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Show CITY WATER SUPPLY BETTER III QUALITY Latest Tests Show Organic Purity to Be Again Up to Normal. Vast improvement In the water of Big Cottonwood and Parley's creeks was reported re-ported to Dr. Samuel G. Paul, city health commissioner, and the city water department depart-ment yesterday by Herman Harms, state chemist. Samples of the water were submitted to the chemist last Saturday for analysis. He reports that the water has assumed its normal state of purity. Early in .September Mr. Harms reported re-ported that the water'from these streams was of suspicious purity and contained chemical elements that made it unfit for domestic use without first being boiled. Bacteriological tests by the health department depart-ment also revealed the presence of disease-producing germs at that time. Reporting on the latest test, the chemist chem-ist says: I am very much pleased to report that both samples show a vast improvement im-provement over the water submitted September 3. The appearance of both waters Is very bright and clear. The solids and notably the sodium chloride have decreased to their normal proportions, pro-portions, and, most important of all, a vast improvement is shown in the organic purity. In fact, both waters have assumed their normal, natural, conditions and usual degree of purity. Dr. Hardie Lynch, city bacteriologist, has bacteriological tests now under way on samples gathered at the same time as those submitted to Chemist Harms. If these tests coincide with the chemical test, as they are expected to, it will constitute con-stitute proof that the pollution of the streams Is past. |