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Show NOW FOR WATERWORKS. As the days.weeks and months roll on without any movement being made toward to-ward establishing waterworks in cur fair city, the good citizens are becom ing impatient- almost savage. When men, who have invested the accumulations accumula-tions of half a life time in business in one of our streets, contemplate for a moment the danger to which their means of subsistence is exposed, they grow pale and sick at heart, and no wonder. Suppose a match should be ac-cidently ac-cidently ignited, a lamp overturned, or by any other means a blaze should start, say, in the Union block, what would be the inevitable result? De-'struction, De-'struction, ruination of business, and injury to all. Every one realizes real-izes this. It is not necessary to argue this point. It is plain to all. And so they want waterworks. They have been demanding it for years, and why cannot they have it? Not because Provo can't afford it. She is amply able either by direct taxation, (if a sufficient sum could be raised that way) or by bonding, or by selling some of the city's dead property to put in at once a good system. We believe if a vote were called tomorrow to-morrow there would be an unanimous vote in favor of a sufficient expenditure to put in a system worthy of our thriving thriv-ing city. And then such magnificent facilities! Few such streams as Provo river are to be found anywhere. Why, Salt Lake city would give millions for just one-half one-half our crystal stream. The power we could command would be wonderful. With such quality qual-ity of water, such volume and such a fall, we believe that Provo with a small expenditure could put in a better bet-ter system of water works than any other, city in Utah, if not in the West. Not alone to quench tire do we need the water, but ' for sprinkling the streets, irrigating lawns, and for culinary culi-nary purposes. In order to preserve the health of the city something must be done to furnish every house in the more thickly populated part of tlie city with a supply of pure water. As it is, we are drinking the dregs of our neighbor's back vard. We believe that for. some months past the hands of the city council have been tied so that little could be done in this matter, but now we know of no obstructions to a rap'd and complete solution of this question. City Fathers, if you desire life-long fame from this generation, strike now, bond the city, do most anyway to build waterworks for Provo. |