Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-02
TWO vANQUIsHED vEToEs.
GEO. d. PYPER.
Secretary.


The City Council has wisely de-
cided two very important measures
adversely to the vetoes Of the Mayor.
The first was the agreement with
four canal companies TO join in the pro-
ject for establishing n pumping plant,
10 secure sufiaient water from Utah
Lake to supply present needs for irri-
cation In Salt Lake City and County.
In consldera tion OF this arrangement.
the four canal companies are to pay to
the city $1,000 each, towards the ex-
penses of lowering the channel which
the city undertook In order 10 secure a
greater flow, but which has only been
partly accomplished The Mayor We
toed the proposition, on the grounds
that the consideration was not sufi-
cient. as the city had expended a little
over 900 In the work on which the
canal companies were to share the ben
efits, and that the pumping proposition
was only an experiment likely 20 fail
at times OF low water In the lake
These objections had already been ex-
planned away. The greater part Of the
money expended by the city in this
direction was for plans and spechca-
flpns. maps, etc. which are Of no bene-
lit whatever to the canal companies,
and the laSor in lowering the
channel vas done by day work and
not ~ contract, ana therefore the COST
? "'ss greater than it ought to have
been. This was readily perceived nv
members of the council who thorough.
~ investigated the matter, and 50 the
OASIS OF the Mayors reasoning was
swept away As for the pumping plant
people who are familiar with the plans
and with The situation. smile broadly at
the idea that sufficient water could not
De pumped from Utah lake into the
channel for the purposes designed.
The cost Is not to exceed 10000 with
The probability that II viii not be much
II any above $4,000.
The notion repeatedly put forth that
the city would gain no benefit from
union with the canal companies In
this enterprise, and that the council
was moved more by sentiment and
neighborly kindness" than ANYTHING
else, was deemed so absurd as 10 be
unworthy of official notice. The coun.
ell proceeded on straight business
principles, and acted wisely In Joining
with the canal companies for mutual
peneit particularly in view Of the lit
igatlon yet to come in which those
companies will join with the city. and
considering the slipshod manner in
which the previous attempt Of the city
AZ extra appropriation Of Utah lake
water has been conducted. That the
vote against the veto stood eley-
en- TO four, indicates clear
understanding on the part OF the coun.
Gil Of the propriety of the ansactlon.
II should not be forgotten in this con.
nectlon. that when the proposition was
made for the issue Of water bonds 10 the
amount Of S25O.OoO. square apreemen,
was made with the voting citizens that
The money thus obtained should be
used only Tor water purposes. and that
$4,000 Of that sum should be expended
in the lowering Of the channel TO Obtain
eighteen inches more water from Utah
Lake. As a matter Of fact. not 10 ok.
coed $1,000 Of the money has been ex.
pended for that purpose. and II is an
interesting question for the ax.payers
10 ask. and the council 10 answer.
what has been done with the balance
OF the S5oooo?" The outlay for surveys
maps, etc, was made Before the bonds
We're determined upon. The Deseret
News supported the bond measure. un.
der the distinct and definite promises
u'at were made as to its expenditure.
The other decision OF the council
which was also reached by vote OF
Eleven to four. was TO pass the ordl-