| Show THE DEAIX The Surplus Water of Jordan to be Carried Off A meeting of the committees of the county and city was held yesterday afternoon in the office of the City Watermaster at the City Hall but nothing further than arranging for a meeting of the two committees with the committee of the people to be held at the same place on Monday evening was done except to talk over the proposed pro-posed route for the mew drain From what we could learn the survey thus far made is one of the most feasible ones heretofore suggested and is that proposed pro-posed at the meeting of citizens held in the Nineteenth Ward a few weeks ago The ditch if the line is followed as now contemplated will pass through a num ber of alkali lakes draining off the poisonous pois-onous water in them and filling them with pure wholesome fluid from the mountains and this in itself should induce landowners in the line of the contemplated drain to do all they can to I aid its projectors in its digging and pushing through to completion The gentlemen present at yesterday afternoons session are among the most experienced in the matter of controlling irrigation waters and canal malanc and their labors for the speedy relief of those who suffer from Jordans overflow over-flow as well as for the increase of the cultivation of some of the nowidle lands west of here will be accepted by the people asthe best that can be done The rising of the waters in Utah Lake and the Jordan river at this time of the year is unprecedented andHhe demand tor immediate action is imperative It is said that Utah Lake is two feet higher now than in any month of February before and Jordan is eighteen inches higher |
