Show COL HOLMESS SUGGESTIONS Col E F Holmes In the Peoples Forum department of this mornings Tribune I suggests the utilizing of the surplus floodwaters of the Cotton woods as an additional supply for the replenishment of the great Utah Lake reservoir I Is n good suggestion I It wore carried out it would not only form an important t feeder to that reservoir reser-voir but it would effectually and beneficially bene-ficially dispose of water that In the Benson of the rapid melting of the snows causes trouble and sometimes damage And In the flood season there Is enough of this water lo male the project of diverting It to the lake worthwhile worth-while T the scheme could be extended so as to Include the flood waters of Mill Creek and Parleys it would he all the helter but Col Holmcss sug gcsllon Is I excellent for a beginning and Is fruitful In possibilities for good In various directions in tile way of extension ex-tension to other streams and in the effect It would have on the waters of Utah Lake purifying them by the considerable con-siderable amounts of good mountain water they would add to the volume of the lake and gradually washing out the alkali which is to some extent an objectionable component of the water which now flows out of It The records referred to by Col Holmes of the rise and fall oc the great lakes In approximately definite periods of years Is most Interesting and Is a valuable hint for us I It shall be found that any periodical rise and fall of the Great Salt Lake Is a fact and that n cycle of dry seasons to be followed fol-lowed by a cycle of seasons of more than average precipitation Is to be expected ex-pected then wc should have the key to the situation We have In the Bible a hint of some such a period in ancient Egypt going by sevens seven years of plenty and then seven years of distress dis-tress and the wise forethoughl of storing stor-ing provisions In the years of plenty to tide the people over the years of famine fam-ine J such successive periods arc In delcrminnblcj here the first thing Is to ascertain the number of years each Is to fill and then wo shall be on n scientific basis The suggestions of Col Holmes are certainly of great Importance and we trust that they will receive the consld eralion which they deserve not only at the hands of the Commercial Cluba Committee of Fifty In the citys water supply but also from all tho people |