The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-01
HOW CITY IS TIED
UP BY R|ERARCH
Mayor Thompson and American
Party CounciImen Make a
Discovery.
VALUABLE RIGHTS GIVEN
AWAY FOR NOTHING
What Trip to Big Cottonwood
Conduit on Tuesday Dis
closed to Party.

closed 10 Party.
| Unusually valuable rights for a power
plant owned by the city were given
| away by the Morris administration to
the hlerarchs light and power trust and
nothing given In return. This fact was
| discovered by the CoUncilmanic party
| who visited the conduit Tt csday
Mayor Thompson and the new members
| OF the Council were astonished at the dis
| covery.
Big Steal Pointed Out.
During the tendency OF the franchise
which. when passed, tied the city TO the
hierarchs trust The Tribune pointed out
tho great steal that was being perpc-
trated, but the agents OF the hierarchy
in the Council. the Morris gang made
ever everything and presented the church
trust with most valuable rights
Morris Gang Bound to Hierarchy.
Not only this. but the Morris gang In
their cagcrncss TO bow to the mandates
OF the hierarchy and throw away the
money OF the taxpayers ordered the con-
duit built to suit the combine and not
the people whosc interests they were
supposed TO represent.
Many Changes Necessary,
Notwithsta lding the fact that num-
Der OF the present members OF the city
Council. who were members of the for
mer Council and parties TO the notorious
Eig Cottonwood conduit deal Will oppose
iT portant changes In the work. MS recon-
me7ded by City Engineer Kelsey and the
Board OF Public Works. all changes that
ore deemed necessary by the present 1d-
mInistTatlon Will be made
Thompson Astonished
Mayor Thompson was dumfounded yes
terday when h. learned that, under the
terms Of an az g-esment entered into with
the Utah Light and Power company. by
The Morris administrator the city IS
years. from utilizing the Big Cottonwood
water FOR power purposes. As there is
heavy fal! where the new conduit Will
connect VITA the old, nm immense amount
OF power could be generated, but this
fact Will 10 the city no good in View
OF the agreement between the former
Council and the church. Tho light
trust" secured the Insertion OF this pro
hlbltory clause by turning over certain
worthless rights in Big Cottonwood can
yen TO the city.
Attitude of Doremus,
There is no question now that A +.
poremus. who was consulting engineer
during the time that the plans and speci-
former ndmlnlstrntion-but VINO. lt sp-
pears. WGs seldom consulted-wll oppose
lcGst. evidenced by expressions which
lie gave during the trip OF inspection
made Tuesdly Ivy members Of the City
Council. Board OF Public Works and
others.
Specifications Faulty.
II is evident to anybody who goes over
tho completed portion OF the conduit, or
who inspects much OF the urcompletcd
portion. that the work. as mapped out
by the Morris administration Will not
stand the test City Engineer Kelsey Is
authority for the statement that Con-
tractor r. ]. Moran Is building the con-
for. and far, nobody has had the
tcmerity to contradict the statement. The
very fact however, that Mr. Moran is
making the sides and bottom OF the con-
duit in a solid piece, when the specifca-
tons called for putting IN the sides first
and then putting in the bottom is sufti-
10 the best OF his atiiity.
Should Be Stronger.
As to tho question of strengthening tho
instead OF six inches, thick tho mon who
are partly responsible for the flimsy man
ner in which the work may be carried
on under the specihcatlons were forced
TO admit. after viewing the work yester-
day, that, In many places. at least, six
ip ch walls were not strong enough. Eager
be advanced by the present administra-
tion, they say that tho work should be
reinforced by putting In additional steel
rods This, tGo, In face of the fact that
elght-inch walls Will not only mako the |
conduit stronger and less likely to be
broken down, but VIII assist materially |
IN stopping any leakage that may other
wiSe occur.
Ought to Be Stronger.
Upon the question OF covering the CON-
N u-ith irt Ia Irt,
ference of opinion as to tho necessity for |
this chnnge. II completed. contem-
plated by the former administration. |
there would be about % per cent OF the |
work above ground. That the |
conduit will crack II II is left exposed |
in this manner there is hardly room for |
doubt.
Big Party Makes Trip.
II was big party that made the trip
yesterday Leaving Salt Lake at S:45 a
Light and Power company. the party pro-
ceeded to Murray, whore two two-horse
and two four-horse rigs were In waiting
The members OF the party were as fol-
lows: Mayor Thompson, City Engineer
Kelsey, Assistant City Engineer Clancy,
Draughtsman Ames. Messrs. Rooklidge
Works Councllmcn Black, Barnes, Cart
er. Crabtree, Ferry. Fernstrom. HOLIDAY.
Tuddenham, Wellss O.Donnell, Contract
or o. +, j. Moran; 1-os supsrintendent is Frank
Idaho. Richard NJ. Lyman OF tho en-
gineering department OF the University
Of Utah. and representatives OF the pross
The drive from Murray to Camp Moran
was made In good time. and few min
utes later the members OF the party
found themselves at the intake, Just be
low the powerhouse Of the Utah Light
and Railway company.
The teams then went back to camp and
the party footed" 1t over little more
than a mile of the completed work
Conduit Leaking Badly.
Within this mile there is stretch Of
ZOO feet OF the conduit that was filled
with water last Friday. and by actual
there had been a leakage
II seven and one-hnlf inches up 10 noon |
Tuesday. Much OF the conduit is under |
ground where the water has been placed
n II. and leaks there could. of course not
DC seen. but at the first point whore the
conduit emerges and Is built across n
yuch a distance OF about sixty feet, the
eakagc was much in evidence, although
,nly on the east side. Here there were
several small streams about the size of