Show THE mm suggests a andring An fring for all time EDITOR TUB STANDARD silt an intelligent comprehension of the needs 0 oilen oijen in alie matter of water supply can only bo arrived at after careful study of alio various propositions from which that one should lie ted which insures beyond doubt nud without loss to present interests an inexhaustible store of water on which lie city can draw as it grows in population and wealth what il today to day the next year will probably and alie most hopeful amonese us must admit that no city over attained pre position eien an fn regions unless ita water supply ia unquestionably ex enough to keep pace with alio growth of population in this comparatively ively and region hie necessity for a full water supply is baill more apparent nor in providing for the cities inest we rob the surrounding country of what ia its hica source of wealth and beauty an abundant supply of water for irrigation such would react re act disastrously on the pro crem of the cities as well as turn what utah lias won from the desert and is proud of her beautiful homes and fields into their original ori pinal desolation there are tributary to alie streams of the weber and uden rivers and the mountain springs from north ogden to about acres of tillable land all of winch pay allegiance to ogden as its cantre and metropolis further north the great valleys of alia hear and form an integral portion of the treat agricultural environment viron ment of the city and although fail roada may centre their operations bere iere acl il iettie menu lands that must eventually ba depended on to attract that population which will create a for manufactures and draw all its supplies from the great cut repot which unquestionably ogden will become it their lands be doomed to pere fual sterility woe to the future of ogden it maybe laid down as an axiom that any proportion to supply ogden water at the expense vt agriculture is rotten at the core and if accepted would carry bealli to city and country under this head may bo classed all attempt s to purchase back or otherwise acquire from the edg a the appropriated waters of the ogden and rivers As for little ephings trickling d wn the mountain canyons no one but an interested party will forone moment the idea of anchoring on them the water supply of a city that probably within this generation will leach a population according to mr gilbert the total volume of ogdan aad weber rivers in oct 1877 feet and from abia at the critical period of irrigation must be deducted alie supply for 34 equale miles the rivers now before emerging from the canyons it ia certain bat the volume of water in these rivers is considerably less which makes the situation still more serious the roviest rosiest calculated on the dita of 1877 leases 15 square miles of the lower levels of the delta plain of the weber and oden hopelessly barren BO tar aa irrigation ia concerned and makes no provision tor the cities it may bo safely said that SO square idilea ib a truer estimate plug city supplies which are liable in the future to demand a supply equal to that required for as many more square miles where Is it to be had there are no great natural reservoirs within alio reach of engineering kill to draw supplies from except rear lake and hear river both 0 which are actually appropriated and unless ogden opens her hand speedily to grasp presently about to oe diverted forever localities than city and weber delta voder this plain statement of facts it is astonishing that any proposition to supply tho city with water can be entertained than the reasonable one ellered by the gieir aliver caanal company who alone havo alie goods to deliver it ought to be only a question of term ivery water ow ner or otherwise is interested in the of alio llio deal so tar from reducing the balao of his little bit of water it will make it more valuable by opening a vaster field tor increase in population and consequently in land and city property every real estate oane every lot la aiden city every merchant therein is deeply io loftt can never be replaced and the acquirement of is ibe first and vital of the keople As for leaser inella about patchwork sv stems of dangerous reservoirs tor winch as declared by good authority there is no is strange that lucli clap trap be on the people the natural giurco of ogdena water supply is aden river or as much theriot as may be necessary for present or auturo futuro UBO and ahti cannot be had the ilear liever canal cornea along and its iaco to iho farrown far roen who leavo appropriated it and interest inte sn every way it ia to ei chango unless this bo done and ita tributary lands must stand still forever at a tation 60 or more ler cent short of their natural point of development if ogden by its alie torning out of this vast project no 15 0 20 square or more of alio land tributary to it need bo doomed to eternal sterility but all the delta valley 0 the weber can ha thoroughly lr and ogden city can caver out row the pare cupply obtainable her iron river by alie principle of gravitation june catli |