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Show WATER SUPPLY AND INSURANCE. Tho city commission is doing good work In taking up so vigorously and comprehensively the schemes for added water supply to this oil'. Undoubtedly Undoubted-ly tho plan which would provide the maximum water nt tho minimum cost is the Parley's canyon resorvoir, as planned' b3' City Enginocr Frank Kol-soy Kol-soy Komo ton years ago. The cost of that dam and reservoir, as stated, would bo $350,000. From there the water could bo brought by -conduit at an estimated cost of $250,000 or by a series of pipes, which might, perhaps, cost loss. Other propositions also are under discussion, one of them being, in a way, compulsory; viz., the improvement of tho lakes up Big Cottonwood, to which tho title of tho city will not fully attach until tho nocesnary improvements im-provements involving the appropriation of tho water in them aro made. i The other propositions, for bench ros- ervoirs, for tho utilization of tho artesian arte-sian wells near Liberty Park, for reservoirs reser-voirs in City Creek canyon, and other propositions, are all good, and if the Legislature extends the bonding capacity ca-pacity of the city sufficiently the' can all be well provided for in the general plan. The thing that The Tribune- urges as uot onl' imperative but as affording this city unoqualcd opportunity for a perfect supply of pure water, is the im-pounding im-pounding of the waters of tho canyon streams in their flood seasons. This would give auiplc water for the city for all time to come, and would insure (a-matter (a-matter of great importance) the reduction reduc-tion of insurance ratos in this city. With ample supply of water and fire equipment and force fully up to date, there would bo no reason whatever for rofusiug tho reduction in fire insurance insur-ance rales that is applied for by the business men of this city. We may venture to suggest in this connection that the city commission would make a mistake if it did niry-thing niry-thing by way of curtailing tho efficiency effi-ciency of tho firo department force through tho reduction of appropriation necessary to keep that force up to the highest standard, and tho fire apparatus appa-ratus of the most perfect and newest effectiveness. The reduction in tho insurance in-surance rates is a matter of very gTeat importanco to the Tiusiness interests of this city, and as suggested above, the providing of ample water, while of jfreat importance, is by no means all. Wo must have the fire apparatus and fire-fighting force in the best possible condition in order to obtain tho results which tho firo insurance policy holders of this city demand. |