Show THIRD STORY needs of this community meaning his home town E escalante by reuben cottam of the escalante hi high gli school ninth grade who received first prize for tho the composition in the grade schools the most urgent needs of this community are an electric light plant a water system an irrigation sy system stern good roads and a library first we need ili an electric light plant to furnish the people with good lights the electric lights are more convenient safer and cheaper than any other light the women can do their washing ironing and cleaning by electricity the streets are all lit up tip bv electricity in communities where they h ey have electric power plants we had one plant put in which was run by steam the people had their r houses wired and lights put in in but on account of the water being very hard it soon wore the boiler out and left tile the deop people le without any lights we could get water power enough close by to run a plant this would make it much cheaper than to run it by steam second we need a 1 I water system to supply the community with good drinking water if we had a water system we could get pure drinking water A water system is more convenient than the ordinary way of getting our drinking water our drinking water is very poor the well water is hard and is bad on oh the kidneys the people who have cisterns and barrels to settle their water in have to get their water from the canal this water is is not healthful because the people water their stock at tile the canal the majo ritty of the people have to drink the water after after the stock have waded in it we could go up tip in the mountains ind and fence a spring in so as to keep the water san sanitary gitary then pipe the water to our city and use it for culinary purposes third we need an irrigation system to I 1 improve merove the cou country gitry we could go u up p pine creek an and d make a ir and catch the water that goes to waste in the winter then pipe it out on our desert we could put in farms farms and irrigate them in a year or two we could raise enough grain to pay for the cost of the reservoir this would give our young men la a better opportunity to make a living it would also have a great effect on outsiders who are hunt ing homes and this would be one of the best places in sout utah fourth we need good roads leading to and from the city we are arc i isolated so in the winter we cannot get over the mountain with cars if we had bad good roads tourists would come in here bere and see our beautiful scenery kenery and leave i A their ideas with us its while they would take our ideas back to their home towns therefore this would be a big help to the people of this community fifth we need a library to so go to and get any good book that wo we want to rend read by having 1 a I library in ili our community we ive could read good books ind and store up tip knowledge that would be of much use in iii later life if any one wanted to look up tip anything he could go to the library and get tile the information lie he wanted if the people would all club in together and do the work themselves and each member donate his share of the money they could put these needa in the community without much trouble |