The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15

". just, that neither party cared to
take an appeal. A movement in the
direction proposed here would prob
Soly prove boomerang for the salt
Lake county farmers It is not an ap-
preparation by d canal company as a
whole that has precedence as the laws
recognize no such appropriations but il
Is the appropriation by each individual
settled that must be considered
II VIII be preferable. then to look
in some other direction than either OF
these for an increase in the water SUD
ply Above all things, law suits should
he avoided. they are almost interu7in-
able in such cases, and no one can
foretell the cost. Fortunately there
are several methods for obtaining the
water required.
There will be years when che rain
fall will be sufficient to I'LL the lake
even though it be Gyked. as we have
proposed, to carry six feet of water
above compromise point In one such
year there would be four times as much
impounded within the additional six
feet as they propose in an increase of
eighteen inches, and allowing for evap-
grafton, it will as well provide for at
least two years of short supply.
Again. it will be advisable TO study
new sources of supply as we'll as Il
stop the waste and the leaks Not All
or the water that falls in the form of
rain Dr snow on the mountains IN IS
49, ffeNJ ~ tAAN A-ANAc-
The Artesian Water System.
The mountains are full of water
carrying crevices, and veins On sand
or loose material carry quantities - Il
TO indeterminable depths. IN a rasin
like this greater one of the former
Lake Bonneville we find artesian wa
ter underlying large areas. and the
hundreds of wells above the lake in
Utah county attest the presence of
these water beds at varying depths,
some of them of great capacity.
At Geneva, on the very brink of a
high embankment above the lake. there
is a we'll flowing from a depth, if re-
membered correctly, of not much more
than 200 feet. with such force that it
would deliver a strong stream Of forty
or fifty feet above the lake level. What
would a we'll of twelve inches diane
ter. If bored only from the water level.
deliver? Two or three such wells
would certainly furnish more water.
right in the lake where it is needed.
than such a canal as is proposed from
the Weber could supply, and the cost
would be but a fraction of the $40. 600
which the canal is estimated 10 cost.
All along the eastern and southern
shores of the lake are wells of excep-
tionally strong flow. We know there
IS a popular impression. which has no
doubt grown from the attempts to save
the underground flow at the canyon
outlets, that there is no saving from
such efforts. 1t should be noted that
those waters are above the solid for
nation and may find the way back
10 the stream below as seepage. No
one can pretend to claim that water
! taken from artesian wells, at the
depths and in the locations noted. is
| not clear gain. If it had outlet into
the lake it would not have the force
7 behind it to raise it TO such heights
We also find all along the slopes on
l the east side of the Jordan in Salt
/ Lake county, and over large areas on
/ the west side as well, artesian wells
I flowing strongly from 200 to $50 fee
/ depths. These certainly afford a net
| gam to our water supply. All such
/ arresian water beds are found between
/ lmpervious beds of clay, and the force
/ Is due TO the confinement where press
! ure from higher levels raises the water
! to or above the surface of the ground
1 In this connection let it not be for
( gotten that these artesian water bed,
I are every one of them reservoirs. anC
! loss from them should be as closet,
/ guarded against as il would be from
the lake itself. The law should com
pei the Gaping of them whenever they