The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
WATER PIPE CHANGES
Need be no Delay in Granting
Relief.
BENEFIT FOR EAST SIDE
FAMINE DISTRICT WILL HAVE
WATER NEXT WEEK.
Problem of Sewage Disposal Solved
By Davis County Farmers, Who
Want Water and Fertilizing Mat
ter-Purchase of Water Rights
in Parley's Canyon Likely.

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the waterworks system residing on tn
east bench and in the vicinity of Sew
enth and Eighth East streets are as
sured of immediate relief from short
age of water, and the cost viii be in
considerable, compared with the bene
hts. How long it will take TO complet,
| the changes in the present method O
distribution depends entirely on tn,
rapidity with which the work is rushed
| but, in the opinion of members of III,
| waterworks committee. all possible
haste should characterize the few days
! OF labor. Even the work of extending
| the State street mains to the Salt Pal
ace grounds must be put aside, the
committee concluded, and some of the
councilmen urged that the eXigencies
OF the situation warranted the employ
ment of a night shift if water-takers
on the east side are to be relieved OF
their distress
At joint session OF the citv council
committee on waterworks, Waterworks
superintendent Game and City Engi-
neer Kelsey last evening, the latter Of
f1cial, in pursuance of directions To
that effect, submitted a plan by which
relief can be given to the water famine
district without detriment to the other
parts of the pipe system, and at least
so long as overflow water is running TO
waste down the canyons. 1t was adj
mitted, however, that the permanent
general relief so much desired cannot
be accomplished until the entire pipe
system is improved by the expenditure
of from $4,000 to $50, 900, which expen-
diture was authorized by the city coun-
ell a couple of months ago, but success
fully objected to in the district court
by Messrs. Nelden, Dooly and Walker.
Engineers Ideas Adopted.
1t required but a few moments for
the committee and Superintendent
Game TO concur in the engineers rec
concentrations, which contemplate the
laying of about $50 feet of six-inch pipe,
connecting three dead ends at the in
tersection of Tenth East and Sixth
South streets, and the connecting Of
the laterals on Seventh and Eighth
East streets with the eight-inch main
on First South. Then, to hold back the
rush of water. the valve on Eleventh
East, just below the Tarpey residence,
Will be partly closed. The pipe for
making these connections is on hand,
so there need be no delay on this ac-
count. For the purpose of controlling
the flow from the connection made with
the high line and preventing the burst
ing of service pipes and house plumb
stalled.
The committee, consisting of Council
men Allen. Siddoway and Diehl, au-
thorized the ordering by telegraph of
the pressure regulator. at a cost of
about $780, and all the other councilmen
present. Margetts. Buckle. Wallace and
concurred in the action. so
there is no doubt of the full council rat
flying the act. Superintendent Game
stated that he would rush the work.
Farmers Want Sewer Water.
From the success of the farming done
by Caleb Luker on the city's land at
the outlet of the gravity sewer, the
farmers above and beyond the sewer
farm have had demonstrated to them
the boon of sewage for irrigation and
So pronounced is the OBJ
ject lesson that the owners of neigh
boring arid tracts are clamoring for
the extension of the sewer ditch to
their land. Instead of being a source
Of expense and the maintenance of the
basins a threat for damage
suits by the Winegars, the disposal of
he sewage promises soon to yield
arge profit TO the municipality, as it /
Ices IN other cities.
The committee on sewers, with City
Engineer Kelsey associated, last even
ng had under consideration the mat
er of procuring right-of-Way across .
he Union stockyards land and the con-
truction of ditch, estimated TO cost |
j 800 for conveying the sewer water
o Farmer Howard, who is ready to .
contract at $3.50 per acre yearly for the
'oon of using sewage.
Stockyards Want It, Too.
The question of right-of-way has
een a stumbling block, but now the
tockyards people are ready to make
erms. The committee decided to Of
er the free use of the sewer water for
wo years at 80 cents per acre yearly
or all land within the stockyards ir-
igated by the ditch the following three
ears, and 81 an acre for the remain
lg five years of the contract, in con-
Iteration of the grant for perpetual
ght-of- way for the ditch to Howard's
md. 1t is believed by the committee
hat the proposition will be accepted
Y the stockyards people.
For sewer water conducted onto the
~ upland east of the stockyards and
eyond the owners will pay at the rate
f $3.50 per acre yearly, but since it
ould require from $4,000 to $1,000 to
Jump the sewage up there and con-
-ruct ditch, the committee withheld
decision on this point. but the opin-
N was expressed that the investment
ill pay the city handsomely and def
itely solve the problem of sewage dis j
osal for all time.
Parley's Land and Water.
Relative to the proposition of Will /
am w. Taylor to sell the city mis-
inety-acre tract of land, forty of :
hich has a prime water right, in Par
Us canyon, adjoining the Hardy tract,
gently purchased by the city, the
,mmittee on public grounds conclud- /
/ to visit the place next Wednesday,
r Taylor asks $1,000. but it is prob
ole that the committee will make a '
,unter proposition before the ranch is S
ought.
In response to the councils invitation
them to attend the council meetings,
ealth Commissioner Keogh. Sanitary
spector IRE and Street Sprinkiing I
brennan Lambert were present, but c
lairmen of the health, street and c
committees were absent, and
meetings of those committees were S
Id. '
Foreman Lambert was prepared to /
ow that 709 blocks of streets are I
rinkled now, as against GIG last year. v
Id that the thirty-four carts covered
arly twenty-five blocks each, using C
10000 gallons of water daily, or 1910