Show REPORT OF COMMITTE OX ON LAKE the undersigned undersigner under signed committe og appointed app p 01 i anted to investigate the improvements made at lake puffer r and the facilities thereat fr for the store age ace of water for arri irrigation 0 at ion and other purposes for the use of the city of beaver and vicinity beg leave to offer oner the following report your committee visited lake and vicinity and found that the lake P uffer puffer irrigating company had made a cut in the rock at the overflow of about ox feet in depth and t twenty five feet long and placed a substantial timber flume and solid iron head gate gata within said eaid cut and over it placed a dam of about sixteen feet in height that we find said improve improvements improvement men valueless until further improvements are made in order to a atop t hj hc drain from froin the lake which at present runs run 8 through 0 the loose 1 rocks atone at one corner of said faid lake that in t the h e o opinion anion of your committee said drain arain or can be stopped your committee also believe small senall cost that at a comparatively a tunnel can be run through th the e rock twenty feet below th the e surface of the jalie at atlow bow water mar mark and zb atah to that extent during the he season when the supply of water is moat necessary that by so EO doing a very large 0 amount of water can be placed at the service of the city at any time when mst most needed your committee also found in close to the lake other natural reservoirs which at small expense car can be filled and thereby materially miteria lly increate increase the storage ot of we also find that the aforesaid valuable points for the storage of water have been taken up and located by the aforesaid irrigation company whether legally or otherwise we are at present unable to say hut but they claim they have been legally advised as to their rights in the matter your committee are therefore ua unanimous in the opinion that tho the aforesaid improvements if legally held should be purchased by the city or the city and county combined bained dand and that the further improvements suggested by your committee should bo ba made before the cold weather prevents the possibility of so 0 o doing it is beyond dispute that for the last two or cr three years owing to the lack of gf water anything like a full crop to most of our citizens has hag been impossible impo sible and that tho the evil of necessity must grow worse from year to year as the 0 under cultivation is is in in cr er that more mora water must he be supplied or our city must cease to grow but in view of the expense necessary to carry on and complete the improvements suggested and being unwilling at this late day in our term of office as city council to expend the means of the citizens without their fully understanding banding the nature of the improvements to te he made your committee reco mend that the mayor call a public meeting of the taxpayers tax payers of beaver city and vicinity in order that the committee can lay before them what in the opinion of the committe commit tse can and should be ba done in the matter of storing staring water and leave leav Is to said eaid meeting the responsibility libi lity lity of intruding instructing the city chancil cos neil in the premises v azo 11 FENNEMORE D tiros FRAZER SAMUEL BAKES to 40 the honorable mayor and city ci alty council 0 of beaver city aug f v |