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Show The Water. To correct false impressions that seem to be prav.ilcnt in regard to the present muddy water and the nausea-ntlng nausea-ntlng lluld we were compelled to drink recently, It is stated that the water-master water-master and his aids have done and are still doing all that is possible to secure for us the ery best water. Dining the recent cleaning of the canal, the city was supplied three davs with water from the old reservoir cast of the temple. This had been cleaned thoroughly by the same men who had - r cleaned It dlltcrent ears before when $& " natl Deen usecl" Waiermaster Pet-jHrW., Pet-jHrW., crson superintended the Job, followed the suggestions oilercd by those familiar fami-liar with that particular woik before, and then put new clay on the bottom Fully a week after the use of thlsaes-ervolr thlsaes-ervolr had been discontinued came the nasty.undrlnkable watr that was v our portlon,aud those unfamiliar with the fact that the water was then coming com-ing through the tegular channel attributed at-tributed the bad taste and smell to the old reservoir Rumois were and still aro afloat, but these are absolutely absolute-ly without foundation. The whole river was affected at that tlmejlln Hercules power plant people noticed it, and people using water from tho river In the southwest part or the city noticed It. Some thought the bad taste was the result of tar used In Using Us-ing the Hume, or pipes, but none was usqd. Others attributed It to "sheep dip" Ih the mountains, but there have been no sheep In tho mountains for . quite awhile, and as for anything having hav-ing fallen In the canal, Supt. Peterson says that this Is and was examined dally, a man being near the screens In the canyon at all times The dlftlcul-ty dlftlcul-ty lias not been located, but It Is safe ti2 tssay that tho rumors afloat are with- JW5 out foundation. |