Show from ahe dully of october 10 THE WATERS OF THE WEBER the following extract from be minutes of tuesday evenings session of the silt lake city council referred to by our correspondent at tho capita will be of interest to local re adera mr dooly stated a surrey had been made honing that the enters inters of the e be turned into the kiwo river aud then into utah lalio in the early tpring the water ot the created great havoc and it would be au eay matter to tale it and thus raise the natural reservoir utah lake question should be before alio meeting ol 01 the canal companies mr agreed with this idea and thou lil hie matter should be in mitigated the motion niu adopted nod the maor u an authorized to lecure the WT acca of J fox hr ho made the barvey to appear bo tore the e 0 the canals and the city committee at hie coining luK mr doolas anxiety to provide a for the havoc wrought by the high water of the weber in the spring should win for that gentleman the gratitude of farmers and others along of that stream property is endangered by the annual freshets fresh ets his ide i of convening the surplus waters into salt lakes reservoir should find favor with the farmers of silt lake county the residents of the capital and all others south of that pont except those who own lands adjacent to utah lake and w bo are already in bad humor oer the proposed pio posed schemes to submerge in the interest of their neighboring county it might be well however for the people of weber morgan and davis counties to ascertain for liow much of a surplus they are content to have thus diverted they are doubtless willing that all which they do not need should be need by those who do need it they are not imbued with the dog in the manger spirit at the same time it is not improper for them to recall that reservoirs w ill soon ba in demand in other places halide utah county the three prosperous counties named have many hundreds of cheica acres which need only the quickening touch of water to bo converted into fruitful fields and gardens take lie one section of country between this city and kaysville Kays ville a an example with water that splendid bench could be made one vast extent of orchards and vineyards and water for it can only be obtained from the weber kiver to the person acquainted with the topography of the country other sections equally well fitted fr the labors of the husbandman will suggest themselves hence we repeat that meeting oar neighbors hilf way on the question of giving aud taking we will be negligent of our duty to the present and the future it we omit to retain and secure those rights which our own wants are cirtain to call into requisition |