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Show EUREKA, TINTIC. Eureka, Tintic, is suffering on account of the bad sanitation of the place. Eureka is in a quandary, as it has no municipal organization whatever, and there is no local authority to do any thing. The place contains nearly eierht hundred in habitants and pays a large part of Juab County's revenue, but derives little or no benefit from the county taxes. From a couple of gentlemen of Eureka we learned yesterday that the place now is suffering from the scourge of diphtheria, and that nothing is being done to prevent its spread so far as improving the sanitary condition of the town is concerned. One ereat source of ill-health and disease is from the water which lazily wends its way in the gulch below the town. In this gulch or hollow all the stray pigs of the town congregate and wallow, and as the breezes blow up the gulch the stench ia carried into the town. What the people of . Eureka M'ould like the County Court of Juab County to do is to flume the stream in the gulch, thereby preventing it from being used as a wallow and aiding the flow of the water so as to prevent it becoming stagnant. The people peo-ple of Eureka think they are entitled to have this done at the county's expense on account of the revenue which the county derives from Eureka. . They think it is the county's duty to do this because Eureka has no municipal organization whereby she can aid herself, and that under the circumstances it is very properly within the province of the. County Court as being upon a public high-way high-way over which the county has control. It is doubtless within the power of the County Court of Juab County to make; ! regulations forbidding the running at large of hogs within the county, and especially wnere large numbers of people are congregated. con-gregated. This should be done as a prevention pre-vention to the spread of disease, and especially when the County Court of Juab. County recall the fact that large numbers of hogs in Eureka have died of hog cholera. chol-era. Eureka pays some thousands of dollars taxes every year, and she certainly has some lights to protection from the county even if she has no city government. We trust the County Court of Juab County will do the fluming asked by Eureka, and all other things possible to; make the place habitable and healthy. V |