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Show I WHEN LAWS AND PARKS CAN BE INCREASED. Ogden is becoming a city of heau-tiful heau-tiful lawns. But the extending of the lawn and the parking of the sidewalk side-walk areas had reached a limit when the city commissioners found it necessary, nec-essary, In guarding the city from fire dangers, to once more restrict the people in the watering of lawns And that is one reason why the voting of the bonds on last Monday is a source of congratulation, as the bond issue makes possible the obtaining obtain-ing of an unlimited water supply Whe-n the South Fork reservoir is built, so as to store 10,000-acre feet of water or more, the making of of water or more, the making of lawns and the parking of streets can og on with the assurance that there will be no drouth within the city limits of Ogden Now that Ogdsn is to have a surplus sur-plus of water, it might be a good plan to proceed to park the center of many of our streets, which are too wide to be kspt In the best of repair except H . at almost prohibitive cost. Parkins in this manner would do much to add I l to the attractiveness of our residen- j tial district and at tho same time re- lleve the municipality from a part of the expense of macadamizing or asphalting as-phalting loiiR stretches of very wide roadway. |