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Show ceived of mountain water. They were approximately " straight across" trades except during the non- irrigation season when the advantage was greatly in the city's favor. This last is also true of the Tanner and Upper Canal contracts but the amount of irrigation water required of the city, in these, bears no relation to the quantity it receives, but instead is a quantity definite and certain, regardless of the fluctuations of the creek from year to year and from season to season. The result, in this alone, has been very greatly to the advantage of the lands under these ditches. A notable example of this occurred during the year 1931 when the City received almost nothing 27. Improvements and extension work on the Jordan and Salt Lake Canal. ( Upper right) The corner of South Temple and State Streets in April 1904, and 28. ( right center) North Temple Street in July, 1906. 29. ( Below) The " Sixtieth South Street" pumping plant, where Utah Lake water in the East Jordan canal extension is pumped to the Upper Canal and Big Cottonwood Tanner ditches for irrigation use. The plant is located on the Big Cottonwood canyon highway, but is usually referred to as the " Sixtieth South" plant. All photos S. L. C. Eng. Dept. |
