| Show ritOhliUIIVL 1IUOUS Au enormous quantity of now unit fallen this winter In the mountains east of this city and It la highly I Probable that land lying In Ibo southwestern south-western portion of Ibo corporate limit will ha flooded wbeu the season for It high water arrive The present prospect pros-pect Is that considerable damage will rotult The discussion of this suljrct I which occurred lu Ihe City Council I last evening was opportune and that body ought to lake prompt measures lo 2 gTeft the threatened danger II will bo observed rom Iho report 41 of the City Council prcceedluca that I City Engineer Kelsey recommended that a canal ba du Irom Ugtith I LL Boutb street northward on Eighth West lo First BDUtli thence wett olio jlock to Ninth Westland tbtnoe north along the last until street to Ninth North which would take It to 1101 I JprloRu lake oral least 0 daln ditch Ont Flirt South to Ninth NoitaCouu jllrann Allen Introduced a resolution norlng Ibo litter Ichemo Mainly Oil UK 10 a legal questlpn no lo whether the Uouuoll bad u right to order Ibo canal lug without action by Iho board ol I public works tile matter was referred I o a commute wllh Instructions t report re-port at Ibo next mcellnj of Ibo Vcun I 31 llTho The Nnvs announce Itself as iquarcly opposed to Ibo shorter ditch t project which Is Intended to benefit only tile people ncrlh of Third South I treet while tire greater danger lie 10 tile south or that line The reason I or cur lecUcin Is that Ibo proposition 11 I an unfair Ulrcrlmlnatloa against Ibo v Do pie mouth ot TlilrJ South elrctt What Is the Russell for unJonlug the residents of the whole noulhweit of be clly from fdlrJ Hcuh to the oily I mils to the creattr dangler and In ury and relieving only those to Hit Death Wo do not btlleve Ibo latter oula rnJorse the unfairness to their outberu neighbors The urgent uccei ilty ol the elluatlon Is I that the entire oulhwtsteru parlor the city be pro tcted from high water visiting the text two months TUB fatuity of some of Iho thlnpa hat were done by the Oily Ccuncll luJo C t Ibeboom melt Illustrated A n onnoollon with Ibe canal flue 1 ln 13lx years atte DI Ibo instance 01 real estate sptculalorr the Oiuncll ciuttJ lo bo flllou up a canal which z oily paralleled Iho route rccom mended by the city engineer and which lay ono block cast ot that rcutc its entire length lied nol that canal Lion destroyed It would tiaveieived The purpose of Ibo coo rrcpastd In every leapt Other canal In tho souh and West l tarts of tho city la I 110 tamp opt > lrlt ol falully and again the warnings and expostulations ol property proper-ty owool Those txPellm they veto olRloolly cn6trucled leave bon KHed up by ordtr of the City Umiccll These eonl wire Intended d by in IB WilD dug hem to set it n protection unalnslll tit null II II a Serious tjlUE lion II I tile nanloll pilily Is not llaile icrtho damage that may result Ila W Ihilrdeitiucllon Weretoil the Clly Council thiuld set promptly In this mil ei BO ludceJ itnuld iho 1 1 unly umunltsloccro Drainage Irom Ihu ncuihwesl Ps0 1 Ibo cly thou a bo tjrovIJiJ lu time to men the cuitrtciiclto of Urn high water action which Is very ckou Bun now the water l > nearer the fur lace of themOll in dial lojbn than U has btcn for many join growing that when spring arrives there can be Halo or co dmlonse by eicjlatloti arid that ixlcnslvo duttlcir are likely lo be totally uliaergcd uuMstbe surplus writers are carried cS by lultiiblo channels Iruumibly the CJUllty wouU laro tulauod and extended to the lake l the surplus canal bad It nol bn for UilllcullliaciiccuiitereJ In connection with lights ol way This cabal woud bo Ihu best iroltcllon agalntl Ujods that cOUld ha tuovlded at reasonable cost t fcr the lower prrt I > of the clly and every obllaclo lu the way ol lu ciui pletlon to tile lake and of Its enlarge mcnt I to u lumUent spicily IILIJ Essayed as soon KB toivlblt |
