| Show FLOODS an enormous quantity of snow has fallen this abl winter in the mountains east of hile city and it to la highly probable that lands lying in the south western portion of the corporate limits will be flooded when the season for tibb water ar arrive rivet the present proe pro pact i Is that considerable damage will rehula I 1 ahe he discussion of this subject which occurred in the city council last laet evening was waa opportune and that body ought to take prompt measures mea eurea to aveia avei t the th threatened danger it will be observed from the report of the city council a proceedings proceed age that city engineer kelsey recommended that a canal be dug irom from eighth south street northward on eighth west to first south thence west one block to ninth jestand We stand thence thedoe north along the last named street to JS inta north which would take it to hot lake or at least a drain ditch dicob from first south to ninth wilmaa allen alien introduced a resolution favoring the litter letter scheme mainly owing to a legal question as to whether the me council bad a right to order the canal dug without action by the board of public works she be matter was referred to a committee with instructions t report at the next meeting of the council the NEWS announces itself as aa squarely opposed to the shorter project which to la intended to benefit only the people north of third bouta street while the greater danger to the south of that line the reason for our objection to is that the proposition la Is an unfair discrimination against the south bouth of third south street streel what la Is the reason for abandoning the residents of the whole southwest sou thweat of at the city from third south to the city limits to the greater danger and injury and relieving only those to mis be north we do not believe the letter latter would endorse the unfairness to their southern t rs the urgent noses necee sity alty of the situation is that the entire southwestern part of the city be protected from high water during the he next dext two months the fatuity ot of some of the things that were done dome hy by the city council during the boom boomis to well illustrated in connection with the canal ques quee tid ti in six years ago at the instance et real estate speculators the council caused to be filled up a canal exactly paralleled the route recommended by the city engineer and which lay one block east of that routes router Us its entire length had not that canal been destroyed it would have served the purpose pose of the one proposed la in every respect other canals canah in the south and weak parts of the city in the same spirit of fatuity and against the warnings and postulations expostulations ex of proper propel i ty own ow erest whose expense they were originally constructed have been filled up by order of the city council these canals were intended by those wo who dug them to act as am a protection against mods fl cods and it to Is a serious question it the municipality to Is not lisiate forthe tor the damage that may result from their we repeat the city council shoula act ot promptly in this thin matter so indeed should bould the county commissioners drainage from the southwest part of the city should be provided in time to meet the emergencies emer geneles of the high water season which Is very closs close even now the water Is nearer the out nos ace of the soil in that mat region than it has ban been for many years showing that sueo spring arrives there can be little or no drainage by percolation and that extensive districts district are likely to be totally submerged unless the surplus waters are carried off by suitable channels presumably the be county would havo have enlarged enlar Ked and extended to the lake the be surplus canal had it not been tor for difficulties ties encountered in connection with rights of way this cabal would be the best beat protection floods that could be provided at reasonable cost for the lower part of the oily city and every obstacle la in the way of its corn coma to the be lake and of its enlargement to a sufficient capacity should be removed as soon as an possible |
