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Show having the water pi peri taken ou of their houses, and the citizens o Logan, exccrt the few, are com ple'.ely tli.-satisiieil with their sys tern. I did not s.v Water works eotih not bo put in for $-J(MiH, bu the proposed system will not cove: one-tenth of Brighanr City. Om that will cover it and have I'OI patrons from the start, as"Tliinker' supposes, cannot be put in fo $10,1)00, nor twice that amount "and don't you forget it." I under stand it has been suggested in connection con-nection with this to double tin assessed value of our property. 1 do not say this will double out taxes, but it will give the City Council a chance to do so, should circumstances require more revenue. ''Common Sense"' next makes a dive at the school trustees of the Second ward. But what did they do? They simply called an election elec-tion to vote a tax fee for school purposps; '2.2 of the tax payers voted for ten mills and ten of Ihem voted for (wo mills; but. this is a sample of Ids reasoning throughout the whole of Ids '"wandering"' article. No, I do not think the ''taxpayers ''tax-payers will vole under restraint. 11 ft docs not appear that they will have a chance to vote at all. Bui that is what I hey want. Let the question he fairly, sq u a rely and thoroughly ventilated, and an election elec-tion held, then if the majority ot our citizens vote for the project, we strike bauds with "Thinker" and 'Common Sense" and help make it a success: but if the majority are on the other side we hope they will be willing to go with the majority, and we will yet unite on enterprises, enter-prises, that will benefit everv poor widow, ' and every orphan chi Id. rich and pom alike, in the community, com-munity, that will cause our fair city to grow', and in no disiant day we hope to see luxuries we cannot now well allord. T must stop or you will think my article too long and prosy, but will just say; if f am correct in locating "Common Sense," he can hardly bo considered in it. He has no real estate in town to be benefited, by, or deprived of water, and pays no taxes except on a few household articles. ar-ticles. His communication is like the motor line project: nothing in it. The directors of the line have never considered the matter of coming to Brigham ollicially; have no money to build with; have never looked over the route, have no proposition to make, and are in no way prepared to build here in the near future. OnsuuvKU. - Jan. Kith, 18!)2. At the time we asserted thai necessary water had been secured, we were aware that the Council had thVce strings to its bow; one secured ; the other two a lit lie shaky . U ndouhtedly when Observer" wakes up and reaVls the next issue of TiiKjlfuLKii he will agree with us that what he now says "was nol a fact," is a fact. Ed. "OBSERVER" TO THE RlSCOE. lie .ItniM' Astride the Wlmii- i;:iteh anil .Makes en. See SiliiK. KniToit Ki'iii.r.i;: The best way of gelling nf Ihe truth of any subject, sub-ject, is (o hear both sides; and weal we-al I, edi lors included, should be willing that facts he shown and not be so prejudiced as to lean too much to either side; but. if we have leanings, they should be toward the majority, who arc . always al-ways I i io less fortunate in any community. fn your issue of the 9th iust.. von make a sandwich of my article by cutting it in two anil inserting a few lines asserting that water for 1 he proposed system, other than from llox Klder Creek had been s -(tn red, This was not a fact then, n either has such wafer been secured se-cured yet, so far as can learn. You also say my arguments were hased upon the narrow scope of the purse. partly admit it. My purse is all I have to depend upon ami it is of my iwn creating. I also argued that the proposed scheme would benefit the few instead of the. many. I will now refer briefly to the long, w i inly verbose ai ticle of "Common Sense" in today's pa per. lie absolutely says not hing, until un-til he speaks of tin' "wild eat scheme," and then uses IT lines in frying to tell us something we all know. I did not in my article try to conned- that, scheme with our prop ped improvements. "Thinker" dropped an idea the week before, thai, wab-r works miyht be the means of doubling the value of our real estate; ami the "wild cat M'heme" was mi n I ioneil to show that water works in other daces b:ul not been the cause of prices advancing. j Mr. "Common Sense." the orchards or-chards and gardens in Sa'f bake that I referred to, are not found in (he center of town, but in the Tdilh. Kleve nlh, Twentieth and Twvni y-lirsl. v:irils, mi the outskirts out-skirts nl" tlir i-iiy. Tims. M'.uV Imve I u imI.Im'.I i.f lii.'h' water, ninl llu' rii-li ilowu (nun piMple Ikivi- it I'm- Uu'ir Inwns ami ilnwrr l.nls. Our lYiriiil ui'xt walrs liucn lo ti'll us aliotil mil' tliiclics, a mw and (lit-1 wm-kiiis ot" nalurf- This .iiinliti-.n of Ihiiurs will slill n-inain. n-inain. Tin- tlili'lu's will In- thnv, npiM-alimis of naturt just as IV. .pK'iit. wiili r will still run in lliiM tlitcln's ami tin- mtijority nf mir cili.i-ns will havi' no ntln-r w:Wv tn US If tin- wah'i' works are pul in, tin' piprs will, no doiilit, In1 laid in Hit middle of tin shv.-is. and it will i'os! man frmn to ."i0 I.. ;j.'! tllf WilltT iut his ll'HlSO. Ii.-si.lcs :v yvAy rmt U or hv.'lw tlnlhirs. Wflls r:m 1m .lujr iu mil1 City at :i ntst !' lV.uu l $tH) rai-Ii; miicli ol' the work a man -a n l iu tin1 w inter tiin ! Iim lit' V"U ntlHTW iff Ik' Ultt'lll- plnv.'.I. will liaw no other payiiu'iils to make, will lutvo hi't-tn- watrr; not- too oKl in winter, nor (no warm in tin summer as is the ease with water drawn tVntn . pipes. Many people iu Oil-'u are I |
