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Show USES TO BE iJSED 01 Off 1 Bill Mining Compasiies Pledged; However, to Avoid Contamination Con-tamination of Water. failure of the experiment in hauling ore down tii Cottonwood canyon wim tractors vas admitted yesterday at n meeting of the city and county commissioners, commis-sioners, together with the interested mine officials. It was finally a creel that horses should be used in the canyon for the present to audi extent as is absolutely necessary, pending further consideration of the problem ot saving the wator of j the cauvuu stream from contamination j such as has resulted in tho past from, horse travel in the canyon. j It was pointed out that, while the j improvement of the road had not made the use of tractors practicable, the ex-, ccllent condition of the "highway now I rhakos the danger of contamination from ! dust far less than it was previously, j even if the hoise-drawn traffic should be resumed. j Kzra Thompson of the Cardiff company com-pany admitted to those present at the meeting that the effort to use tractors i of the kind on hand must be given up i as a 1 failure, lie said that an experiment experi-ment is to be made with another sort of tractor, .but that his company would be under the necessity in the meantime of hauling machinery up to the mine by teams. These teams, he explained, j would be no more menace to the canyon stream if loaded with oi on the down trip than if they traveled light. A vote was finally carried binding all present at the meeting to use every precaution to prevent contamination of the water from such use of horses in the canyon as would be indispensable for the immediate present. Before the meeting adjourned, it was voted that a committee, composed of Dr. T. H. Rentty, state health commissioner, Dr. K. "V". Ashley, city health commissioner, commission-er, and Dr. Samuel G. Paul, assistant county physician in charge of sanitation work, be appointed to investigate and report upon conditions in the canyon as to danger of water contamination should horse-drawn traffic be resumed on the iniprovod road. |