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Show PRESTON WILL SOON VOTE ON . WATER BONDS CITY HAS PURCHASED H waters-Of birch springs:- H Much Interest Is Being Taken In the Coming Election Which Will Mean H Much for the Advance and Growth the City. H Ptestou, Ida., Aug. 22. At a meet- H Ing held hero several days ago, tho , matter of tho Preston City Council nc- H quiring the waters of Ulrch springs H was thoroughly discussed and from H the sentiment displayed decided to H buy this water, which they secured nt H tho low price of $1,400. Those i-resent H at the meeting wcro unanimous In sustaining the purchnse. H This water is situated about twelve H or fourteen utiles northeast of Preston -H on tho Milk Creek range. Tho water H gushes out from n face of solid rock, H and tho anaylsls given by a Salt Lako H chemist, proclaims It tho purest and H best ever assayed by tho chemist In iH question. From tho springs, accord- H ing to the survey of the engineer, a ,H pipe Hue will be Installed and tho jH water'wMll be carried Into a largo re- H talnlng reservoir, nnd from there will :H bo piped Into the city, gravity Insur'ng iH force nnd power. H The question of tho city bonding for tho purpose of Installing this wator '. system will come up In a short time, -il and It will remain to bo seen whether il this town Is to grow or go backward. il The utiwlsu way whlrh some of tho fl old residents aro looking nt the .pro- jf position, acting ns obstacles to tho j progress mid Improvement of the city, .'H It Is hoped, will bo brushed away by 1 reason nnd education. What matta It " tho system does cost $100,000; In ffvo H years' time tho added population will ;H reduce the per capita tax consider- H nbly.TJut' looking at It In n more mod- I'l crate light, In five yoarri, one thousand H families will have had the system In- fl stalled In their homes, and that It It 1; did cost $10.00 to $12.00 per year per ll hydrant, there would be considerable iiH accrue so that they could In time llq- rH Vjldnto the bonded Indebtedness, be- lil sldo the added bounty of drawing cap- lll Itnl and making an alluring prospect J In tho landscape to Intending home- i seekers, I'l Unfortunately money and tho unwlf e ngltatcr has kept Preston in the rear lil of tho procession, and these unstable l people have always viewed with alarm itl needed Improvements and added ben- H cfits, believing that the policy what ijjH is good for tho father ought to be v 'IH good enough for the son, and that this i ;H policy shoiild always prevail. ill This Is not a progressive way to i H vlow thlng3. If tho old style hand plow j H was good enough for the father in the I H early days of aridity and sagebrush, I H surely the son should not be compel- . H led to use tho tamo methods In theso H days of enlightenment when three t H good horses and a mold board can ' H accomplish five times as much work. j M Tho city board soems to be alive ' M to tho exigencies of tho occasion and I M aro working all time tor tho better- M inetit and Improvement of Preston. j M Out of date people, who havo a M mania for disease breeding cisterns, ' M aro still advocating tho wells of tho j H fosslllferotis era, but to the tutored B mind, this method of Irrigating tho 1 thirsty channels of humanity, Is not H only Inadequate, hut when one con- H sldois Prestous' future advancement j H and growth, as well as the geological H formation of the ground the well dig- f 9 gers would havo to pierce, lone sight 9 of the unsavory and unsanitary coudi- tf tlons of these surface germs breeders Iff the abode of tho mosquito, bugs of ' J3 ull kinds, dead mico which will In- i 3 variably got in at tho top and die and U decompose, as well as other evils H which deceno refuses to have men- M tloned. W Procrastination Is tho worst btican- W. neer of time that ever was, and tho ' K moro matters aro delayed on this im- y portant subject, tho farther will wo 'j3 Continued on Pago S. H HJ B: , :Z PRESTON WILL B ' f SOON VOTE ON B : WATER BONDS H Continued rrom l'ago 1 H I i;;ft behind Wien such pirgreHslxo lit- H I I tie burns as Whitney run lake tlio In- B itlntlt) nnd In blond dnj IIrIU xtcnl H" ''mates' rllit fioni undi'i' I'rcKton'e none, H,' nnd illicit could line oaHlly been s- B f uuied, then It Is tliuo peopln became H, j' Jilhc and (i) 'halt to nliHtni(tio V ' r lA't thn good woik go on and let H I h thu people build for the . future, nnd H not let uh rot nnd Btnnu llj'lho must)' V' aiLhhes of the p.iHt '" H t Many people nio looking fw homes H K nnd the moro alluring thn prospect through the inHtrumentallty of a well Kept water nyHlem, tho sooner will wo build ui' nnd progress. |