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Show j A IMPOmvr Ql'ESTlUX. ! Shill ttr BuilJ Krwnnir or fuk ihr tint Bunfli ! wf the liwA. Brigham City needs a whole lot more water. Could we secure all the lluid we desire, we -could soon have a town here of 10,000 people, j There in sullieient water in Box Elder creek to suj ply two or three times our present population. But more than half of this stream is claimed ami utilized by Mantua and the fields north, west and south of the city. The city proper is entitled to only about 'three-eight 'three-eight a of the entire stream. We use two or three times more water than an ordinary community, because be-cause so much is required to irrigate irri-gate our hundreds of gardens and orchards. There are two ways of increasing our water supply: to build reservoirs up the creek to i catch and retain the winter How, or to sail in and use our utmost j efforts to push the Bear Uiver Canal on the east side through to Brigham. We are reliably informed that the owners of the great canal would be only too glad to give the people water rights in exchange ex-change for labor on the ditch. They ask no money. The canal is completed as far as Dewey ville. If the right sort of ! men would take the helm, this j channel. could be dug through to I Brigham this summer. The Bear River Canal, aa has been stated in the columns of The Bchi.kk, would skirt the city on the west. An exchange of water could be made. Half of Box Elder creek is now used by the farms near town. They could use canal water, and tlio city would have the creek water, thus almost doubling its present supply. I That would be a preat thing for our city. And by constructing the canyon reservoirs' iii addition, we could have a superfluity of water. Let something be done. i |