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Show REPRESENTATIVE ' VIEWS ; ' ON THE WATER QUESTION euch bond Issue. We have had bonds enouph, with little or nothing to show for what ha been done with the money thus secured. Vote the Issue down. N. M. HAMILTON, Merchant The city needs-the water. We must have it If we rrow. The adoption and successful success-ful completion of that great project means a great advance In the city's Interests. E. B. PIERCE. Attorney I am favorable favor-able to any reasonable plan that will Increase the city's water supply. J. T. BRECKON. Mining Engineer-One Engineer-One of the most Important points In the growth and development of any city is the Question of water supply, and If the people of Salt Lake wish to see this city attain its Justly entitled place In business, and population they must be prepared to take hold of the wheel of progress together and push It forward. We all know that the present supply of water is Insufficient for our needs during the hot and dusty dus-ty summer, and aa a taxpayer would urge the Importance of securing an adequate and permanent water supply for a city of at least 300,000 people, and I believe the plan devised by the special spe-cial committee to be the most feasible proposition that can be offered and it should receive the moral and financial support necessary to carry It to a successful suc-cessful termination. . , - too great a pay roll. When the Council's Coun-cil's plans have been successfully completed com-pleted our greatest! detriment has been done away with. Nothing will then hold us back ' from a population of " anywhere from 250,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. inhab-itants. LOUIS COHN. Cohn's Dry Goods store, formerly a member of the City CouncilAs Coun-cilAs a heavy taxpayer and as a citizen, I will say that Salt Lake can never hope to attain metropolitan pro- i portions without an adequate water supply. I am fully aware that art adequate supply cannot be obtained unless we pay for it and expend a big amount of money. Since the city has not the money we must issue bonds. If this money obtained by this bond Issue Is economically . and Judicially 'expended, I heartily favor this great object. But Salt Lake wants no foolish fool-ish moves nor money spent that will afteVward be found to have been foolishly fool-ishly and uselessly spent. Salt Lake wants everything done In that broad way that Instigated the building, of the gravity sewer system. We must have a view to the future, and not look for only present needs. There were those who, when the gravity sewerage system was proposed, said we were going to try to make water run up hill, and derided and belittled our plans. We who had it In hand knew we were right,, and if the water question ques-tion is settled in the same way as Abraham Doremus handled the gravity gravi-ty sewer problem, I would certainly favor It L. N. LIOHTFOOT. Vice-President Federation of Labor I am In favor of an increased water surply, but I think that the amount asked to secure the - needed rupply lsvexceasive. The city is heavily bonded now. Careful thought should be indulged in before increasing the amount of indebtedness. indebted-ness. ' ' ' JAMES L.- FRANKEN of Druehl & Franken. Druggists I should say that the $1,000,000 bond issue proposed by ' the special . committee is the most feasible plan yet proposed for improving im-proving water conditions. It is a most timely action and if well handled will prove of lasting benefit to the' city. The Council's action is commendable to a marked degree. GEORGE RUST, Local Manager R. O. Dun & Co., Mercantile Agency Such ' a bond issue will Increase taxation. It is high now. but at the same time if the city is to grow it must do something some-thing later or people will not be able - to live here. It is necessary and needful need-ful that more water must be secured . in-order-to provide for the growth of . the city. In the long run, even though taxation may -be greater. It will be good for the city. The earlier arrangements arrange-ments are made for greatly increased water rights, the less it will cost the city. The longer it is neglected, the more it will cost. A water supply ade- - quate for all of the needs of a' city six times the present size of Salt Lake could have been securd thirty yars ago for what the present rights have cost. ADAM SPEIRS, a heavy taxpayer and i for eight years a member of former 1 Councils I am utterly opposed to any I With a view to sounding the public . pulse on the" proposition of the City Council to issue jywo.000 in bonds for the purpose c of increasing the city's water supply by the purchase and exchange ex-change of water rights, The (Telegram sent its reporters among representative people with aii Invitation to express their views on the subject, Following are ome of the statements, pro and con: E. F. HANNA. Broker The proposition 1 is a very good one. We need the water supply and sewer system, and while it will throw great indebtedness on the city it is a movement the city should. take. It is a feather in the cap of the Council if it has succeeded in doing efficiently this great work, for the Salt Lake City of the future. , COL. T. G. WEBBER, Superintendent Z. C. M. I. The action of the Council was most admirable, most commendable. commenda-ble. I am thoroughly convinced that the city to grow must needs have a , greater water supply than it has had. The Council's plan seems a very good ' one.- 1 - - " JOSEPH .GILBERT, Editor The Crisis crease the water supply to furnish a city of 150,000 population looks ridiculous ridicu-lous to me. It will be a great many years before the city reaches such a population. The amount, asked is a large sum. , . - R. M. GRAY, Gray Bros. & Co.. Clothiers Cloth-iers Something should be done to insure in-sure a steady and sufficient supply of water. I am cognizant of conditions as they exist today. If the Council's proposed plan is carried out practl-call practl-call and Judicially, I would think it a great thing. The city does not want to make any big mistake nor should it open up an opportunity for grafting. Engineers should go over the plans . and endorse them before the city- assumes as-sumes this huge debt.. A. RICHTER,' Real Estate It is the very finest scheme ever broached by any Citv Council. Instead of a bond Issue of 11,000,000, the issue should be $2,000,000. The water revenues received by. the city ought to pay for the -system. The. Water department should be Judicially organized and separated from other departments, and this department de-partment independent of and without the aid of other departments should pay off its own Indebtedness-. Such a system should not be burdened with |