The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-03
SOLVES THE PROBLEM
OF CITY WATER SUPPLY
Commercial Club Committee Devises Ways and
Means to Provide For Population of 100000.
Plan to Finance the Project and Make the System Pay For Itself
TO Be Submitted

this provided they can be furnished
other water. This can be brought
about, it is planned, by bringing in
supply from Utah lake.
Water From Utah Lake.
To get water from Utah lake high on
the bench. as Will be necessary, the
construction of new and better canal
is favored The present city canal
starts some distance down the Jordan.
The new one would have its intake
some distance higher up, at the lake
itself. The present canal has a steep
fan at Jordan Narrows. The new one
would be led gently around consider
ably higher all the way, and the en-
gineers say it would take in the greater
part of the farm property which 1t is
desired to supply.
The movement to make Utah lake
reservoir by government aid and to di-
vert into it the waters of the Straw
berry is heartily endorsed
Colonel Holmes committee has come
to the conclusion that. with the eXcep-
ton of the diversion of the Strawberry
and the rest of that enterprise, these
improvements can be accomplished by
the expenditure of $1,G00.000. To secure
this. il recommends that the citizens of
Salt Lake vote an issue of 4 per cent
bonds to that amount. Only S250,OO0
of these bonds would be issued the first
year. and the same amount during each
of the succeeding years, thus saving
considerable interest.
Careful estimates have been made of
the revenue from the water system
each year, figuring on an annual in
crease in population of 31z per cent, and
the conclusion has been reached that
with good management the system
should pay all cost of maintenance
and the interest and principal on the
bonds in twenty-five years. 1t is pro-
posed that the bonds should be for
twenty-five years. giving the water
district privilege TO purchase at par
after ten years.
For Population of 100000.
This would give the city a regular
and permanent water supply Of 10000.
coo gallons day, which, il is estimated,
should be sufficient for a population of
300, 600.
The committee has struck several
snags in the way of acquiring rights.
but il is believed that these can be
passed One difficulty is over the Cor
don water right to the springs and the
water in Big Cottonwood. The Gordon
estate and John p. Cahoon claim title
to the right and are DESTROYS of selling
TO the city. Their title is now disputed
by Lewis NJ. Clarence NJ. and Sylvester
Q. Cannon, who, Sept. Is last, located
water rights just below the GOfOOn
mill right in the vicinity of the Han
auer smelter.
They claim the water on the ground
that the others have only a mill right
and not an irrigation right, and that,
moreover. they have neglected to use
the water to preserve their mill right.
With the title to 100000 gallons of
water thus disputed, the situation be-
comes complicated, and there is a pros
pect of litigation.
Lewis NJ. Cannon said yesterday that
if The city did not buy or lease from
them this water right, company
would be formed to put in a pumping
plant and supply a portion of the city
by private pipes.