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Show give us water works. 1 Public interest seems to to be renewed re-newed in the important question of a system of water works for Provo since it has been learned that certain eastern parties are in correspondence with the mayor and City Council with the view ol Making propositions to furnish Provo with this much needed improvement. So much has been said about water works, the great benefit and help they are to a city, that it is almost folly to repeat any of the arguments here. We may add, however, that it is a standing I disgrace to a city of Provo's magnitude and importance to be without a thoroughly good and efficient system of water works. It will be a disgrace to Provo if this fall passes over our heads without some definite and decisive steps being taken to procure a thorough and elaborate system of water works. It is a good point in our public officers j little street slang, to a man up a tree this looks very suggestive. By all means the It. G. W. should have the franchise which it asks, to be very careful and cautious, but we : suggest that caution sometimes smacks of prociastinaticn, aad we all koovf the m text that used to be written for us in our copy books at school. Provo must have water works even if we bond our city. We must protect out property; we must take every step to secure good health for ourselves and our children. The procuring of water works is one of those stpps and it must be taken now. We have delayed too long No matter if our children and the future fu-ture tax payers of Provo do have to pay their share of the work it is nothing but r-ght. that they should. This will be one of the public improvements that will attract strangers to come and re-siiie re-siiie with us in the future. Let thos: strangers help pay for them by bonding tiie city. . L-t the watchword now be Water works I |
