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Show TRY THE WELLS. When the steam fire engine, which is doing such valiant work in sprinkling the streets, is relieved re-lieved from its present duty, how would it do to put it at work on one of the wells above Liberty Park, and see if it can reduce in the least the flow of water there? That would be a test in a little way, at least. If one such engine could not reduce the volume there, perhaps two could not. The experiment would cost nothing except the coal burned and oil used, and that expense would not be serious. The people of the city, the taxpayers, want this test made, for they cannot see why the city should be buying inflated shares in a canal fifty miles away, when in all human probability they have a supply of pure water close at homi which is greater than the full volume of the Cot-tonwoods, Cot-tonwoods, even under the spring floods. |