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Show OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR A. G. PELL City Now Must Show Its Hand on the Reservoir Company Project The New Reservoir Company Offers the City All it is Entitled En-titled to and Much More Unless the City Simply Wants to Kill the Building of the Dam, it Will Have to Act Quickly. "August lUh, 1?12. A. GrFell", Ttfayor ami' Commissioner Commission-er of Ogden City, Ogden, Utah, Sir: 1 notice In the Morning Examiner an Interview with you in which vou say that "there is no desire on out (the city's) part to prevent the farmers farm-ers from balng water for irrigation purposes. After tho city has boon made secure satisfactory arrangements arrange-ments can bo made for raislngYbe dam for irrigation purposes." If that is all the city of Ogden wants, our company will grant that Immediately. We do not claim anything any-thing the city owns We own the land on which is located the site for the dam. Wo will give the city a free permit to build a dam for Itself on our land, providing the cltv will let us furnish the additional money to build the dam wide enouph at the beginning to make the dam foundation founda-tion sufficiently strong to permit the Irrigation part of the dam to continue con-tinue on top of the city's work. Such a proposition, of course, would necessitate a Joint arrangement arrange-ment a Joint agreement Our company com-pany la ready to enter ln" a written agreement recognizing all the rights of Ogden city, and If Ogden City will act before we start the work on the dam we are willing to let the city havo Its water at what it will cost to store water in a 120 Toot dam above the bed rock, even if the pan; you build gives you less wntcr, and at tho same time granting to Ogden Cltv the first and prior right for the city's water. We are willing to make it a public record an J to secure the city in anv Just way, recognizing, by t binding contract, all. the city Is entitled en-titled to Only one thins wc insist on and 'that is that tho dam must not be delayed. We are also willing that your city engineer or other cllj agent shall audit all cXDcndlttiiec Wo will give and accord you every light to fully protect Ogden Ciy All we ask is that the IrrlgUloi- part of the project shall not be delayed. The whole subject resolves Itself Into an agreement to be signed by Ogden City and the Osden River Reservoir company. Our company Is read to make such agreement and we will not ask a cent or any concession lrom Ogden City. I am sure, after reading the above, vou must admit that It is up to Inc "city to act. If you can get every drop of water Ogden Is entitle 1 to without the loss of a cent, why should yon threaten to stop us ircm building the dam Our company wants the "am built to get irrigation water for tho lnnds In Vcbcr coun'y. Yo will build with the city's aid, or wo MH build alone. The city can tae us choice. We do not wish to harm Ogden City to the value of one cent. Wc will lot Ogden city have th.-s water wa-ter for less than it can get K to Itself Why not settle this by agreement agree-ment at once? Wo will give the niy more than the courts will grant. Verv trulv yours. TUB OGDEN RIVER RESERVOIR COMPANY WILLIAM GLASMANN. President. If anv citizen can propaso anything falror than the foregoing, this paper wants to see what it Is. " "TaBEB |