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Show I It can be Justly made; bene I say let iua nil understand the matter correct- i ly and vote accordingly. My personal Inquiries upon thl subject were not Inspired by any captious motive, or any desire to be heard, as the Honorable Mayor would seem to Infer, but purely from a wish i to Understand all phases of this Important Im-portant nueotlon which If dclded; In Ibe affirmative will add another hundred hun-dred thousand dollars to our already oppressive debt. , JOSEPH .WEST, Since writing the above, which rav absence on the Brlgnam "Kne Tift prevented me from handtrg in earlier, I have been advised that considerable water has b" developed In the new sewer across the Or?den that can be ndvantngeously exchanged for water In the upper Ogden. Also by the expenditure ex-penditure of a little means a con?Mer-able con?Mer-able flow can be had In Cold water canon where a nortlon of th '!rrnm 19 lost In passing over a portion of Its channel. There are always to be found In many of onr upper canyons copious springs w"hose water axe soon lost In the many fissures that cross their course. In fact, thee prand old mountains moun-tains are full of water and they should be made to give up if It can be done at reasonable expense. Above the frnlt land belt surrounding surround-ing Brtgham City numerous tunnels have been driven Into the mountains and cons:derable water thus obtained. Wells have also been njnk on uplands up-lands and an abundnnt supply tbns encountered that by the use of a Kt-tlo Kt-tlo electric motor and pump supply Jarre- areas of frnlt land below. ' I call to mind one well that fills a four Inch pipe In tht way at a coyt of twenty-foTr dollars per month and the supply bo far has never been exhausted. ex-hausted. While therefore our water supply Is llmltc-d. and In many respects uncertain un-certain during seasons of Rcarclty when It fa the moot needed, I am confident It can be greatly enlarged by n judlctoua expcrdlture of rnenns In the direction Indicated. Were this done, no citizen having the Interest of Ogden at heart would fall to vote the i necessary ponds for ff utilization Let this experimentation be undertaken undertak-en and I am confident the result would d more for the bond Issue than anything else that could be said or done. JOSFPTT A. WFST. It gives fMs paper plenstnre to note that Mr. West ha made a personal Inve?tlgt!on and has convinced himself him-self that the cltv will be able to secure se-cure plenty of water to fill the new conduct to be buflt down the canvon. This whole matter la a question for the oernle. The cltv will not erend a slng'e dollar dol-lar to Influence the people one waver the other. If th peonle dont want to Increa.se the water of Orden Cltv let them vote NO a week from next Tuesday. mm ' Engineer Joseph West After Af-ter Making Personal Investigations In-vestigations Says City Can Get the Water Needed Need-ed and Favors Voting j the Bonds. Editor Standard: Mayor Glasmann, after answering all my Inquiries but the one relative to the city's right in Taylor's canyon concludes by aaylng "1 believe Mr. West understands all this." J While I have understood that ft I considerable quantity of water haa for yara passed Into Weber river from our sewerage system, I have uevar before known that It had been legally J exchanged for Ogdon River water, j Neither do I now know (hat such exchange, made with canal compan- ia taking water from below the confluence con-fluence of both streams, and whose rights axe acconaary to many uxera irom the Ogden constitutes n very permanent right, or one that CAn at all times be depended upon. During the great water scarcity of a few years ago, it took all the water that Ogden River contained to supply the prior rights of parties taking water above tho point where the city's sewerage sew-erage is discharged; so that even Plain, City, one of the oldest settlements settle-ments In the county, and whose rights cover both streams, was for a long time deprived of water and suffered tremendously In consequence. As a cycle of dry years has visited this section pretty regularly alnce Its early ear-ly settlement, and may begin again at any time, what assarance have we that whatever rights we may nequtTe by the exchange apoken of, will ho sufficiently permanent to warrant the largo outlay for which wo are asked to authorize the Issuance ot bonds. The clty'B present right to Ogden river water, over and above the one cubic foot that I personally purchased from Joseph Taylor, and which foi years constituted the city's first water wat-er supply, was either acquired through a tacit exchange such as has been ppoken of, In which event we are not entitled to any more, or through the City's Increasing appropriation, year by year, of water from said stream without any legal protest being mude by those who had prior rights thereto; there-to; for it must be remembered that all of tho water In Ogden river was owned and beneficially used long before be-fore Ogden's first water system, of which I was at one time a fourth owner was constructed. If acquired by the latler mithod, theso rights so long peacefully enjoyed, cannot now bo legally 1akn away, but any present pres-ent enlargement of thorn In like manner man-ner cannot be safely undertaken, and may moot with opposition that we llttlo conlcmplate at thl. lime If the citizens of Ogden, with a full understanding of Iho s-ltuatlon decide to Isnuo bonds for the conservation con-servation of such rights as wp now possess then no after criticisms of th; administration that recommended |
