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Show A DIFFERENCE. i This city has for thirty years' "past labored under a doubt of a Sufficient water supply. The supply has always been short in July, August and September; sometimes to the very great in- J i convenience of many of the citizens and the loss I of much foliage. But there has never been pluck I; L t enough on the part of residents to make an Ijs'i authoritative demand that the reproach should if ' t be removed. Things are done differently in some I) i ! other places. Galveston, Texas, is a city a litt'e f I larger than this. Three years ago last Septem-fli Septem-fli y g I ber the city was overwhelmed by waves caused 1 J by -a hurricane blowing In from the sea. The i" ' j business portion was wrecked, the residence por- r , tion practically destroyed and many lives were if , ; i lost. The word went out that the site would II' i j be abandoned, but the Texans are not made of tl I that stuff. They sent for engineers, who, after I! i j I careful examination, gave it as their opinion that 5 ! ; J a sea wall that would protect the city could be r U ! built. Then the people of the wrecked city de- B S W 1 1 elded to build the wall. The particulars are given H lf I In the current Review of Reviews. Bonds to the Hij'i' (l amount of $1,500,000 were Issued and mostly HI M a taken by the citizens. All subscribed from the B f IS i i J i millionaire to the clerks, the laborers, by many B ' ' jili who could not afford to buy more than one or two Hi c ( ! j 8 i of the bonds. The result is a wall 5 feet thick B ''n I'll on on' ee on nQ tton, concave toward the B ' Ik I 1 1 sea' aml rsing three feQt above the highest water Bi'' If Hie caused by the hurricane, is swiftly nearing com- B if If IT 1 plation for 18,000 feet along the most exposed flm I LI part of the shore. It is also rip-rapped along B l jli the front with great granite blocks, the rip-rap is Hf U ' 27 feet wide and rises from 3 to 5 feet above the n H iii'l water. The inner side is also reinforced by rock Bi f M'll an( eai"th 200 feet wlfle and several feet thick. fl ' ! ' 1 "1 This next the wall will be converted into a drive- K I way and further away it will be sodded and H j ' " planted to trees. The wall proper is of concrete, fli u , made and moulded on the spot and laid as fast UU as made. ; j) : ; ffl A further expenditure of $500,000 is also to be fl j 1 1 j ( . I added to fill the low lands at either end of the Bj ' h i ! . f j wall to a height a little above what was high Bl K ' , I water in the hurricane. Meanwhile the citizens, Hp j J1 1 at a cost of $50,000,000, have rebuilt in the city Bf ' f ' t the structures destroyed by the flood. That is an B ! , R example of pluck and public spirit worth the care- K !' U ful study of the men of the city. If men on a B h1 ; f 1 sand-bar only a few feet above high tide can do H jli !. I 1 that, what ought the men of this city to think of HM I ( I themselves for putting off the day when they can L r ' J say "Salt Lake has a sufficient water supply for B' if ' I all time to come?" Last winter a plan was de- B! f j j I Vised and the men representing vastly more than B half the property values of the city, recommended B' , s. 1 It to the Legislature, asking for such measures as H ; I 1 would make the carrying out of the plan possible, B but the old palsied hand was laid upon that aug- fl H J ust body and they declined to consider it. The Kf 2,11 inertia of the years is still on the city. |