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Show THE EAST JORDAN CANAL EXTENSION All of these were essential to immediate demands of the rapidly increasing population, but of more far- reaching importance was the action taken toward the enlargement and extension of the East Jordan Irrigation Company canal, which had been constructed many years earlier from Utah Lake for the irrigation of lands south of the city. In 1905 the city had acquired about 20 per cent of its capital stock and as early as 1899 the City Engineer had predicted the necessity of using that canal " to get our water on higher ground so as to facilitate an exchange of water of Big and Little Cottonwood." Negotiations with the East Jordan Irrigation Company having been fruitless, the City during 1908 commenced condemnation proceedings by which it sought the right to enlarge the East Jordan Canal sufficiently to carry the City's Utah Lake and Jordan River waters, stating as a ground of necessity that " the growth of the city since 1880 had been and now is in the direction of the higher lands and above said 6. L. C. Eng. Dept. S. L. C. Eng. Dept. 17. The Big Cottonwood Conduit ( above) as it appeared, under construction. 18. The diversion darn in Big Cottonwood Canyon. At the extreme left of the dam is the intake of the Big Cottonwood conduit, through which the Creek ivaters are delivered into the municipal mains. k£ |