The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01

be more desirable, STILL the city runs
no risk Of fOrfeiting the right to use the
mountain water, because, by carrying
out the contemplated plan and making
the available supply of water at Utah
lake absolutely certain, il would render
any forfeiture or even default or inter
ruption in the use of the water practi-
cally impossible. The essence of the
proposed exchange agreement lies in
the city's ability to furnish a sufficient
and certain substitute for the noun
tain water
The quantity of water that win be Ill
timately required, daily, for the eX-
change of mountain water viii. under
the plan proposed, be as follows, for a
period of $50 days:
For Parley's creek. 4.2O2. $40 gallons
For Mill creek ....... 6.631.211 gallons
For Big Cottonwood IL, 1888, 5SS gallons
For Little Cottonwood. 7.S27,S67 gallons
For the % per ct bonus S.0S5,666 gallons
Total daily require
ment for $50 days or
during exchange Pc
nod --.....-. "A, 63l,O1 gallons
At the lowest known stage of water
which occurred last year there was, at
the end Of the irrigation season, in the
Utah lake reservoir, 143.74S, Q00, 600 gal
Ions of unused water. One-fifth OF this
quantity, or 2S.749, 500, 900 gallons. the
city'S share of this stored water is the
equivalent of a daily flow of l59,72O,000
gallons for a period of $50 days. This,
with the quantity which the city drew
from this source the same season,
would make the city's total daily sup
ply from the lake, in seasons of lowest
flow, for period Of $50 days, as fol-
lows:
Daily available fow.. 43, $4,000 gallons
Daily unused dow... -159. 100000 gallons
Total possible daily
flow ...... $780,. 203. 100000 gallons
Or four and one-half times the ultimate
daily requirement for exchange accord
ing to the proposed plan.
There is no doubt that all the water
necessary for exchange purposes can
be made available from Utah lake res
ervoir through the installation of addi-
tional pumps, or the rectification of the
river channel, and that it's certain de-
livery to the farmers, can be effected
by a reasonable expenditure for repairs
on the City canal.
In addition to the prospective rights,
the city has taken an option on Spring
creek, which can be exercised if it
shall be thought prudent TO do so. But
the Spring creek proposition is not in
cluded in any Of the recommendations
or estimates of this address.
There is nothing experimental in the
plan of procuring a supply Of potable
water for an equivalent Of irrigation
W dLtI- j he CITY mas MAO the use Oh
Parley'S creek water for the past fif-
teen years, under a similar plan, and
during that time there has not been
to exceed two days of interrupted flow
no longer than ii is often necessary to
shut off the water from some street
main to effect a needed repair.
How Money Will Be Spent.
The works by which il is proposed to
consummate the plan and the cost of
such works as estimated by the city en-
gineer, are as follows
Conduit from Cottonwood to
Farley S.----.--- $3.50, 600. 90
Power plant at mouth of
Farley 9 ------------ ---.--.-- 10000 90
Developments at Utah lake.. 2O0.OOO.OO
Repairs on City canal ........- 29O0O.00
Improvement of distribution
system ..--.-..--. 1888. 49, 100 GOO. 90
change Of water -. 100000
Extinguishment of power
rights and incidentals....- 81, O00.0 90
Engineering preliminaries and
supervision -.-.---- 100000
Total estimated cost $3.50 900. 90
The proposed conduit viii be con-
structed Of cement concrete and be of
such dimensions as viii carry the ac-
quired water. It viii discharge the
Mil creek and Cottonwood waters into
Parley's creek at an elevation of $50
feet above the intake of the Parleys
canyon conduit. through which the
water will be carried to the city. The
$50 feet of fall between the discharge
end Of the proposed conduit ana the
intake of Parley's canyon conduit viii
be utilized through the construction of
the proposed power plant. in the pro-
duction of power for pumping sewage
from the proposed west side intercept
ing sewer up into the present gravity
sewer.
Work at Utah Lake.
The development work at Utah
lake will be of such character as
will make certain and sufficient, for
exchange and other purposes, the sup
ply of water from that source. This
work may be done in connection with
that for which plans are now being
prepared by the United States reclama-
t;on service, or independently as may
be found most advantageous to the
city
The repairs on the city canal viii
consist of such work as will put that
channel in proper condition to deliver
with certainty the water which VIII be
developed at the lake.
The Improvement of the distribution
system viii comprise such enlarge
ments and extensions in the present
pipe system as win enable the proper
distribution of the ADDED water supply.
The many considerations in effecting
the proposed exchange of water will re-
quire the sum shown in the above
statement.
The cost of extinguishing the several
power rights situated below the point
of proposed diversion on Big Cotton
wood, and for miscellaneous incidentals
it is estimated will require the amount
placed in the schedule for these pur-
poses.
The cost Of the preliminary and su-
pervisinS work for engineering has
been estimated at > per cent of the cost
for the entire work which it is thought
VIII be ample.
Limits on City's Power.
The city is not I'm a condition finan-
cIally TO obtain an absolute title to the
mountain water because it is not able
TO purchase the water rights. If the
city were bonded to the constitutional
limit. it would not have sufficient
money, after constructing the conduit
and making provision for the distribu-
ton of water in the city, to purchase
sufficient mountain water to materially
Increase the present supply. But. even
II the city could raise the money to
purchase the water, inasmuch as it
already owns a canal and valuable
water right from Jordan river and
Utah lake v-OnI6 no haffer