Show WATER WAYS SALT LAKE CETY April 9 S Editors Herald Uno Hooa plans in the HAL of the 8tb for obtaining water are new and novel and bespeak great intelligence and penetration on his part Ho says they are practicable out we have only his bare declaration on that point Most people will ihink they are very good yet they have one drawback and that ia that they are altogether impracticable Now there are a great many plain practical economical people whu consider impracticability a fatal l defect in any plan Still there are other people who are moro in love with the impracticable than with any thing else To them this little matter of impracticability is one of the greatest great-est recommendations in any project Whether or not our City Council is composed of men of this latter class remains t be seen However this may be the fact that some people will bo pleased with Uno Hoos brilliant liant suggestions is reason sufficient for the supposition that they are worth at least the white paper they spoilThere There is also much enteitdinment and value otherwise in Mr BcUilellss plan for a water supply by means of covered flumes Ono of his objections objec-tions to an open canal is the numerous numer-ous bridges it would require I I understand him rightly ne proposes to plank the witer way or conduit on aides bottom and top and cover the whole darned thing with earth Thus instead of an open canal with perhaps fifty bridges each thirty feet long he proposes to have a flume with only one bridge that is bridged all over thus saving fortynine bridges as required re-quired by the open canal This is a most ingenious suggestion and very striking in its simplicity and economy econ-omy True enough the fifty bridges might be only a rod wide each and the one bridge though only five feet long would be twentythree miles wide But then the one bridge would be twentyfive feet shorter than the fifty bridges would be How i you multiply twentyfive feet by twenty three miles you will see the great economy of the one bridge conduit I over the fifty bridge open canal Why there would be almost enough saved in the mere matter of length of bridges to build either the canal or the conduit Therefore I must say that I am heart and soul head and shoulders heels and coat tails in favor of Engineer Boutellers plan on the score of economy and beauty for economy is beauty when cash is scarce I wish I was an engineer Id plan and talk about UDONTNOHOO canals |