| Show MEETING TO WATER QUESTION no de he city council at a recent ex w decided to call a A ling ting of alt all persons and corpora 3 interested in the condition of e river or in questions kindred to main question copies of the passed pissed have been sent to bho might wish to come or to he resented and thia resolution is in aff it an invitation the meeting is 13 for the afternoon after noo of cuir 22 uty ty hall 1 the resolution with its anble coders covers th aground ground thorough and is asTol lows councilman john A birthia offered d moed moved the adoption of the fol lag preambles and resolution to t whereas the city of price founded community four decades ago s grown in population and corn com belal 1 importance until it is the lest est city an ani trading ater er between utah and mad junction colorado drawing ide from a radius of one adred miles in all directions aud and resenting pes enting a present population of ore than three thousand which la Is ast antly increasing with tho the de lop loument ment of the exceptional coal ounces of carbon and emeri lun unties ties and whereas the city of price keep S pace with the growth of the immunities mm unities tributary to it maa ma re ansen actively pro broide ide for a oa ori increase of more than one ore indred wred per cent within the net next five fi e s rs and whereas the price river has ever seri the sole source of supply of this tills am mm unity of at vater for dunking inking dt A ad uses such waters for piny uny jears i ears after the early tion being pure and wholesome fo foi ach purposes but since the founding f mining industries and towns along nd river and its tributaries tributa ries having baing gradually deteriorated in quality until at this time such waters are condemned by all officers oth cers and whereas the cit council is in duty bound to exert every legal effort within its poorer po ver for the conservation se mation of lives health and well being of the inhabitants and particularly to protect the water supply of the city from cont imitation and such action is 13 essential in order to ensure the future growth and pros penty of the community and whereas by reason of constitutional and statutory hindrances price city is prevented pe vented from incurring in currine a bonded debt sufficient to acquire and distribute to its people waters aters from an source other than the price river and is therefore compelled to prevent the future pollution of those waters unless the industries ble for such pollution are willing to aid in furnishing an adequate substitute supply of wholesome water and whereas it is 13 the right of the people of price to prevent such in juries and the duth of the mining and railroad and other industries to refrain from contaminating the water ater which now is prid from time immemorial has leen I 1 een the only water from pae page 1 council calls meeting continued frim page 1 available for price and other othe r settlements along said rl river er and whereas judicial determination has already been made that such pollution P ol lution as is complained of in the D binding indin suits constitute a public nuisance an ani that independent of in consequences or loss such nuisances nuis inces should be abated and anti the waters aters of price river rier be pro in their natural pure inri ind wholesome wholes condition and whereas man suggestions hair lime bon bo n inide council lra ir i g the of an effort to induce ba b compromise a fair ecil and adjustment of the grievances of price city without the tile dclay ard expense incident to litigation bettein the cit and the various ari industries interested to the end that driendl fri endl relations may to exist and the of all be promoted ind con conserved sered ard arid whereas it is the tile wish of price cita its property owners and citizens to co to the fullest consistent extent with ith all industries affected bv b the pending suit suits and to the end that the interests of all concerned mav ma be furla protected now nou therefore re be it resolved Kes olred that nolday july 1918 at the tile hour of 3 1 p ni be ap pointed d as the time foi the holding of a sp special cial meeting of the cit coufol it the tile price city hall and that a cop of the foregoing preambles ind resolution be forat for girded by the cit eit recorder to the managers of ldah mining and other industry oper biting along the price river rier or its tributaries tributa ries and rind to municipalities along slid stid river depending on price river rier foi a water supply as the in ailt vitiation viti tion and request of the city council that rep represent stives be se sent nt for the tilt purpose purvise ar discussing co looking to the furnishing of substitute witla ir fir the tile lit of price andl other coni similarly simi lirly affected iffe eted ba b pre bent uses of price ri river er ind for the discussion of such other matters of cutuil interest as rill nav be brought such meeting councilman 11 II 11 goetzmann seconded the slid wild motion and samu same being put to vote note was ab b int or declared carried |
