The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-01
WAIT FOR OTHER
SIDE TO MOVE
Everything Quiet Yesterday in
the Water Contest.
WILL BE INJUNCTION SUIT
PEOPLE ARE ExTRAVAGANT IN
THE USE OF WATER.
WILL BE INJUNCTION SUIT

a LII DAY yesterday the residents of
~ Sugar and Farmers Wards kept
under cover in so far as their acts
related to another attempt to take
away from the city the flow of Par
ley's canyon creek or applying to the
court for an injunction to restrain the
municipality from preventing them
from interfering with the flow of water
into the pipe system. Doubtless the
fact that the water department di-
verted a considerable flow of the can
yOn stream down the creek. sufficient
to make up with canal water and the
seepage the full amount of $500. 600
gallons daily fixed until the next meas
urement under the exchange contract
with the farmers" deferred them from
making any new moves to abrogate
the agreement. Each side seems to be
waiting for the other to commence the
inevitable injunction suit.
While discussing the situation yes
terday, a prominent city official re-
marked that the farmers had better
go slowly in pressing the municipality
so hard, or they might yet move the
city to driving a tunnel through Lit
tie Mountain to take the entire flow
of water and springs on the Armstrong
and Garn ranches. owned by the city,
down Emigration canyon instead of
Parley's. If this were done the COM
planning residents of Sugar and Farm
ers Ward would be surely in Sore dis
tress for water.
More Water Coming.
It is expected by some of the city
officials that within a few days the
entire flow OF eleven cubic feet from
the Utah Mattress factory, recently
purchased by the city, win be coming
into the head of the canal. Commits
sioner Smith is allowing only a fifth
of the city's acquisition TO come into
the canal, and it is intended to have
this official of the court cited to show
cause why he shall not be removed and
why the full flow purchased ought not
to be turned in. With this eleven
second-feet coming into the canal there
will be almost enough water from this
source to supply the farmers south
of the city under the exchange contract
without drawing upon Pariey's creek.
Waterworks superintendent Hines is
satisfied that local residents are rec
ord breakers in the use of water and
estimates that enough water is used To-
cally for a city five times its size.
IAN idea of how much water is vast
ed in this city" said the superintend-
ent yesterday afternoon, can be gath
cred from the fact that the daily con-
sumption here is 14,000. 900 gallons or
254 gallons per capita. Such az
amount of water ought to be enough
for city with a population of 100000
Use Too Much Water.
''To my mind this city ought to be
able to get along with 100000 gallons,
which is so gallons per capita. Other
| cities can do with that amount-many
| with even less. In New England. fol
instance, where the meter system is in
vogue and every resident registered
with the amount of water he uses, the
| figures range from fifteen TO sixty-five
gallons per capita. A city Ike Chica-
| go can get along with eighty-two gal
/ Ions per capita, while Boston can do
with only fifty gallons. In New York
! the figures are quite high. because
( there is annually a sort of water famine
there, but even al that the figures OF
10 gallons per capita fail to anywhere
near equal those of Salt Lake. An
! illustration of how little water large
! city can get along With can be gath
| cred from San Francisco. There the
/ water is in the hands of a private COM
| pany which makes it about four times
as expensive as in this city. Natur-
ally the residents are very careful
| hence thirty gallons per capita are the
| figures there.
The Fifth precinct members of the
city council yesterday directed Water
master Condie to divert enough irrigat-
| ing water from the east bench to sup
| ply the needs of the Eleventh warders
who complained to the councilmen that
they were not getting any supply for
| their trees and gardens