Show THE CITY COUNCIL COUN MET on thursday evening water question further furl her investigated A CLIPP Fit reporter succeeded in finding the city fathers who were assembled assemble din in a comfortably warmed room in the basement of the tabernacle last thursday evening mayor holbrook in the chair all the councilmen present with councilman hatch acting as clerk ou on account of the absence of hie recorder marshal holbrook was seen sitting by the band table around which the mayor city fathers and attorney were seated and upon which stood two lamps of different sizes and shapes prominent among the visitors were A L short our confectionery and ice cream man and the county assessor who was exceedingly well armed with papers which he gives gratis to taxpayers after the minutes minute were read and while the marshal was out talking to some tramps who had come to the door of the council room to ei enquire quire where the marshal would have them sleep the committee hall ball reported that the council could get the vestry of the relief hall ball for to meet in and for a nominal price the same committee was to make final arrangements with the parties city attorney next took up the water ordinance reading it on through commencing with the ninth section it was the second reading in one of the sections the word city used before the word water master caused much talk water committee recommend it stricken off They claimed the sentiment of the had cliant ad that chev want kanj d more than one water master for the several creeks and thought best to scratch off the word it was explained that it had been designed to lave have one water master only for the sake of economy but if the people wanted more water masters their expenses would be higher city attorney said he found it necessary to add a few sections to the water ordinance in answer to the question que stion how bow long a farmer had to use the water vater to acquire a water right the attorney said seven years rules of the society were suspended and william mann and others made as to how they th rought best to bring the water into the settlement A sixteen inch iron pipe lie he thought would carry all the water in mill creek in high water and ad that an eig eight t it inch pipe which would weigh 1365 lbs ibs per foot and referred to some that he advised the committee not to pay mo more re than a dollar a foot for should they think of buying them would answer the purpose very well and be far better then anything else Rip raping was condemned by him tor for several reasons said the stone used would have to be large and bedded in clay eliat high water would undermine them tham that stock would bother and that people could meddle with the water on account of the great fall in the ground he was not in it favor of bonding the water and suggested ested that in mill creek in the f fall all the duplus water be made into artificial glaciers by run running ninal t it onto a certain flat in mill canyon and distributing it there and letting it freeze councilman riley asserted that several years so ago ta I 1 lie he was appointed 10 lo investigate the water question and the conclusion reached then was that it was the most profitable to flume the water which marshal holbrook confirmed as having been his recent eap exp experience ermence as being the gisli of the people attorney pearson said raid that if the water was taken from the main mail channel a at t the mouth of the cannous that the right to the seepage water that wells up between that point and the place where it is taken out of the main channel would he be an important tiling thing ile he further remarked that he thought that as the council had but little money to expend that they bad better only consider putting in flumes blumes in certain places on the various creeks where the is the greatest groa test and not attempt to put in a complete system of water works at present he thought the people would not be willing to pay out so much money for works of this kind and when once begun would have to be com am alele or all would be lost mr mann then hit the nail on the head by saying that if it was begun in a workman like manner that the people would support it but that heretofore work had been carried on in such an unskillful way the people had no confidence in it A L short then petitioned the council for a license to sell ice cream which was handed to the city attorney for consideration |