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Show i MORE NOTICE FORM HOGS Superintendent ' Hobday Says Forbearance Has Ceased to Be Virtue. "This dopartmcnt; has grown tired of warning water users against' tho wilful and deliberate waste of water. Prom now on there will be a sudden halt called on this class of water hogs. 1 have notified my deputies to keep a close watch in every direction of the city and to at once, and without notice, shut off the water of those who are wasting it," says Thomas Hobday, superintendent of water works. Mr. Hobday says that there is pleutj of water for ovcryono in the city, despite de-spite the lone drv snoll. if the iioonlo will only be a littlo conservative. "Tho troublo is that there is n lot of water hogs in this city who let their taps run day and night, and oven lot tho water run on thoir lawns without a nozzle on tho hose when they think thero is a chauco that they will not be caught," continued Mr. Hobday. "A number of these persons have been warned time and time again, and now tho wnrnings cease. T havo given instructions that the next it mo thoy violate the ordinance tho inspector is to shut off the wator at once, and it will bo up to them to explain to tho city council why thoy should have ir. turned on again," said the superintendent. superin-tendent. Tho register showed but fifty pounds pressure Saturday morninf. Salt Lake City has water enough to supply a city of 200,000 and then have somo to spare, with care. Mavor Bransford, tho superintendent super-intendent of wator works and other officials aro of tho opinion that tho only remedy is the meter system, by which every -water user will pay for exactly what; water lie uso3. |