Show OUR CIVIC improvements I 1 I 1 I 1 the temper of BrIgham CitY la Is for an ambitious program of improve heuts of that there can be little I 1 doubt for the mass meeting tue tuesday aday evening was an evidence of the feelings ot of the people of this community i relative to the matter now the thing thine to be considered and determined is just what improvements ought to be made at this time and the amount of money that will be needed to carri carry out the program water is perhaps the first consideration and we mus must t not let the opportunity pass to secure a sufficient supply for our needs for some years to come but it if brigham Brig liam city was presented as a gift with ten tell second feet of pure water for her water works system tomorrow it could not help out the present situation tiny any for the simple reason that the system of mains which distribute the water about the city is inadequate to teed feed the man many y individual lines which nelch have been corr con necked up during the past few years larger mains therefore are of more importance than more water as evidenced by the fact that the reservoirs are are discharging over flew flaw every day another reservoir would also materially teri teria ally lIy increase our water supply after the mains have been enlarged tor for that would make it possible to store all all the water which now runs runs to waste over the overflow and would give the people an opportunity to use all the water they wanted for lawn sprinkling purposes fur poses and culinary use 1 instead of limiting the time KS 3 is done at pre present sett the power pipe line is re ready ady to ti burst at any time when that goes out brigham city will have to connect onto the utah r light high tension line and some people are predicting that the final out oine oe would be that the municipal plant would be taken over by the big corpor col orlon anu and tills this city would then have to buy its current from a private corporation tile the only way to preserve this utility top to the city and the posterity ill that at will follow in tile the years 0 0 come coma is to repair tile the pipe line ty reco instructing it and when that is done he line olgat to be put in at the very highest point up in the canyon in order to develop the maximum horse power the light poles must go from the center ot of the business streets at least and our lighting system rearranged so rs r s to rive give the city as aa near perfect as is pos able owning its own elec elective tile light plant as it do does es brigham city citi ought 10 0 o bi tile the best lighted city in the irate an elpe expert rt on city allu illumination mi nation coald mighty soon design a plan ritho ithoc would bring about this result then wrought we ought to prepare for paving by laying sewer in the business bushless district and conduits for telephone and light wires these latter improvements mi might lit go over for ill the time b bi ing but the rebuilding of the water works system and the power pipe line and city lighting system are imperative needs in brigham city and until these improvements are made this aliis city will not develop and grow commensurate I 1 with its possibilities these things all cost brioney but it is possible to estimate almost to a dollar what nhat these improvements would cost that ought to be done and it if tile the estimate comes within our bonding limit then a sufficient bond should be voted by the people to make the improvements it is manifestly unfair to ourselves as well as to those who will make up this community after we are dead and gone not top to step out and make improvements such as every modern city prided prides itself in enjoying we now have the opportunity to make a good start and we undoubtedly have the inclination to go the entire distance the people are the s soverign and have the right to say what shall and what shall not be done if we say that we will have these blessings there Is none to gainsay us the matter is squarely up to the people |