Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-02
RESERVOIR FOR
PARLEY'S CANYON
Engineer Kelsey Reports Thereon
To the City Council,
MAKES REC0MME LIMITATIONS.
Estimates the Cost OF the Dam nj
e935,i ll.G3 Paving Veto re.
celyed aud flied.

The city council held a business ses-
sion last night and went through
large amount Of routine matter The
most important matter before the COun-
ell was the report Of City Engineer Kel-
sey on the estimate ana plans for the
Parley's canyon storage reservoir. He
recommends thai a steel faced rock
filled dam be constructed at the forks
Of the canyon at a total cost Of $685.
il463, lie also submitted figures on
the cost Of a concrete masonry dam,
which, he said would be 1921, 4l463.
The steel faced dam will be 1906 feet
high and 20 feet thick The reservoir
viii cover an area Of 80 acres and will
have capacity Of 1908 900 gallons,
which viii give the city supply equal
to the full capacity Of the Parey's can
yOn conduit. 2l,0000O0 gallons daily, for
a period Of 60 days during the dry sea-
SON In the creek bed viii be laid a
24-inch pipe to carry off the sediment,
and two 3O-inch outlet pipes win be
laid from a tunnel cut through the solid
rock at the north end Of the dam. The
location Is considered the only avail
able one in the canyon for large
storage reservoir. The water supply
for the reservoir viii be ample to M
It during an ordinary season, but In a
very dry one would only I'll It two
thirds full The report Of Mr.. Kelsey
was referred to the reservoir site, f.
nance and waterWorks committees for
consideration. The report also recon-
mended that a distributing reservoir
with capacity OF 100000 gallons, be
constructed AT the high line intake in
City Creek canyon at cost Of Si5-
900.
VETO FILED.
The mayors veto, Of the postponing
Of the South Temple street paving and
the appropriation of $4,000 for use in
the partial construction Of the storage
reservoir this year. which was
laid over from last week, was
tafen mp and. with all due
re8pect TO the mayor, was received and
fled This action was considered
proper by reason Of the fact that the
mayor had vetoed matter which had
not yet been passed upon by the coun-
ell
WANTS NEW BUILDING.
Chief Deyine, Of the fire department
asked the council to appropriate $60Oo
to build an addition 20 fire station No.
/, to accommodate the new truck, the
chemical and the police patrol. He
stated that he found that the proposed
alterations as decided upon several
weeks ago would be inadequate, hence
he deemed Il advisable 10 add an
other building to the station. The mat
ter was referred TO the fire, finance aud
police and prison committees.
OTHERS WANT RAISE.
The members Of the fire department
submitted o petition for an increase In
their salaries as dil also Street Super
visor Condie in behalf Of the men en-
ployed In his department The former
petition was referred TO the fire and
finance committees and the latter to the
street ana finance committees.
NEW COMPANY AT WORK.
The Utah Independent Telephone
by Elmer b. Jones. manager,
notified the council that lt had filed its
S2j,C00 bond with the city recorder as
required In It's franchise and that work /
on the Salt Lake exchange had been !
commenced
OTHER MATTERS.
Chief Devne notified the council that |
he had promoted Lieut. G., r. Williams |
to captaIncy and Otto Witbeck TO |
nm the position Of Lieut. Williams. The |
promotions were confirmed.
The report OF the finance committee, |
recommending an increase I'm salaries .
IN the city engineers department as |
follows, was adopted.
J.. r. Zuiick. from 800 TO Sis, l.. II. |
Krebs, from 500 to SllO. j. NJ. Lentz,
from 500 20 Sl05.