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Show ' ' u $1000.00 more to bring the water into our city, which will be in near future, as the work is being pushed right along. When the water reaches here and new homes begin to spring up where greasewood and cacti now reign supreme, even the doubting ones will have to acknowledge that Brest. Young was a true prophet. was allowed to stop, after an expenditure expen-diture of about two thousand dollars, dol-lars, and it was supposed that the project was dead; but in 1890 we find Mr. Judd agitating the question ' once more and at a mass meeting of our citizens, a resolution was passed, asking the city lathers to take the matter in hand and bring the Cotton wood water to St. George. I An exploring party was sent, out and after examing the country they decided to abandon the old route and take the water out of the creek about four miles lower down the canyon. This appeared to be a much better ronte and work was began be-gan immediately, the result being that within one year the water was taken from its old channel- and brought about 3 miles and turned into a canyon that leads to .Washington, .Wash-ington, where the. water was used by the Rio Virgen Mills and Grist Mill, they being willing to pay a rental for theuseofthe sam. Our citizens feeling that they had made a good start, thought they would rest a while to let their finances recuperate a little, and then they would bring the water on to St. George, but they were doomed to disappointment, as the soil through, which they had made their canal, and which, at the time, appeared to be the very best for the purpose, proved to be utterly worthless, and after four years of trouble and expense the water was as far off as ever. Early in 1896, a new City Council having come into power, felt that something should be done about the Cottonwood water, as the city books showed that near six thousand dollars dol-lars had been expended and our city was getting no benefit from it. Brigham Jarvis Esq., one of the city fathers, being somewhat acquainted ac-quainted with the topography of the Cottonwood country, claimed that both parties had made mistakes in locating their canals, he claiming that the best route was about . mid-way mid-way between the two, At the request of Mayor Brown, member of the city council arid a few other citizens who felt interested interest-ed in the matter, (prominent among whom we again find Mr. Thomas Judd,) went .onto the ground to .see what could be done, if anything, to help the cause, along. After thoroughly thor-oughly examining both of the, old routes, they made a preliminary examination ex-amination of Mr. Jarvis's route and 1 unanimously decided that it was by far the best-route for the canal. Tn fact it has proved to be much better thaivMr. Jarvis himself had expected expect-ed to find it. In 1862 the late Prest Brigham Young piophcsied that the lime would come when St. George would fill our little' valley fiom hill to hill, but mar.v doubted its fulfillment and said St. George has got its growth and our valley is not half full. They argued that the town could ne t grow without water, and 'as every drop that our city springs produced was' being used, which was barely sufficient for our present needs, how could we expect to spread spre-ad it oyer, more land? To all appearances ap-pearances their arguments were well founded. About the year 1SS0 apostle Eras-, Eras-, tus Snow, Thomas Juddvand others conceived the idea of bringing the water of the Little Cottonwood creek to St. George, a distance, of about 18 miles, the first 5 miles being made up of-high ridges' and deep canyons. . After, .spending some time in exploring, a route was decided decid-ed upon 'and a canal staked Out. .... . Work was soon commenced, but, because of a lack of faith in the enterprise en-terprise by our citizens, and a press of otherlmsiness upon those who had the matter in charge, the work J Our citizens soon became interested interes-ted in the new enterprise and rallied to the support of the City Fathers, the result being that with an expenditure expen-diture of nine thousand dollars,near-ly dollars,near-ly all of which was labor, the water is now running into the fields just west of town. It is estimated that it will cost |