Show THE CANAL Judge Snow Expresses Himself 5 Eresses Further on tile Subject SALT LAKE OTTY March 25 SO Editors Herald I dont care i I do get wrong come times and misspell I belong to the family of Follies Let the family of Wisemans correct me When I cam into my office this morning I found cme on my table the following i SALT LAKE CITY March 24 S Judge Snow Give i eml I The sun dispels the darkness just before day Hark the cocks will soon crowl I Proceedings of the City Council on Tuesday evening March 2 iPfif lTqtnr Little presiding J o A petition was received sinned by George Triplett and 565 other residents of the northern portions of the Eighteenth Twentieth and Twentyfirst Wards set ting forth that they are without water cither for culinary or irrigating purposes and that the surplus water from Red Butte Canyon heretofore allowed them was totally insufficient to supply their necessities The peitionors therefore asked that they be allowed the surplus water of City Creek Referred to the committee on irrigation rre A committee consisting of the Mayor the Attorney Aldermen Dinwoodey and Pyper and Councilor Joseph P Bmilh was appointed to prcpjre an address to the voters of Salt Lake City explaining the views of the Council in relation to I the resolution recently pased calling a special election for tho purpose of nuthor izing tho city to borrow money for the construction of tho Jordan and Salt Lake City Canal Theyll make the hens lay eggs For aught I know the owner may yet see the chickens catching grasshoppers grasshop-pers and drinking of tbe waters of tho brook ARTER EAT So here it goes In my letter of the 22d inst I concluded on Sunday I with the following I so i sets free City Creek or so much thereof as is necessary to be used in other parts of the city where the canal water can not be taken perhaps the Twentieth Ward bench in part Now Mr Editor as no eye but ycur own had seen my letter of the 22d and as the same issue of your paper which contained mine contained con-tained the petition t the City Council Coun-cil of George Triplett and 565 others they the petitioners have stopped my mouth I cannot accuse them of plagiarism This was their own solution solu-tion of the matter yet I must say they have as much right to want water as I to want mine I they want water they have a right to ask for it But I hope i they get i they will not if there be a little left foul that residue with their feet for water will run down hill and the City Council cannot stop i The most they can do is to divett its course I it comes down fouled waat shall I do for drinking water Drink their dirt and filth I think it is true that not only City Creek but Emigration Creek and Red Butte Creek i it was not under military law would also be set free to the use of some parta of the city Setting these free may do some good and may do much good but these are complicated cases I am not a doctor nor a doctors son Mr Editor The Folly family dont join that class but some of the I doctors assert that vegetable decom position held in solution by water is not so healthy to drink as the water flowing from the pure fountain They say it may not taste so well I EO it is quite clear that it complicates the question I have thought and othera lor ought I know may think that i tbe waters of the Jordan come bringing bring-ing with them good water for irrigation irriga-tion it might be had for culinary purposes pur-poses and possibly unhealthy I I thought the doctors would not answer a fool according to his foly I would ask them about this Is not this an element in the question This canal Mr Editor i i comes and if it brings enough watar to supply sup-ply the inhabitants may modify the water system of the city perhaps revolutionize i I will cow refer to 1 little matter which even the Folly family have asserted which is where men and women are there will be children Now one of the Wiseman family even said the natural increase in this natural way over the decrease by deaths in new countries was about per cent I so by this natural process pro-cess setting irregularities aside there may bo inhabitants in this city in tweutyfiv3 years not less than 40000 or 45000 s that this canal i i be built will aid the inhabitants that now are and that are to be In doing this shall we not be working for generations gene-rations unborn My dad before I was born worked for me There there see him can he swear to it in a court of justice Ah I Is not tnia also a demand in the matter But to the borrowing again True it is the scriptures say the borrower is a servant to the lender We have been taught not to get in debt to our enemies Dont mortgage your homesteads goods wheat Let us see once more about this 250000 that say some is the highest amount Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars dol-lars for building Jtwentyfive miles of canal is 10000 per milo That looks nice on paper Our assessors and collectors county and city tell us under oath our taxable tax-able property in the city is 7000000 The Folly family say that 250000 is oneourfh of 1000000 so I reduce p7000COO to fourths of 1000000 4x7000000 = 28000000 fourths of 1010000 Here I am puzzled Mr Editor I dont like these long sums of nothings EO I will place my 28 OOOOCO being the fourths of 7000000 and under it I will place 1000000 being the 250000 multiplied by four then I will reduce both Bums to thousands 28000 2000 = 29000 This I = have done to make it clear that we only borrow U in 2 of our material wealth not ideal but material Now 1 Mr Editor will relate to you a little matter which you will remember Widow Nellie Prudence about six years ago you know buried her husband leaving her with two minor children little Nellie and little Lillie and leaving i farm the homestead with an unfinished house Tne farm and house worth just 28 Tn To finish the house it would take 1000 She was a religious woman and had read the scriptures that the borrower ia a servant to the lender yet the wanted to borrow money to finish her house To keeper of her conscience told her Dont get in debt to your enemies the homestead So dont mortgage she wept IQrtgsge by and by she found manshe did not know whether a ho was a friend or an enemywho would loan ireud 1000 for fifteen S cent per annum she years at per year reserving the right to pay the interest resrving Iay and principle at any time after three years She borrowed tbs money and completed the bouse She was then neither richer nor poorer than she was before The increased value 01 the house was the value of the money and the value of the money was the increased value of the house I passing pas-sing tba way one morning with you and seeing she I house finished Mr Edior see1 ished cled in and said smilingly Prudence Good morning Sister Good said the te me smilingly morning Jrother Snow I con tinued I Sister Prudence how Ire you getting along 1 01 am quite happy I borrowed the money 01 Mr Benevolence lor fifteen year with which to finish my house But said I Didnt you know Yes I knew but then I could get the money for less interest of him than I could of anybody else because be-cause he does not live here and therefore there-fore dont pay any taxes on the money We dont much like you two men Now Mr Editor if you deny knowing MH Prudence or being there with me it ia i you and I for it Whose business is i i Sister Prudence Pru-dence and myself smiles at each other Yet simple ae the tale is be it true or false i tellg D business transaction in all its varied forms of loaning money or using credit Every merchant who has solid coin value of his own on his shelves fo the amount of 29000 and only owes 1000 is safe Back era dealers of all kind who have coin value of taxable property of 29 000 of their own and only owe 1000 are safe Farmers the fame The inhabitant of the United Slates in 1870 had taxable property to the amount of about 14000000 000 and owed more than 2000000 0 or about 1 in seven and this did not take in the state county or city debts I Etill comes back Do the inhabitants in-habitants of this city need the waters of the Jordan Can these waters be brought herein here-in a canal for 250000 or 10000 per mile Will these waters pay i here Answer these questions 1 1 Then let Mr Jarring and Mr Bickering jar and bicker I is confidently believed by the Folly family that i the inhabitints of this city on the 5th day of April next ota that the waters shall flow to I them pure and undefiled they will come so The chickens will drink of the waters of the brook and be ducklings will not put their feet In the water II Yours truly Z SNOW |