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Show PURE WATER SUPPLY BILL PASSES HOUSE . Measure Providing School Buildings Insurance Goes Down to Defeat. ! RICH COUNTY WINNER I Railroad Crossings Law, Thoroughly Pruned, Is Opposed. i Legal anthority to protect their water wa-ter supply from contamination to a ruuch more perfect degree than has been possible heretofore is given cities of the state under the terniB of senate bill No. 29, by Dern, which was passed by the honse yesterday morning. The measure gives citios jurisdiction ' over their water supply sources and sheds for a distance of fifteen miles, ' instead of ten, from the points of in-J in-J take. This extension of -jurisdiction I in the case of Salt Lake City covers 1 practically every foot of its water I fources, and further provisions of the 1 bill give it absolute control over the ! sanitation conditions within the bound-1 bound-1 aries of this jurisdiction. ; The cities are authorized to enact '! ordinances and regulations to carry into j effect all the authority given under the ; state law to prevent pollution of the . streams and water courses from which i the cities derive any part or all of their I water supply. I Bans Public Stations. i The law prohibits the establishment j and maintenance of any public station ; within 2000 feet of auy stream used as a water course and gives tho cities powers to prescribe such regulations as ; they may deem necessary governing the maintenance of such places beyond the 2000-foot limit. Power also is given to reflate the matter of camping or maintenance of farms, barns or homes along such streams. The law includes authority of cities to require the agent of any property, j owner or occupant of any property along a city street to remove any and j all weeds and noxious vegetation from such property and in front of the prop-t prop-t erty to the street curb line. Provision also is made in this law that cities may appropriate money for i any purpose which, in the judgment of j the board of commissioners or city council, coun-cil, will provide for the safety, preserve pre-serve the health, promote the prosperity or improve the morals, peace, order, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants inhabi-tants of a city. Water Measures Pass. Two measures considered of vital import im-port to the state in the matter of development de-velopment and conservation of the ptate's water resources were passed by j the house of representatives yesterday I morning. The first measure is H. B. No. 215, I by Cardon of Cache, and provides that the engineering department may withdraw with-draw waters of the state from appropriation appro-priation when it is the opinion or the department and the state board of examiners ex-aminers that the interests of the state i demand such action. The houso went ! into committeo of the whole yesterday morning and listened to an explanation of the purpose of the bill by W. D. Brers, state engineer. Ho explained that in cases where there are disputes over appropriation of waters of a stream it is sometimes necessary for the interests in-terests of the state that all appropriations appropria-tions be held up until the disputes may be settled, and this is most easily done by withdrawing the waters from ap-propriation. ap-propriation. lie explained also that the purpose was to prevent filing on waters for speculative purposes. The bill passed by a vote of 33 to 2. Asks Land RestoraUon. The second bill, H. B. No. 213, by Argyle, is a brief measure, providing that tho engineering department shall have tho right to secure government aid in the matter of developing the resources re-sources of the state, and especially in the development of irrigation and drainage drain-age 'districts. This act gives the stato the right to enter into definite contracts con-tracts with tho government toward this end. Tho house passed the senate concurrent concur-rent resolution making an appropriation appropria-tion to have a portrait of former Governor Gov-ernor William Spry painted and hung in the capitol. , The houso passed R. .T. M. No. 4, by t'live. calling upon congress to restore to entry 2.30.000 acres of lands in the northern section of tho Uinta basin which have been withdrawn from en-trv en-trv hv the federal government. Funk's S. B. No. 63, providing for the appointment of supervisors of agriculture agri-culture and homo economics in the public, pub-lic, schools of the state, was passed by the houso. . School Insurance Killed. After considerable argument, Greenwood's Green-wood's H. fi. No. 117, providing for t he creation of a school insunuice district dis-trict in Utnh and for the insurance of school buildings hv t lie state itself, was killed by a vote of 20 to 21. 'Apparently swayed by sympathy for Kich county, because it is poor in comparison com-parison with Summit county, tho house of representatives yesterday passed 11. li. No. 173, by McKinnon, which gives to Itich county the disputed strip of territory over which the two counties have been fighting for years. The strip is five miles iu widlh and lies along the crest of the mountain ransro where the Union Pacific railroad runs. After all its provisions which would make it effective had been carefully removed, houso bill No. 19.1, by Nalder, providing for protection at railroad crossings, Tvas passed. The hill was originally designed to give county commissioners com-missioners authority to compel railroad eumpanies to install bell signals and other snt'ety devices at points where public highways cross the vaihnads. However, tho provision making it a misdemeanor for tho ryilroad companies compa-nies to refuse to install such appliances was stricken from the bill in committee and the only peonltv left was that the company should be liable for any damages dam-ages caused by its neglect, which pen-iiltv pen-iiltv is alrcndv in tit" common laws of (he. stale. Kddy of linxehler called at tcnlton to the "inker," but the house pas.-cj it as it stood. |