Show AN IMPORTANT LOCAL QUESTION THE question ot of sewerage for this city has been discussed off and on for many years recently a report has been maile made to the city council from a committee appointed to investigate the subject they recommend a pipe system which appears to them the best beat in use in other places their report seems to have been well considered and made with the sole view of benefiting the city and not to favor any particular person or system or to foster any private interest whatever the city council which will be elected on the dinst will have to grapple with this matter and pat into practical operation either the suggestions of the aforesaid committee or some other glan plan that may appear suitable and the best est ada adapted p ted to the heeds of this locality so far as we have been able to determine the recommendations of that committee are sound and based upon substantial reasons but the intention Is to convey the sewage to some point on the jordan and by means of that stream carry it away to the waters of salt lake it to is to the disposition of the sews sewage ge rather than to the method for its conveyance ve yance that we desire to call attention there are many objections as it appears to us to carrying the refuse matter to the contemplated point of discharge among the chief of these are the cost of piping p ing so great a distance and aad the foping fouling of the jordan to the injury of peo people ae dwelling near its banks to say not nothing ang of what may occur from overflow in certain seasons of the year perhaps these may not be considered fatal to the scheme or the supposed evils may be greatly exah aerated but bat the question arises is there not a more excellent way if there la is it ought to be favorably considered before anything definite is done the great city of london used to turn its immense streams of sewage into the thames a broad deep and swift flowing river purified by the ocean tides but it was found to be a bad system and a wrongful one therefore another method was ado adopted d to prevent the tooling fouling of the thames an and secure the worth of the waste material so immense engines are now used to pump the sewage into receptacles from which it is forced reed to a point distant from the populated opu region where it is utilized utilize sas as both solid and liquid manure somewhat similar to this but less expensive and possessing better features in ia our opinion is the system now in successful operation at pullman fallman garden city and other eastern towns in which a pipe pipe system similar larto to that advised for or this city conducts the ref refuse use matter to points where it flows into receptacles prepared according to a patented process by which the whole mass is thoroughly deodor iced the liquid separated from the solid solia matter and both made available as fertilizers an eastern company has purchased the patents covering this en tire system and will either build the whole apparatus and conduits supply the material and leave the city to perform the work of construction lease the works or sell them to the city or for a given sum dispose of the right to use the system furnishing plans and specifications as any city or town may elect we do not pretend to say whether or not this system is the one that salt lake ought to adopt Thatis that is for the city council to determine but it appears to be admirably adapted to te needs of this and other cities in this territory that will need some practical system of sewerage before long we are not f fully ally informed as to the expense nor as to the value of the fertilizing til izing material which can be used u upon on the fields and farms adjacent rese these are matters to be well weighed by those entrusted with the settlement of this important question but bat upon general principles it seems desirable that instead of befouling befoul lne a fluctuating stream with possibilities of making a nuisance and spreading dise disease diseases asea a plan to change foul refuse into means of promoting fertility and giving life to plant and tree instead of spreading germs of death must be the we have no ax to grind in the mat ter wes we speak eak for the benefit ot of the public dwle we are not committed to any particular system all we ask is tor for a full full and careful investigation of the s systems 13 use has proved efilia afo c clous us and economical and likely to be the best beat adapted to inland cities and towns situated in valleys or other natural local depressions L let et this be well weighed before action is taken 0 on n the sewerage question |