| Show t THE ARTESIAN WATER I Many people are filled with apprehension apprehen-sion In regard to water In the upper stories of hotels and private houses yesterday there wqs no water The pressure was Insufficient to supply it And this Is the first of July I Is warm and the evaporation Is very great How long beforq It will hoc ho-c cmod advisable to stop the street sprinkling How long after that before be-fore It will be deemed necessary to shut off the sprinkling of lawns Then suppose the autumn rains arc postponed post-poned and there comes suddenly a sharp cold snap sufficient to freeze the little water In tho streams that supply the city what then Well Just at the southeast corner of Liberty park 1800 000 gallons of artesian water Is running to waste Pumped Into n lank and a track run to It by an arrangement with the city railway company there would be ample water to sprinkle all the streets over which the company has rails At not very great expense that water quId be pumped Into the nearest main and reinforce the present supply with I twentylive g Ions of water per capita cal for 70000 people We understand that the authorities claim that it Is surface sur-face water and not good water to turn into tho water circulation of the city Well there are several ways to look at tai First It Is better than no Wat rat r-at all second no one can tell by the eye or taste that It Is not purer water than that which comes down Parleys canyon Third it Is but two miles from the main base of tho mountains there Is a great fissure coming down through Emigration canyon carrying 3 strong I current of water which has no break I In the canyon but which It Is most probable I prob-able Is obstructed a little further south turning the water which follows the bedrock under the soil and thus finds a subterranean channel to Jordan river I and the chances are a hundred to one that either from that Ilssuro or some I other this Water Is discharged and that all the difference hi the quality of the I water from that of City Creek Is that one comes down on the surface and the other flows under the surface for perhaps per-haps three miles before being tapped I by the wells More It Is more than probable It Is almost certain that could the same volume of water be found running In a canyon five miles away the city would be glad to pay 100000 to secure 3 tllle to IL As It Is It Is owned by the city It Is wlthlh one mile a the city nnd county building and Is I In our belief one of the cllys most valuable assets Finally while the pressure on the mains is daily growlnsr weaker while thero Is danger 0 being obliged to shut off the sprinkling I sprink-ling of streets and lawns which would bo a fearful misfortune and loss and which aside from the loss would be a mighty black eye to the city the authorities I au-thorities ought to make some swift investigations In-vestigations of this water supply at our doors and see if It cnnnot be quickly utilized for the citys real benefit We believe that It as pure a spring water No seepage of the city has ever tainted It we believe that It comes directly from Its springs in the his for there Is no other place it could come fromthat It Is purer coming deep under the surface than It would be if It flowed down in a surface channel chan-nel and that It ought to becaught up < and driven by a steam pump Into the f mains We do not believe either that the total cost ought to exceed say 7500 I |
