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Show 1 TRUTH take of the Parleys canyon conduit. Dam: The engineer estimates on both concrete masonry and steel-face- d dams, and recommends that the latter style be adopted. General plan: The dam will be located across the canyon near the section line between sections 9 and 10. It will be 106 feet high from the bed of the creek to the top of the dam, which will be 20 feet wide, with a slope of 1 to 1 on the down stream side and a slope of 1 to 1 on the upstream side, and will have a thickness of 285 inches. The dam will be constructed of loose rock fill with a cushion of earth 10 feet thick on the upstream face, which will be covered with a face of rock-fil- l - ; f to eteelplate from inch in thickness, which will be imbedded in a concrete toe wall running down to bedrock. In the creek bed will be laid a pipe to carry off the sediment which may accumulate in the bottom h outlet of the reservoir. Two pipes will be laid from a tunnel, cut through the solid rock at he north end of the dam. A waste channel will also be cut through the solid rock at the north end of the dam for carrying the surplus waters. The gate house will be located just below the dam and will contain two and one gate valves for regulating the outflow from the reservoir. Sluice gates will also be placed at the upper end of all outlet pipes. A weir will be placed below the gate house for measuring the water which flows from the reservoir, and one in each stream above the reservoir to measure the inflow. A timber dam will be placed in each stream above the reservoir to catch the silt and sediment during the freshets in the spring. The reservoir will be cleared of all trees, brush, rubbish and in the lower portions will be stripped of all vegetable matter. The capacity of this .Capacity: reservoir will be 134,000,000 cubic feet or 1,003,000,000 gallons, and will cover an area of 92 acres. This location is the only available one in Parleys canyon for a large storage reservoir. While there are several other suitable sites, they are above most of the surplus water supply of this stream. They would only have the waters from one stream and this supply in a great many cases will one-quart- otto-hal- er 24-in- ch 30-inc- 30-inc- h 24-inc- h be limited. Water supply: The water supply for this reservoir will be ample to fill it during an ordinary season, but in a very dry season would only fill it s lull, while in wet seasons, water goes to waste to fill it enough several times. General. The construction would be of great benefit to the city and would give us a supply to the full capacity of the Parleys canyon conduit (21,000.000 gallons daily) for a period of 60 days during the dry season. In order that the city may get the greatest benefit from this reservoir, the proposed distributing reservoir should be constructed in City Creek canyon. The only question as to the feasibility of constructing this reservoir is in the future determination of the surplus water rights at the mouth of the canyon. AN EXCRESCENCE OVERLOOKED. While the board of education was wiping off expensive excrescences from the teachers lists, why was it that William C. Webb was not discovered and decapitated? Webb is paid $60 per month for going to the High school at stated intervals and teaching the pupils how to march around in column of fours and to "on right into line and fiddle around all same soldiers. The salary paid him is wasted. There isnt a cadet officer at the school who could not read army tactics two hours a day for a week and beat him out. Webb has been with the National Guard of this state for many years. He failed to pass the examination required for a commission and would have been dropped as an officer, but for the fact that he was a pet of a few of the higher officials who held him in the place. His knowledge of tactics is no better than any ordinary private in the ranks, and to pay him for drilling the cadets is Why folly and a waste of money. teachof off heads the drawing chop ers, singing teachers and advanced makers and leave this tin soldier in office to draw the taxpayers money for teaching boys how to drill? If the board really means economy it should not allow this fellow to draw pay for something not required nor essential, such as drilling a lot of when the money expended mud-pi- e ur-chin- s, could be put to better use. o THAT BANK ROBBERY. W. H. Burton, a stenographer em- ployed by the National Bank of the Republic, has been in the county jail for nearly two weeks, charged with the larceny of $500. It is alleged that the money was taken in silver. That hitherto it has not been the custom of the bank, during the day time at least, to keep its money in the compartment safes in the big vault Burton did not receive salary enough to please him, it is said, and conceived the idea of increasing his money holdings by taking some of this silver. So, according to the best information obtainable he removed the sum men 9 tioned to a place out in the bank where he concealed it After banking hours the vault was locked up, and, of course, the coin was outside. Then, during the evening, when some of the clerks were Inside working, he called, and, stating that he had left a package, took the bundle of money and went away. Burton had a desire to own a good horse and buggy. He bought one forthwith. The money having been missed, and his purchase noted, it occurred to the bank officials that the salary they paid a stenographer was hardly sufficient to enable him to keep a rig. So they investigated and obtained information sufficient to enable them to cause his arrest. Now bank robberies in most cities are considered items of news. But with one solitary exception, that of the Deseret News, the daily papers of this city have refrained from publishing the story. This, too, when reporters on all of them had the information. It is significant that the story reached the Tribune early last week and the Herald on Friday, the day of the Kearns breakfast to the president, but was, under instructions from the managers of both sheets, held out. It is easy to see why a request like this was made, because Senator Kearns is a director in the Institution aforesaid, and did not want the information made public. Hence it Is also easy to see how he could induce Hon. Perry S. Heath, the factotum of the Tribune, to cause the blue pencil to get action on itself to the utter destruction of all the narartive turned in by the Intelligent young man who furnished it. It is also easy to see that Monsieur Igleheart, the manager of the Herald, replete with the choice victuals furnished at the breakfast aforesaid, at which he was an honored guest, to the exclusion of the Republican mayor of the capital city of the to be dumped in the waste basket Because this is not the first time the Herald has squelched .matter detrimental to the interests of this same man Kearns. If, then, he would favor Thomas on an empty stomach, how much more promptly would he yield to soft blandishments when his digestive apparatus was filled with the e good things provided by the on a occasion as the such grand person one suggested. But why should our venerable and astute and ordinarily vigilant and efficient newsgathering friend, Butler, the presiding genius of the Telegram, who had to eat at a restaurant, as usual, take pains to smother such an anecdote? Butler didnt get to feed with the president and hear the little daughter of his host chatter in French with the head of the nation. Butler wasnt invited to sit at meat with the chief magistrate and the other distinguished guests. What hypnotic spell was cast over Butler that the should exclude from its columns such a juicy bit of news as a bank robbery, self-sam- State where the executive was visiting; to the exclusion of the great and only Republican editor in the state, that gallant warrior Colonel Nelson, could have easily been prevailed upon while its loathsome contemporary, to hold out the yam and cause same the Deseret News, reveled in details? Ah, but the ways of the newspaper men of this city are mysterious and almost past finding out. They do things so strangely here. The Herald, the alleged mouthpiece of the Democratic party, has acted and is acting most oddly. Since the last election it has had no advice to give its party; no suggestions to offer as to the course it should pursue; no news to print of what is being done by Democratic leaders in other section. But, Instead, it never misses an opportunity of commending Republicans ' and ignoring Democrats, until those who are at the head of political affairs here are beginning to think it is high time to make only-three-ce- nt another appeal to the national committee to have' W. A. Clark jack up his manager and editor and put some ginger into them. However, after all said and done, there isnt much to wonder at. The Herald is but one portion of the syndicate which seeks to control the political affairs of ' the state, and will never be found opposing any of the ring or clique that is Attempting to dictate or control, but will always be in line like the good little organ it is. two-third- -- See Tom You1 miss Tuesday evening. it if you dont see fToia Tuesday evening. n Qne ' Y- $ i i o t |