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Show THE CANAL BOOM. In popular phase, the city council U at lit "genius down to business" oa the Jordan aud SaH Ltke Canal project. Tije report presented to the city council, at it-s moetiui; lwt evening, by th? comiitee ol a'der-men, a'der-men, justifies the expedition 0! there sec a being a c.i be m . The Herald hj;:i there uuy be. It h.u baen iu f.ivjr ot :ha caml first, last ami ill t'.ie linio, and from the report which appears in this issue, the aUermanio committee realiaa that the people are aldo for the canal. Ii is not a question of whether the ditch shall be d:ig, but ot ho boou can it be opened? Cm it bemad? ready (or use by next season i the problem that the council should solve. In suggesting waya and means (or carrying on the work, or rather, tor obtaining the money to pay for it, the committee present a series of wise anJexceedingly appropriate recoui-mendatiens, recoui-mendatiens, all of which will doubtless doubt-less be acted upon, and some of them cm hardly fail to accomplish what is proposed. The committee to negotiate witn land owners tnroah whose lands the j caual w::l pass, should find little dirncalty ia securing the right of wiy. Ia most cases the canal wi.l proe a direct and immediate benefit tj the land-holders a'.ocf its bank, ftnd lo ail of them thf advintiges w,ll indirectly, indi-rectly, at least, mre than overbalance overbal-ance the injury d)ne. It is not ex peeled that anyone will mao.fes; an extraordinary degree of greed, and attempt to make money out cf the necese.ies 0! the public by putting an exorbilant price upon, the strip of lacd required t:r the di'.cb. We hate little lai'.h iu ny appeal thAt can he maJe to centre lor a-siitarice, though a mare jmt or equitable claim was never presented to that body. Red Bjtte creek belongs be-longs to the perp'e cf Salt Lake City as much as any other stream running into the corporation. It was settled npen, appropriated and util.ied Icdj years before government ever thcuxnt of lccat;cg a mi.Uary post on its backi; and a coos:.Jerab. lection of the city w w built w;t 1 the confident expectation thai the pses-sioa pses-sioa of Red Butte wa'.erj would be permanent wita the owners of the bocafl, gardens an.l orchards irrigated irri-gated from that sl;em. As a matter Of right government should pay for the water oi which it bw d-:priT?d citizans; U'liox t j da so, th? .a:! i tr.e taking of prlTi'n prcp'ry w.i.cil any coai;-?ci it. The L.i' ,ry cf Cjogresa, h ,w . -,t, i? 1 J t '1 l.e b-;l: In at it U ft va.ri Ir.cpfl t"ei.:ct a:J froii tnat sturce. There wji J be no polrtics in t:.e a;;r " prtal'.ca, and no (p?or'.nn:'y )r a at!, r::.'. and ; h-t;ca h-t;ca only bei'.z invj.id. riti.l ina tSjrt is worih mi'f.r.f, ad a wsll-s wsll-s 'za&i a5il i'ljui.i ho mr.: l tr.e Wr.it ?t:.i- n,'jTi favr'.'. is ths t:urth r'C0TDTir,!i-.D, trjat the tx-piyersof tx-piyersof ih. c.:y m' m.i'ino t the hti'ljf tr.e trr.vr.al ieKi-la'.ur. In. 9 i3iiM )a U barxJ 1.7 powr-fui powr-fui reason, Dm?!y, ti.at ti.e pecpie cf da.t Ltice pay about one-toird of tie entire territnri al Ux. How mnch of tbU third 14 ftipn 1-d it the city it not known, tut wo wi.l undertaice tj my a very small proportion of it f is the improvement of 6'.t Lae r-r the benta t of it t-i payer. Fir cfJS demanli that tna territorial treasury contribute 9om9toin,( hacd-somti hacd-somti tow;tJj the canal, in view of the fact that the c.ty pays annually into the treaiury arjrn eqial to arxiut a fourth of the eit.mated c'nt of the proposed d.tch. But if the city hn a claim opon tb9 terri'or; wiat hw it the ri'it to ak and expert from Salt Lae County? Seven ninths of the county revenue from tax tM n 14 contributed by this city, all the ol'nsr town, cities and iitricts from OreU Salt L-aite to tru I'jiDt of the Af j jnlin, south, an I between B n ,-bam ,-bam Awi Al'.a, Roin to make up trie r ft rn i r j 1 r i t.-nintrm, Wnat makes Ihi city's clairu stronger is the ftct that practi-ally none of the conn '7 furJ is Pxpeii J I in improvernn's witr in, tiie r.o'porato lim.t. nr t r ri7trji(jg tint rl 1 recti y benc'fi'.i t'i9 Uxpi7ers of tr.e city, it see-n? to in tnat trn ar'jrne.rjti in avjr '-t itie territory and county appropna'.iiu. Dot I;h?ril7, hut Uirl7 anrl j uliy Uit the construction of the can&l, are in-o-ritrovi)rihie. An apetl to Ibose ourws for aid can hardly fil Ut rri"et w.tii favorable mpon. Tno r'jr,-lion r'jr,-lion of the city's claims in this matter w j'i'A show a wrtt of of-prrciatiori of justice and t'g tt tint no oni expects to er.'ou ,ter in l yi'uro or county wirt. Ti.e Wf.am.o canriot second tho s'izzestions prTttcd 1-7 tl.e commi t-tee t-tee that "prop'rty okd'H of Hi!t Lki City ft't,r:n:'y be "oli'itcl to 'nt in d"'r.'.y '.- too rrr."fin of eomtrurtmz t fjan.ii." JV-p'.-'y owri'Ti arK pr-iij'fi"l lo py proportionally, propor-tionally, acT I r r fic to th'-ir properly, into too ti'y tro-jury, n J ado to pro , por!ioria'iy 'krivo lf,i binoTiIs fr im "jipT. b'ore of 1 mori7. If A a n'.aVy t.iif on tl'iO) and Ii On JVJ, l:i inua tl o full V! -) ol ti.' '.r ' u tMn prop r'y, (iin ha7i niit ' ' alikq in making tho improvement, im-provement, arid will probably rp the bf n fit in toe ratio of their wn-frihotiotn. wn-frihotiotn. I oat, at toast, Is tho theory uon woi Ji tni" r' cob flrr- f('l Pipnnd'd. Thin why ihould A be Hk'd lo do more than his proport oita'n iharo and ('"0 t B more than bid duo purt of tho, benefit? If A id aumcieutly benevolent benevo-lent or philanthropic to want to assist his less thrifty fellows, let him do to, freely, but do not press bim, oven though it is only aeuii-ollieially. to do more than you have the rijjut to ask him (0 do. 1 There are other points- iu the oaual I matter to be spoken of hereafter. |