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Show THAT WASTE OF WATER. Wo showed )esteidny morning that the seven tnllll.iii geillons nf watir car-lle.1 car-lle.1 dally In I'aile )' Cieek Is mostly vvttsted, but a million nud n half gallon teaches the rutins whose owneia have under the rd. r of the court tho right to this water, th five and it half million mil-lion gallons bilng utterly lost wasted The furmers n fused tn accept four million mil-lion gallons nf innal water In exchnngo for the million nnd n half gallon they aro actually leulvlng, and Insist on taking the seven million gallons nnd wasting the five and a half millions. We expressed the opinion that could Ihls be brought to the attention of .ludgeMoise he would modify his order so an to prevent lis shameful waste, where the water Is so greatly needed, both by the rlt) and thc farmers. Wo also noted fit) Attorne) Ne's suggestion, sugges-tion, nnd cnloiKiil It, (hut it would 1m belter to 1 ipe this water down than lo allow lt to go lo waste, for evrtalnl) wo would inth.'i nee the fanners get and use that water Hum that It should go to waste Tin 1 h. 1, It might be that with lite piling the city could elellver to tho fnnn. rs the sniiie amount of water they are now getting; from Parley's Par-ley's creek nnd ive the five and a half million gallons fot the use tit Ihe city The News lusi night whs extremely lontemptuoua . f thin piping proposition, sajlng. 'Tin Id. 1 that the city should plpo away the water Hint It absolutely uses and lays elnlni tn, I lllllo short of Idiotic ' Hut since the court has given the formers uIHt water In spile ot tho cltv's net ds and claims nnd they nre wasting most of It, without the slightest beu. Ill to themselves or the city, the continuum e of that waste Is what seems to us to be idiotic not the nttemiit lo save and use the water. 'Ihe pinlinhllltv I Hint the waste nnd strained condition will soon cease and that the farmers will uguln get their full supply from tin rnnnl 'then the city can lesum. the use of I'arle) n tetk It has been a lesson to the city 11 In lo In hoped Inn It linn been a hard one An I In Ihe meanwhile we tenew our advi c, tint the picsrut solution of the water question enn bi mote easily, cheaply and certainly reached by piping pip-ing nil thc water than In any other manner The day of the open ditch ha gone by, for It waste In seepnge nnd evaporation Is too heavy to be sup-liorted sup-liorted In a place where there Is a earl) pinch and scarcity of water. When water How twenty or twent)-ilve miles In nn open ditch, there Is so little left, that no matter whnt the suppl). there will always be a scarcity In this valley val-ley an long as Hint method of bringing down thc water Is relied upon either b) the city or by the farmers |