Show from the dully ONE WEEK abo public mill have to contain itself in patience one more week before learning what the city proposes to do about the water supply the delay will be cheerfully borne tor two reasons first because no one at present is actually buffering for water and second because in a matter of magnitude vie cannot ao ord to give a hasty decision which more careful study might baue us to regret at the same time the questions where shall we get an increased supply of water and how shall wo bao it when we do get it come home to very resident and property owner in augden there is oo 00 subject before us which approaches it in importance TUB has no wish to add error to anxiety nor to convey the idea that a crisis confronts us wo are serene in the knowledge that few cities hava such magnificent sources to draw from and happy in alie confidence that wisdom will guide w to making a proper choice but w e urge the municipal officials and the public to remember that as a city ve are enjoying a rapid growth that our supply of water today to day is inadequate to the needs of even that portion of the city within its reach that it will cost less today to day to make tha improvements than it will five years hence and finally that unless we make them pretty boon our progression will be like that of the crab ever backwards there is the crystal ogden eiver there are the never failing mountain streams and springs there are possibilities of reservoirs tight and firm as the everlasting hills and there is the grand project of the bear river canal a wealth of water which is better calculated to overwhelm oer whelm us alian leave us thirsty alie issue is which source shall be tapped and who shall tap it |