Show SALT LAKE LAMM AND JORDAN CANAL tile salt lake and jordan canal binal is nearing completion and i nd will ill bo be ono one of the most important improvements of tho the capital the construction st is actually y already completed to the city but it cannot be used until a serious defect is ia repaired r A few miles south of the city there is a stretch of ground through which tho the aqueduct parses about three fourths of a mile long which is so porous that watery seep seeps through flows underground and comes out upon the thea land distance below to obviate this difficulty an artificial bottom composed of clay and other materials is being placed in that part of the canal this is ti the I C i reason why the aqueduct Is not now operated as far assaid lako lake city r there being no fault in the survey or construction the remedy remedying ino of defect is only a question of time and labor and it could not possibly have been avoided seizing upon this temporary suspension of tho the operation of the canal tho the salt lako lake tribune with its customary malignity and lack of generosity and cansis consistency stancy denounces the canal scheme aa as a fraud this is done in the face of the fact that tho the citizens decided in favor of the by voting the necessary funds to carry it through but auch characteristic exhibitions of acrimonious acrimonious spite from such a vindictive and misrepresenting source are arc scarcely worth mentioning they are too app apparent arent to have any weight with people of sense besides if refutation be required it will certainly como come in the gratifying of the canal project which will so far as it reaches satisfy the long and loud demand for more water that has been made in salt lal lake o for years |