Show from th THE WATER FAMINE during the past forty years there have doubtless been dry preceded by winters jaidt as mild as those which leave made the present year in utah so trying to man and to all kinds of ant as our numbers and our acreage under cultivation are eich on the increase BO has there cear been a time since the of the country w hen there was so great a demand for water with such inability to meet it the year of grace 1889 will go down tl history therefore as one of distressing water scarcity resulting in much losa of property and some real suffering among the people the ferrine however will dot be without its lessons of benefit to all of us it the awakening thus rudely given ceball us into measures guarding against a future recurrence of it when its results might be more disastrous perhaps no gentler incentive would have set us to thinking and acting if not we can scarcely regard the present troubles other than as a blessing in disguise nature in her bounty lias not failed us heretofore and our only task has been to convoy the life giving fluid where we wished it we have not had to develop new sources of supply nor provide storage for that which we did not use this year lias shown ns that we may bae to do both it is not impossible that a succession of dry seasons may ensue but only alien the warning once given shall lie properly heeded and science and labor leave prepared us for any event which human forethought can suggest will we have made ourselves worthy of our land and privileges and leave done our duty as an intelligent and sek re llant community it is not probable that any steps which aliis city or silt can now take will give any relief during the present season an offset to this discouraging may be found in the reflection that perhaps alie damage from aliis time on until the close of the heated season will not be much increased beyond that which has already been wrought if thoa who are so ready suggestions gest ions aa to where water can be used will exert the same energy in discovering where it can be spared we will hive enough to keep the people and the trees alive with some for the streets and alie question of alie leour is how to use most wisely the quantity we have all the time planning and working to increase that quantity until there shall be an abundance for every purpose ofden is much more favorably situated than her sister city in lie matter of securing additional water but the ease with which all her possible wants can be supplied must not lend her officials nor her people into a feeling of false security Becu rity that the extremity of our present need will soon to passed in no reason we should postpone action until a famine again overtakes ns the matter will continue to demand urgency until it is settled for good if there is any doubt as to which plan of settlement is boat the first point is the deep con which shall lead to an unassailable conclusion if the community are satisfied that that has already been reached let as have operations to early completion one such season as this is enough for any city to endure and prosper NEW STATES has become an important industry ahe only trouble is lo 10 locate at boroo certain point a factory whose will be found durable those w ho wish to locate industrial institutions of other linda in cities like ogden usually ask tor a lat subsidy we wonder how lucli fat it would require to induce a state builder to our midst in whom the people would have confidence full liberty is not free to all strange as alie fact may heern hut even though it be cosily it Ss a commodity we cannot afford to do without is a postmaster up in milwaukee w bo thoroughly appreciate the efforts of the civil service commission one member of that peculiar body air roosevelt has been up the cream city official whereat alie latter retorts lie will ask my forgiveness for the injuries he lias done me and I 1 will excuse him poor boy ho means A ell but he is a victim of ungovernable enthusiasm which always leads him astray in ten years sir veil will la a good citizen for he is a very capable hoy THE MAN who introduced the english bearrow on american shores has just gone the way of all flesh ills name was jolin W IS ardsley but he has of recent years been known as sparrow dick the evil which lie wrought was done upon the order of alie city council of philadelphia in and consisted of bringing a thou hand of the little pests to eat up the worms which billed alie parks of he fraternal city THE 15 number of the salt lake afif comes out with illustrations tho same pretending to be views on bear kiver but really being alie counterpart of a couple of of jordan river scenery near alie point of alio mountain isling neither accurate artistic artie tic nor instructive they serve the single purpose 0 helping to fill up THE ought to ale estepa right away toward holding an inquest on rome of the clil neso wash honses of thia city not tor alie identification of alio remains nor tor determining ter the cause of death but to provide for a speedy and adequate interment they smell to leaven OSCE MORE the lake herald quotes what some prominent official of the union pacific eaid yesterday whenever items of fact are scarce the herald digs out thia myth and opinions and beitl menta to order |