The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-12
WATER.

G Councilman PEMBRoKE'S resolution look
ing toward the utilization of Utah lake as a
permanent reservoir and urging such action
on the part of Congress as will serve to es-
tablish it as such, is step in the right di-
rection. There is no reason to doubt that
Utah lake will supply this city for years
with an abundance of good water, provided
it can be brought to US for the expense of
storing. say an add tional foot of water on
the surface of the lake, appears to US to be
slight. The main difficulty would consist
in bringing the water to this city in pipe
strong enough to Withstand the pres
sure to which it would be subjected.
We have heard that pipes much
cheaper than the ordinary heavy
iron pipes are now constructed, and the
process of making them both strong and
cheap is rapidly perfecting. If this is true,
we may hope soon to solve our water prob
lem. But even should it be necessary to
use the ordinary iron pipe. we are inclined
to believe that we must ultimately come to
the point of bringing the unlimited supply
of Z tab lake into this city.
Fears are expressed that the waters of
seepage and drainage of the towns lying on
the east of it. This will not take place i'm
mediately, however, since the lake is a con-
siderable body of water and the main part
of the supply could be drawn from the
large springs that arise from the bottom
toward the northern end of the lake.
Moreover, when once the water in I'M
| liS1oit f,,1l,
conducted for time into the city, it will
be easy to make exchanges with the farm
ers who use the water of the Cottonwoods
for irri cation.
The water from these two cahons, too
cold for the best results in irrigation, could
be taken into pipes and connected with the
arge main for the city and the water
problem would be solved forever: while
the farmers could be supplied with several
times more water, more convenient to
manage, warmer, and in every way better
adapted to their wants than the water OF
the cailon streams.
Then the city would havea supply of the
finest water that flows, than which, nc
other city on the globe would have any
better.
Let any one who has not seen these
streams visit them in midsummer, when
every other place is hot, dry and dusty
and he will be charmed to watch the cleal
torrents dash and foam, as they whizz ant
shoot and whirl and roar over the granite
powders in the bed of the streams. HI
will agree with Us that there is an especia
fascination in the sparkling, precious liquiC
of these canons. an irresistible suggestion
Of the long hearty draughts they hoult
supply to our thirsty city people, prompt
ing that at some time or other our cit,
must use these desirable gifts of nature t.
this valley. Counting in portions of one O
both of these streams, and the lakes tina
actually exist and others that can be mad
on the line of our mountain streams, an,
we have perhaps the greatest and best sup
ply of water of any city in the country.
True it will cost money to secure all tn
water that we can use, perhaps two o
three millions of dollars; but it will som
time have to be undertaken, and every &C
vance towards its final consummation is
step IN the right direction.