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Show 6 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT still devoted to agriculture but the greater part of them is occupied by city homes to which Utah Lake water is still delivered and used for small kitchen gardens and surrounding beautification. TEMPORARY RELIEF But the problem was far from solved; in fact no more had been accomplished than to satisfy the exigency of the present, and the year 1890 was a drouth year. As yet no long- range plan for a purely municipal water supply had been devised; no carefully worked out scheme of continuing development had as yet been conceived. The Utah Lake development, though it had in it the possibilities later realized and indicated by the Parley's Exchange, was an irrigation project, a project originally designed, as stated by Brigham Young, to support a population, not merely in Salt Lake City but in " Great Salt Lake County," and the water thus made available was not suitable for culinary uses. ihe matter, however, continued to receive the attention of the municipal authorities. On February 19, 1889, Mayor Francis Armstrong said in his message to the City Council: " It is too well known to need reiteration that the question of an increased water supply has for many years been the most important consideration connected with the government of Salt Lake City. The situation has certainly been greatly relieved by the past wise and intelligent action of your honorable body in the construction of artificial waterways from various sources into the citv so that it is believed in or- ?. Main Street of Salt Lake City ( left) in 1880, one year after work had begun on the Jordan and Salt Lake Canal. 8. Suicide Rock Reservoir ( right) near the mouth of Parley's Canyon. This was the first important storage reservoir to be constructed for municipal use. The photograph was taken at a time when the reservoir had been drained for repairs and cleaning. S. L. Tribune S. L. C. Eng. Dept. |