Show ICE IOE POND OWNERS I ARE UP OP IN ARMS ARM I Small Deniers Dealers Vigorously Oppose Tho Thu Proposed Ordinance STAND I Vell Known I Jo Do Joclare a clare It II I Ii In tit Definite Iy I o l of ur Ice he heThe The Tho owners of Or Ice ponds fonda In III Halt Bait I ke valley and nn tho thu email Ice le dealers nan gun B n to make a burd tight against tho the of ot the tho Ice le ordin ordinance ance which will bo be one ouo of the tha topics of ot debate lIe nt It the butt meeting of or tho the city council tomorrow night Half a n dozen of ot tho the dealers today and Satur day lIn have tIYO made mado 1 Itoh business to do Homo ox lobbying against tho the proposed measure which they thoy crt Is unreasonably high when it comes to tho the standard of or purity set vet They propose to demonstrate tills thie by submitting chemical made by President J T r of or tho thu Uni of or Utah atud also aim the following letter which Was WOH written by u on the tho of ot the 1110 thou tion against tho private Ice ponds live years Venue ego ago No on ono cnn eCH always positively state according to my Judgment whether vii WIL ter Is U Injurious to health or not hot from frem rein tho ho results of a it analysis The Thu Is true with respect to u it and also ulo a n line bac examination exun I nut Iou It 11 l Jo III possible that thorn thoro may be bo Ills din nine eilie llIe germs In fluid the chemical analysis anah ls fall fail to show any appreciable ul amount of or organic matter th cho I 1111 may show consider considerable con able organic mutter matter aunt and there may not nut be u II sIngle germ genii go tin In the theater water vater ater Thin Tho chemical will de do ninny many times whether tho the or organic ganic matter In the tt Mater la 19 of or voge vege vegetable table or animal origin but not when them therl is ro M o chlorine or only a 11 aI I II Ill Of n fl loA n nun ii ouan n 4 41 n n w v n tuu fl I I I Il or vr l matter discovered rM u IH Is a with Il h all 1 of plant origin When Wh n on the other oilIer hand considerable chlorine and even oven nitrates are arc found animal matter may be lie in III n the water or It II may Illar not nol Tho The formation through which thin Iho water mn runs may lOoy be he Impregnated with common salt Halt or other oIlier and also with nitrates accumulated from other sources than thun matter BO so that these theBo substances chlorine and ni ol nitrates may have no bearing on tho Iho lie or organic ganic purity of ot water vater whatever It If however thero there Is 19 a 1 largo large quantity of ot chlorine stud nitrates In the water un no under under noder der consideration and none nolle or oi merely traces In iii Water from roust adjacent 1111 rounding those these substances would then be b nil nn evidence of ot tho the organic matter being of at animal origin Animal matter In water even Is III not positive evidence of tho the being bad Much has hns been licen done dono In regard to 10 ascertaining the hygienic condition of water The amount of ot organic matter in water that might prove provo detrimental to health hns line been carefully considered and to my mind with no perfectly sat slit satisfactory satIsfactory results oven even up to tho the present time NotwithstandIng this thill a 1 decision lon has hall bc been n reached which Is generally recognized ll nit nd upon which to today tiny day partly or Qt wholly interpret t the tb ro re results stilts cit iff r their th lr examinations The organic matter Is he determined generally by u what Is III called tho lie om am process anti tile the results Inter Interpreted as ns follows by hy who is ha recognized by many us authority nil on an l subject When the vater yields no noW noid ammonia It II Is considered organ orRon organically pure It If tho the water gives less than thanO 05 OJ O part of or ammonia in I 1 parts It regarded as quite Quito pure If it the water ater gives Or O parts palls of al aI ammonia In together with a n considerable amount of free rree am zinnia onla It Is IM more or less lens suspicion It If water yields yIeld more moro man 1 part of or ammonia In lii is In very HUB BUS nod and If It the tho morO morn than Ihan 15 ir parts In the thi wa WIL water water ter tel bo be condemned Prof Mallet Mullet claims that It Is not possible to decIde absolutely upon Ullon the wholesomeness or of a 0 Inking drinking dt water by t the tue there mere use of or the lie processes of ot an sun analysis nl ls for tho tim estimation of oC organic mutter or Us Its constituents He lie goes goel Mill farther and states that In judging the sanitary condition of tho ho water not only must t such processes sel bo be used use In connection with tho lie Investigation of ot evidences el of ot n a more general sort as no to t the source and history of or the tho he Wa writer ter or but should even oven be ho IO deemed of sec tiel Importance In weighing tho the reasons for Cor accepting or rejecting a n awater nIll awater water Ill tel not manifestly unfit for rol or drinking on other grounds There Chore ore are no sound grounds on which to establish h such gen lI n cral eral of purity ns us have hlo been proposed ed looking hooking to exact amounts of ot organic carbon or nitrogen ammonia oxygen ox gen of ot consumed it ott us os permissible or 01 not Distinctions DIet motIons drawn by hy th the of v such Huch standards are arbitrary am un ammay may be misleading Two tao entirely legitimate mate directions worn atom to 10 be open opell for hie examination liy hy chemical nicana of the organIc constituents of namely 1111 y tho the detection o overy ot at very VY gross groBs pollution such as nH the tha eon con lamination of the tho water of ot a n well veil b accidental bursting or crushing of ot soil pipes extensive exten leakage of ot drains etc eft and und secondly second I the thi period cut cat examination of ot a 11 as aM a of ot a 11 great groat reul city In order that lint the thi normal or 01 usual chit actors of the ho having been previously ly ascertained an suspicious changes which from time ti tc to time may occur shall be ue promptly de lle detected an their Investigated In III connection with this latter hatter cation of ot water analysis there to be no objection to tho the of ot local standards of purity for drink drinkIng log Ing water based on thor thoI thorough ough examination of tho the water supply In its ItH usual conditions Mucks Bygone Hygene volume 1 I page states that In III view of ot the Ity of saying exactly what Is ami what It not any considerable lure turu from the normal character of ot tin tho water In a u given glon locality should bo he re ro with suspicion It Is III true truo that tha various students of the matter of wa ln water ter tei supply have formulated standard which a u water ter may not overpass R they are ure however only of ot relative value Prof Nichols of the tho Institute of technology holds hold that nr au absolute nu standard fur for wholesome and unwholesome water as ns maintained by bj Is III and anil would exclude many waters which are known to be freo rca contamination nail and U to Ubo tobo bo perfectly well veti for tor or domestIc use lao Ur Jr Smart of o tho Iho U tJ S a maintains that lint l waters may 1111 show ammonia as nit high ns as 2 part ti III parts and still be 10 regarded m sue harmless provided the organic Impurity ImpurIty ImpurIty ity Is I of ot vegetable origin It 1 has hits been beer found that hunt mountain stream have yielded to an nn analysis us as much as 5 G of ol ammonia in parts of water vater without being contaminated with animal matter to which sanitary are arc most opposed I have Ita ve no nc doubt that somo of ot au our OUI mountain I streams before dashing down over rocks rocke through the tue canyons would 1 show a n astill astill still greater greatel amount of ot than that given above from tram tha tho ho fact act that thero there U Is much vegetation In tho the moun mountains tahoe over which the water Ill tr runs un tin undergoing decomposition decompo Now Is III this vegetable e le matter detrimental to health f 1 Nichols holds that It 1 must not be bo un understood Understood that the tho presence of ot an nil excess ss matter Is absolutely u a matter of ot Indifference Waters thus thull charged may mil bo be tho the cause of ot diseases o or of the di digestive gestite organs organ without doubt Whether thoy the may ma also cause any nn of or tho he so called diseases or give rise rl o to specific Ip diseases of peculiar type Is doubtful In a n discussion of ot chemical versus I bacteriological examination of or potable water In a journal of the American I Chemical society W P Mason Maslin states I that sewage ns sun It occurs In practice contains an Ott Immense deal of materials other oilier than that productive of or disease and It II Is li upon just this harmless barmieR but constantly present PT ent mn ma material trial that thal the chemist relies for tho the Indication Indica lion upon which ho he bases his hits opinions He Is unable nimble to say whether or not a n water vater I Is disease bearing on any an particular date dall for tor to him all sewage is 18 alike but he ho con condemns cond d the waters for or the tho reasons that although It may Inny be ho harmless today It is Impossible to predict what may ma b bIts bf bits Its condition tomorrow The Idea hero heroin heroIn heroin in conveyed Is not that the or organic ganic gaIc matter moiler is of productive of ot disease but that Its presence In the tho wa WI water waher tel her there theft Is II seepage from tram from animal refuTe refuse of some character and amI hence the may ma become contaminated Bled at al any an time into with disease germs erms Animal life lito tho the of or this animal become at any time Infected with contagious disease It If It be deter doter determined mined milled without doubt that there is no cm disease germs cerms In water witter In which there Is vegetable vt Organic matter mattor then It Is III doubtful Indeed ns as to whether h such suh or organic genie ganic matter will produce contagious diseases nut there would have to be considerable more organic matter muller pres present ent than gives Rh as ns the th limit to lo render water unwholesome Apply Applying ppl ing all 1111 that has beep been thin far stated regarding water to Ice 10 the tho conclusIon lon nutty may safely be drawn that lint Ico contain containing lag ing considerable vegetable matter flitter may maybo mayho maybe bo ho used for refrigerating purposes where here It Is not melted and mixed with food without the slightest danger of pro producing during digestive disturbance lot let le alone contagiOus diseases to my Judgment no one should condemn water waler on eu the tho results of or Ii it chemical examination alone The wn wa ter or be collected collect by n a competent chemist and R nil th the surroundings should lie ho O carefully Inspected The Tho formation and ind tile the will soil through which time water sato runs rains should be examined e 1011 nd tho the nor normal mob mal slate of ot the water deter determined mined mind Ice Is 18 somewhat different rent from front the mineral 1 matter mailer hL l Water Chic is 18 mote lIola or IMS ices removed of ot water l 1 l lof It Ii of ot tho 10 Ice t bf be perfectly tr I naf ut of or the thi leo loo may bo ho perfectly saU to 10 us when the train from which ll It HIli H frozen n to w us wIn u may many ilia be he more or less dangerous In lit my opinion to avoid to men iota en engaged Kag d In the tho lie ire IN th Ut the In th should be tie tall fall 11 and tho the water to be ht u d lit ux IX summed d and amid 1111 pronounced good heleN H It HIs Is lii tumid Into the thu th ponds II 1 TO H lilia B Bion lion lieu should bo ho h In Iii the r III In tho the proper way WR ay Unit this the producer and th the purchaser nifty I hay justice as mis exact liz III U it Is 1 to tomel met mel out Along Ahoni with the time hen leal x und and toot io logical examination should ba J m InAlle ue |