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Show I LIBERTY PARK WORK I ELECTION BLUFF I Prominent Engineer Is Told I That Purpose AVas Not I , Hi Sinking. ) NO TOOLS NECESSARY L UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES Promises Made to Citizens Set at N audit bj Morris Crowd. In order to carry out the frnme of bluff, and the programme nf buncoing the people on the water eltu.it. . the. Morris administration ad-ministration hn.i been Riving an exhibition at LJbealy park that should well entitle It to the contempt o( all well- ir-a-nlne citizens and well-wishers for the welfare of the city. The, citizens of Sclt Lrfike, wishing to co-operato with the offlrlxJs In every Way possible tn relieve the shameful water shortage of the city, I recently met in mass convention at the I i i mmcrclal club for the purpose of Im- prejrlng upon the nflmlnisir.iil.in the Im-H Im-H ' porlajn.'A of mi crtilnliiR If tho Liberty V park wells wero capable of In any way B contributing to the water supply of the Plages Were Made. The Council committed apointei to I confer with the citizens committee ap-parently ap-parently took honest hold of the proposl-' proposl-' tion. and at a Joint session of these two committee it Waa Bfreed that the .'ouncll would bo asked t" contribute $,VO0 or so much thereof as should be necessary to BBB tlnd out If the Liberty park wells were fit B to be iitlllzde. It WRS agreed by the Coun- . ii committee thai v.n mould be drlv-1 drlv-1 en to a depth not 0XO edlng 100 feei; that k pump would be installed to determine B the quallt i perman i How HI the water, and to discover where 'he roost BHI permanent flow could bo secured. Citizens Accepted Promises. I City Knglue. r Kit' r was present and Intimated In-timated that a very short length of time only would be n.xessary to discover these Cat is. The citizens' committee had every Ijjjjjj reason to expect that these pledges on the K part of thb administration were bona Hj fldt is tli' in. i i n--ting at the Commor- BHH cial club was made up of the most re pre - B scntatlvo gentlemen, business men and property-owners of Salt lake. Accepting HJ these, pledgee was the most radical aihend- HH no nl to the urgcut nunst of this clti- HH Etna meeting thai the sub-committee Bl could well concede. B Well Visited by Engineer. HaVi Severn! weeks have passed Mnce the I prom,, were made. Recently, one day last woek. an eminent i II engineer, an iiuthorltr on well driving, visited the work being conducted In Liberty park. In Hfel order to arn as much a.- possible what I the operator's experience had been fi tind an a.ntluatcd arrangement of ma-i ma-i hln-ry and no tools whatever which ordinarily or-dinarily are det-mid essential lo a nuc-cssful nuc-cssful carrying on of such an enterprise, lie approached the men who were in charge of the work, and expressed his pjjfjj BUrpiiae that the usual tools were not bc- Iing used or anywhere In evidence. Bluff Until Election. One man Inform, d him that he did not earn about any tools . that tho Intention LHHT wax not to sink a well Anyhow, and that K the work was more In the nature of a bluff, which would be carried out until HH after the election was over The work at HH that time had not progressed over twenty B feet, and no record of the work was being m k--pt at all Instead of collecting data whlrh would be of value In determining Ba the values of the well, work had been go- LV It.g on simply to silence tho demands of V the taxpayers until it would be too late to oust the administration at the polls. Nothing Doing Saturday. A representative of The Tribune visited HJL th- work Saturday afternoon, bul no work was being carried on at all. The boiler was cold, the premises were deserte-d. and nothing was In eidehce but the derrick. HJ some pipe, an engine aud a stream of sparkling water Mowing from around the HJ twelve-Inch pipe tuek down Into one of the spring, ii Is in such a manner that I the administration answers the demands of the people, setting at naught their pledges made, pledges which were accepted accept-ed in all good faJth by the representative men of the citv. Will of People Ignored. What If the administration could have purchased the water from the Saints, or if the utilization of the water would have permitted the expenditure of the million dollar bond fund- That 1m a different l roposltion As it la, the will of the people peo-ple la Ignored, promises are violated, ur-vgent ur-vgent requests of the taxpayers arc toyed with ami laughed ttt, yet on Tuesday the people, he same people,, wll I he asked to continue. In power the administration whieii so plays with public sentiment and m gooil faith. |