| Show A I Fvii ritorosiTiov iI I i AT last ° evenings session of the City Council the Hydraulic Canal Compan submitted a statement in reference to the obtaining by the city from the County Court oft deed to a oueHxlh interest in the Jordan dim and its storage capacity The recitation of facts is clear and straightforward It is presumed that I what the statement embodies was I unuemood Iij the Council commit tea who investigated the willed and made the proposition to the Hydrau lie Canal Company and bj the Council itself Clear beaded business busi-ness men do not enter upon such transactions without due scrutiny of the facts and equities Involved Alleged aspersion1 tJj cast by one or more members of the Council in the direction of this transaction have it appears induced the company to recite the facts and am make the pro poMtion which concludes the document docu-ment Had it not been for tho unprecedented un-precedented drojth of tin present and last year perhaps there would have been no such reflections in dulged in But be this as it may here is invented an opportunity for the city to extricate itself from a position in which it was placed by its own act Lot the Council pro ceed accordingly |
