Show l r II + EXTEND THE 3IAINS L i i < f i 1 of judiciously I There are many ways J l < 1 I ciously expending the city revenue i t If the corporation income were 1 I f the could all f I twice what it is money fa i 1 I J 3 be wisely spent in improvements I f that the public would arpreciate 1 f Better roads are desired more street 4 f I t i d f r f lamps are needed a larger police I f S t1 = I force is required and there are a i I r ir thousand and one channels in which j M I Jl the money could be turned But I I G j 11 i i we believe none of the demands I the public treasury are wor 4 upon f i ift r vd 4 thier than that for the extension of I r f the water mains whereby people I I can obtain pure water for I f household uses Perhaps two If l thirds of the citys population and s l f may be more draw their supply of It h i water for all purposes from wels rt j and open ditches As to these laV r h j a ter it requires no argument or scientific I sci-entific investigation to show their S tj character They are positively t filthy and necessarily so It is impossible r I im-possible to keep them clean The I I t mote people who live along them I L i the dirtier they become Only near I Jf t 4 + the heads of these streams is the E a Water fit for use j all through the f r f r central and lower parts of the city andas p I e drains for the streets r p they serve as < and sidewalks and too often are i 1t f I used as receptacles for filth that 1 1 people ought to be ashamed to deposit kt 1 1 1 de-posit in them It is doubtful if flf r 1 t r J 4 there is a well in the city yield J 1L h tff ing pure water all being It t f more or less affected by f 1 I Seepage from vaults cesspools and J M the 4 surface Physicians say the t r percentage of sickness is much 4 1 I 1 f smaller in the district where the i r t water is supplied through the mains rr I t c a H than in other parts of the town y i where wells and ditches are drawn r p G upon This one fact should be sufficient suf-ficient to induce the extension of the waterwoiks system even if the money to do so had to be borrowed Y The Council can do nothing that r i will receive heartier popular approval apf I r 1 r proval than would the laying of K two or three miles of mains carrying J I carry-ing City Creek water through f i f the more densely populated t districts beyond the present I t rJ terminii of the pipes And it l J I I f strikes us that the autumn is a good I S 4 l tr season for going on with the work f i l Building has about closed down for ri r i the winter and laborers will be iI I i i o plentiful at moderate wages Should the fall prove open and fair as ordinarily r t or-dinarily a couple of miles of c trenches could be dug and the mains i laid before winter sets in and som 1i 1 i thousands of people brought within 1 the range of the water mains |