Show City Mines for Water Waler Old Dream Is Realized I j I L H t 4 t lk in Emigration canyon race Face of or branch tunnel snowing showing largest gusher Stream of water here is about three inches in diameter ter an and shoots hoots several sev soy oral eral feet into the tunnel Two of tho the miners are shown in the picture The cut is made from a n photograph taken p by y flashlight in a passageway four feet in ill width and of a n mans man's height ht about feet in ill the bowels of the mountain Water Yater rained from the roof anti and mr front from every side on the pho pho- An additional flow Jow of water amountIng amount amount- Ii ing ig to about gallons per day tJay has as been developed de In the tho MacQuarrie 1 water rater tunnel In Emigration canyon canon as a n result of ot work wOrle done dono Friday and Sat Sat- The total flow now developed amounts mounts to gallons A day Alan MacQuarrie who t was as father tather of ot f the tunnel Idea for tor Increasing tho city's water supply and who prosecuted prose prose- the work on the l Immigration Emigration canyon canon tunnel Is highly elated over O the he success of ot hi his scheme and aid he ho de declares de- de clares that If it he Is permitted to continuo con con- Ito ho will wilt give ghe he tho the city ity and purer water than It can derive e from almost most an any other source that has hRs been under con consideration Mining for drinking water wa was first conceived and put Into execution In Emigration canyon canon some ten or twelve tol years ears ago A short tunnel Was drIven en directly Into the mountain side at the lower end of ot the old sumo Althou Although h thin iM tunnel Is only about feet teet In length n nearly arb a million gallons of or water ater flows from It dall dally and has been Lowing flowing hi constant quantity for tor years cars The mining for water In this Instance in In- In stance tance proved ed so 80 o successful that Mac Mac- rac- rac tried It In City creek creele in a num umber number er of ot places In an nu effort to In In- In crease rease the flow of ot that stream Some halt half alt a dozen short shirt tunnels were er driven n I Into the te sides s of ot the the tho mountains mountain and a a. 3 flow no- noot of ot water was dev developed devel- devel l- l 1 thou though h hot so 50 much In proper proper- as is in Immigration Uon r fl canyon canon j jIt formation of 1 It was Wl decided that tho the the cartt In City creek was not such as to make the tho tunnels successful And nd this work was ns abandoned there Then MacQuarrie turned d his attentions ns to another tunnel In Emigration canyon n 1 Just below heloW clo clothe the ump sump In the canyon re re is a a. Kr grat it stratum of ot ro lc which i Ir Jr prehistoric up upheaval hl a 1 0 of oC the j earths earth's cruet ha hu has been stood on In edge e. j jIt It extends to unknown It depths Into tho the j earth and ad runs una across the canyon and i A side form form- J through the ridges a on both subterranean dam a gigantic conceived the Idea Ida that this monster rock dam damas wa as Impounding i all of ot the flow flaw niI seepage seepage- I of or water from the canyon ennon and mountains moun- moun j cast cUSt and that the earth i to the above tho the dam wan wn n a veritable J oJ saturated with water water water-tn In other n a big reservoir Ho He argued that a tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel aol started down the on lh the W wet west I side e of or the rock dim dU m and bored J Into the tho earth until It 11 perforated th the dam would open up tho the underground I reservoir And anil give Ivo unlimited quantities of uC fresh pure water There were those who considered his hi plan a wild dream but on tho the few hundreds hundreds hun- hun of dollars doWns he ho managed to get Iet the foreman fortman of or water supply to kc keep p a force of oC one or aT two men at work stead stead- II FinallY Indications of or water were Mere cre secured Then l Superintendent C C. F. F Barrett of or the waterworks department took u Up the matter and secured appropriations from the commission to proceed pro with the mining for water on a a. minors miners put putto pUtto J scale Shifts of oC rs were cre IlIr larger r to work and the tho tunnel was driven at t. t a a. rapid rate J JA th the th A AH At soon as the Ihl miners pushed puh tunnel through h the rock dam Jam a 0 flow 1101 of ot w water wa was developed de In a tL short hort timea time a flow of ot a tL million gallons had been J d developed I Then it was 05 decided to bore a branch at the thc end of or the foot SOO main 1 tunnel and drive e It further the r Thin ThI Is Is' Is i ithe heart of the mountain ridge the branch In which the greater flow Clow of ot water Is being developed In the thai past few weeks more than a a. million minion gallons additional flow now has hns been developed de developed de- de and each cich days day's work Is developing devel devel- more flow |