The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-31
THE WATER WALL.
sympathy" Again Appeals
for Aid.
Examination of the Dry Can
yon Fluid.
Ugly Suggestions About the
Grave Yard Ditch.

Editors Herald:
You will confer favor by allow
ing US to say something mere on the
all important aubject Of water for
the sufferers of the North Bench;
L will confine myself TO facts OH
tanned by my own search and inves"
tigation; first, when the City Coun-
Gil decided to srend five thousand
dollars in what is called Dry Can
yon, to procure water, I was anx-
ious and curious to know whsre the
public means vas agoing to be spent
and WI at we were likely to get in
return for the outlay; it matters not
where water ia obtained, inasmuch
as it is good and FL for human use,
for the City government could no.
spend money in more praiseWorthy
object, nor enc that would be more
certain to meet the approval OF
every lover of good deeds. Myself
with friends have visited Dry Can
yon and have been to the source OF
every stream. We travelled until
we reached the fork, there we saw
the V fumes which are laid in both
gulches forming the forks; there is
water in each flume, both of which
empty into the newly laid red wood
fumes; there are two streams in the
right hand fork which We pro.
nounced very good water; the small
stream we are told belongs to MI.
Seaman which we should judge
} would be about a third of this
stream, hence there is sixth part
of this canyon water that does not
virtually belong to the City.
Continuing our investigation to the
source OF these two streams, the
: rocks, ground and fumes are unlike
the LETT hand fork, free from any
coresion; returning to the point from
i starting, and after resting We star
q ted afresh up the left hand fork
there we found the water had
milky appearance, and although the
fumes in this guloh are on steer
grade, since they were laid last year
Ibere is a corosion of threessix.
teenths of an inch, and where the
water Is in any way INSTRUCTED
there is corosion of over an inch
in thickness. This stream Is sup
J, Piled from two different hills; one
ia called Black Mountain, because
of the dark colored rock, from which
there are several small streams Is
suing. There are two other spring
flowing from a mountain, the ma
terial of which is very soft ant
spongy.l1ke. I should judge thi
n to be lime matter. The mountain
y lis very steep.
The conclusion we arrived at is a
follows: If this water contain
h lime in degree to produce thi
Y gray, slaty substance as is found L
~ the fumes, then 1t cannot be goo
1 for every day use for human being
We gathered small limbs of tree
"a leaves, ETC., in, partial state {
petrifaction; there is as much lin
in this left hand fork stream as thel
ought to be il it were ten times i
present volume. We have had som
u uldtO1 chnoA ASA ~ - PhJ
sician of established reputation. al
as reported in my last communic
ton, the effect upon the human sy
tenn would be bv its continued u
b. inflammation OF kidneys, gravel let
n Now that the springs of this canyC
ID are brought together there Can
= seen the quantity of water collect,
ga which amounts to q of an inch; 8
a Quoting there rom sixth part
ID this water, the remaining 5s OF
m inch deep in a foot aume Is t
LA amount of water Dry canyon
@ now producing. Now, Mr.. Edit
= this is an unusual season for wat
ears therefore it would not be fair or il
we to make the public believe TIT
'e'' would be as much water in
Err. ordinary season; g or an in
IS lUe deep would be all that could be
pected turn this water lose in a {
.. open ditch and it would all disc
pear before it reached the gre
" yard.
live understand rightly it IS
into pipes, but an eminent geoloe
" and mining expert of this city 81
it will take but a short time to
. lode the piping go that water co
not pass through; he also says
PC person should live on this wa
100 any length of time, on account
the extra quantity of lime in
de- without boiling; If this be the c.
which am not prepared to displ
then the contemplated boring
Black Mountain (where much
By this limey water comes from lc
x of ike so much labor and means 81
!. de- in uncertainty. The water of
per; right hand fork could be put in
essed reservoir to serve for the east en-
asary the city; the left hand fork coul,
y .as giyeu to the grave yard for it WI
R ss.d Rurt no one to live on it a q
F Fr time, for there it would do excel
service. This water would not 81
:, the present population of the bs
mund much less the certain incr
thereof.
Then il may be asked where s
we 90 for relief for the bench
ferers? We say to City Creek.
surplus water therefrOm coul
made all sufficient; the water is
p--s4 / 81 mkt