The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-01
HYDROGEN OXIDE.
SALT LAKE CITY. March 80, 80.

E oALT LAKE OIIfi meECn o. o.
Y Editors Herald:
1t is almost impossible to make any
ID pecuuiary estimate upon the en-
lie haneement OF the value OF proper ty
y which will result; from an additional
supply OF water Tor our city. No one
. appreciates this fact more than my
d self, but I must admit that l am,
IN with many others, little bit dissatis-
y fed with our city fathers IN the means
N they have adopted to accomplish this
% end. Is it really fact that utah
y Lake has ever been regarded az the
K source from which Salt Lake City
y must in future draw its main supply
, of weter?" This may be the opinion
e of come, but surely not of all. Even
: if this were the case, it does not fol-
' low that the canal is a necessity. 4
e certain city in New York State, con-
{ tanning Sc, 900 Inhabitants, has lately
E given a contract for supplying their
! city with water for 5000, 900. The
: supply is the Hudson, the waters of
which are to be forced into storing
reservoirs above the city by the
"Holly system" of pumps and tur-
bines. Why would net the same
method supply the few hundred fam.
lilies on the bench with water at half
the cost? With few storing reser
voirs constructed in City Creek
II Canon, there would always be sufti-
cieEt supply for everyone else. But
the Council has decided to spend our
money In
HUGE CANAL,
Which it now becomes my duty
To "rehash." Messrs. Smith d
Doremus have plainly shown that the
irstsection, with fall of thirty inches
per mile, and also the third. are
capable of carrying sufficient water to
overflow the banks OF the second and
completely wash it away. Hence,
where Is the economy that We are
Boosting so much ABOUT, even to the
sacrifice OF every thing that Is nice
and beautiful. l will only sdd few !
more words about this part OF the ,
canal. After the completion OF the +
Ganges canal the water was let IN !
which tore on with such velocity as to ;
cause a great deal of damage. In =
ves!igstion showed an error in their :
formula which gave too great Il :
velocity. That velocity was 2 70 feel .
per second. But the surveyor OF our I
canal ssys the velocity is to be 3.5 .
feet rer second. I would also say that q
the inclination Of part OF our canal is I
one foot grest3r than that which
caused a disastrous result in the +
Ganges. l have made hasty calcu- .
latiOn On the
FOUR MILE LEVEL T
which is TO supply the city with 2263 il
cubic feet OF water every second. The {
iCrm uls used was obtained from a Ii
between the formula of b
Weisbsch, D'Aubuisson, Piony, j
Ejtetwein and other hydraulic t
by Professor D, NJ. Green, Il
deputy state engineer tor d
New York. 1 have made two supLo- #
sitions, viz: first, tbst the canal is Il
tapped at several places in its course b
through the city, and second that a
the minimum depth is two feet. a
the given data in the "
formula, l find the maximum dis d
charge TO be 1912 cubic feet per a
second, which is less than that OF il
Smith & Doremus', on account of my t.
assuming the slope of the sides to be b
81, instead Of IL. Assuming the b
minimum depth to be one-half foot, fC
the disCharge is much lass; and II
should there be q heavy growth of tt
aquatic plants and willows, as we "
find in the Old canal at the Sugar b
House, the discharge would be hardly "
oerceptible. In this condition 1t o.
would be necessary to have several "
feeders" along lis course to make 1t >,
,ven useful as boat canal. The 81
Council failed to say anything about "
The tt
ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY Re- Z
PAIRS, d
After the completion Of said canal. =
Perhaps they deemed it too insignii. ~
can't 10 bring before tbs voters. But y
We, the rising generation" have got h
TO consider this, for they actually +,
threaten to leave this elephant" on =
our hands as. a LEGACY" Would we ~
rather have this dirty canal, always n
flied with frogs, toads snd pigs-s -
swimming hole for dirty boys, than a II
nice quit syltsm Of grand pumps o.
and turbines, with two or three =
re5ervoirs7 Or we would be ;,
more thankful for a system Of con- n
iuit pipes bringing the water over the o.
same course. This would also re. h
guire a storing reservoir, in which y
there might be placed fountain q
throwing The water over a hundred f.
feet in the air, purifying both water f.
and air. a legacy like this We might q
appreciate. and be perfectly willing r
10 help pay off the bonds when due, .
say in nineteen hundred and fifty. II
I penned the above by request OF n
several Salt Lake voters, as a subject :,
for reflection between now and next \
Monday. Hoping that every one will =
be convinced which is the RICH! way 4
10 vote before that time, 1 remain. y
yours truly,
CoMPos MENTIs, G. z. !;
Zone Of the rising generation. y
GARDEN AND GRASS SEEDS '
at G. F. BROOKS m25 .