Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-14
THREE MILES OF new MAINS.
Makes a Total Of One Hundred aud
Sixty.hve Niles Within the Cor.
porate Limits.
NEW TUNNEL FOR EMIGRATION.
Recommendation About Closing Up Of
dead Ends of the General System
Wants to Use Liberty Park Wells.

The annual report Of Superintendent
OF Waterworks Hines for the year 1908
was filed this morning with Mayor
Morris. 1t shows the total expenditures
of the department TO be s55,55s22, as ,
against A5 1900 for the year 1902 OF
the expenditures for 1908. the sum OF
H4,56i.S7 was expended for maintenance
which, the report states, Is but trihe
in excess Of the expense OF maintenance
for the year 1902, The total water as
sessments for the year ending June 80,
1904, will amount to about sli6,6I59O,
and after deductlng S3.4ii2o for abate-
ments, there will be balance of sll3.-
1910 Of collectible water rates.
NEW MAINS.
During the year there were three
miles OF watermains laid in the city,
which makes total OF lJ6 miles of
watermans In the city up to Dec. 81.
1908. There We're 7Gs water
services placed during the year which
Is an average of Ga per month In these
services "A, li7 feet or Sl,O70 pounds OF
pipe were used There were $40 SER
vices repaired by the department and
30 replaced. The department answered
1900 emergency calls during the year.
At the close Of the year there we're 1853
water meters In use In the city. The
supply OF water, owing to the waste
fulness OF the consumers, was barely
sufficient to supply the demand during
the year but the installation OF meters
has tended TO check the wasting Of wa
ter.
THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS,
The city creek system, Twentieth
ward and brick tanks, the superinten.
dent reports as being In good condi.
ton The Parley's conduit has been
thoroughly cleaned and is now In good
condition. II Is recommended that the
intake IN the Thirteenth East reservoir
be changed 10 the north end so as To
give circulation from end to end in the
reservoir. The stump In Emigration
canyon IL In very bad condition, and
should be replaced with cement and
built three feet above the
ground so that the high water
In the spring time VIII not
wash over the top, 1t Il also recon-
mended that the feed pipe be connect
ed at the bottom OF the stump instead
or 10 feet above II and thus increase
the flow of water 20 per cent. By
driving another tunnel along bedrock.
the superintendent believes that tho
flow OF Emigration creek can be in
creased from 2,5000O0 TO 3,500,00 gallons
per day
AS TO DEAD" ENDS.
For the fourth time Supt. Hines re-
commends that all dead ends through
out the system be- closed by connecting
so as to permit better circulation OF
the water and do away with the ex.
pense OF flushing to remove arcumula-
tons OF sand and other matter at the
ends. The practise OF drawing water
10 be used In the street sprinklers
should be discontinued and the sprink-
lers should be supplied from tie city
canal.
LIBERTY PARK WELLS.
II IL also recommended that all that
part OF the city lying south and west
cf line drawn from Ninth South and
Seventh East and running northwest
to the O. s. l.. depot be put on a pump
system and supplied By the flowing
wells below Liberty park This sys.
tenn could be used from Aug. 10 10 Feb
10 and would help In the winter
months when the creeks are frozen up
The cost of such a system IL estimai.
ed at about $4,000 supt. Hines last.
~ recommended that the county pay
Tor liz water used at the city and
county building, jail and grounds, and
that the city cemetery pay for Its wa.
ter the SAME AZ others,
Following are statements OF the ex-
penditures and receipts Of the water
works and street sprinkling depart.
mentq for the mast wear,