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Show 29 ... an additional supply of... half a million gallons per day [ was acquired] from the following sources. In the right hand fork, [ of City Creek] Lamb's canyon cleaned out four springs and placed their flow and the increase was 200,300 gallons in twenty- four hours. In the left hand fork opened seventeen springs and the weir placed in the creek showed an increase of 200,300 gallons .... This is a natural reservoir where a large quantity of water could be stored at a small expense .... Have cleared the stream in the left hand fork for a distance of two miles and had the accumulation of rubbish burned. Have also opened springs at Peter Olsen's ranch on the summit and caused an increase of 21,000 gallons. On Youngberg's ranch opened spring No. 1 and increased 12,900 gallons in twenty- four hours, and spring No. 2 increased 65,900 gallons .... making the total of water developed 500,400 gallons in twenty- four hours. In the main canyon have cleared and strengthened the creek, and in places where it was practicable, have turned it away from obnoxious corrals, and when the creek ran close to the road turned it back to its original channel, away from the drainage of the road. In 1892 A. F. Doremus, Salt Lake City's engineer, presented a major plan for city water development. Proceeding from the assumption that Utah Lake was Salt Lake City's proper reservoir, he proposed to increase its supply by diking the lake and damming and dredging the channels of the Jordan. This added supply of Utah Lake water was to be traded through exchange agreements with local irrigation companies for water from mountain streams then serving the land along the east base of the mountains. 26 Prompted by growing speculative interest in commercial water development, Doremus also offered a plan to tap the Uinta Mountains directly by developing a syphon from the Weber Drainage near Kamas in Summit County and bringing a highline conduit into Salt Lake Valley. 27 While this larger scheme was decades in development, Salt Lake City did put many of the more local aspects of Doremus' plan into effect As Peterson records, the city built a million gallon reservoir near Capitol Hill. 028 A settling tank of similar capacity was built at the mouth of Parley's Canyon. This tank connected to a five- million gallon reservoir on 13th East which was also fed by a million gallons a day piped from a collecting trench a half mile up Emigration Creek. 29 By 1900 contractors like Patrick J. Moran were regularly making city water works construction part of their operation. Perhaps the most ambitious was the Big Cottonwood Conduit which was large enough for a man to walk in and ran eight miles from the canyon mouth to the city. 30 By 1915 municipal systems had become a factor to recognize throughout Salt Lake Valley. Salt Lake City boasted that its water works were valued at $ 6,300,000 and that its 254 miles of 26ibid.. p 56, and also see Fisher Stanford Harris, 100 Years of Water Development: A Report Submitted to the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City, The Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City Corporation, and the Citizens of Salt Lake City. ( Salt Lake City, Utah: 1942), pp 5- 19. 27 Ibid., and Charles S. Peterson, with John Lambom, " Agriculture in Salt Lake County", p 56. 28Ibid., p 55. 2* Ibid., p 57 30 See Shirley Howell Forester, " Family History of Rayomon Earl Wayman and Beth Eatie Wayman" typescript Utah Historical Society, 1. |