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Show ! LOS ANGELES AN INSPIKATION. We nro sorry that the church organ misapprehends our treatment, of its erroneous er-roneous figures as to Los Angeles. Tho point we made with respect to thai city, as compared with Salt. Lake City, in providing an ample water supply, was that, the figures which it had copied and used did not take into account the $2v 000,000 which Los Angeles is about to spend to fully utilise the water of Owens river for the benefit of the city. To leave out that item is to falsify the ' facts just as much as if ono should undertake un-dertake to speak of the indebtedness of Salt Lako and lcavo out the million-dollar million-dollar bond issue. Tt is no satisfactory statement of the city's financial condition condi-tion to leave out the main facts that, tell tho real burdens imposed or about to bo imposed upon tho people. We used Los Angeles, not because of the erroneous figures that the. News printed nbout it, but as an example proving precisely the reverse of the News's contention; that is, we undertook under-took to show that other cities cheerfully assumo burdens for necessary purposes, and get their account in it by increased valuations and increased population. It is the growth of Los Angolos, not alone that already realized, but that which is pushing in, that calls for tho .$25,000,000 expenditure for more water for tho city. In precisely tho Bamo way it is the growth of Salt Lake City that calls for the completion of our water system and tho more perfect distribution of water throughout tho city, and to the remark-a.by remark-a.by large number of now houses that arc being erected all over town. And, as we have said before, tho work which was begun by tho million-dollar bond issue was well understood at the lime to be only the preliminary work. Every one knew and understood fully that there would be morn money required later on in order to complete tho work that was projected. The very administration adminis-tration which called for tho bonds confessed con-fessed thaf, by its subsequent action in the sower contract, which it let $63,000 above tho available money for sewer purposes. And even then I he contract let did not include the intercepting sewer nor the pumping plant. Besides, that administration spent $40,000 in purchasing pur-chasing a minority interest in the North Jordan canal, which necessitated further fur-ther expenditure in order to protect the city's interests in that purchase. All this being perfectly open and well understood, un-derstood, the dishonesty of any pretenso at this time that the million dollars was expected to do the full work is manifest. mani-fest. Returning, however, to the Los Angeles An-geles proposition, we claimed that L03 Angeles is a conspicuous cxamplo in favor fa-vor of doing precisel what is proposed in Salt Lako in the way of issuing the bonds to complete tho work already begun, be-gun, and not. an example to the contrary, con-trary, as the News undertook to hnvo it appear. Los Angeles is a manifest growing, thriving city, nnd the addition of $25,000,000 to its obligations to He-euro He-euro ample water for all time to come will undoubtedly be found to be a good investment for that city, precisely as it will be a good investment for this city to complete its water distributive system sys-tem and its sewer system, exactly as is I proposed 03- the contemplated new issue of bonds. |