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Show bo got ready In time io obviate the' usual summer water shortage. BIG WATER MAIN IS NOW PROPOSED. City Engineer McGonaglc to Present Estimates to City Council. Salt Lake. Aug. 20. City Engineer C,eorp4 F. McGonagle tonight will present plans, with an estimate of cost, to the city council for the building build-ing of an eightcen-incii water main ftom a point one nn.I one.-half miles nbove the present hlghllne Intake to Thirteenth avenue and J street. While this main Is Intended to feed the northeast bench. It will materially ma-terially help tbe situation all over the city, yihe present twelve-inch main, which feeds this section of the city, will be utilized then to supply Capitol hill and adjacent territory, and as the system is an intercommunicating intercom-municating one the new line will materially increase the water supply throughout the rest of the city. By reason of the increase In height of the source of the supply Ihe new main will enter tbo city at 'lhlrteenth avenue and J street with a pressure of -eighty pounds Tbe pressure of the present twelve-Inch main Is only eight pound. In addition addi-tion to supplying that part of the city east of State street, if that thoroughfare thor-oughfare extended to the city limits on the north, and north of Brlghara street, the new line may he ued In cases of emergency to help furnish the citv with water three or four blocks south of Brigham street. This will relieve the Emigration and Parley's Par-ley's canvon lines to a great extent. Will Cost $135,000. , The length or the new line, which will be of cast iron, will be approximately approxi-mately in.ono feet, or close to four miles. The cost will be In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $135,000. and will be paid out of the water bond fund. Inasmuch as there U approximately $160,000 in tbls fund, there will bo plenty to build the line, with some to spare. Recently $05,000 was appropriated out of this rund for water mains under the head of emergency work, but only about $15,000 was used, leaving f 5ft00 to he returned to the fund. When thecoiincll receives the city engineer' estimate of cost and plan tonigbt Mr. Mulvey. chairman of the waterworks committee, will move thai tho board of public works he 1n-Ftructed 1n-Ftructed to call for bids. The Intention Inten-tion Is to award the contract and get all tbe pip" anrl flttSni?s on the ground this fall n" start work not late,- than March 15. The line should |