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Show Ifllll OH THE I BOI PROPOSITION t Editor Standard: It hardly seems Just the correct thing to have the Ity bonding proposition propo-sition be either burled under defeat or crowned with victory without discussion. dis-cussion. For myself there are pome points on which mj inind is unsettled, unset-tled, and on Iho presumption that there are other persons in similar mental attitude. I trouble you with these lines hoping that illumination vlll follow from some source. Persons in official position should usually bo credited with understanding understand-ing tho matters In their hands for official of-ficial attention, and It Is well for citizens citi-zens to follow their advice, generally, yet there are times, and this appears to be one of them, when the people thoubl do Independent thinking The present water system was put In during the Ogden boom days, about twenty years ago, anJ the people felt great satisfaction, and received warmly warm-ly given congratulations from outsiders, outsid-ers, for having established a system suitable for a large city. It was expected ex-pected that Ogden would double Its population within five years, and then double again In ten or fiftoen years, and that the water system, wo far a3 built, was of sufficient capacity for all of this. So that the argument that the present pipe line from the water sources was put in twenty years ago does not mean much to some of us. Ogden has been twenty years doing v hat it was then thought would he Oone In five years. When the question of purchasing the water system was before the people peo-ple a year or so ago they favored It under the spell of convlctfon, and settled set-tled belief that the conduit from water wa-ter sources, and the pipes from tho reservoir were sufficient for a long t'me to come, and In vood condition. l the people of tho Brewer administration adminis-tration deny these things now' When the new reservoir was being made, and then the decision reached to cement the same. It was not known, at least not announced, that there was no way provided for putting put-ting tho water Into the reservoir; but the question has always been, and the Inquiry made In this way: "Has the city a sufficient water supply at the sources of supply?" There Is where the rub was expected expect-ed to be, and expenditure of money le required. la it a fact that any lack of water supply In the distributive pipes Is because of the under-slze of the conduit? con-duit? fThe pipe will not carry any more than It now does. Editor Is the insufficiency of the water supply In the city because the conduit Is clogged and needs cleaning? If Ibis Is true Is such a cleaning Impossible Impos-sible or Impracticable? (Probably Loth Editor.) How was the discovery made that there was or Is, or soon will be, a crying cry-ing need for more water in the distributive dis-tributive system, requiring the building build-ing of a new conduit, or even the cleaning of the present one? (We presume the fact that tho conduit con-duit can not be forced to flow more w?ter to fill the new reservoir is a telf-evlilent fact. Editor.) Has any citizen who bad the right to take water been refused or been unable to get sufficient? If such be the case was it because of the insuf-liclent insuf-liclent carrying capacity uf the pipes, cr because other citizens were using an unnecessary quantity of water, taking water that th-y had no right to take, and no need for? (We understand both Editor.) If tho said crying need came only ia lawn sprinkling hours in July and August, surely everybody knows that that condltlou may be avoided and all needs for water be met, by cutting cut or shutting clown the waste of tl'oso who waste. (Who Is wasting the water' Editor.) Ed-itor.) Wry not put In the meter system of distribution and yet lei people have tho necessary amount of water at iho same expense as now, and all have their needs supplied without any new conduit? (What Is the object of a meter If tho cost shall be the same? Editor Ed-itor ) If the city borrows money it must pay back the mouey. and there Is no u-e trying to argue that point out of the way. If borrowing bp put oil a year or five years, interest Is saved, other debts get out of the way, we have the benefit of changed conditions condi-tions lime may bring, for making observations, ob-servations, calculations, etc. (Signed) VOLNEY Ol'NNELL. (Mr. Gunnell forgets that the water wa-ter works will pay the $HHl.(K'0 debt, not the taxpayers. Not one cent will te charged to the taxpayers Editor.) |