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Show w Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United 8tates. Canada and Mexico, Z.50 per year, 11.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year.' - 0 - " Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to Ths Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, Juns 21, 1919, at the postofflei. at Salt Lake March S, 1879. Act of under the Utah, City, Phone Wasatch 5409 S1 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah BOWMAN BIG FA VORITE John F. Bowman will be elected mayor of this city next Tuesday. The reason is that he stands for something, and if elected, the people are promised a clean business administration. Bowmans popularity has spread so rapidly that Mayor Neslen has become greatly concerned and his confident air of two weeks ago has entirely disappeared. Our picture gallery mayor can plainly see the handwriting on the wall. The public has been very good to him. lie has seen the entire country and as a social entertainer he has gone the very limit, never missing an opportunity where he might make a few votes or get his picture into the papers. Under his able administration our present taxes tell a big story. Check up the records beginning in 1918 and convince yourself. Probably the mayor has been worth the price ; luxuries invariably come high, but if he will remember he was elected upon a business platform which called for economy and tax reduction because of the former high priced administrations, he cannot blame the people for his retirement. If Bowman is elected, and we predict he will be. you will find him on the job every minute. The mayor must keep in close touch with all the departments and as the directing general it is up to him to see that the city is not unnecessarily filched of its funds by promoting political improvements where they are 4 not wanted, or where unnecessary. Bowman is a keen business man, has a good education and is honest to the core. His knowledge of handling business, whether individual or corporate, because of his long and successful law practice, especially fits him for the position of mayor of this city, and the people may be assured that their interests will be protected in every direction. Our present ofiicials have been in office so long that they ave come to the conclusion that the people have no right to ask them any questions regarding expenditures of the citys funds ; they jusPgo ahead and do as they please. Our present high taxes conclusively prove that it does not pay to keep men in office for a long term of years. SEWER WATER FOR ZION. Clarence Neslen had his way, the people of this city would be compelled to drink the sewer water of the Weber river. Ilis plans as published in last Monday mornings Tribune brought forth a storm of protest from all acquainted and with the Weber valley conditions. The mayor explained his proposal for bringing the water supply from the proposed Echo dam. will be Mayor Neslen, do you know what kind of water stored in the Echo dam? If you think that water would be fit for consumption, we do not envy your appetite in the least, and only If Mayor C. fa-Piili- ar ask that you camp for one month on the Weber river below Wanship and be made to drink of that filthy stream. The Weber river water is not fit for consumption below the mouth of the Weber canyon, above Oakley. Below this farming village, the river is nothing more nor less than an open sewer, reeking with all manner of contamination. From Oakley to Echo, the Weber river runs through a narrow valley, upwards of about thirty miles of stream, and all the natural drainage on this part of the stream is into the river. Silver creek, coming out of Park City, empties into the Weber river at Wanship, and we ask the people to go to Park City and see for themselves what kind of water comes out of that mining camp. Then we ask the people to stop at the Weber river bridge at Wanship and inspect the water there; then let them come back and tell our ambitious mayor what they think. Now then, if sewer water can be made palatable to the taste and safe for consumption, why go to the Echo dam! Why not put in sceptic plants at the outlet of our sewer? The solids may be used for valuable fertilizer and the water returned to the water system at a much less expense1 than it will take to purchase Echo reservoir water. Scientific men tell us that when sewers are treated under present methods, the water comes from the plants in a very pure state. But who in hell wants to drink that kind of water? If this city wishes pure and wholesome water out of the Weber river, that water must be piped out of the canyon several miles above Oakley, and there is no better water than that. Mayor Neslen no doubt figured on a big election bomb by suggesting the use of Echo reservoir water. Little did he think that there are many people in this city who are familiar with everv foot of the Weber stream and where the good water is and where the bad water is. Our Jordan river is just as pure as the water in the proposed Echo dam would be. The Echo dam is being constructed for irrigation purposes and not for culinary purposes. Our proposal to use such water for culinary purposes must no doubt create much speculation among the farmers on the Weber river and those acquainted with the unsanitary conditions along that stream after the water leaves the upper canyon above Oakley. The Citizen will fight every effort to pipe Echo water into this city for culinary purposes, and if wo are defeated then we will refuse to drink that water, if for no other reason than the respect we have for our stomachs. The water could be used for street sprinkling and washing. It is too horrible to think that any public official would even suggest the use of sewer and drainage water for culinary our high purposes in this city when water can be secured from mountain streams and lakes. But probably some of them aie itself thinking along the lines of how water is alleged to purify w |