Show A NOTE OF WARNING one communication which was presented to the city council last eveni r g is deserving dee erving of the earliest and the most earnest consideration the prom proa hect being that a failure to thus consider it will entail incalculable injury to property as well as great destitution if not peril to the residents ot of a large district of this city we refer to the d document oc that relates to the present manipulation of the canals in the southern and southwestern parts of the city whose purpose is not only to carry oft off the water that descends in such volume from the mountains no in the early spring but also to drain off from the lower levels of that district the excess of precipitation beyond what the land will absorb the subject is one that may lie be considered apart from any political or other aspect save that of the general welfare and in that spirit it ought to he be approached it is perhaps no discredit to some of the present officials that they by reason of being beina comparatively now new comers should fail to grasp the danger as it presents itself to those who have had more opportune opp opportunities atles to observe it anil and who have had experience peri ence in meeting it certainly no do such auch discredit will attach unless it shall be urged that ignorance of the situation Is ie an excuse for blindly refusing to listen to well meant advice to cotro at once to the kernel ot of the matter it has been proven many a 8 time and oft that the waters of the mountain streams coming down from the canyons directly east of us no that is parley parleys Par leya sayad and emigration the former more particularly cannot be conducted due west to the river through soy any channel that has yet been prepared from its intersection with tenth south street the cites southern boundary at that point the jordan pursues a devious and mean meandering jering c curse burse with scarcely any fall except such as aa can be gained by cutting off its various bonds bends and making a direct line for a point much farther north many years of experience had bad shown that the attempt to pour the canyon water into the river at tenth south must be abandoned inu lations dat ions great destruction of crops and improvements and the threat threatened enel submerging of the lower wards having resulted every season besides the point referred to was an extremely dangerous one when the river was high the banks offering but feeble resistance against the sweeping of a raging torrent across the intervening pasture lands and right up into the town so a system of main and supplementary canals was constructed ted broad and straight and deep through which the spring freshets fresh ets were cnut 0 nac northwesterly across country into the river and as long as they were kept cleaned out and were proper properly controlled there was no trouble but through some fancy or influence or dictation which we shall not now inquire into it has been decided to fly again agal 0 in the face of all that past experience has demonstrated the suggestions of men who have watched those waters for nearly half a century have been rudely ignored the cost and efficacy of the old canals are ridiculed and the expense and experiment of now new ones are to be incurred residents of the locality see eee with dismay that the channels which in years past have bravely carried away the menacing element are being filled up and discarded that a system previously and repeatedly proven to he be impracticable is again to be essayed that there is in short a seeming forgetfulness of the elementary fact that water will not willingly run up hill bill the people note today that the water to la the river is as high as it to is in the canal and they cannot but know that per haps tomorrow or next day certainly before the high water season is over instead of the canyon streams being discharged into the river the river will be discharging its waters into the canals backing up and flooding flo dirig every thing the NIMS NEWS sounds a note of warning while there is yet time to remedy the evil we do 10 it in no c captious or criticizing spirit but in order that the 3 municipality may save itself from dis grace through incompetence and from et e t through suits for damages |