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Show residents of the district carry water from the ereeka and river, use pump r windmills, and in fact every conceivable con-ceivable method for obtaining a supply sup-ply of water for household use has 1 to be taken. A petition covering this matter was llrpt introduced into Ihe city council about Jan. 1. and Dr. Dickson, chair-I chair-I roan of the w ater commit tee, to which the petition wan referred, sold that i no action had been taken but. that the prospects for putting in a city water main In this section looked good after the completion of the cement ce-ment work on the new reservoir. Alter promising that the matter would be handled with the utmost dispatch, the matter was left In the hands of I the water committee. WEST SIDE 1 NEED JF WATER! At the opening of the regular roun- I ell session last night a cornmilteo of j more than 30 residents of the district In West Ogden. adjacent to tb plant of the Wasatch canning factory recently re-cently partially destroyed by fire, appeared ap-peared in the council chamber and put up a determined and concerted appeal for city water mains in tlKir j ectlon of the city. A representative j cf the Wasatch canning factory told ; that It was possible for his firm i ecure irrigation water for the needs of the factory, but that thin is no' satisfactory and that tho water supplied sup-plied by tho city Is entirely Inadequate Inad-equate to meet the demaudn. Ho announced that should the rl'y eee fit to Install water mains in that ; Keetion of the city, at least 1.1 families ; had expressed their Intention of com- , necting with the water main. He , was followed hy a woman, a resident j of the- district, who described the j conditions existing at prepent in th-3 j western seclion of the city, endim; , an eloquent plea lor city water, by ; Baying "Mr. Browning, it's desperate with us." This lady t"ld of how 1ho |