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Show ' ministration and after doing that, to submit to the citizens any' measure they might - deem to' be best interests in-terests of all. to be enacted into law? The council continues to carry around that pig la a poke, seeking to dispose of It. Open up your poke and let us all see your pig! WHAT DOES OGDEN OWN? A prominent citizen says he is op-posed op-posed to the Ogden water commission bill owing to the fact that so far no one, outside the council, knows the extent ex-tent or limitations of the water holdings hold-ings of Ogden City and few have any Idea of the property supposed to have been transferred to the city at the time of th purchase Water rights arc to be established or adjudicated and the exact possessions of the city thoroughly defined, yet here is a proposal pro-posal to turn these Indefinable rights over to a commission so that at the end of four or six years Ogden may be informed that the property which tho city is supposed to own Is in part only ow ned by the city. Here is tho J. D. Gill place at the mouth of Taylor canyon. Half a dozen poisons have called up this paper to 1 inquire if that ploco of land was not included in the property of the water company transferred to Ogden City. Tho whole water deal is in Buch a chaotic condition, as far as the people are Informed, that today not one man in one thousand In Ogden City can tell you even approximately aa to what Ogden Og-den City Is supposed to own. Would it not be ik better taste for the present administration to first glvo the water consumers and taxpayers an idea of what they haTe purchased, tho revenues, the expenses and other de- tails now at the command of the ad- |