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Show 20 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT reported that '' The past season has fully demonstrated the fact that the supply of water from all sources to the city, in any dry season, even when managed with frugality and distributed to its utmost capacity, both day and night, is wholly inadequate"; that the Parley's Exchange of 1888 was a matter of immediate necessity which the Mayor spoke of in 1889 as having " greatly relieved the situation," so that with the Utah Lake supply " there need be no concern as to the actual necessities of the present population or the sustenance of existing vegetation." In the early 1890s wells were driven in various parts of the city to relieve the effect of a drouth in 1890. In 1904 and 1905 a conduit was built which the City Engineer had recommended more than ten years previously and during those years three " Exchange Agreements" were entered into in order to provide an increased supply needed at that time. Those required by the necessities of 1920 were not effected in 1905 but in 1920. The 1892 recommendations of City Engineer Doremus concerning the construction of a high line conduit and the Cottonwood Exchanges, the improvement of the Utah Lake supply, the taking of it as the basis of future development; the 1908 action looking toward the enlargement and extension of the East Jordan Canal- all this has the appearance of foresight, but the appearance is blurred by the fact that in 1910, after the purchase of 20 per cent of the stock of the East Jordan Irrigation Company about 1905 and after the City had obtained a decreed right of 54,000 acre feet in Utah Lake, this same Engineer testified that the future of Salt Lake City required no more than 36,000 acre feet and so gave countenance and support to the " Booth Decree" of that limitation. THE FIRST LONG RANGE PLANNING 1924 was a drought year and the precipitation of 1928 was below normal; in his 1929 report the City Engi- 32. The Danielson orchard on 20th East Street, just below the Sixtieth South Street pump plant, is an excellent example of the lands irrigated under the exchange agreements. Hampton C. Godbe "*"'""":;:": • :, S* |
