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Show fl i PROPOSITION MADE BY THE CITY. LLfl "After all the billingsgate which has been uttered, now comes the M .Bfiity with an offer to join with the Ogden Keservo'ir company in Hl building the South Fork dam, in order that not only the city may l Benjoj a better water supply, but that the dry lands in Weber county H ffmey De watered and the city of Ogden and tributary country be H Bmade to grow in population and material resources. H K The law says the city cannot store water to be disposed of out- H jfside the city, and inasmuch as the city must confine its efforts H Kpurely to storage for city purpose, someone other than the city H Proust build so extensively as to impound water for the farmers. That H f has been the contention of this paper all along. But there were H those who tried to make the people believe that because the Ogden M Reservoir company demanded the right to conserve the surplus waters H ofMhe South Fork for agricultural purposes, the city was being rob- H ; bed of its rights. As a matter of fact, its larger rights, to enjoy the H I prosperity which must come to all this community, embracing city H and county, with the building of an irrigation reservoir, would have M been sacrificed if that narrow policy of forbidding the enlarging fl 6f the proposed reservoir were maintained. m Out of these ovarLurw should come a reasonable -working plan H t "Thereby the city will go to the full limit authorized by law, without B J obstructing a private corporation or others from carrying on the work H . so that instead of allowing the flood waters to pour a wasteful Hl stream into Great Salt Lake the surplus, beyond the needs of the Hl J city, shall be stored and made to servo man's purpose, fructifying the Hl l earth and blessing this community with rich harvests from lands H ' '""ii?' are now desert stretches. Hj I We know there are those who would rather lose their fingers H I and toes than to allow others to gain the honor of having promoted Hl and brought to successful completion a project which will do so Hl much for this valley and all its inhabitants, but they, with thcin Hj Espitcs and personal piques, should be brushed aside w"hen a problem H jo promising in results is about to be solved. I 1 131 i I |