Show S SS S WATER V There wa nothing in the k the when call Pr to order came last evening to indicate that the moet Important matter In Inmany many yer waa to be Hob kly Neuhausen and were although the latter came II a vote was reached President called Martin to the chair fler the roB call and asked that As I City Hartley read the of Mayor on the on water for the city After this wao read a was made for the of the report of ity Engineer George W Snow on he work of the water commit of the council This required time the readIng wa listened to with more or interest by the There were few spectators In the cham chamber ber berThe The reading of the Snow report was by a reading of the report of pa th committee aleo on the re reW W ut o President Hewlett This was signed by Dean Hewlett and and concurred ii by Mayor Morris A J Davis re to sign the report and It was that he would submit a but this failed to ma materialize Makes a Talk Predent moved the tion of the report and spoke In favor of It said the time had arrived Salt Lake must either move ahead or retrograde He pointed out that no factories were being built nud that supplies were being In from other cIties said the reasOn for the slow growth wao want of water spoke of the danger from big urea In the dry seasons and when the are frozen In the winter told the committee had worked and gave the reasons why the results were made public sooner and made an earnest for more water for do use and for irrigation and sprinkling Special stress was laid on the need of a sewer for the southern ant southwestern parts of the city Black confessed that he vas not well Informed on the and asked for more time In which to study It He moved that it be re referred to the committee of the whole and that all papers and bear bearing ing on the be placed at the disposal of the objected to delay He said he had confidence in the commit committee tee and that any question could be an then as well as a week later He said two years ago an effort was made to take the matter out of the hands of the council altogether and efer It to a commission on the plea that the was incompetent Now it was up to the council to prove that It wao competent He State Engineer A F Doremus as tIe best posted man In Utah on the water sit and said he was present to any question that be asked Wells took the same ground S S and made it Plea for prompt action He the council was not committed to the Spring Creek Part of the If it was found that title could not be secured or If It was found that the water was not desirable for city uee 1 of these cases could be discarded and that part of the money used in lag a greater Of water from Utah lake for exchange Purposes He prompt for the reason that pirt qC money from the sale of the bonds would be In tak ing Uj the option He also called at to the fact that a of bondt could not he without time If the people voted the council the right to sell them IC the options ere to be taken up he said it would be necessary to hv part of the pro proceeds of the bond sale by July 1 On the request of and Wood action on the committee report then went over till the next regular meet lug It won evident that tile tion of the provision in the tee report to to cure a main sewer for the southern part of the city sOds much to the of the although feature was lIt tie Davis Gives Pair Warning At this point President Hewlett in st th ac tion of securing the on Spring erek to cost the Big Ditch Irrigation oni jg Big to rot and the Big Lower rIghts in Big Cottonwood to cost The op secured for and run till July 1 A J vla urged that this go over to come up with th report eld the object of this re the objectors that no member could this unless he was opposed to any echeme foi increasing the water supply S SS S Davis eted this lie said it another effort was made to Impugn hl he would settle the matter on the floor of the council S The resolution withoUt a vote the e ad S The l the last night wa that to the scheme would 1 A 3 Davis T R Black Hobday and L J Wood a common pur purpose pose S S James ll a of CouncIlman some small lakee and sites high Up ni Little S He of these to the committee for but it did not seem feaSIble to make this property part of the proposition at this time |