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Show From tUe Dixie Advocate. The question, of the purity of the water in the Santa Clara creek is every day becoming more generally agitated. The unprecedented list of deaths and the widespread conditions con-ditions of sickness at the Clara during dur-ing the last summer, make the situation situa-tion one of serious mien. Last week a couple of practical chemists from New York City, passing through this district stopped over in St. George. They had visited the Clara creek and Sheni and had noted how the slag from the smelter is carried into the stream As they passed down the creek (it is related) they refused to tastqithe water and would not even permtt their animals to drink. The specialists affirm the water is impregnated with sulphuric sulphur-ic acid gas held in suspension. The , poisonous properties of the sulphuric acid are well recognized, and it is claimed that the symptoms of the : disease purported to be. typhoid at the Clara arc those of acid poisoning. A quantity, of the water has been s-liippcd to Logan to be tested, and the result of the analysis will be awaited with interest, both by the Utah k Easter Copper Co., who we are sure would go to any expense rather than jeopardize tlie lives and health offa community, and by the public in general. |