yn 7 y c J ifa nl hilll il ll aaita the longer the water remains un ettlel the moro light ia thrown tinion it slowly and one by one the acts which lave been known bathe are corning to the knowledge of tho public the council understands the situation better than it did when it accepted the original bothwell proposition desperately as e need an improvement pro of the entire system we are rather gratified in view ot recent developments that the ratification of the contract is meeting with some delay an important contribution to the of knowledge on the subject is furnished by mr Steven sons report last evening that gentleman out that the city does not receive the amount of water which belongs to it from the ogden luver a claim which THE ba maintained and on anore alian one occasion proved he also detects an engine prinK mistake in alie elevation at w kiich the main crosses the bluff abobo the reservoir As at present arranged the pipes between those two points are three eighths larger than they need to be in order to carry all the water which reaches them but as they in point of fact aro not too large to convey the quantity we need nor the amount to which we are entitled the bluff must be either cut down or the pipes above it enlarged the correction of this one defect would have led to a perceptible cep tible increase in the supply other parts of the engineers report give ground for careful baudy for ourselves we do not think the full proportion of water owned by the city is nearly reached mr stevenson is not sufficiently explicit in his statements of the amount acquired by usage and appropriation and that of the cites original right to a flow sufficient to irrigate acres but he presents the subject as far as he follows it in clear and boncee language and intelligent tell igent inquiry can do the rest pending euch inquiry and the most accurate ascertainment possible of all the facts the council may feel assured that any necessary delay will be approved by the citizens pressing as is the demand for prompt action it is not so crying that into a matter of such importance ve need jump with our eyes only half open