| Show from I 1 MORE ABOUT ana WATER another response to THE invitation to its readers will be found in another column this mottling sn alio lengthy letter ot judge K K williams on the water question it will ba been that tie honorable gen clemin goes deeply into tha subject and the many points involved in abo with reasoning and emphasis his position is briefly eliat the city should not iab water system that or the old portion 0 the city entitled to water the cupply is now benall ane bill nial the supply ample for nil purposes and that a policy of ile iby owing to the approaching session of the legislature is alie wisdom alie first proposition will doubtless find baior though ita advocates have not made themselves heard very plainly through alio public prints the necona we think 11 open to serious doubt if as is claimed by the judge the old portion of the city has secured rater rights which are ample for its population and the present controversy is virtually a struggle gle of new parts as against the older parts of the city we confess ourselves in common with the many now clamoring for better facilities greatly deceived in our views under eccli circumstances ji postponement of the question might not be BO unsatisfactory though as a matter of fact the new parts of he city have as much right to expect a reasonable concession to their demands as lie older in the first place aliat is the old portion has an ample supply tho complaints which we bear come from no single district but are repeated from all tho officials declare that in almost every portion of the city there are many more requests for service than lie present fa i lilies can supply mains are not extended because there is no water for them and even service pipes are restricted strict ed in their extension yet we are not aware that alie auw parts aro drawing from iho supply belonging to ho old alio limits of this amply p district enst be narrow and mie present mains must go far outside alie favored precincts tor no ono who lias looked into the subject can deny that lie present consumers are all of them more or less hampered by the insufficiency of alie supply tire is haa urged that not i only la the supply inadequate service itself improvement the pipes are and they aro unable to such a pressure as alie of alie city demand many of them are old and leaky aa alie bog leolea caused by the gashing up of the water in several of the streets indicate they should at alie earliest moment be replaced and whether or not there is water caned by hie city to cupply a favored gorlion por lion there is no doubt that there is not for all these are the points we regard as urgent bior with two buch rivers as flow around iia and with mountain streams anil springs at our back and an imin enee canal from alie in prospect there is no reason why there should be the least scarcity or v hy we should not have a system as perfect as the world affords ai wo view the situation lie only question to whether the city or a corporation shall perform the necessary work |
