| Show RESOLUTIONS VS ENGINEERS With rUh few tew exceptions every year for THorO than taw t AJ a decade has bas s seen n a short hort shortage R age e tJi wot Salt Le Lake at tJ t eMt years ans plant plans for a larger larer supply have been Unlit Morris ol WM waa u elected once fn all aUth thie purled irod has uny uy ny actual l lIrk vork Irk been done that tb t promised o 0 mayor r and council have ventured to t 0 undertake the one remedy most i i of ot Utah laka ILk wa wn wat t tr r l for tor Bl BI Cotton wood water and the of the th conduit and Ml ad other y to put pitt the th water waltr into t Ii tile ie I e city main FI years ago O the thi people popIe vot d i to IU u on the promise that the water water ater sup I i lv ty would W uld be greatly Increased ed A cit elt jens ena en committee and ami the city cit adminis L urged the approval of ot the bond bona j sue the Ute improvement that would be b made Inde Among Ano other prom was WWI one to and an In implied to utilise the Lib uty park Nult wells Not only was wu the money spent without the promised increase e in water a let supply but the Liberty park scheme was wu wa aban abandoned rightly lI abandoned because It i inot inot Ia not practicable N Now o w come a it number n of or prominent clUsen and in the th face of ot adverse opinions from such trained engineers as se Mr Dot Doremus emus and Mr lIl Bacon adopt resolutions r on the sub Not ot one of the men who talked till ked i glibly In favor of the well water uter at the Commercial club meeting IB le an engineer not one had the technical entitling him hint to speak BJ k wIth authority and ami not one had studied the matter r practically yet they presented dud and carried a resolution urging upon the city cUy authorities the utilisation of or orthe the ilie artesian altlan wells as a a good God und and avail available able resource already alread demonstrated to too toh h ik o in tn quantity desirable drable in and nd immediately hn available at t sum expense The engineer who ho has ku studied th question carefully and gone ne over oer all n the data available for tor months says S the supply apply is bJ of doubtful quality and aAd cites the ilie tact fact that two out of six analyses ho how the presence of impurities He Hedt dt dare the supply has hu not been b en dem darn 01 to be sufficient u in quantity to afford any e eal l relief roUe and he heit says it is not immediately dla tely available a ble Moreover he says the cost of Liberty Talk water per pel gallon pump d would in lIt lie about ten times the dost t per for Jor gallon of or in flit Big Cottonwood water ater lw by in gravity V t knowledge of Mr r Do mu pro ft ability and acquaintance v with h his is s subject l as aa compared with Uh the opinions ions tona of ot the prominent who ho te ye solved led leaves Isavee no room for discussion us lo to the weight of ot authority Add to Air Mr 11 views the opinion of torge Olge M i Bacon engineer in charge chars of ot oft the t he water question and no committee or If it engineers in the thO country would heel t tit tate it to accept their judgment as final t mainly they would not DOt hesitate as l Hveen Mr orr Ir Doremus and Mr 11 Bacon Baconi I Ii i I one aide side and ami say Mr 11 Ewing and M lr Ir Snyder on an the other V We believe the or ft LON so 80 1 T proposed as an expense etor for the v oil ell scheme would be wasted and aIM the added 1 cost coat of ot pumping worse we than thana i asted a te because it would be bea throw Q Qi J i a i 1 way ay deliberately and entail I charge charp the tho city The rue political motives motive behind Satur lUys dys meeting aeed hardly be pointed out they the are so 80 obvious Some few lew of e men interested ted were ere possibly pO ig La j rant of ot the politics in the t Ui game arne but butte butt butte I te t h moving m spirits were woes mor anxious discredit the city administration admin than they were to learn lm the truth about 1 He 1 water ater question and nc set act ct honestly on ont onI t I Most lost of these men saw w the same produce a Il water famine in inthe Inthe Inthe the Esra Thompson administration and aBd had no blame for tor Thompson or fur fu the tite men who spent pent a 0 quarter of a t million dollars fur for the te city without i a ft gallon Ii n of water ter to the supply i by hy political soreheads ad and andi i lauded by b obstructionists i pou the opportunity by a phe 1 dry season and attempt to tomake wake make ake political capital pital of oC it It The resolution n adopted is Ie worth orth con 5 iteration i der UOn for Just so 80 long as it IL will take to refer it to a committee for or burial buna It has bu no facts behind hind it j oRal naL at ati i title it to serious and not one oue opinion op opO in fater t fa Ot of ot it ITem from any man mau whose knowledge of oC the subject is worth talking about v 00 Having planned and carried through the preliminary negotiations necessary nooG ry for or u a permanent manent and ant adequate water supply Mayor Morris lorria and the council i an n afford to complete the work and trust to the result for tOl their jon K ry grist groat public improvement develops kickers and and aud this is ta no exception flamed Darned in inho Inh ho ht h attempt to prevent the sale Ie of or wa watt tt to i bond bonds defeated d in a s silly amy effort to bocka th letting I nl of f ont ii t a ain ar arin are areto in to w i u i riu t u tatk t Qt barrass harrass and the mayor but it The Big Cottonwood conduit will be built the water from DIg Big Bi Cottonwood and the other othar canyon streams will wUl bc be bein in the city mains next ne t season s son the Em Emigration on plan pl n will be work workoUt d dout out and ana Salt LaR within a a year will wui have the largest and boat beet b t water supply In the country countr That result re is worth north workIng walking for tor and It is the only result that la s worth spending money mon for tor |
