| Show THE WATER QUESTION the condition cf provo in relation to the water supply as depicted by the lat evening at alie city council is certainly alarming and wi 1 permit of no further delay already too much valuable time has been wasted on lie matter authority was the committee on irrigation two beoka weoka agoto take steps tu enforce the cites rights to alie use of the waters of provo river why nothing of a substantial nature has been done as yet seems to be a mystery mye tery none of alie members of eliat who ere present at the council lat evening seemed to know it certainly seems strange that on a subject so important as this especially at present when there is so anch agitation over alic question of the water supply there should be any delay at all nut are the people buffering for a proper water supply for their farms aid gardens this early in season but our manufacturing institutions are in a condition of inactivity from alie same cause there being at present an insufficiency of w ater for motive alie mills must at once suspend operations is no avoiding this calamity unless those chirped chir ged with the duty proceed without further daliy to enforce alie rights of provo city to its proper proportion of the present limited supply when a in past seasons the water has been abundant and sufficient for all there has been no outcry from elioso having prior rights provo city lias many times yielded privileges that it might have legally taken or enforced but this year when alie water supply is scarcer than it has perhaps ever before been there seems to be a determined purpose on alie part of those who in the past have been so indulged to appropriate to their own use the scan ty supply of water which belongs to others As as said last night in the council the worst sufferers now are choso who possess the oldest and best legal right to the water and those who hae alie least to the water are the onea w ho are appropriating almost thy whole of it ethere is plenty of water in the river for everybody but it must be judiciously and lawfully apportioned there is no necessity for n single person to if the water is fairly distributed the city however must act with promptness and with a determination to secure the rights oi its inhabitants water supply otherwise will be much more than there has been for years past there has been a growing disposition on the part of recent settlers to ignore the rights of provo city and alie oldest claimants to the use of the water of provo aiyar this should be checked and we hope lie council will continue to urge action on those whose duty it is to project the interests of the people the matter is of too modi importance to admit of further delav |
