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Show THE WATER QUESTION. Sane Suggestion for an Adequate Supply Sup-ply Presented by Judge Goodwin. - Mr. Brown, out near Liberty park, sank a little well four hundred feet deep. Since then his only trouble has been to control the water. It supplies his house, seems all the time determined deter-mined to knock off his roof, supplies his premises and runs to waste a perpetual perpet-ual large stream. To establish a pumping pump-ing and air compressing plant at the city's wells above Liberty park and. to lay mains to the reservoir at the head of First South street ought not to consume con-sume more than ninety days' time and cost perhaps $150,000. But a pump with tower to supply one-third of the city could be established for $60,000. It should be the first duty of the council to order the installation of that plant. It might be the salvation of . the city when the extreme cold weather of December comes on, and all the streams are low. The city barely escaped es-caped a water famine last December. There are engineers who believe that the flow there can .be increased to 30.-000.000 30.-000.000 gallons, but even suppose it only amounts to 12,000,000, that would take away all apprehension of a water shortage, and that would be a source of supply that would not be diminished by the heat of summer or the ex--haustion of the snow in the mountains. moun-tains. Neither would it be affected by the extreme cold of the early winter. And 110 damage suits w-ould follow. The pumping there would cost no more than at Utah lake. It is a perfectly practical and sensible way of insuring the city an abundance of pure water, summer and winter. It would not in the leapt be in the way of bringing in the Cottonwood water, rather it would greatly lessen the risks of that enterprise, enter-prise, as it would save rnucb pumping-from pumping-from Utah lake, and reduce the graft of the farmers, who are expecting four gallons of Utah lake water for every gallon of Cottonwood turned toward this city . But in the meantime that water from Liberty park and from the canal should be made to sprinkle all the upper half of the city. It could be arranged at slight expense. At present pres-ent the grotesque spectacle is presented of a city gasping under a water famine fam-ine while 12,000.000 gallons are running to waste through the streets every day. It shows that criminal carelessness has been the rule for years, and it surely is time to utilize the blessings that are here for the asking. There is another matter that should be seen to. That is whether or not a new great reservoir can be established hi City Creek ennyon to impound the flood waters of that stream and doubie its effectiveness through the three dry months. That water is likewise city-property: city-property: an increase in its flow will all be to the benefit of the city; if the volume can be doubled, no "honest" farmers can eb ira their right to appropriate ap-propriate a large proportion of it and to sue the city for damages if it falls off in the dry season. The pitiable fact remains that the"re would hnve been no water amine if 1 the citv hfid proceeded to wisely hus-! hus-! band the supply which passes through I the city daiiy. j Now that the city attorney has decided de-cided that the money received from the bonds may be used to obtain water from any source, the Liberty park wells should be thoroughly tested. On one of those wells Mr. Ilines ran a big I pump a long time without reducing the j flow in the least. In the belief of many I engineers the supply that, can be 1 obtained there will exceed the flow of I City Creek, Parley's Creek and Emi-I Emi-I gration canyon combined, enoush by j itself to supply a city of this size. I Whatever s mount can be obtnined is ! better than to pump it from Utah lake, j It is pure water, it is right here within 1 the city, it belongs to the city; it is not I affected by the cold winter it is the i strangest thing in the world that it wan not made to reinforce the city's ! water supply years ago. Goodwin's ! Weekly. j |