The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-10

works, who have i'm every instance act
ed in unison with the council and the
engineering department for the grand
and final success of the work.
Next gentlemen. / wish to thank
our host, the contractor. who has fur
nished the money 10 carry on this work.
and who through the whole of this con-
struction has been ever willing 10 aid
US in the attainment of perfect piece
of work.
Difficulties Experienced.
There are some of you gentlemen
who have had experience in contract
ing, and who know that in the begin
ming Of such work many discOura ge-
ments have beset the contractor. Ma
terial IS not just what it is supposed
TO be, the excavation cost a little more
than figured. The engineers want things
done little different from what was
expected, and labor costs more. | wish
10 say gentlemen, that during the his
tory of contract work in this vicinity
labor has never been as scarce nor cost
as much as during the building of this
conduit Our friend here has never
murmured; never asked the city to give
him more time. never complained of
difficulties. but paid out his money like
man.
But out greater debt of gratitude
must be to the man who has bad
charge of this work. Frank Gawan. for
the energy with which he has followed
up the construction of this piece of
due resrect To cur host. / wish 10 saw
work from the very beginning. With all
that to Gawan. more than any other
man, belongs the credit of an honest
construction on this One-half million
dollars' worth of work
Some share of our gratitude should
be extended to George o. CLANCY. prin-
cipal assistant engineer: L. L. Parke.
field engineer. and other employees of
the engineering department whose serv-
ices have been faithful and efficient
Word for the Farmers.
And now, ] will say a word for the
farmers and the men with whom we
have dealt during the last two years.
I'm some instances they have been will
ing to take the will and endeavor for
the actual deed. They have not i'm all
cases held US TO the letter of the con-
tracts | wish TO assure them that
their favors viii be remembered. and I
hope and believe that the citizens Of
Salt Lake City will remember and re-
turn like courtesies K chance shall give
them the occasion.
Let US not forget the men who have
performed the actual labor on this
work. Some of the men kere have lived
IN tents and bunk houses for nearly a
year and half to help us IN this great
improvement.
History of Project.
And now, gentlemen. I would like to
give you little history.
There is with us today a man who
was our first city engineer His name
is A. r. Doremus, and / am glad TO say
that il is a name we can all be proud
Of In 1851 A. F. Doremus advised the
city council that some day we would
necessarily come to this creek to get
something TO drink. I believe. gentle
men, that Mr.. Doremus has lived to see
two things consummated that he most
desired-one is the supply of water
coming to our fair city from this
stream, and the other is the gravity
outlet for our sewerage.
Gentlemen. from the time that the
city engineers Office was created down
TO the present moment, each engineer
has recommended and dreamed of the
time when Cottonwood creek should
pour her flood into the city's water
mains ana furnish a practically mex
haUstible supply Of water TO her peo-
pie.
THE city. engineer in 1897 inaugurated
an investigation to obtain data on
which 10 base the NEGOTIATIONS for this
water Along in 1898 a canvas weir
was stretched across this stream. Can
you realize st. that Salt Lake City once
upon time had a dam made OF a bit
Of rag. bit of timber. a piece of iron
and about two tons OF rock? And il
was q good dam. too: and we meas
ured that creek on q twenty-foot weir
rot fifty feet from where that concrete
dam stands today. Eight years ago we
constructed two ffteen-foof weirs.
which nave been in use until last fall
when they were moved to Little Cot