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Show 11 tf ' . Among other things which tho committee of g ' ?M fifty decided to Investigate was the "partially de- Jj f Jf tH veloped water supply" of Emigration canyon. $9 M&) '"J That water supply comes down the canyon on Mi , j '1 the north side in a regular fissure, crosses to the Jrv kB south side and flows away underground no one fcJ K It j j VB knows where. But the chances are very great HiiiB that it finds its way out and discharges through M j j TlSH a subterranean channel leading to Jqrdan river. tfjf ; ' ' ' f !H That it is the source of the water supply that jjfr' 'f- ' flows near the surface above Liberty park and ' k If M supplies also the vast amount of water near the !j i ' M surface at the old Hanauer smelters and that ' ij H gives the Jordan river a vastly greater volume of ' S j,' tJ water west of this city than it has a few miles M , ,A jH above. The man with the willow wand should be m !,'' fifH sent to trace out that channel. Once found and Hit1 ' !fl appropriated the water question for Salt Lake m !' ifH City would be settled. The work in tho canyon to K F wB try to arrest it there is simply throwing money y )j j .;fS away. . 1$ 1 . H The chances are, however, ten to one that it Is I ' ip !! debouches into or rather under the valley some- $?' r tfl where between the city and the penitentiary. The , H 1 jf' I 'aH problem is to find the spot. ;3 f ; ;H |