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Show THE WATER SUPPLY. S We have no desire to take a hand in giving H advice how a greatly increased water supply may 9B be secured for this city, beyond insisting that the H title to the water of the Big Cottonwood be se- B cured, but to add our belief that there should be H no unnecessary delay in taking from men's minds B the impression that this city is sometime liable B to have a short water supply. The need is the H more urgent because all this arid region seems to B bo passing through, a cycle of dry years. With B every one the evaporation increases so that the aB supply is shortened from a double source not so H much moisture is supplied and the dry air drinks S up more than a normal amount. No one can yet jn estimate how long these dry cycles are likely to S continue. There had been a long period of them 9 up to 18G1; in that year more moisture was pre- H cipitated than had been in fifteen previous years, H at least more on some portions of the arid bolt H Should this cycle continue three or four more jfl years, the situation would become alarming and S unless better provisions for water for this city are made, should that time come, realty here 9 would decline very much more than the highest os- sB tlmates for the needed improvements amount to. 9 How the work should be performed, is, of course, M a matter for engineers to determine, but we ven- 13 ture one suggestion which is that, where possible, Bj pumping stations be avoided. There is nothing 3 like gravity in handling water. But that is mere- J ly a detail. The main thing is to get the water j and to get lots of it Another reason whv the matter should not be delayed is that things should IB be ready, in case any legislation shall be found necessary, to be able to make an intelligent de- Jj mand when tho legislature meets, which is only 1 torty days henco. M |