Show PCLLOTIXQ WATER ueed by the public pub-lic So a serious dense apart from being a violation of law and while the practice is anything but unfre quentStilus Leen forcibly brought bafothe minds of the public in the last two or three days Until the lasts last-s of the Legislative Assembly there was no operative law against the befouling of water At that lime I the member of the Fish and Game Protective Society took steps looking to the amendment of the old law on fish and game HO ai to make it more cQeclivc Since tho operation of smelters leaching works and the liko in this territory fish have had enemies other than set lines and giant pojjder in ho poisoned waters run oQ from tho mills into the nearest streams These waters kill the fish and if allowed to run in tbe streams would soon depopulate them of the finny tribes and spoil the anglers recreation So a clause was inserted in the law substantially making it a punishable offense for persona to turn poisoned waters from mills into the running streams and aj some of the members of the sod ety are alto physicians in the same soction they secured the insertion inser-tion of a clause forbidding tbe polluting pol-luting of waters It is a popular fallacy that water purifies iUolf It docs not do anything of the kind but F I it u tho great purifier and carrier of other things If a soluble poison be puUiii i ii water and becomes dissolved it will l remain in solution and in the water though it run for a thousand yeara unless a chemical reaction takes place or the water evaporates or it percolates through the earth in any of which cases the water does not purify itself but is purified in one of the three ways mentioned To carry the idea further instead of being a eeffpurifier there is nothing in the world that gathers so much filth and I poison and soluble elements as water and nothing that holds them 83 tenaciously when it has once II secured them It can therefore readily be seen how liablo diseases are to ba contracted from using foal water and how necessary it ia that I every means should be bEen to preserve it pure On City Creek the inhabitants of Bait Lake depend cntirely for their domestic water7 supply and it is an outrage of the grossest kind for I persons to allow herds of sheep or cattle of any kind to befoul it and t one that should be punished severely It has been claimed that the land I onT I on-T 1 which the sheep were being herded 13 public domain and that the herders i and owners could not be arrested and t I fined for sheep befouling the water I r there but if any individual who entertains Ji I t tertains this idea will take the trouble to inform himself ha will find that the land in question has been preempted pre-empted and that the herders and owners were IreepaEsere Bat admit ting it is public domain tho water belongs to the inhabitants of this city and let it run where it will they have a right to demand that it be kept pure and can enforce such a demand If the act tbat it runs I through public domain is any excuse a person might poison it with impunity im-punity But what is most surprising is that any person especially a citizen citi-zen who also depends on this water or his domestic uses can be found to excuse such an outrage as ia known beyond question to hcva been committEd com-mitted up City Creek within a week In any other community such an individual in-dividual would find public indignation so ctrong against him tbat he would be glad to leave and the exercise of such indignation in instances of this character char-acter can never be too free or too I strong The champion of befouled i water must ba an enviable distinction dis-tinction for any person t > wear For the present the difficulty has boon removed re-moved from City Creek but not from the city There is not an officer in the city and few persons but know that the filth and rubbish that accumulates accu-mulates in certain parts of the town are thrown into the water sacs b rot and be carried down to those who use the water in the lower part of the city Why on Main Street and near it the water end filth from outhouses out-houses is turned into the sees a practice prac-tice ten times filthier than that which has recently awakened such just indignation in the breasts of our citizens It is being done every day and right within the sight of Iho public pub-lic eye the excuse can not be given that it is done secretly for it is BO barefaced hit only the blind can fail to see it and since the punishment punish-ment of offenders of this clan baa commenced it would be a good idea to keep the agitation up until the law and disgrace attached to it creates a pressure sufficient to stop the foul and filthy practice The Fish and Game Protective Society will use its inflames s to keep the streams pure and the citizens should be sufficiently interested to see that the water is maintained clean wben it comes to their doors |