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Show TRUTH 6 TRUTH Issue! Weekly II and by TRUTH PUBLISHING con P ANY. Central Block, West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. 12 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, HOY. 30, 1901. TERnS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR (in advance) SIX nONTHS THREE MONTHS $2.00 1.00 -- 75 Postmssters sending suliscriptlons to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission desire I beyond the date If the paper is not subscribed f r the publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. . DISCONTINUANCES. Remember th it the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes bis gaer stopped; all arrears must be paid in paper Requests of subscribers to have their attenmailed to a new address, to secure tion, must mention former as well as pres, ent address. Address all communications to Truth Pub wishing Company, Balt Lake City, Utah LAND AND WATER Commissioner Westerfleld did a good thing for the city when he caused the appropriation to he filed on behalf of the city of the surplus water in Parley's creek. Mr. Westerfleld takes great pride in his office and there is no city official who more conscienciously or more thoroughly discharges the duties of his office. It must not, however, be supposed that the surplus water of Parleys creek is sufficient to solve the citys water problem, or by any means to afford, as has been published, sufficient water for a city of 150,000 inhabitants. As a matter of fact there is no surplus water in Parleys creek in the summer months. It is all appropriated and every drop of it is used either by the city or by the farmers. The large surplus exists only in the flood Eeason, when the snows are melting in April, May and part of June. Hitherto the surplus has gone to waste and the only way it can be utilized is by storing it. The surplus is very large in seasons when the snows have been copious. Part of it can be stored in the way that Land and Water Commissioner Westerfleld did last spring, by running it onto the land which absorbed it and held it until it made its appearance in the additional flow from the springs which feed the creek in the months of July, August and September, when it was most needed. There is, however, a limit to the amount which can be saved in that way. To save any large quantity of the surplus it will be necessary to build a reservoir somewhere in the canyon. There is a natural reservoir site in the canyon which it has been proposed to utilize for the purpose of storage. It is large enough to hold a good deal of water, and considering the amount it would contain the cost of construction would probably not be very great. Former City Engineer Kelsey and the present City Engineer have pronounced the plan feasible, but aocurate survey and examinations of the soil to determine whether it would hold water without the bottom and sides being cemented have not been made. To arrive at even an approxi- mate estimate of the cost a thorough examination would be necessary, so that as yet the scheme is only in embryo. Councilman Canning, Mr. and others, however, are very sanguine that the scheme could be carried through at a moderate cost. At present, however, the most that can be done is to utilize the surplus by scattering it over the land in the vicinity of the creek. During the period of each year between January and July there are four months in which Parley's creek has a flow of second surplus forty feet, more or less. Part of the four months it would be less, but thc-rwould be surplus water for much more than four months, and it would equal a flow of forty second feet for four months, or 120 days. The present users of water from Parleys creek as a rule take about twelve second feet in the dry season. This would leave twenty-eigsecond feet of surplus water of the forty second feet during the flood season that has heretofore gone to waste. Tnis, if saved and impounded in a reservoir, would amount to at least two billions of gallons, which would furnish a supply of 6,000,000 gallons a day for every day in the year, but there would doubtless be waste in various ways, but if even half or quarter of that amount could be depended upon it would be a big help to the city in the dry season. The only permanent solution of the water problem, however, will be to dredge the Jordan rier from Utah Lake to the Jordan Narrows, so that more water can be drawn from the lake, and to store the water in Utah Lake in the winter and spring seasons instead of letting it run down the Jordan river to be lost in the Great Salt Lake. Wes-terfie- ld ! i e ht HAS IT EVER been discovered whether there was sufficient pressui'e on the water mains at the time of the State street fire a few weeks ago, when the Fire department failed to get water on the burning building for fifteen or twenty minutes after it arrived on the scene, and a very slender stream flowed for an hour? The department made a good quick run after the alarm was turned in. It nearly always gets to the fires quickly but after it is there very frequently there is great delay in getting water onto the flames. It was so in the case of the fires at the Short Line building, at the Davis shoe store, and notably so at the State street fire. The Fire department may not be to blame, but somebody is, and it would be a good thing to find out where the fault is, so that it could be remedied. Insurance men are making a fuss about it, and the next thing will be an advance, in insurance rates. It might, that the milkmaid was on the wrong however, not be out of place to remark side of the cow. The picture has been that the firemen dont get very much stored. field practice. In some other cities no Bill Glasmanns paper announces that larger than Salt Lake the Fire depart- the British are gradually rounding up ments have practice twice a week. the burghers. Too gradual to suit the office. War British make They make runs, scale buildings, couplings and go through the whole NEW TELEPHONE COMPANY. performance the same as if at an actual fire, and keen competition exists There certainly can be no reason why among the men as to the time it takes to make couplings and so forth. In the Utah Telephone company should Almost not be granted a franchise. Salt Lake we see none of this. When every city in the United States of the not attendng an actual fire the boys size of Salt Lake has an independent and the people ave appear to have little to do but sit telephone company, benefits of telephone the enjoying around the department head quarters charges cut in two and better service. Recently J. H. Nash, relative of Gov. waiting for something to turn up. Nash of Ohio, stopped off to visit Fenton of the Home company. He is interested in something over thirSUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS ty Independent companies throughout country, and is just now installing Christensen acted wisely in revoking the an independent telephone system in the rule promulgated at the instance Seattle, Wash., where he says the peoappreciate the advantages of two of Oscar W. Moyle, requiring the ple telephone systems, and that they will soon begin operations there with over sevclasses teach to school pilncipals 2700 subscribers to start with. eral days a week and requiring teachSalt Lake people are l'ejoicing over the victory of the Postal Telegraph ers to keep tab" on the principals, company, and that it will come into and report to the Board of Education. Salt Lake, thus giving a competing line breaking the monopoly the WestThe rule was pernicious in every way and ern Union has on the telegraph business. And yet It may not reduce presand should never have been ent telegraph rates, and not one person will use it or be benefltted by it w'here hundreds will use the telephone, and the saving to the citizens of Salt Lake AN UNUSUALLY large number of will be more than $30,000 a year by the reduction of rates proposed by the teachers n the public schools have re- Home company. The new' company will be signed since the opening of the school owned and telephone controlled entirely by Salt Lake business men and every subyear, many of them old and experiwill be given an opportunity to scriber enced teachers, too. In order to retain become a stockholder In the company, so if he means that all desires. This teachers the thoroughly qualified of the company will be kept at profits Board of Education will have to pur- home, whereas more than a majority sue a more liberal policy toward them of the stock of the Rocky Mountain Bell company is and ahvays will be owned than it has been doing for the past by the parent company, the American Bell Telephone company of Boston. year or two. Efficient and experienced With such business men teachers can do better elsewhere. It as S. F. Fenton, P. W. Madsen and others behind the enterprise its success would not be wise to fill up the schools is assured. The Salt Lake City Council will therewith young and poorly equipped fore do the people a great service by granting this franchise. well-know- PEPPERCORNS. 'n TRUTH'S CIRCULATION. Jared White of Redlands, Cal., while Truth has double the circulation of His stove a hands. burned his all the secular moving weekly papers language was so strenuous that two young ladies in the house adjoining caused his arrest. An intelligent jury acquitted him. Who will now dare to rise and denounce our system of justice? lanin the English published in combined. this guage city It is read by the best class of people, who have money to spend. It is therefore an excellent medium for advertising. It has on its subscription list 95 per cent of all the State, county by the It looks as if Queen Wilhelmina, in and city officials, and is read commuher selection of a husband, has been irret intelligent people in the bunkoed as badly as our own dear nity. Its social, educational and womens club features are far ahead of Anna Gould. any of its competitors. It is by all odds the most interesting paper of its The recent coal oil accident in Pitts- kind ever published In Salt Lake, and burg recalls many like occurrences, any the favor it has met with show's that one of which may be expressed thusly: the people snpreciate it. Our servant is with us no more; She dwells on that beautiful shore MRS. JUDGE'S GENEROSITY. Where fevered souls lave In the bright rrystal wave Until timeless eternitys oer. Mrs. Mary Judge has added another to the long list of her good deeds, and Twas all on account of the fire latest is the most munificent of all. That she booked with the heavenly choir; athehome for aged miners and a hospital For the kindlings were green, for the sick and disabled of that callSo she used kerosene, Mrs. Judge has given Bishop An act which quite proper had been ing. Till she happened to scratch Scanlan practically carte blanche in the A match, matter of the site and in the And the white horse of death galloped In. erection ofchoosing the building. No estimate limit has been put upon the cost, but Press dispatches announce Cleveland or it is thought by friends of the generous as improving. Sing the doxology, breth- lady that she will not hesitate to spend ren. If ever a man needed Improve- between $50,000 and $100,000 on the instiment, it is Grover the I. and II., and, tution, which will be one of the noblest monuments to the memory of John let us hope, the last. Judge,, the deceased husband of Mrs. Judge. The institution, while it will be A prominent Salt Laker has an oil under Catholic control, will be open to those of all creeds or of no creed at all, painting for which he paid several hun- the only for admission dred dollars. He asked an artist friend being that qualifications the is a miner and applicant to pass judgment upon it. The latter In need. It is a noble exemplifygift, declared the execution good, technique ing the generosity and nobility of the O. K., coloring exact, but suggested donor. red-head- ed |
