The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-29
FAVORABLE REFERENCE
PLAN REPORTED FOR IMPRov-
ING WATERWoRKS SYSTEM.
It Contemplates Many Needed Chan
ges-Important Report From Com
WHITEWATER Supply Questions
In Abundancs-City Prisoners to
Be Worked-off-grade Sidewalks.

thur Pratt as chief of police, than an
other reminder of the chiefs malad-
Ininistration of police affairs came W
for notice 1t was in the form of a
communication from City Attorney
Hall, with his recommendation of ref
erence to the proper committee of the
following proposition from Marshall
Royle & Hampstead and Moyle, Zane &
Costigan, attorneys for 7. j. Everill
and other policemen who were unlaw-
fully removed by Chief Pratt and sub
eequenuy reinstated by decree of the
supreme court:
'The plaintiff in the case of T. j.
Everill VS.. George Swan, city auditor
of Salt Lake City. through the under
signed, his attorneys, is willing to COM
promise the said action before an ap-
peal is taken to the supreme court,
upon the immediate payment by the
city of the sum of 81, 800 which repre-
SCENTS the amount of salary due to the
said plaintiff and his several assignors
under the salary ordinance, and which
is the amount for which the suit was
brought, less interest and costs.
by accepting this offer for compro-
mise the city will save $144.46 interest,
and costs estimated at $S2.45, making a
total saving of S226.91.
1T viii be remembered that on Feb
4, 1899, the plaintiff obtained judgment
in the district court for the full amount
Of his claim, together with interest and
costs.
'Inasmuch as the time for perfecting
the appeal in this action has almost eX-
pired, and as we are DESTROYS of having
the same heard in the May term of the
supreme court, we respectfully request
a prompt acceptance or rejection of
the foregoing Offer
The matter was referred to the mayor
and the committee on municipal laws
with power to act.
The proposition of Mary C. Lambert
by her attorneys, Young, Moyle &
Waddell. to accept 5000 in full settle
ment of her damage suit, was accepted
on recommendation Of City Attorney
Hall.
The city attorney submitted witness
fee claims in the sum of 1910 due 10
various persons serving as witnesses
for the city in the case against Susan
Dudler, relative TO water rights. Re
ferred to the committee on municipal
laws.
TO IMPROVE THE WATERWORKS
The committee submitted the follow
ing important report, action on which
on request of Councilmen Romney and
We, your committee on waterworks. beg
leave TO report as follows:
In the matter Of the communication of
City Engineer f. c. Kelsey, in which he
recommends certain improvements in the
WaterWorkS system for the more perfect
distribution of the supply, your committee
bel & fully aware OF the imperfections
OF the present means of distribution, the
fact being apparent that the system is a
sort of patchwork affair, made from time
to time, TO meet existing necessities. with
little or no plan and without provision for
the future extension of the system as the
city increased in population. The sugges-
tons and recommendations of the city
engineer. if carried out according to his
mittee, largely remedy the defects in the
Waterworks system and make provision
for the distribution of a much larger
water supply when obtained.
The engineer suggests certain imprpV5-
mentS at three separate points. anv one
of which can be made independent of the
others. but all Of which will harmonic
when completed.
The first and of most immediate I'M
portance, in the opinion of your COM
mittee. IS that which looks to the i'm
provement of the distribution in the east
ern part of the city, which suffered so Sc
verely during the scarcity last summer.
This plan provides for putting in a six
teen-inch staVe pipe on Fifth South
street, connecting with the Parley's can
yOn conduit and running west TO Twelfth
East street. Tor supplying district No. 2.
: n.
plan provides for a twelYe-inch main TO
connect with the eighteen-inch main on
FIRST South street at Eighth East street,
and running south on the west side of
Eighth East street to Sixth South street.
and connecting with the SiX-inch laterals
running west on Second. Third, Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth South streets.
The plan also provides for doing away
with twenty-five dead ends in the east
part of the city by changing the bound
aries OF the district and filling in the gaps
in The laterals.
The estimated cost of these proposed
changes and improvements. by using ma
terial on hand as far as it viii go, is ST.
526.U.
The second and next most important
Improvement recommended by the en-
eIn6er : the completion of the reservoir
at FIRST South and Thirteenth East
streets. Inls reservoir. when COMPLETED,
viii hold 100000 gallons The estimated
cost for charging the excavation, lining
with concrete masonry, making connec-
lions etc. is $2S.553. 81.
The third Improvement recommended
by the engineer is the charging of the
mains leading from the brick tanks in
City Creek canyon. so as to carry a much
larger volume of water than is possible
al present. and thus supply WatertakerS
with City Creek water in the spring and
early summer, when there is plenty. and
avoid the use of the Parley's creek water,
winch is always muddy at that season.
IhH- proposed plan contemplateS taking
up the present thirty-inch twenty-four-
inch and twenty-inch cast iron pipe and
laying thirty-iEch wOod-staVe pipe from
the brick tanks to a point opposite
Fourth street Putting in = for the
sght-inCh pipe on First North street and
Y for the present siXteen-inch main.
Reducing the main at this point from
thirty 10 twenty-four inches and laying
tWenty-fOur-inch cast iron pipe along
City creek and North Temple street 10
East Temple street, from North Temple
TO south Temple street, and a sixteen
inch pipe on South Temple street from
fTernrlIn ct
The estimated net cost of these proposed
changes, as given by the engineer, is
Your committee, after a fun and free
conference with the city engineer, and
giving all his suggestions mature consid-
GRAFTON, have unanimously agreed to re-
commend to the council that the pro-
posed Improvement as herein first set
forth. viz. that referring to the improve
ment of the distribution of the water in
the eastern part OF the city, be immedi-
ately commenced, and completed at as
early date as practicable, so as to af-
ford speedy relief to the watertakers in
the eastern part of the city.
We therefore recommend that the SUI
perlntendent of waterworkS be authorized
to ask for bids for the necessary mater
ialS and report results to the council and
proceed at once to make said improve
ments according to the plans and specifi-
cations prepared by the city engineer
The other two proposed plans for i'm
proNement of the Ma;erworks system We
report back TO the council with a favor
able recommendation on their merits. but
as they require large expenditure of
money. we recommend that they be re-
ferred TO the committee of the whole
council for consideration.
CONTROLLING WATER SUPPLY.
The proposed new contract with the
Pleasant View Irrigation company for
the use of it's ditch to flow the waters
of the Parley's canal instead Of util-
izing the conduit, which parallels it.
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