Show GETTIN AT THE FACTS 1 In the discussion that has arisen j over tha big Cottonwood conduit there than I ought to be po question about the main points at Issue Concrete prop properly ery erly made will hold water AS has been dem demonstrated by some of the lar largest conduits In America There is nO occa I son for debate on that point SO ao the loran elsey proposAl to line Une this conduit wIth plaster is eIther due to Ignorance of modern engineering practice or a desire to g give ve Mr Moran I money for foJ making a poor job of con concrete 41 crete watertight 1 The Che second question is as to the thene ne necessity ssi for In the can canyons ons where the conduit is designed to cross crosson crosson on piers That is largely an engineer engineering ing question and there are enough examples of such construction to show L I that the proposal to fill fillis is as and unnecessary as th J plaster job Filling would add to the cost involve additional expense for I maintenance and servo no purpose not accomplished b by the spans and piers As to covering the entire length of the co with earth oarth the only ques question question tion involved is the covering 1 would be worth the money Mr Bacon j who designed the original plan is ia of oll that covering is an unnecessary unnecessary sary Mr Doremus the con cons conI s approved thIS thI plan as ashe ashe he approved alt all the of the origInal original I Inal ThoSe who know the records Gf cf the engineers would not hesitate to accept either Mr Bacons or Mr Doremus opinion as against Mr Kel nys or 91 Contractor Morans It Is evident that the councilmen woo wh have the public interest at heart and woo who are getting at the acts do not consider the iO job with favor So Sofr far fr no opportunity has been offered Mr Riter or Mr Bacon or Colonel Wall Vall who are all 11 concerned in the I i original plan to tell the council or its I committee their reasons for the course they took It If they thai are re Invited into II conference and aad allowed Howe to discuss the matter fairly as they should be the grab wm will never Dever go through because L there thare ar are to deat what is palpably all an effort to sp d and waste wasteful I ful |