The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-23
OCEANS OF WATER
Stored In a Chain of Our Noun
tain Lakes.
DOCTOR FAUsTS RECENT TRIP.
Twenty Mountain Lakes Located, the Waters
of Which Can Easily Be Brought
to This City.

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Utah. and though his abundant locks are
linged with dust from the road of time, the
DID pioneer is still young and ardent IN his |
love for the sports of the chase in wildwood /
and mountain park. Accompanied with an /
old and reliable crony-Wallzer, the i'd
dier-the twain started for an outing a |
month ago from Salt Lake, to drink in the |
sweets of mother nature amidst hsr Sc /
Guided and romantic haunts in the Utah |
Rockies. doc" who IS passionately fond |
Of aqua unadulterated, and has never been !
known TO have an affinity for the juice OF !
the barley, naturally loved 10 loiter IN the
vicinity Of the mountain lakes and bag the /
specklcd beauties that frolic in the streams
that receive their source therefrom. One
morning before sunrise whilst reyel- |
ing in the sport of alluring brook
trout with the deceptive rainbow
colored fly, happy suggestion
entered the mind Of .sDoc" that here was
the recipe that would cure the chronic COM
plant of the living and future generations
IN this and adjacent vicinities, e.. an
abundant supply Of water. He called his
partner and began to unfold the precious
boon of ideas thuswise: walker, you and
/ have lived in Utah almostsiLce the period
that Noah enaancipated the dove, and have
D66Q WcaIy WElGtrerS upOu ILLS luuHOicuO
sphere ever since. / have had a Recitation
from Mother Nature that we shall soon
have to take voyage on the barque OF time
and sail upon the placid waters Of eternity.
But we should not forget that though we
have done things which we ought not to
have done; that now in the autumn of our
lives golden opportunity is at hand where
by posterity will enshrine our names upon
the scroll OF Immortality Behold, brother,
this grand panorama of watershed treasured
with an inexhaustihle flow of crystal
waters sufficient 10 satisfy the wants OF
many millions. The ancient Romans, under
the reigns of the Caesars had vivid com
prehension of the faculty of aqueducts and
reservoirs for storing water, whereby the
valley of the Tiber was made to bloom
perennially. 1t is apparent to my mind that
the great question for solution in the near
future of Utah will be a sufficient supply of
water. Our embryo statesmen and politi-
cal economists of Salt Lake are recking their
brains with the difficult problem of how to
obtain the necessary supply. The farmers
along the line of the Provo and Weber val
leys are crying aloud that the supply is in
adequate to the demand, especially in sea-
sons of drought Here are chain of lakes
and natural reservoirs within distance OF
from eighty to ninety miles of Salt Lake,
situated above the clouds, at an altitude of
from ten to fourteen thousand feet, and con-
structed so as to give an abundant supply
to six counties, with al average depth of
from ten to fifty feet, and containing d.
ameter of from quarter of a mile to one
half You are aware of the enormous ex-
pense that has been increased, beginning IN
der the administration of Mayor Armstrong
and continued under Mayor Scott, in the
tunnelling of City creek and the sinking of
artesians wells in Liberty park, for an in
creased supply of water. But the agita-
cfin ~ nc n0nula-
ton increases"
The HERALD representative put the
query what s'Doc'' had done by way of
solving the problem2 I'VE have located
twenty lakes under the laws of the nation
and territory, and propose to organize a
stock company that will in time convey a
superabuDdance of water TO Salt Lake and
Utah counties. It viii be conducted
through natural channels without ditching
or fluming. Why, there is more
water running to waste into the Provo
and Weber rivers that can
be utilized by economical storage
than would satisfy the wants of hundred
times the present population of Utah. All
that is requisite is to convey it into proper
channels and tap this mountain chain of
miniature seas. 1t is astonishing what a
meagre conception the people of this city
have of the wild grandeur of the pictur
esque Alps of Summit and Wasatch coun
ties Some Of them wander many thous
and miles in search Of scenery and change
of climate, but here it is almost on their
thresholds, without scarcely being trod
upon by civilized man.
How is it for game in that region.''
"Why, bless your soul, the elk, deer anC
bear are so numerous that the instinct Of
timidity has entirely left them"
'.Were the bears friendlys''
''Well, all except one she grizzly, which
fr.in dlyrh
to teach her cubs how to embrace. To
wards shutdown one evening | be
came fatigued and requested tina
Walker pack the gun. l heard
near by, rustling among tn
bushes and requested Walker to halt
Going behind tree he first observed tn
critter a female grizzly with two cubs.
requested him to take shot at enc of tn
cubs, as we were running short of a mea
supply. Walker was good shot, an
toppled over one without much ado. TIL
old bear paid no attention to her bleedin
cub, but fastened TO embrace Walker. Sell
preservation was the first law of nature
and | went west W hist he scampered north
He was treed after being minus a pound G
flesh, and consoled himself for eight hour
on a topmost limb nursing a lacerate
wound, and possessed of garments tina
would make Mother Eve blush. | was nc
so niInble as ! was half century ago, an
was compelled to coon 1t up an incline tree
For hours / lived in mortal dread that MIR:
Grizzly would go cunning for me an
thinking of the sad fate of poor Walker
who had found interment in the bear
stomach. After the sun had begun to gil
the tree tops 1 veDtured in search, and I
my surprise l heard Walker mutterin.
Bear! bear.' He had lost the power
any other expression until ] had imprC
vised ladder and assisted him to vaca,
I d. abs f.,5r,
drinks and virtue Of linseed poultices, wit
the usual decoction of Oil of gladness, /
may yet survive to share in the bonanza
our mountain lakes.''