The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-03

WOULD USE WELL
AT LIBERTY PARK
Some Persons Favor Installing
Pumping Plant.
WHAT TACOMA is DOING
ANALYSES Snow WATER UNFIT
FOR CULINARY PURPOSES.
WHAT TACOMA is DOING

NN CULINARY PUAPOSES.
Some men Of Salt Lake still adhere
TO the belief that a sufficient supply
of good water for the leeds Of the
city can be developed from the flow
ing wells and springs south of Liberty
park. IN support of their contention
they cite the experience OF Tacoma,
Wash.
This year Tacoma found her water
supply inadequate and a movement was
inaugurated to increase 1T. either by
gravity from mountain streams or by
pumping from artesian wells. After
a thorough investigation by a special
committee OF the city council II was
tenn
Under the new system $4,000. 900 gal
ions are TO be pumped from wells i'm
South Tacoma. 1t is necessary to go
down about 125 feet for this water.
Y Is to be elevated into series of
reservoirs and standpipes and the en-
tire city supplied in this way.
The city council OF Tacoma at its
regular session Nov. Ia voted in favor
OF the new system and work is to
start at once on the wells. Two wells
are already furnishing water and other
Wells viii be sunk as fast as needed.
The work of installing this new sys-
tenn IS to be under the supervision Of
Luc1en Forrest McCOnihe a hvdraul-
ic engineer Of experience and high
standing
Writing 10 . friend in this city i'm
regard 10 the cost of pumping the wa
ter, Mr.. McConihe says:
Tacoma Water Is Cheap.
The water pumped the past month
or October. 1904, cost for power 81 80
per one million gallons. This does not
include labor which, you understand.
would cost the same for $4,000 600 gall
Ions as ID would for 1000 600 or 5000 600
gallons. The law provides for eight
hour shifts This requires three men
Tor each day. Yon can explain to the
proper authorities that the labor cost
or the water was S2.2S per million gall
Ions, or a total cost per 1 loo 600 gal
ions OF A.lS Pumping but Is 1000 600
gallons per tWenty-fOur hours instead
OF 2o.VoO.OOO gallons, as l stated in my
letter TO the city council. which I en-
close to you, the cost would be but
% cents per one million gallons pumped
Tor labor, or cost OF S2.45 for power
ana labor combined per one million /
gallons pumped to the surface of the
ground with a lfty-foot life"
Electrical power is used in operating
the Tacoma pumps. The bill submitted
10 the city council for October pro-
Vided for power-36.33S X w. hours al
5000; power for compressor, SIO4: lights. /
-, The amount of water pumped was !
3A9o0OO0 gaHons-L000 600 gallons for I
Sl-90, or 500 gallons for / cent In |
october there were but two wells run /
ming. Under the completed system the /
cost per million gallons is expected /
10 be greatly reduced
The geological formation under Ia !
coma gives the city an unlimited sup
ply OF this water and it is demonstrated (
10 be pure and wholesome
Facts About Liberty Park.
LEGAL advocates -Qf tho. Liberty park
pumping plaD FOR the supply of Salt
Lake have not been able up TO this
time 10 demonstrate that the water Is
OF the right quality to be used for cul-
mary purposes or that sufficient sup
ply could be developed from the springs
IN that part of the city or from ar
tesian wells at a reasonable depth The
latest official Information on the sub
Ject IS not encouraging. This is con-
tanned in report made to the city
council by City Engineer f. c. KeI-
Sey- July 20. 1900. The council at the
meeting of July Il passed a resolution
calling upon Mr.. Kelsey for an esti-
mate on the cost of pumping The water I
at the park and extending the water
mains so as 20 put the water pumped
into the city system.
Mr.. Kelsey submitted i'm his report
four bids from local firms on-the cost
OF pump with a capacity of 2 900 600
gallons every twenty-four hours and |
an iEhty-borsepower boiler. The bids
ranged from $500 to Sit300. The other
items Of cost in the development of the
water were: Stump. $1,000; cleaning the
wells. $500; foundation. S400 buildings.
$1,000; water mains and connections I
100000: incidentals 81 $50 Total. S26.-
$50. The total cost of the plant was
put at between $4,000 apd $4,000. and
this does not include the cost OF oDeTat-
ing. Provision was made for an S-inch 2
pipe to run from the pumps east two
blocks TO connect with a 6-inch main
on Eighth and Ninth East. and also
Tor lZ-lnch main on Seventh East from
Tenth 10 Seventh South streets, with
6-inch and 1O-inch connections.
The report set forth that part of
the water from the wells was seepage /
water from irrigation, proved by the II
fact that the flow decreased after the
irTigating season was over. In the 7
winter of 1898 the flow was less than
$4,000 gallons every twenty-four hours
Many Solids in the Water.
Mr.. Kelsey's report also included an
OF the water made by Profes-
sor Hadley Of the University of Utah.
This report Of the chemist said OF the 7
water from the artesian wells: The
amount Of total solids would condemn /
il, being over 600 parts TO dhe NJ"
OF the water from the springs Profes-
sor HadleyS report said. while It may
be safe. J would not like 10 recommend
it for domestic use: more solid matter
than well water rendering il more OBJ
iecti0nable"
Two years ago measurements by the }
city engineers Office showed a total
flow from the wells and springs OF
100000 gallons every twenty-four
hours. II is a well known fact that ]
The flow Of water here has largely de-
,reased in recent years. Some attribute
his 10 the fact that the wells have
become stopped up. They claim that
T they were cleaned out and kept clear h
he flow Of water would be greatly in L
'reased. Objection TO the use Of the =
water is largely based on the under y
standing that the water-part of Il. at y
CASTS seeDage. and that this seepage 4
must Of necessity carry with IL many / n
Impurities from the farms aud houses
ibove where the water IS brought to a
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