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Show THE LATEST MAKESHIFT. The Mill Creeh buy of water by Mayor Morris is of course on th. same pattern a- th. Big Cottonwood buv, if he buys at all. which is .lnuhtful-that .lnuhtful-that Is. the city reduces Its water resources re-sources in th.- proportion of one-fifth for evei y gallon that Is traded The contracts would have the same old cutthroat cut-throat . laus- In them that the Rig Cottonwood Cot-tonwood contract have In them providing pro-viding for the arbitrary retaking of the water at the option of the farmers, whenever they think that the canal w ater Is short And this shortage of the canal water becomes now for th.- first time a serious menai e Mayor Morris is no! spending the money on the Utah Lake Intake that was estimated as necessary to make the canal supply secure Inst, ad he Is spending the money on other and useless fakes, like the purchase of the East Jordan Canal stock. Neither is he strengthening nnd repairing re-pairing the .anal Its. If Nor, apparently. apparent-ly. Is he reserving the money to do so next year, but he is spending the bond fund as rapidly and as uselessly as possible But without the Improvements at the Lake and the repairs of the can.nl, It Is certain that the city cannot deliver to the farmers the water it has promised prom-ised them, and they will be sure to retake the water they have traded to the city, and leave us high and dry. with money all spent and no water gained It Is conferee! by the Mill Creek deal and the method of Its presentation to the public i.y Morris and his friends, that they have despaired of being able to bring the Big Cottonwood water into in-to the city next year. They now cite the nearness of Mill Creek, and the certainty (from their standpoint and for electioneering purposes) that the Mill Cre.-k water can be brought to the city next year. But nothins: is more probable than the outlook that with the Impractical and hasty methods of Mayor Morris In this whole water business, the city will get no water, either next year or the year after, the only sure thing is that the million dollars will be gone. |