Show city indebtedness salt lake will hold a municipal election on the ath of april to decide the question of going into debt to the extent of for tho construction st of a canal the canal may be a great desideratum with our net ebors it kayin to donao extent a necessity but ft quarter of a million dollars is a good deal money to become involved for and the interest on the loan would of course augment the sum considerably thus placing an additional burs den upon the shoulders of tho tax payers every city should be well supplied with water salt lake and our own included but the extent of the benefit and the amount which it costs should be made equal as nearly as practicable and an oncoming generation not be burdened with ft heavy debt incurs red through lack of judgment on the part of their predecessors we have often advocated the issue of bonds by ogden city for the purpose of constructing suitable water works by means of which a better and more reli AbIo cupply of water would be always available but would strena ika any obligation that would place the city further in arrears than it would be able to get out of in three or four years at the most A ten fifteen or twenty years mortgage on a cites resources is too risky and hazardous an experiment in these fast limes when every day develops something new and old methods and practices are continually being relegated into disapprobation and disuse |