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Show I First to Drink From Modernized Fonntln : ' - i . ..." i : 1 ' y . ' ' , XV , (: : V- 1 f ' . Y1 Tvurram afr photo br Bill FratL STREAMLINED FOUNTAIN BEPLACES ANCIENT HORSE TROUGH . Gene Reese, left, and Herbert Wilkinson race to get first drink Historic Horse Trough Now to Serve Humans The traditional old horse trough at Eighth South and Fifth East streets ain't what it used to be. i Tuesday it had been transformed into a streamlined fountain. , And so vanished one of Salt Lake City's, best known and most utilized landmarks. As fsr back as the oldest residents resi-dents can remember the old horse trough received water from a generous gen-erous flowing well. It was a welcome haven te hundreds hun-dreds of freighters in- the early days, who watered their teams and filled barrels and water bags before long, dry desert and mountain moun-tain treks. Later, when horses became almost al-most forgotten beasts, the trough was replaced by a pipe and stone gadget which splashed drinkers llherallr. So highly regarded was the sparkling spar-kling liquid that on summer days lines of Salt Lakers formed to fill their receptacles with water for . drinking purposes; and - mother's goldfish. . , But all things must make way for progress, so the dty water department de-partment Tuesday Installed a modern, mod-ern, sanitary drinking fountain with a tap for those who wish more than a drink. So, Salt Lakers, you can still drink from the flowing well which supplied your arest-grandfathers. |