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Show I Hut. wo a.-k, what is a small ad-' ad-' dilional expense, even to a poor rnan. wliou pilled aaint thini.'s j I H-n times de.u-ci' to his In-art than ' riches the gwnd health and live of his little ones? Dollars Dol-lars and dimes are mere chall in s'.uh a comparison. Coiir-ult : tin- h.-st doctors, and they will, ( without an exception, wo believe, 1 intonii you that a large proportion of our disease and deaths is brought tin by our impure water, and that water works will materially lessen t hese evils. 1 liter view I hem for yourself, friend "Observer." hir-t two more pertinent (iiestions we should like this verbose gentleman gentle-man to explain satisfactorily: If a ' goo.l system of water works will not i be the means of averting disastrous . (ires and greatly reducing almost unbearably high insurance both purse replen ishers he cutely for got this in his mountain of verbosity. ver-bosity. And last, hut not least, by its convenience, water works is a great promoter of cleanliness; and remember re-member ''cleanliness is next to dodliness;" that is another great disease avertcr. En. have about -100 families or hs in r.righaiu City proper, and Ibis would reipiire at lea.-1 half of the families in the t'ity to patroni-.e the system, and if w an- lo judge from what we hear people say ak-ut noi being able to pay lli.it taxes we uuld conclude tiny Would iml be able lo cjrry this extra hud. 1 Jut suppose -JiM families can he found who are abb- and willing, (hey will be .-valtered over the entire t'ity. north and south, east and we.-t. and the mains cannot be put in, the reservoir built and our City made a net work of water pipes, for tfun.mu as stated in Tut: !'i';!.i:it and don't you forget it. Ag.-.in, "Tbinke-" concludes, upon up-on his own reasoning, that in ten years the number of hydrants may have increased to ollll. F,,- the last ten years, the inhabitants of our City have increased only about 500. Reckoning live persons to the family this would make an increase in-crease of about IK) families, Mantua included, and so we have perhaps, j less than -100 now, we may have I 10 ! families in lirigham proper in ten ' years from now. lie drops an idea that our real estate might double in value bv inaugurating water works. If this should ) trove true, it would be a jjositive disadvantage lo manv of the people. Thu greater part of citizens are here to stay, and this would simply double (heir taxes without increasing their facilities for paying them; hut doubt a substantial increase would be brought about. In Ogden and Salt Lake a short time ago, a wildcat scheme ran building sites up to fabulous prices, but today with all their water works and other mod-cm mod-cm conveniences many persons would In; glad to sel I for a ny reasonable sum but cannot. I have spoken of a probable increase in-crease of MO or 40 families in the next ten years, but our town cannot can-not increase to any great extent. W'e have no- extensive farming country around us, and not wafer enough for what land we have under cultivation now, nor have we any manufactures. If is true our City lots can be cut up and two or three homes built, where there is hut one now, and no more water be required, but where a re the people to Hud employ men t and make a living? One uf on r lirst needs is more water and not less. 1 f our City faliieis will derive some plan (or storing the water t i in I. runs to waste one hall' of the year, they will immortalize their names. Then Ihe hundreds of aces of land lying on all four sides of tins ( 'ily can be turned into smiling gardens and beautiful orchards. Then our City will not nr.ly increase, but, double, and perhaps treble its resent res-ent population in ten years; and then we will lie ready for wafer works and then 1 shall say let us have them. ';Thinkor'' says no one will be tut to extra expense unless he uses thu water. Like his other statements state-ments 1 doubt this also, unless it is worked on a dilVerenf plan here than elsewhere. The City will no doubt lie at the expense of piping the water to town. T may not want the w;iter in my yard or house, my neighbor does; a pipe is laid past my premises to accommodate hint and others and 1 will lie required to bear the expense of its being taken past my lot. Again I believe that three-fourths of the (ax payers of Brigham City will, if expressing themselves with- WATER WORKS. On i! of (lie Ynilliir "Kickers" takes Ms Senior, fll r. "'riiiiilicr" To Task. ICihtou Bet; lki;. A 'Thinker' in your issue of January '2nd gives some reasons (of his own) why lirigham City can and ought to ha ve a. system of water works. There may he some reasons (oi others) why we should not have if at present. It will take more "lorcible arguments argu-ments than I have been able to lind in the article referred to to convince many of our people that a system of water works can be put in and enough taken out of Box Klder creek to keep the pipes and reservoir reser-voir fu 1 1 without diminishing its How, This will come out, of the portion allotted to the ('ily, for the fields will still want their share, j The few lawns we have and those that may be started hereafter may be benefited: but the orchards and gardens will have (o sulfer. They have found it so in Salt Lake City The banker, the merchant, the man with a salarv can all have lawns and llowcr beds, but the gardens ami orelmnls of the masses of Unpeople Un-people arc drying up and drying onl. Kiupiire of voiir neighbors in Ihe capital and ascertain if this is not a fact, and "i'eter is robbed to pay I'aul." Needn't fret over this. 'Observer." as the water for tlie proposed svstem lias been secured elseu here than from Box Klder ereek.-Kli.) Thinker" thinks 'J00 hydrants would be put in use at once. We oul restraint-, pioust, against, an outlay of $20,000 for water works at the present time. f may lie mistaken, but if 1 am not,- ''Thinker" is thin king more of how much he is going to make out of the scheme, than the beneCii. it is going to be (not to the few) but to the masses of the people. le ma v consider me a kicker. Can't help it if he docs. 1 expect to be found kicking against any scheme calculated to benefit I he' few at the expense of the masses who an; the sinews and backbone of our community and who have built up our town and made it what it is today. Oi:si:i;vi:n. Biigham Cily, Jan. I'.th, IS1J-J. I n I he foregoing long, dry, prosy article, which we publish, pub-lish, not as a matter of news, but merely to give the other side a fair show, but one bare idea b-soiight, b-soiight, to be established: and that is, that "water works will beyond all doubl be an expense." The whole lingo might. have been written ill so many words, as tint is Ihe sum and substance. Now all ibis we concede wilhoiit a single objection: that water works will be an expense. But ( bscrver"' ' jumps, or purpose pur-pose v avoids, the vital points;con-liuing points;con-liuing bis arguments to the narrow scope of tlie purse only; building up in his own imagination a great, big. tremendous bugbear t frighten Hie p.r people of thb Icily out of their sense. |