Show THE i S GATE RESERVOIR water more water Is the slogan cry froin brigham rig liam city at the present it 11 tia 4 in li all 11 ages past been tha the key word that blat spelled the of all human enterprise IV ID til all arid regions but air mr editor your you timely article 1 on the water question published in last ape weeks ks issue rang out with the bui burdef rd of an appeal suggesting an actual 11 painful condition of distress in OUT our community unusual almost 4 Z 44 calr calamitous tous in its nature we have reached a point where our progress is limited as a community without getting more water our city as speedily obtain an addi lional aft W water fater supply or her prospects ay for norvial growth and expansion are i v interdicted Interdict ed and her future prospects as th metropolis of thel the valley are annihilated R Rean en sizing zing this distress a company of 0 eastern capitalists exploiting w just such an opportunity corner fit in upon us takes advantage of your imprudence laxity of efterp enterprise rise neglect of an opportunity not generally y foron arms themselves as fully as hybe with the legal investments that faor such enterprises and A ste Fitly and surreptitiously proceed a great money stake y W bk ba 2 your newspaper article has it Y I 1 is ae 1 e hoped 1 awakened the rural I 1 to othe real situation and it may nov not nothel yel et be too late to retrieve and I 1 r 4 savl save ourselves wt anat at shall wei do no question a a e if sine sinca the dayson days of in old juu sf T dea has hasK abeen been mora more pertinent and rf p I 1 a tt for et peoples I 1 er te tempora laa ia what S shall hall we do L listen is tell to a suggestion or two 1 do not sell your birthright for a hesss of pottage be advised that capital in miny many economic exploits eions lias has acted insidiously and taken advantage of the scattered condition and lack of 0 unification of the laboring class they capital are one like a general in a life aud and death struggle str glet in in the army and have long laid their plans even to the minutest detail and they know in the economic conflict that the otheta side represents a host already scattered and peeled without a leader and ut any plans or unification with which to meet an organized foe I 1 am speaking of course in metaphorical language but every reader interested at all in tile the present case at issue knows full well that there is more literal truth in the above than figurative every man that is approached to sign up to what I 1 shall call inimical ill advised conditions considers painfully the tact fact that lie ha must have the water at any and all hazards he hesitates what can he do ile he considers the matter for a day or two when again the question is sprung with the cruel suggestion thrown into him have in decide quickly already others are before you and the supply you know is limited in desperation he proposes certain ficat fixations ions of the charter which is too stiff unreasonably binding the tor for failure of water with all payments advanced is not sufficient you must also have my land and my all all improvements prove ments an buildings go with the land by law placed in the bond no ti meliorating no protective clauses tor for the farmer farmery 1 as in the shylocks Shy locks demand in the case of 0 poor helpless indiscreet antonio 2 dont be led into a trap I 1 sald said there Is one saying saving clause in the states statutes to save the people from just such calamities in which communities have been made the merciless prey of capital exploitations it to is provided that conserving or gatet reservoir sights cannot now be seized upon only on oil condition continued on page seven bt z 1 1 l 6 6 aa ay iy S iv T THE DEVILS DERS GATE RESERVOIR continued from first page that the land holders tributary to the watershed water shed who will be users ot of the water shall become a party in interest with the original water claimants so that the one need not be helplessly at the others mercy the benns of the water using must be understood beforehand as between the water venders benders and the water users so thus this company is helpless without the landowners if you choose to withhold your signature ard your land pledges from the company what then why simply thi this s go to work as your old time pioneer thrift thriftless les have done organize your own company furnish famish your own labor with your own teams and your own brawn become your own capitalists by mutual con tributary efforts take in the city with you and get to work and do things the city needs a big interest in this proposition they cannot afford to make the mi mistake ogden made and had to buy out a vate water system brigham city needs more water she must have it in double the quantity yes treble the quantity which she now possesses now with a heavy interest in the manipulation of a reservoir in devils gate she could exchange farm water with mantua tor for much of their spring water and pipe the latter down to reservoir hill will you do it will you seize upon this opportunity of aiding the bench farmers and save save lt and them from an impending calamity corporate wealth work for their own interests te in this particular their interests would become your clear profit there is no doubt that we farmers may by a timely concerted action get out the water tor for one half of what tile the impending scheme will now cost you II if you must have money to further this plan then morI morgade mor gage your farms lor for the minimum cost the actual constructive tive cost and not for three and tour four times that cost cost to fill the pockets of a private exploitation company A CITIZEN |