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Show j THE CITY AND THE BIG RESERVOIR. H ( The Examiner makes a big hullabaloo about the city holding li &ecrct meetings with the publisher of this paper. That, of course is H what hurts that sheet It can't get over the fact that the publisher H of this paper is the man that is pushing that big reservoir project, H ' which means more to Ogdcn than any one thing that is a possibility H li r Ogden's future. Why does not the sheet build its own big lake rc- H , sort? We will even help. For the good of Ogden, lot the Examiner's H owners pull its fool editor off of his craze that a thing is bad if its H ; , competitor favors it. There is room for both Ogden papers to do Hl good for Ogden. If the publisher of this paper can get a million- H dollar dam built, why not let him do it? Hl 'J Last Tuesday a confidential meeting of the city officials and the Hl jf Ogden River Reservoir company was held at the request of William M I Glasmann. The latter told the commission that unless the pending H law suit between the parties was promptly adjusted the Ogden River H ' Reservoir company would have to stop work ; that men furnishing the H I money for the present construction did not feel like furnishing more H money that was required to put in the bedrock foundation unless the H law suit was satisfactorily adjusted. Mr. Glasmann stated that he H ' wanted the work to continue and wanted to know the best terms of Ithe city. . . After Mr. Glasmann got all this information from the comnnssion- m ers he asked that the matter be kept from the papers, as his associates H would have to go over the matter before he could consent to even one H t phase of the compromise suggested. That alone would indicate-that H i any proposition made by Ogden City was far from satisfactory to H the reservoir company. Hj There was no reason to kecp'the matter from the newspapers ex- H cept that Mr. Glasmann wanted to' talk the matter over with his M associates before the papers unfriendly to him should prejudice the H minds of 'some of the men who are to furnish the money for the dam H construction. If the information had been given out Tuesday even- M ing the Examiner would have, announced in big head lines, GLAS- H MANN GETS IT IN THE NECK or something of that nature. But H now that the Ogden River Reservoir company people have decided H that the city's suggestion must be modified, there is no longer any Hl I reason to keep back wTiat took place in the mayor's office Tuesday fl i evening, and we will state it as briefly as possible. Hl The three city commissioners, with the city attorney backing M ' them, decided: H First The reservoir company must allow Ogden City for the M I money spent in uncovering bedrock. B Second That the city must retain the title to all the land H bought from M. S. Browning and others back of the dam site. H Third The city must have all the water needed for a city twice H the size of Ogden today. 1 H ,, Fourth The city to name the constructing engineer in building Hl the dam. Hl Fifth The city to have its water, the first right in the dam, M safeguarded. The 'reservoir company to be permitted to pay for H as much of the dam as is necessary to make it strong enough to per- Hj mit of tlie irrigation part of the dam to be built on top of the dam Hl when the city gets through with what it wants, thus leaving the H city free and independent of the reservoir company and the latter H free from the city. H Mr. Glasmann is of the impression that the courts will grant Hj the city much of what the city asks, but his associates think differ- H ently; therefore what seemed an almost sure proposition of a set- H tlement between the citiy and the reservoir company has failed H again. HJ Of course, the Examiner is afflicted with a bad case of Glas- H mannitis and was sure that a confidential meeting of the city with H ihe president of the Ogden River Reservoir coiuparn' meant that the H latter was relieving the city officials not only of their watches and H cuff buttons, but the keys to the- city treasury as well. The Exam- H iuer, of course, judges others by its own guilty conscience. |