| Show Storing Water EDITOR ENTERPRISE he PRISE suggestions sug contained in your issue of the are indeed both and good and good and ou ought ht to have hav been in practical full operation far sev several several eral erat years years instead of depending uon u- u up ut upon on the future yet et it may ma mabe be found better to be late at it than never ever neverMore neverMore everMore More than thirty years ago the Hon John Van Colt Cott would notice the the neglect neglect of our so called swamp swampland swampland swampland land and exclaim You Sanpete folks are ar are blind to your own best interests Down there in that bottom bottom bot tom lies your wealth there is your b best st land ll But t a lack of ut competent co competent tent and public spirited leaders has ha left I it in comparative unproductive condition Will t it be changed any in the near future The proposition to store water for irrigation purposes i is also very very- ver good as far as it goes but hut there is still another way of doing that than waking snaking reservoirs and tunnels and much m mire jre simple a and d cheaper to and that is b bj making by-making making of it in sheltered place in our canyon Everybody that it takes much more time time timeto to melt ice than snow an and when w we look at our overflowed streets the these t days we may form and idea of what cud be done in our canyons and thus be saved until it in the valleys below belO It is simple natures object and it is strange that it has not been bee learned by our tarm farmers rs long ago The idea how holy however ever is n not not t original with your your correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent ent for it it was illustrated some time ago in one of the Utah papers the Dese Deseret et News I b believe and ev every ry school boy knows v that nearly the all aU the great rivers of the world worl are principal fe fed and sustained sus tain tamed d by Gletcher ice ic in t the e mountains Why not then m make k artificial as at well wen as artificial Artificial artificial arti Arti- lakes Jakes in our mountains t r t I. I o i Ephraim m might with profit and a comparatively small outlay a adopt opt both oth ways was for storing the precious fluid luid for irrigation purposes But Hut let lt it be e dose do ole le for or and by the public Our cit city fathers taking faking hold told in time so that it may maybe maybe maye be e practical cal demonstrated during luring the he coming season and be further devel developed ped from time to to time as facilities lOa may be found and made use of by th tit chosen guardians of our most valuable property the water vater Private parties may otherwise otherwise other other- wise do so and reap that benefit individual which by right and nd just should accrue JO to the tle whole com cum AN Ex CITY COUNCILOR COUr |
