Show BESBBVOIBS Some oi the city engineers and A I they have induced other persons to agree with them are denouncing the Jordan and Salt Lake City Canal as inadequate to the purposes for I which it is designed These same parties admit that Salt Lake City t i I must have more water and their two t schemes for obtaining it are first a large strong jeaervoir in City Creek Canon In which to husband the waters during the spring and early summer for use later in the season and When the supply becomes shcr r ascond pumping from the Jordan trough pipe into a reservoir J t I reservoirs the high ground Both of these plans are impracticable at present and it may be questioned the second can ever be successful The HERALD has ever been in favor of reservoirs in City Creek not of one large pond for staring an immense im-mense volume of water but of a series of email reservoirs arranged and constructed so that in the event will not of one giving way the others be affected by tho mishap If it is undertaken to construct a single reservoir in that cauon capable of being of service a cry will be raised tbat must defeat the enterprise enter-prise Of course it is possible to make it absolutely safe but it is not possible t > make the residents below have supreme confidence in its perfect per-fect security Besides a large reservoir reser-voir to be made secure against liability lia-bility to washouts would involve an expense that Salt Lake City cannot can-not afford But even then the city would not be benefitted in the way it most needs It is water for irrigating irriga-ting purposes that the town requires and no reservoir that could be constructed con-structed in the carton would answer for this It is only a question of time when all of City Creek waters husband them as best we can will be required for the water works system The pipes ure being steadily extended extend-ed and one of these days they will reaoh every quarter of the town City Creek will be consumed for home purposes as it is the only pure water flowing into the city and in fact the only stream that can be brought here for anything like a reasonable outlay of money The wells are fast becoming foul and the waters unfit for use People must have pure untainted water for their homes and they can only obtain it from City Creek which must soon be given up exclusively to houshold use to the exclusion of irrigation As to the Holly system of pumps and engines it is simply impracticable That system is frequently fre-quently adopted in compactly built towns to supply water for domestic purposes and the extinguishment of fires but never for irrigation To obtain by this means enough water to irrigate a single ward would cost double the outlay for thin canal Even if this plan were practicable in other respects there is one overpowering overpow-ering objection to it namely the want cf water Last season there was not enough water in Jordan below the city to properly irrigate a score of the city block In order to obtain a supply we must tap the stream nearer its source and not trust to the generosity of there above us to let enough come to the city for our purposes The only plan for supplying our wants at present that seems practicable practi-cable is the one that has been adopted People when they go to the polls ntxt Monday should think of this |