Show THE WATERS ARE threatening last laet evening the NEWS took brief notice of the indignation of one resident of the lower part of this city at the manner in which the officials are pretending to cope with the high water difficulty the gentleman referred to is but one of many who feel themselves not only aggrieved by the indifference with which sound suggestions gest ions are received but imperiled by the incompetence of the men to whose care the important matter seems to have fall fallen n it there is in any method at t all in the measures which are being taken to meet the danger it is method of the maddest and most bungling kind for the experience of forty years in the treatment of the question continues to be insolently rejected reacted and the commonest and plainest principles of canalling and drainage cranage are treated wah the haughtiest haught iest whoever thinks there is no danger to the whole southern and southwestern parts of salt bait liske lake city ia the accumulation of snow in the mountains in the lateness f the season and above all in the absurdly i i adequate means for carrying off the freshets fresh ets when they come simply does not understand the situ it there is an official who is in ignorance thus dense he ought to i avite instruction and be willing to profit by it the N NEWS aws does not wish to create any needless alarm but it gives elves fair warning war alog there will be floods figous there will be immense immen e damage to property there may be loss of life and there ought to be good cause for suits for damages unless something effective and radical be at once done to guard fagains u the danger men who any more judgment than to fill all up the best drain canals we ever had the very canals indeed which many years experience proved to be the only ones equal to the emergency are the men who ought to be superseded in authority before they make any more blunders officious water masters astere and supervisors visors with a mania for throwing up dams dame here and there at their own sweet will in the vain hore hope that the water can be thereby induced to run up hill ought to be given employment elsewhere and remuneration more consistent with their brilliant servi services lues oes the time for childs child Is play and experiment to is past common sense is now needed and with it practical experience the tenth south street canal to is clug its banks already ruining gardens and sapping foundations and the high water even commenced given ten days or two weeks of such warm weather as we now have the right to expect and a torrent would sweep down from the be mountains mountain earr out all the feeble obstructions in its path and making a lake ot of the southwestern section of the city for this kind of a diver lion much of which 1 have been prevented by ordinary prudence some body bo dy will have a pretty penny to t pay |