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Show FORMER FAILHBE 1 BE TRIED AGAIN City Officials Will Experiment With Plant Where Ouee They Failed. "What. I would like to know," romarked an old resident and former ofllcc-holdor last nlfcht, "la what on earth tho City Council wan is to sink $SO0O up In Emigration Emigra-tion cn.rt.von for pumplnc purposes, when my recollection Is they had auch a thliifr thero onco heforo. it fiooniH to 1110 that experience should havo taught them better. bet-ter. One Plant a Failure. "1 rcmombor not so very long ngo. about dght yearn, the city had a pumping plant In Emigration canyon, but tho farmers, who own one-soventli of tho wators of Emigration, and who compose a company known as the Emigration Dam and Dllcji company, kipt up Btich n campaign of litigation that tho plant was dismantled. Tho two boilers wero aold at a great sacrifice. Law-Suit Breeder. "Now, If a pumping plant eight years ago could ho donn awny with becauso It was a law-suit breeder. It looka lo mo a.s If the city was on tho way to repeat tho programme. Failure Then, Failure Now. "And If such a plant wax a failure then, what causo have we to believe that It will be a success now? I think that tho city administration going Into thlg matter again as they havo Is another example ex-ample of tho Idiotic conception they havo of public affairs." , Streets Got a Bath. The sad plight of tho business men along the main streets having been mado known through Tho Tribune, the city officials of-ficials o'pened their eyes and saw that they wero carrying the farce too far. Consequently Con-sequently they hustled out a flro engine last night and gavo tho principal streets a good bath. No Water in Pipes. Tho peoplo who llvo along streets whoro dust Is six lnchc or more thick would appreciate a small portion of the water, running through the ditches and gutters to waste, put on their streets. All over Iho city last night It was necessary to carry water for tho ordinary household uses. Very few were tho localities that had enough wnter In the pipes to cook with, much lees sprinkle their lawns. ' Air Full of Dust. All day Friday the air was full of suffocating suffo-cating dust. On many of the residonco streets teams created euch a cloud of dust as to bo almost concealed by it At ovening a cloud of dust hovered over tho entire city very much llko smoko from a great mountain or forest Arc. Yet Gutters Are Full. During nil tho trying day the gutters ran on and ran over In some Instances. The mllllone of gallons which go to wasto by way of the Salt Tvke gutters nro a sourco of wonder and indignation to tho citizens of the town. "Why cannot this water be put on our lawns?" is a question ques-tion heard many times a day. |