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Show r - r - , ( . . i . , . . ( - . . . . J ' 1 r City CI.:-!:: Ar.-!yi:3 Two C:.r.-.;I:5 cr.Jl Eccbrcs It Is Excellent; Fcv Impurities Impuri-ties in Tlzll. City Chemist Herman Harms has just made a report to the City Board of Health showing that Salt Lake City is j supplied with about the purest natural : water in the world. The Chemist examined ex-amined two samples of water and in his i report declares that they are "excellently "excel-lently pure." A sample taken from a tap in the basement of the city and county building build-ing shows that the water it of a bluish tint, without' odor in natural state or when heated; that it is of normal taste-that taste-that it is bright in clearness and that it has a slight grayish sediment In the water there are no nitrates, nitrites, or metallic impurities. The total amount of solids in a gallon of water is 16.335 i grains and of this amount 14.005 grains is of mineral matter. The amount of bacteria ir slight. The only difference from the sample taken in 'the building and one taken from City creek is that the latter contains con-tains 14.002 grains of solids in a gallon. |