Show PARLEYS CANYON CREEK It is said that the farmers the original owners of Parleys canon creek have given the city officials notice < to turn the stream back into the old channel We dont know upon what this notification is based but the natural presumption is that the farmers farm-ers are dissatisfied with the arrangement between them and the city or that they think the city has not faithfully carripd out its part of the agreement Nor is it known whether or oiot this notice is to be regarded as a final breaking of the contract by which the city was to supply a certain quantity of water from the canal in exchange ex-change for the cafion stream If the farmers farm-ers are desirous of calling the bargain off aril returning to the former condition of things THE HEKALD is not so sure that they will find it difficult to arrange matters that is to say we dont believe the city as a corporation or the citizens as individuals will put many blocks in the way of going back to the old plan before an exchange was thought of It must be apparent to those who are at all familiar with the trade that whatever has been the fate of the farmers the city up to this time has not been the gainer by the exchange The farmers may think they 1 have lost some water but we do not believe anybody will say that the city has gained any As a matter of fact much of the suffering suf-fering from the water famine is due directly di-rectly to the parting with the canal water by the city Parleys creek furnishing but a small flow as compared with what might have been drawn from the canal The complaints in regard to water scarcity would not have been half as numerous nu-merous nor would they have been half so deep and earnest if the canal supply had come to the city instead of being drawn off in the Sugarhouse ward Of course in ordinary seasons the city will be the gainer by the exchange Parleys creek is a fine caflon stream and it can be carried to points where it is impossible to take canal water but as we are liable to have these extraordinary years occasionally when Parleys will run low with other streams we do not know but that it will be as well to let the farmers have their mountain brook and we retain tho canal which is reliable re-liable to yield a certain flow however dry the season may be We do not say there should be a trading back but ask if it would not be better to return to the original origi-nal status than have quarres and trouble If the farmers can order the creek turned into the old channel at pleasure as they have now done if current rumor may be relied upon it will certainly be better to let the arrangement end right here and now It will never do for this city to be at the meray of anybody in such a matter as water supply for just at the time the city most needs the water tIe other party will require it |