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Show 7 WHAT WILL TIIUY DO. H Wi: notice that a meeting is to be H held on tlic iotli of this month, of H the stockholders of the south field H Reservoir and irrigation Company, H to consider the advisability of allow- H ing the city to bring a certain por- H tion of the waters of Coal Ceek to H the Southeast corner of town, where H it is the intention to construct a H reservoir, from which pipes will be H laid to supply the city with culinary H water. Investigation has shown H that the sum of money for which the B city can be bonded is not sufficient R ,to construct a water system of suffic- HX icnt extent to supply our wants. H But it is thought by the committee H that has the matter in hand that if H the water is brought to thespot men- H tioned, the sum that can be obtained H for the bonds will besufficient topipe H the water to most, if not all of the H city. According to this it is up to H the South field people to say wheth- H er we shall have a water system at H present or not. It seems to us that H the field has everything to gain and 1 nothing to lose in transaction, if we H arc correctly informed in relation to H the terms upon which the city is ask- H ing to be allowed to use the field H ditch. The city agrees to all the H iiecessary work in enlarging the V - Ml4i!ikSSSslPoint wherc they H in repair' durlnsSSfe! H down as far as the city water comes B in the ditch and all the expense of K the ditch down that far in the win- H ter. the ditch to be at all times tin- K der the control of the ditch company. r In the winter the city will keep a H( stream in the ditch for the use of H: the parties who reside on its banks H above the city mains. With this H sort of an agreement duly made out H in writing it is difficult to see where H the ditch, company can lose any- H thing; indeed it docs appear that H they will be materially benefitted, as H it will certainly cost them less to H ' keep up half the repairs from the H place where the ditch leaves' the H creek to town under the arrangement H with the city, than it does now to H keep up the whole of the expense; H and the water the city turns in will H have to bear its proportion of the loss H from seepage and evaporation which H will cause the field to loose lessthan H they have been in the habit of losing H from these causes, as it is a well H known fact that the more water M there is in a ditch the less loss in H proportion there will be from the H causes mentioned. |