Show THE SEWERAGE QUES QUESTION TION the water part of it intelligently set forth as a formidable obstacle SALT LAKE CITY oct ath 1888 editor deseret news now that and conference are over the great question of sewerage which has been partially kept in the back ground during that time has been started again in earnest and that by the chamber ot of commerce which hes appointed a committee of fifteen to canvass the owners ot of property in district number one and I 1 if possible to influence them not to protest against sewerage to this I 1 have no ne objection I 1 believe in every man having the ri right ht to protest or not as tie he pleases an and if he is not sufficiently posted on the matter to receive the advice or counsel of his friends who have studied the matter more but that advice or counsel should be based upon a statement dt df facts and not fiction the NEWS has heretofore put the sewerage question truthfully before the public the main question to be considered co before the proposed sy system stem of sewerage can be successfully carried out is a sufficient SUPPLY OP OF WATER I 1 and this I 1 pointed out in my letter 0 of f sept and which has been enlarged upon by the NEWS and others since and it was suggested suggest edby by mr culmer calmer in the lC chamber hamber of ef commerce meeting last nigh tand was attempted to be answered a by at least two of the subsequent speakers it is the statements of these two gentlemen that I 1 propose to examine and see if they were justified in making them based upon the present supply of water tor for the city in the morning herald I 1 read that the question resolved itself into whether t her we had bad or had not sufficient water 6 mr mccornick an alderman of the city council replied that question was never consi considered ered doubtful in the minds of the city council and to another statement that they had ne never ver made it plain to the public he be replied that it would be delplain ma in a report to be submitted tuesday evening this statement of McCornick Mr is a tearful fearful arraignment of the members of the cit city council for their lack of knowledge knowledge on so important a matter THE WAIL has been going on here all the summer for more water to sav nothing about the wall wail that has gone up in former years and yet vet according to mr mc cornicks statement st bement the fact that salt lake city has not a sufficient su supply 0 of f water tor for domestic purposes lipper has never er been considered by the council as an obstacle to the proposed plan of sewerage we shall see it the promised promis ed r report or will actually increase the supply er y of water for the city or will it be the belief only that we have a sufficient supply councilor dooley is reported in the same paper as saying that the cry of a scarcity of water was a mere bugbear be r 19 the city had bad an amply supply upa gly 11 the canal supply had b been een doubled 11 the waters of par parleys effs creek haq had been secured mid and salt L lake ake had a supply of water large enough to supply her tor for the next twenty years there was enough water going to waste in one place in this city to flush bush the ahe sewers of a city with the population of san francisco now t I 1 CHALLENGE THE GENTLEMAN to prove any one of the foregoing statements it such be the case let the gentleman point out where the ample supply is where the double supply of canal water has been ru running the last six weeks or more and how bow it is that with such a large supply the people of the north and east parts of of the city have been suffering for a little water for culinary purposes 0 only I 1 tet let him take the waier master to t the ite one place where so much water is wing going to waste perhaps he will be able to stop that waste and see that some of it is given to those in need of it the remarks of the same gentleman on OB the manner of paying for sewerage is also misleading the pro property erty outside of the sewer district wi will T I 1 be taxed the same per cent and I 1 think a much higher valuation in proportion as the ro erty in the sewer district for the guilding of the main sewer ard aad operating and keeping the same in repair in connection with this demand for sewerage I 1 desire to call the attention of the public and the city council especially to the fact that on the ath day of september I 1 A PETITION signed 1 ned by many heads of families residing on the north bench was presented to the city council setting forth that they had not sufficient water for culinary purposes let alone for irrigation and that many trees were dying tor for lack of water while many lawns were sprinkled from five to six hours every day while they themselves could not get water to irritate irrie ate at the rate of two minutes a rod once a week and asked tor for an immediate consideration of the matter without referring to a committee the petition was hand ed to the committee on waterworks water works where it has slumbered ever since and this is the kind of treatment these same people have occasionally received from the city council for years past but some one haysay may say did not twe the council on OB sept 4 order the wa to turn into the nineteenth ward ditch the water belonging e g ing to the people ot of the district dietric t ad and say that they were entitled to what belonged to them yes they did and I 1 suppose from their subsequent action that faey felt sorry for their hasty basty act of justice and repented in the same breath and reconsidered and made void the order here is justice in the face of the fact that salt lake CI city has an ample supply of water according co ing to the statement of two members ot of the city council after this action of the council the was instructed to do the best beat he can toward supplying the ward ditch with water to be used for culinary purposes this was what might be called a milk and water arrangement no milk and but very little water I 1 believe the tried to carry out these instructions for there was a little water allowed to run in the ditch for culinary purposes and a special officer was detailed to see that none non e of the water was used for irrigation purposes notwithstanding notwithstanding the peoples oples trees or pla plants its might be dying lor for want of it w while h lie the lawns of the city were kept as comparative swamps everyday every day in the week and the time of sprinkling increased at t this his time from five to nine hours a day the poor owners of lawns did not have enough hours to sprinkle so they must be increased true the ordinance provided for only twenty minutes in n lower district and thirty minutes in upper district for each 8 square are yards each day but who saw mat that they confined themselves to the time allotted or who made complaint of any infraction of the ordinance against those who used it longer why no one the ord ordinance hiance is a dead letter lam NOT IN FAVOR OP OF LAWSUITS unless it is absolutely necessary but I 1 think the time has come when those entitled to water in the outer districts need not net depend upon our city council to permit them to use what they are entitled to and for that reison reason I 1 would ur urge e upon those who have water rights in city city creear other streams and who have been deprived of the same to awake from their slumbers and organize themselves for jhb purpose of def defending ending and maintaining their rights if necessary in ia the courts appointed for that purpose for it if they do not the next and following summers will be but a repetition of the past only worse aad worse if the sewerage scheme as at present proposed should succeed we may as well desert our homes that we have built at much expense for without water they will be of no value to us I 1 would also suggest the propriety of calling a mass meeting of voters and taxpayers in every precinct of the city and it if the majority at such meeting decide against the proposed system of sewerage at the pr present ese at time let them demand of the their ir representatives in the city council that they place their vote squarely on record against the system in conclusion let me say give the city a good supply of pure water for domestic purposes and a sufficient supply of water for irrigation after that I 1 will vote every time for the best system of sewerage that can cad be adopted yours JOHN N PIKE |