Show SALT LAKES SCARCITY tho salt lake herald tools occasion a few days ago to arraign THE for publishing a deliberately penned paragraph alluding to the capitals lack ol 01 water we es plaicey that v e used the paragraph not in a feeling of bitterness but with of sincere sympathy w ith our sister city in her distress what we are now about to say is by way of emphasizing those same s yesterday we were shown a second letter from the gentleman who wrote the paragraph that gave our contemporary such of fence it bristles with facts which cannot be controvert ed but which being admitted it would be needlessly cruel to repeat in the columns of a public journal wo content ourselves therefore with a few extracts enough to show that our previous reference was not overdrawn and that the capital really needs all the sympathy the fullness of our fraternal heart can yield introducing the subject the correspondent spon dent says what is to ba thought 0 the deliberately libera tely penned paragraph referred to by the herald is simply that half aws ro been told of course such items are not calculated to aid in booming a certain locality and to those encased in that business bui iness euch items as facts are objectionable but those buffering under these conditions will not hide the fact they will seek relief I 1 heard the statement made by n well known journault t of palt lake that his well had gone dry and people were buying water by the bucket full not long since in my presence the mayor was appealed toon theater question and his reply was everybody has got to go dry this year 1 lucerne farms with which I 1 am acquainted will not pay to cut because of the lack of water in other places the chopa will not mature some farms near the city on which parties have resided for twenty years past have been abandoned for want of water and others soon will be unless there is early relief the subject and condition of the people is altogether piti able and it is to be hoped it will not become a matter of controversy etc does alio or any one else think TUB has heretofore made any wild statements salt lake is in a desperately bad way and her own people know st we truly hope eliat her present distress may be speedily remedied and that our fair beitter eit ter so far from feeling hurt at our statements will accept the assurance of out moat heartfelt consideration |