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Show CIVIC PROBLEMS FACE BRIGHAM 1 Development of District Dependent De-pendent Upon Action on Several Projects HprrlAl to The Htandand ?Kxamlncrj H H HIGH A If, 20. Development of the 1tjrrl in the vlcinltv of l?ryc-h.irn l?ryc-h.irn is to depend upon ucttou of the B .cr. :. hen In lagard to a number of J i.. Boxeldei clue H t.ikf hux H During i h four years much H lim been acroni pltuhed under the ad IH ministration of Mayor J V Peters and B unit I hi- people uro called upon lo mcei H nd decide upon many more imporl. HH projects upon Which will depend the, TiB development of this section of the I 'tat. VOT1 BOND I88U1 A few weeks uro the cltlr.enn voted for a 1300,000 bond Isnue to rebuild t nr e'erlrlc llRht power house and pipe line, Tli.- proposition la to take OV r tho Knudson Interests In Hox KMr CAnyoil! and to develop l.'.OO horsepower horse-power as against -Itm tin- nld plant 15 now urpl.vlnc At the present tim-i tim-i he p iiit i v loaded and railing for additional electric energ) that the . it lamipt furnish At a re-1 eent meeting' of the city round! the 1200,000 bond Issue was sold to the I hJenctlCtte Bond company of Chicago nd tho construction of the new sys- j u v ill soon be under was-r was-r mah yean tha big handicap has-been the lack of a sufficient wate I .sufWdy for Irrigation purpose Daring' i he summer months strict rules lwv IIm . ii enforced In 1 1i - distribution of the water available and some 2000 tared of land have not bean producing lor the lack of v. ii c, When the Hammond canal was under un-der construction it was conceded that the coal side was entitled to certain water rlghtl and aii attempt w is made to continue the east side canal on dow n to Brlghom, and ut one time il W9M intended to go on south to Weber county but the plan fell through. IPPOIN I 1 IM Mil I I I At the commencement of tin- rear (he rommcn ial club appointed James, .lensen. R. A. Madsen and '. 11 Kos-1 k el ley; . commute, 10 look into this matter and neijure if poaflbh . water! from the Hammond canal, now owned' by tho Utah-Idaho Sucar company. I The committee haa spent conslo. raid time with the officials of the sugar company and lael Friday evening reported re-ported their finding lo th.- board of governors of the Commercial club This, committee reported that the company had made an offer to sell to the people! L'3 second feet of water, delivered to: the north clt) limits, for 1260,000.1 water would be delivered at a point IBJJJJJJ near j-Moneer parte on r oretii Man, u little West of the electric railroad St. 1 H tton and the pond there to be used as 1 1 spillway ami a pumping station In- ''J jSji tailed to pump portion of thli water IB to a higher level eaal or the city for m irrigation purposes Tins in all prob-T prob-T itnlilv. will i-ost .hi additional $150-ooo. $150-ooo. in. ludlng the right of way for I he canal north of the city. So it is H figured that the water will cost in the H neighborhood of $176 per aCBC dellv-H dellv-H ercd on the land CI LIN K N M I it ' Another feature Of this transaction HMI i.' the part Hrigharn 'lly, as a corpo- H ration, will play in the matter The H city needs more water for culinary pur- H poses If the city should purchase n F portion of this water it could be - changed for water rights in the Hailing P springs above Mantua and secure Uie B i nt Ire flow from these springs to be distributed through th City water sy-H sy-H ten) for culinary purpOM which H would then supply double the popula B tion we hav at present. Another matter that will be looked B into is the QhadwlCk reservoir in the hills and a little south of Mantua about twelve miles southeast of Hrtg-ham. Hrtg-ham. Probably $75,000 has been ex-H ex-H pended on this project, and after a H dam had been built forty-fi e feet high to hold the flood waters in the spring of tho year, it was discovered IE that the bottom nt the reservoir was H porous and would not retain the water fjf for any length of tlrne. sink holes have Lbeen located and probably will be cemented ce-mented over. |