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Show HORSES USED ON CANYON HIGHWAY Salt Lake, August 31. Failure of the experiment in hauling ore down Big Cottonwood canyon with tractors was admitted yesterday at a meeting of the city and county commissioners, together with the interest mine officials. offi-cials. It was finally agreed that norses should be used In the canyon for the present to such extent as Is absolutely abso-lutely necessary, pending further consideration con-sideration of the problem of saving the water of the canyon stream from contamination such as has resulted in the past from horse travel in the canyon. It was pointed out that, while the improvement of the road had not made the use of tractors practicable, the excellent condition of the highway high-way now makes the danger of contamination con-tamination from dust far less than it was previously, even if tho horse-drawn horse-drawn traffic should bo resumed. Ezra Thompson of the Cardiff company com-pany admitted to those present at the meeting that the effort to use tractors trac-tors of the kind on hand must be given up as a failure. Ho said that an experiment ex-periment is to bo made with another sort of tractor, but that his company would be under the necessity in tho meantime of hauling machinery up to the mine by teams. These teams, he explained, would be no more menace to tho canyon stream if loaded with oro on the down trip than if they traveled light. A vote was finally carried, binding all present at the meeting to use every ev-ery precaution to prevent contamination contamina-tion of the water from such use of horses in the canyon as would be indispensable in-dispensable for the Immediate present. pres-ent. Before the meeting adjourned, it was voted that a committee, composed com-posed of Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner, Dr. R. W. Ashley, city health commissioner, and Dr. Samuel G. Paul, assistant county physician in charge of sanitation work, be appointed ap-pointed to investigato and report upon conditions in the canyon as to danger of water contamination should horse-drawn horse-drawn traffic be resumed on the improved im-proved road. |
