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Show WATERWORKS WE MUST HAVE. We trust it will not be necessary for Provo to have an actual lire, destroying destroy-ing the hard earnings and savings of our posperous business men, which have been invested in buildings and in merchandise, before the City Council will see the necessity of taking active steps for the procuring of an effective and thoroughly good system of waterworks water-works for our city. If it is thought that conditions are not such that the city can at ford a system to Cover the entire area bounded by our corporate limits, let us at least have the business portion, and that most densely populated popu-lated protected. It may be necessary to bond the city to which some object, but our city fathers must not heed the objectors when the majority are crying, and crying loudly, too, for a system of waterworks, if for no other purpose than a means of protection against the ravages of fire. Fire originates in a thousand and one peculiar ways ways, too, the least expected; ex-pected; and although our volunteer fire brigade is willing at all times to cope with flames, should they start, and use their utmost endeavors to baffle the work of destruction a fire wages so des perately and unrelentingly, yet the lack of water to lash upon the Haines and building?, makes their labors practically practi-cally unavailing. We must have waterworks. It is a shame to be so negligent and have so much valuable property lying practically prac-tically unprotected. j It is in fact a matter of the greatest j economy for a city to have in successful j operation a thorough and efficient sjs- j tern of waterworks with an ample supply of water. In the first place it reduces the rata of insurance, and this not only encourages men to '.uild, but reduces the expense of conducting a bus- iness and of living. Profits aru conse- quently higher and the encouragement jis greater under these circumstances j for men to lead out and develop the country and build up the city, and it is by this encourgement of people, stimulated by a greater gain that a country is prosperous and progressive. Our city fathers must not lie back in their chairs and say, "Yes, we will let the city have a system of water work whenever the opportunity comes to us and we have enough money in the j treasury to pay for it." But they must get up and hustle the people, whose I servants they are. demand it. They must get contractors to put in estimates, esti-mates, select the honest and nest responsible re-sponsible and put him to work and then plan to pay him. If the city must be bondei! and all admit that it must i be in order to accomplish the object why, bond it. Get the money and pa it out legitimately for the work as it is done. There is scarce a citizen who is a property owner but will help the Council in this move both with : sentimental and substantial encourage-mrnt encourage-mrnt in the way of assessment or work, pay for which will be taken in the use of water for culinary, lawn and residence purposes after the system is once in operation. Again, a most deplorable disadvantage disadvant-age under which we are laboring is the fact that the resident-; of our beautiful j and otherwise attractive city are corn-I corn-I pelled. the majority of them, to driui-well driui-well water which is to say the least no! uood and is the chief source of the prevalent pre-valent malaria with which Provo ir cursed. A system of waterworks briiii.'-ing briiii.'-ing to us pure water from the mountains moun-tains would in a very short time eradicate eradi-cate this loathsome, enervating, lingering, linger-ing, miserable disease from our midst, and on is would not only be the must beautiful and attractive city on the Pacific coast, but it would also be the most healthy, because our air is pure and our climate, perfect, and our situ-j situ-j ation such that we could not help but j all be healthy w ith ordinary care, were I it not for this water while many of us j are compelled to drink. The water comes from some substrata that was once a marshy slough, and is filled with the germs of malaria. J Gentlemen of the City Council : In the name of justice and mercy, are we much longer going to fill the systems of ourfelvcs and our children with the germs of disease and have our property unprotected from the ravages of Hire? Y'our answer should be "No!" uttered in the thundering tones of immediate action which will result in the establishment establish-ment of a system of waterworks for Provo. GIYE US WATERWORKS. |