The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-30

Negotiations were entered INTO by Nor
ris with the people who claimed The
water along the Big Cottonwood, and
they succeeded in making satisfactory
arrangement with the farmers and final
bids were asked TO build the conduit
from Big Cottonwood TO Farley can.
yon They did not, however, secure any
absolute water titles. They secured title
from three bitches, and the title they
get from the farmers was all the title
they owned, and 1t was merely by use.
forty years. There was a water right
in the Cottonwood that they undertook
10 purchase from Kuudscn. but Morris
had not completed the dcnl. Mayor
Thompson bought that right for $4,000,
That was the first water right secured
in the Big Cottonwood: Then test
was made of the conduit and ii was
found it leaked. The charge had been
made in the papers that the American
the building of that conduit That was
not true. said the mayor. Tho facts
were that the specifications for the con-
tract in the Morris administration were
for square conduit set on top of the
ground. where any largo stone falling
could have crushed IL. Mayor Thomp-
SON had plans prepared by which the
Corduit was rounded at the top and bot
tom. so as 10 carry off the sediment
il was moved mp the hill and trench
was dug and the conduit, put under
ground. Then the conduit was pIastcrcd
inside from one end TO The other. This
all cost $4,000 and it was well spent,
and ii it had not been spent there would
not have been any water.
No Titles to Water
NJ I,.1r
ing that no titles 10 water were ac-
quircd by the Morris administration
before they started the construction of
the conduit The present administra-
lion had bought water rights. and in
the last two years they had proceeded
10 settle the right TO title 10 all the
water in the Big Cottonwood. They
commenced suit, and the quantity Of
wafer that each was entitled TO had
boon adiudicatcd by the court after
five months of litigation. They had
wood. and they would know absolutely
how much water they had when the
other suit WIS finally adjudicated.
"Fcrny'' Shirks the Truth.
Mayor Bransford then denied that
ihc city had raised The taxes, and cx.
planned hcw ibo county had raised
them by one mill. He explained The
interccpting sewer contract which the
Morris administration left in a state
of chaos, and n new contract had TO he
let for lis construction. but .hat was
ai tho same price rs the former con
tract. SiI1 600.
He said that when Fcrnstrom stated
that the original contract was for .EI.;j.
600 and that the American patty had
spent 500, 300 on the sewer, il was not
true Hall WAS paradiDg the same
kind of figures, sand the mayor. but ii
was unnecessary to 70 into them The
mayor counsellcd them 10 give him "A
council in harmony with him, were he
| elected. \ solo was then rendered by
Curtis Cohen.
j. w. Mckinney, the next speaker,
pTuIscd The American women for their
loyalty and devotion 10 the cause of
| Americanism. lie declared that the
mon people or their religion; but, on
! the contrary, 1t is their best friend
and his desire was 10 see them enjoy
the benefits and privileges they should
enjoy.
I. T. Morctou was the last speaker
! He told of n rather amusing incident
that occurred the other day. He said
a man mot him and said. ''How dye
do. Mr.. Hewlett :, He evidently took
"'How d 'vc do Things arc look
ing all right" said the old man.
:" Arc they?' said The city recorder
"'Ycs,n said Inc old man. ''They have
been around 10 see me- So evidently
the whispers arc abroad.
Mrs. Williams then gave most en-.
JerlaininG recitation and, after rem
diton by the duartcttc. the delicious
refreshments were served