Show BOUNTIFUL UL RES RESERVOIR mr kinnie and ayer at I 1 the clipper office hold meeting at opera house L D kinney and E T ayer called 0 on n us last week and introduced themselves as being the parties that had filed on the surplus water of mill creek and located a dam dain sight they said the they were not connected in any way with the llie town of bonneville but that they were private speculators and they the saw a good place for a re senoir and as the law would protect thein they filed on oil the surplus water and tile the datu dam sight tile the lam dam sight is on oil pratt Bro brothers Brolli therb erb land and when waken pratt brothers learned that a water company could condemn their land that had been used for farming purposes and pay the amount it is worth for same and use it for water purposes they went in with the company now they propose putting ili in about in a reber reservoir voir i and starting Dc 10 what will be called the bountiful water company they would get and store up water and sell it to the people they said that pratt brothers had got out some water and instead cf appropriating it they had let it run an and consequently lost it they said if they got any they would appropriate it to save it and as they would not use it themselves they would have to sell it to others but positively they say they are not and will not be antagonistic to the citizens lut but they have found a chance to mike make money and they have it solid and will hold it fast they wanted to get the people together and explain their ideas which they think will satisfy all and by talking with bishop call who ho agreed to appoint a meeting formon for mou day night in the opera house according to appointment mr kinney came and talked to a goo good I 1 house full of the citizens 11 he explained his ideal in so plain pain a way that we can know what to expect lie ile made four pro positions one was to put in water works worth north a quarter of a million and do it all himself and ad have for lis his tb water he saved or increased iii hi ul we realize ano small amount late in ill the season the other proposition is to build half and let the town build the other half and give some reliable citizen citi zeil the controlling cont roling ruling votes so 30 that both bolh parties will get justice and own the reser reservoir voir between them another proposition is to sell the whole tiling thing to the town he floating the bonds bond and getting the money on twenty years and 6 percent the other proposition is to let people come I 1 in n and work or put in alt all allther they wish to thus working out in a few months month an interest equal to their water tax for life and have havethe the water that they now get and four times as much more piped right to their doors now what shall we do no I 1 what CAN we do can ve is e stop him if we try would it be wisdom to stop him if f we could it if we would go ahead and build the works ourselves it might be a good thing if we could stop him ant it if we could not or would not it will be a great benefit to the town to have some ono one else do dot the 11 e work for us but the all important thing is have we slept as many have said we would until some one has come and secured the water they will have to give us what a court will decide is ours but bat how much is that it is a large stream in th the spring and it dwindles off to nothing in the fall but how can we prove our rights and swear before a court of justice just how much water we have used mr I 1 r kincey read a clause from the united states statutes which appeared to give a person the right to 4 do as ile he proposed to do now let us its consider well the matter in hand and if we are sure we can keep him out and better dur our condition by doing so let us fire the deadly missile at once and gently s show h h him t that h h he e cannot do as he how atwi lat c chooses os e s with t the h e com community mu anity if we find that it will be for our good to have him put in the water works let us encourage him if we find we cannot help ourselves selves let us not froth at the mouth and bite our tongues and curse mr kinney on the contrary let us make as much of his as we can and spend it in improving the other two creeks before some one comes and improves them for us |