Show i n r t LAST chANCES at 5T LAKE Crrr April 3 1880 Editor Herald As this i the last chanca to eay anything in favor of the canal betore the vote cornea off I feel inclined to say a word about the canal not about the borrowing specially Some favor reservoirs instead of the canal I do not Am I in favor of reservoirs Ye Am I in favor of pumping water Yea Am I in favor ot a canal from the Jordan Yes Jam J-am in favor oi any reasonably practicable j prac-ticable means of increasing tbe daily available water supply But first I am in favor of the most pressing means and that is the canal Pumping can be resorted to at anytime any-time desired 8 can the digging of local reservoir But the canal must be dug now or never In the Utah Lake there is plenty of water Thence t this city the topographical declination declina-tion ia such as to give plenty of fall and there are no insurmountable difficulties anyhow A local reservoir is very objectionable unless made absolutely ab-solutely safe This can be done on the bench in the valley but whether it can in a canon depends upon several considerations It is seldom there is room enough on a flat piece of ground away from the creek As to damming up any ravine or the bed of tbe creek it would be very bad policy because exceedingly dangerous dan-gerous I believe and say reservoirs are practicable because it is the simplest thing in the world to make a hole in high ground and run water into the hole where there is any water available and that is the sort of avaiable ant reservoir I should advocateone that I could not give way and devastate the land below one with no give of that kind in it in any case or under any circumstances The canal was thought of and talked of from the first settlement ot tbe county but not commenced until un-til very recently as its necessity was not eo obvious until the drouth of last year It should have been started long ago and progressed with regularity regu-larity and persistenoy every year for a series of years until finished That could have been done without deLt butlt was not done at all Hence the necessity of digging the canal right away to make good the right and hence the necessity of the debt canal for the early construction of the Too canal will bo mainly for irrigation irri-gation and water fcr irrigation is all the better i it is neither pure nor cold For and for cld pipes ard or drinking and culinary purposes the water from the local creeks and horn good wells will no doubt be far preferable to tat in the canal though it is presumable that tbe canal waer will seldom i ever be as muddy as tha which runs down Red Butte in a Ireshet The cutrent in the canal will not be slow except at this end I seems to me impracticable to utilize the canal for boating freight and for irrigation also unless the canal is made on a scale much larger than the city can afiord to pay for at present I the canal is made large enough to contain a sufficient body of water to supply irrigation demands and keep several feet depth of water still in the canal then it can be used for the two purpose But look at the expenses of making a canal of euch capacity locks included Now Messrs Editor permit me to say to your many readers that we might quit carping all of us who have indulged in i and hold up the hands of the City Council in their endeavors to do something for tbe common good No doubt they will i do as well as they know how in this water business Besides Borne of us voters might become city lathers yet and in that case we should wish we had done to others as we would like them to do to us CANALS |