The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-21
2ONDIE TRIMMED
BY THE COUNCIL
Citv's Watermaster Separated
From the Water.
CHARGES OF NEGLECT
,resr7oE PLACED IN HANDS
OF ENGINEER

~,rsfrt OF Joseph F. Smith,
I-7 smith and several score Of
Co. -ssf5snrs in the Third precinct
On -zsy have been unjustly deprived
nc CO. share of irrigation water this
son. resulting in the drying
nj their gardens and the
r-.-irr of many trees. mas
---zr accorded such prompt anu
-5----sy- consideration that the COM
TIsfrarts are assured they VIII receive
Ir5.~ full share of water hereafter IL
Us deemed by the city council last
evening hat the fault was win water
master C0ndie, and after q livery eA-
---rga of .0uncumanic COurJesies IT.
MAS ordered thar The dist. button OF
al frr.Eating water in the city be ken
ant of the hands of the WaJermasIer
dansrrmeut and placed IN charge OF
rH- engineering department
The reading OF the petition gave
Councilman FernstrOm an opportunity
IN 0uen the ball in lively style. he said
h. had made several visits OF lnSpec-
+ion along the city canal from Twelfth
south street north and ne believed he
had become thoroughly posted ON the
situation. There was and had been al
season plenty OF water coming through
the canal after satisfying the legitl-
mate rights of the f-rmerS who eX-
changed their share of Parley's creek
fou. for the canal water. He declared
that the fault was ileThciency III dis
uibuting water from the canal and
the remedy he proposed was to take
from the irrigation department the
duty OF distributing the water and
placing it with the engineering depart
menF-
Criminal Neglect.
There are dozens Of men serving
time in the Denitentiary for doing less
than what Watermaster Condie has
done" declared FernstrOm, as he
warmed up TO his subject 1t amounts
almost to criminal neglect on the
Watermaster's part The headgaIes
along the canal from Shoots park
north where the people in that part OF
the city take their water are IN SUCH
bad condition that they are given ten
times as much water as they are en-
titled to, but there has been no protest
from Mr.. Condie. 1 could hardly be
Ieve that there could be such incom-
potency in this department.
COtUreII tried TO make the point that
CUndie was blameless, and he wanted
the petition referred to the committee
on irrigation, with the land and water
commissioner associated
Canning also attempted TO defend
COndie by saying that all season only
a flow Of 100000 gallons daily had
been coming into the city through the
canal, but the official figures were
sprung on him, showing the minimum
flow three times and more than Can
ming claimed. the bulk Of it going. how
ever, to flood the land of those living
south of Ninth South street.
President Buckle remarked that the
people are entitled to relief from the
administration of WateTmaster Con-
die, who, he said, never went off Main
street in the discharge of his duties.
Showing Where the Fault Is.
Reid read a list of the hesdgates
from Twelfth South TO Ninth South
and stated the exact condition o. each.
Some of them were broken, others I'M
locked and under others the water
poured out in huge streams from holes.
He gave the official figures showing
that every day approximately 100000
gallons of canal wafer are taken in
that part of the city, when it is en-
titled to only about tenth as much.
After further discussion FeTnstrOm' S
tributOT Of the water for irrigation pur-
poses which the watermaster has had
in charge, was carried by a vote of
to .. Buckle, Beatty, Fernstrom,
Hartenstein. c. r. Howe, Edgar Howe,
Reid, Robertson and Tuddenham voted
1oI FernstrOm' s molten. and Canning,
Cott.eH. Hewlett, Thomas and White
more voted in the negative.
Big Obligations Incurred.
The mayors communication recon-
mendiug that the proposition of the
plaintiffs in the old Parley's canyon
conduit case be accepted, as outlined
IN The Herald last week, wa read, to-
selner with the recommendation o.
hienards q Narian, special counsel for
the municipality. City Attorney
stephens stated that IT would be ad-
NaAIaSeous TO the city to agree to the
compromise. BY unanimous vote the
city attorney was authorized TO con-
Tess judgment agfsnst the city in the
sum OF S-l,Vlo, approximately, upon the
S-pulatIon that the judgment with Ie-
Eal interest thereon shall not be salts
-13 ohu. year hence
over the negative votes of Buckle
S-@ reld. The contract submitted by the
-- Oh public works with z. J. Mo
s .l- constructing a large new water
'. -'lN t-r brick tank in City Creek
-- % the intersections of Main
~ west Temple streets with So1atb
49,. .z was approved. The contract
r,-s sf's>>-7H On be paid out of the
v-..,. exhausted water bond fund.
fsg.--..,.. .z-7. -nge 20 ascertainins the
s-s -s.-- ~. CONS. El1tius a large stOr-
-F reservoir IN ParIe-,s canvSn nesr
i'aN-'rrE ranch rfr,- u-7,c-i-,-.,-- -
srA reported that rrc