Show I ANIMAL BAN IT AT BRIGHTON N BRINGS S SIRON Permission n Sought for Ponies and Cows i FERRY MAKES PLEA City Doctor However Sees Health Menace i Straining at a. a gnat and swallowing awal- awal lowing a camel is the manner in which W. W Mont Ferr Ferry former Cornier mayor described the action of ot Salt Stilt Lake Ci City y In denying the request of Ernest V. V Green to maintain thirty hire for-hire ponies and sixteen cows at Brighton for the benefit of summer residents when Ire he appeared before the commission Tuesday to urge reconsideration of the former action of the board Mr 1 Ferr Ferry accompanied by Henry D. D Moyle J. J G. G McDonald Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence Bamberger Mrs Ernest Bam Bam- herger er and other property owner s sot of ot Brighton appeared before the commission with a request that the board reconsider its former action and permit at least the maintenance nance of horses at the head of the canyon for the benefit of the children children chil chil- dren and others who desire to ride about the trails of the canyon SEES NO DANGER Mr 1 Ferry declared the property owners wanted nothing that might be a menace to the health of people people peo peo- pie of Gait Lake but he did not feel that there could be any more danger from keeping a few riding horses at Greens Green's camp than for forthe forthe forthe the city to use horses to haul garbage gar gar- bage hage the county to maintain horses for fSr road work and for forest rangers rangers rangers rang rang- ers to ride horses over trails of the canyon Mr Ferry Tilso Indicated Indi that the city maintained a a. gabage dump along th the stream which was far from being burned and he thought there might be some good accomplished if U the city could give Ive attention to this as well as the horses He suggested also that some people people peo peo- pIe who camp In the canyon wash their dirty linen and sometimes sometimE's their feet In the tile stream and he thought attention to human contamination contamination con con- was more Important than contamination from horses or cows ONLY WORK HORSES The mayor said that the garbage was v gathered by the city and burned and it was necessary to use city horses for this purpose but these Urese horses were kept away front from the streams Commissioner T. T T. T Burton pointed out that the county road horses and the ranger horses were necessary and were kept away from the streams while pleasure horses were not necessary and were constantly ridden along and across the str streams ams Dr Willard city health commissioner was present with a half-dozen half test tubes showIng showIng showing show- show Ing tests of Big Cottonwood water and the presence of gases In the tubes coming coming- from colon bacilli Intire in inthe tire the water He also produced charts indicating that the percentage of colon bacilli Increases In summer when the horses and other animals are In the canyon and that they In Increase Increase in- in crease rease markedly when there has hasteen been teen a heavy rain rainor or storm Dr said that the time would come when both horses and men would have to be kept out of the canyon If it proper protection to the health of f the citizens is to 10 tobe tobe be maintained He said that the elimination n of oC unnecessary horses and cows now was but a step In Inthe Inthe Inthe the direction of ot proper protection for or the people In the city Mr Ferry urged that Mr Green Greenbe be permitted to install his Ills horses hortS and try them out under city super supervision super vision ision and inspection V The commission finally decided to take lake tIre the matter under advisement arc ard decide upon Its action within a a. afew few days |