The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
HILLS WATER SCHEME
City Officials Not Much Alarmed
Over the Project.
COURT ACTION LIKELY
CITY is GETTING ALL THE
AVAILABLE SUPPLY


S'ty officials took more than a slight ir-
=, ,s' yesterday in the plan, as published
IN The Herald, of John p nm , 81 ,S.l
unknown associates to deveIon s,'.,- nc
Oh water below the city's source - ~
mouth of Emigration CANYON So ~ -
tie councilmen even lock ,,,7oD III -
as one to sell the city's water 70 tba- -,
hlcloanty, but they believe that befovo
tile syndicate has a chance to naIa :
Drooosition to the municipal adroin,~+,-,
ION II VIII be necessary to have the coI,rt
supply me CITY water
re day that work was commence
me water prospect shaft Mayor 1,oornI, o.,
ana Land and Water Commissioners ~, ~
'erheid We're appraised by Engineer KaI
sey OF what was going on and tho owl
o aea,,u purpose Of the scheme Since then
ulate measurements have beer lreD+ ,f
, .he daly flow OF Emigration w..
ne pipe system. and If the Volunoa L III
tul below normal tor this season - t ia
n eS s;;, no time, it is asserted, will be lost
Hin oe-9 Uul an injunction to restrain tie
- - : Ilol-cate from interfering with fbe
CIV source of supply me
The City's DEVELOPMENTS
But after Iamiliarizine therosoI,-o, 80,
municipal history as far hSnIr a, ses win
Cf-
StA years ago, when Captain W,iIaUd
IJJ.tIS was city engineer, the mayOr and
~ i 49, o. the council entertain but III
= rear mat the syndicate scheme ,+-;ll
amount TO anything serious as apainSt III
~ interests. Along in 1894 and 1S95 tbe
~ scent q good deal of money Ia do
of i3 H., d larger now of water at the mouth
~ tuS canyon. Shafts were sunk ninety
Ieet 70 bedrock and considerable driftinS
was done, with the expert concIusinS
teached that II would cost at least $40 00
gifavr- TOT
10 the maximum; that is TO secure IA nor
cent more water than was possible to get
ny the old method then in force.
-, ~ 4laXlInu L How from the stump was
theh ABOUT l,000.000 gallons every twenty
iOur hours, but two summers ago the civ
ldu the pipe line extended through a deem
trench to tap the bottom of the sunni.
nus SAVING the expense of pumping, and
Setllhg nearly all of the available flow.
Tapping Will be Prevented.
1t IS an admitted fact that a consider
dDie now OF water can be secured bV
SINKING 10 bedrock in any of the CANYONS
below the places where the city has MS
intakes, but those in a position to know
say II IS prepOSterous to think that the
municipality would permit any one 10 tap
the source of supply. for such would
surely he the result if prospect shafts
were allowed to be sunk where indica-
ions point TO the existence of under
ground flows.
An examination of the county records
yesterday showed that no location of a
water appropriation has been filed cover
ing the tract where the Hill syndicate is
endeavoring 70 develop a supply. Neither
has a lease or other conveyance of a priv
ilege on the land of the Sells Lime & Ce-
ment company been filed for record. 1t is
"A matter of record, however. that T. r.
jones' local manager of the smelling
trust, is the guiding spirit in the lime and
cement company. on whose land the water
shaft is being sunk but the absence of
any telI-tale record filing would not be
presumptive of Mr. Jones connection or
otherwise with the water development
scheme.
One of MI Hills Failures.
Some time ago Mr.. Hill launched a
scheme TO develop a large supply of water
from an underground flow on the west
slope of the Oquirrh range. sufficient, it
was declared by him, to irrigate the whole
of the arid TOoele valley. Nothing came
of the project and the commissioners of
that county ordered that the shaft sunk
in the highway be filled up which was
done
Knowing all these facts. the city Off
Gals are not unduly alarmed over the
movements of Mr.. Hill in. Emigration can
yOn. but nevertheless the mayor and his
aides will keep sharp watch to see that
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