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Show 28 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT mm 44. Louis Marcus, Mayor of Salt Lake City from 1932 to 1936, under whose administration the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City was created. 45. Wells of the State Fish Hatchery, located in the Murray Artesian Basin. As part of the artesian well program, the City constructed a pipeline system to collect and deliver into city mains water from the State Hatchery wells and the other Murray Artesian wells acquired in 1931. S. L. C. Eng. Dept. even then of doubtful application and since probably completely repudiated by the Supreme Court. The well rights purchased were helpful and have been since, but only as supplemental and emergency sources. The rights in lands acquired were then and are now of doubtful value. During the same year the City paid out a large amount for a number of miscellaneous water applications and paper rights relating to further development of various " Local Sources." This purchase has since been bitterly denounced as one involving so many hundred thousand dollars wasted and, on the other hand, as one of great value. Whatever may have been its value, it had little relation to the problem of long- range planning, but neither, for that matter, did most of the things done during this period. CHANGING ADMINISTRATIONS What might have been accomplished toward the plans proposed by IliiliSItiliHIl^ B mmmm |