The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22

eral scope of the project, his honor said:
The gravity sewer will take care Of
the sewage until this city has a popula-
ton of $50 900. It will not cover a very
small proportion of the town lying
along the Jordan river, as the ground
there is very fat but pumping will
take care of that 1 should say that
when we get the sewer to Fifth street
it viii take care of 80 per cent. of the
sewage of the town. It starts at the
lowest practicable point of gravitation
and the surplus waters from Parley's,
Mill creek and City creek, which go to
waste from about the first of March
un.il after the food season in June, will
run through the gravity sewer After
that the millions of gallons that run
to waste after midnight, when people
are through springling and using water
in their homes, VIII be used to flush the
sewer effectually every night. The
present stump will take care of the low
lands near the river for all time Now
this fortified water from the sewer is
just as
GOOD AS GOLD
to the city. Within a few years, it will
be worth to us from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year which at per cent. will pay in
terest on a sum much in excess of the
cost of the sewer. A tract of seventy
five acres of land for an outlet has been
practically secured at SIS an acre, and
it is worth that intrinsically. With
the completion of the gravity sewer,
look to see scarlet fever, typhoid fever
and cholera infantum practically end
In our city. 1t will
REDUCE THE MORTALITY
of salt Lake to a standard as low as
that of any city in the whole United
states. Next to a system of water
works. I regard the enterprise as the
most important thing for this city. We
have been calling Salt Lake the Queen
City of the Rocky Mountains, and the
idea of building up a great emporium
here without proper sewerage is rldlcu-
lous. The plan we are following is not
an experiment. 1t is in successful oper-
alton in many places, from cit
les as large as Berlin to
nlaces like Fresno, California. The
water from our sewer will run
clear to Pennington, and it has in
front of it 100000 acres of farming
land
while the primary object sought to
be attained by this project is the
health of the city. it will be seen from
the MAYORS talk that incidentally IT
has another advantage, that of making
nrOductiye a vast area of farming
land. and that from the sale of the
water as a fertilizer, an income VIII
be derieved by the city large enough
\ TO PAY INTEREST
on sum considerably larger than the
entire cost of the sewer.
On May 10 last year contract was
Yet for the building of a main extend
ing from the intersection of State ana
Fifth South streets in northwesterly
d;raa+iop fo Ninth North thence to a
point one and a half miles northwest
of Beck's Hot springs. Work was pc
gun within ten days from that date
according to the stipulations OF the
contract and it progressed until late IN
the fall. On December &c, Of that year
careful computation showed that $751;
e06.53 had been expended on the sewer
up to that date, and that $267, 2l0 would
be the cost of completing it. An aver
age of 200 men was employed daily IN
the works.
That portion of the main extending
from Ninth North street to the outlet
or what it is proposed to call
THE SEWER FARM,
Is 81 inches in diameter That portion
which is laid nearly diagonally across
the city has a diameter of As or AZ
inches according to the size of the lat
est pipes connecting with it. The bot
tom and sides are of concrete, Il inches
in thickness, and the arch of brick ma
sonry inches in length. The capacity
Is Al 600 600 gallons. When we consider
that the sewage &c the city is 100000
gallons per day at present, we can see
that this sewer will be adequate to the
neecs of the Salt Lake city of the next
decade; with its many times increased
population.
At present there is 24-inch dnain