments the tue late season supply h- h that lint In III tho lie pInIon of oC your our the tIme planting plant plan ting t- t ing lug of these liTIgable mountain lands with timber r will contribute te largely lars to the lie desired e lre rc regulation of or tho ho How flow of or the time I stream and amid to the tho rent gret benefit of said sal 1 city and Us Its Inhabitants that thattie the tie t said aid tract of lan land Is embraced within the boun boundaries urlus of oC the time forest Is in iii eyer every way a suited Gulled to ho hc growth g forest tre trees s and anden en call n 11 ho bo placed at your our UI un- un tier Q u rn I l C J fp i- i pose poses oses that thal your UT l C ts are arc lu- lu a tHat It 1 l q v p your policy U V r. r your dd- dd il S- S l m t. its J division to nl ll suitable nurseries or ur otherwise lo to serve u UK liM object lessons nil pud to promote generally the restoration restoration restora restora- tion of or forest growths foro for you i tm s 1 re respectfully io ask that the thc forester be authorized to examine the thc said tract of ur land lana a n map of which is hereto attached and to plant ilant the lie sonic some with desirable timber Limber trees lifts if Ir In his opinion iou ion It iI is suitable lor such purposes I I |