The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-31
Doremus is Doubtful.

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Doremus is Doubtful.
In response to a request of Council
man Hewlett, who occupied the chair
Mr.. Doremus briefly reviewed the his
! tory of the wells and advanced his
conclusions.
I predict that these wells will
never be utilized by pumping into the
present system as Mr.. Nichols pro-
poses" SAID Mr.. Doremus In Mayor
Scotts administration we went into
the matter thoroughly and it has been
gone into completely several times
since, but il always turns out when
you take into consideration the cost
OF installing pumps and mac hinery
capitalization, etc, that the cost is
too high. If they are utilized it will
not be by pumping the water up into
the air 300 feet or so and then droD-
] ping 1t back again My opinion, and
/ the opinion of others who have made
! Investigations, is that il would be
/ best to cut out a territory in the low
/ est parts of the city and by putting in
a small pumping plant supply water
( to that territory. This would relieve
/ the demand on the rest of the system
/ to that extent and would not require
! pumping the water uD to the level of
| the mouth of City creek or ParIey's
I canyon only 10 let ii run back to
4 Where 1t was Every once in a while
/ somebody discovers these wells in Lib
| erty park and finds that they produce
100000 gallons daily. Yet they only
I gauge 1 COO, 00O"
Mr.. Doremus did not dispute the
! claim that much of the water in the
/ park was good, but he was unaIter-
/ ably opposed to any proposition that
/ contemplated installing pumps to
i meet the head now obtained by the
J gravity system.
I would favor, instead, putting that
! money into Emigration canyon, where
4 every pound of powder expended will
, give a yield of water" he said
Councilman Fernstrom and others
J predicted that by July IS 1906 the city
would have more water than il would
I need at any time, as result OF the
completion of the Big Cottonwood
| scheme.
is No PhiIanthropist.
MIR. Nichols did not pretend he was
working purely for the city's good.
Il am not here for any phiIan-
thropic purpose" said he. but it's
/ purely q matter of cold dollars with
me. 1 believe I can do this thing with
/ profit to myself and to the city,
! will you undertake to supply B.
! 100000 gallons day or 30 pay?" in
/ quired Mr.. Ritter.
TIL think it over" replied Mr..
! Nichols with a laugh
! With Mr. Nichols declaration that
he would submit another "and better
/ proposition at the next council meet
; ing, the committee rose
Al an afternoon meeting the commit
tee voted to recommend to the council
J the purchase of 1000 shares of the
I stock of the East, Jordan Canal COM
( papy for $4,000. ia accordance with
/ Mayor Morris; communication on that
subject
The streets committee held a. short
/ session TO listen TO owners of prom
] erty on Main street between Fifth
/ South and Ninth South streets. An
J alternative proposition, contemplating
/ paving the street for g width of sixty
( feet from Fifth South street to Ninth
! South street with six inches of ma
/ cadam with a top dressing of three
/ inches of asphalt, was advanced. AS
| sistant City Engineer Zuliek said this