Show THAT OPEN LETTER to the mayor and city council salt lake city SALT LAKE CITY utah sept 1893 gentlemen if I 1 indi find in n a recent report of your health officer a tion fur for the salt bait lake joroan canal to be dispena zed with as an he claims claim i it Is a menace to the health ul of the public I 1 inquiry of af those who live jive along its ita bauks and a list of those districts of the city most moot infected by the dise se lail jail to confirm the I 1 am credibly informed that enough money has hae been appropriated appropriate il by yi ur honorable body to keep abal thc very u useful waterway alerway water aler way in a healthy tion may be the doctor bots not know how faithfully the waitr master and aad his hia assistants nave tried to earn their and bow successful abey have been in unloading a large amount of the public tress treasury ury in this direction ube facts are that thai the canal boa baa been kept fairly clean cleam a large volume os 01 water during the lh season b bit it been by matrie auit and if the wt wre re deprived of this thia supply of water their abade trees au alij j jawish auld w mulct soon eoon lebut ie out more especially in the south aud weta went portions port loaa ot of the city furthers Fur therm re the city ot of salt ladt has bao vested rights for that quant quantity t ol of water from the jordan river and T utah lake fake which have buve been acquired by much labor and the expenditure of over a quarter of a million of dollars I 1 respectfully submit that we cannot afford to forfeit any water rights already in our possession posse aaion for as the city grows lar gerand grow it will we shall need more water trip instead tead of lew less it if dr seattle beattie wishes a change lucking to the more cleanly condition of the cabal let him recommend the piping of the canal water say from as aa far south BB an the south line of the the sugarhouse ward very respectfully yours in behalf of 0 the peopled people 18 rights B YOUNG |