| Show I PARLEYS CANYON HOAX I Storm Bureaus Efforts to Befoul l Water Supply o FACTS AGAIN STATED I 1 NO WATER TISED PROM THIS SOURCE I How the City Engineer Was Able to Find Water In the Conduit Would Require 200000 to Remedy Rem-edy Evils That Have Existed For Many Years j Despite the efforts of Colonel Lan I nans organ to deceive the public into believing that Parleys canyon water in a polluted state is furnished to the inhabiat of this city the fact remains re-mains that no water from this source has come into the pipe system since the rainfall of two weeks ago Out on the reservation where the Emigration pipe line connects with the conduit is I a valve to divert the conduit flow if any to a drain ditch and this valve has been closed down a fortnight Waterworks Superintendent Caine declared de-clared yesterday and hence It would be impossible for any Parleys creek water to get into the ulpe distribution I svstem A couple of inches of water Is now flowing through the conduit to supply the Dudler place the penitentiary and some of the Pleasant View farmers I who have rights under the conduit and if City Engineer Kelsey and his two I foremen measured seven inches of water it could only have been done where the masonry pipe line sags I I is not difficult to find these sags and the city engineer can locate them engneer easier than anyone else when the purpose Is to manufacture a scare and ad Republican campaign thunder at one fell el swoop S I Parleys creek water is impure now it is just as i ha been for forty years Evecy effort has been expended expend-ed by the present administration to keep the creek clean and pure with the result that the sanitary condition of the ranches in the canyon is much less objectionable than ever it was I under Republican rule The Republican I Repub-lican organ to be consistent must advocate ad-vocate the levy of n special tax of a couple hundred thousand dollars tom to-m t the expense of the city acquiring absolute ownership to the Parleys canyon water shed In no other way nrnil1 thp Tmr occiT r Tim < he tnicftfl and without money Parleys creek cannot can-not be made to compare with City creek for a wholesome supply of water Parleys canyon water a eve one knows has been used by the water takers in this city only when the supply sup-ply from City creek and Emigration is inadequate to meet all demands In cold weather Parleys creek water never comes into the city and at other times where a freshet occurs the flow is kept out of the conduit Right now it would be an easy matter mat-ter to get a bottle of brownish liquid from any of the little pools up City Creek canyon which are filled with falling leaves but the people would not on such a showing hysterically be lievethat impure water supplied the town when the sight of a clear sparkling mountain stream is before I their very eyes The same conditions relatively prevail in Parleys canyon Any eastern city would be extremely happy to have such a mountain stream I a Parleys creek really and in truth I is now to supply the wants of its people I peo-ple |
