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Show POINTED QUESTIONS ON THE CSTY WATER Joseph A. West Wants to Know Where the City Will Get the Water After the Big Conduit is Built The Mayor Tells How the City Has Exchanged Sewer Water for Ogden River Water More Water Secured Than the City Can Use. Editor Standard:- The perusal of the city council's urgent 'appeal for the proposed bond issue suggests the following inquiry, which you can prob-UAy prob-UAy answer: If an additional conduit con-duit were built from Cold Water canyon can-yon lo the new reservoir, does the c itv owu water enough in said canyon to Viil it? Is it not a fact that all water wa-ter not heretofore used from Cold Water canyon by the city has gone Ogden City formerly owned In this canyon, which was suffic.ent with the Warm Creek canyon water to supply Ogden City nine months in the year without a droj from Wheeler creek. I believe Mr. West knows all this. Suppose much water has escaped to the river from Cold Water canyon and the city buys the oldest water right on the river, who can complain? The cltv can get all the water it wants, but to get It to the reservoir, that troubles us Signed) WM. GLASMAXN, Mayor. into Ogden river, from whence it has already been beneficially used and hence legally appropriated by other parties? If these questions are answered in the affirmative, of what use will the additional conduit from Cold Water canyon be uniess the city's right to water in tald canyon cau be legally enlarged. What has become of the city's rights to the waters of Taylor's canyon, can-yon, acquired through the old water company? As suggested by Mr. Gun nell. water meters or spring taps, or both, would, In my judgment, greatly decrease the tendency to use water wastefullv. I would also increase the city's revenue from the present supply and conserve the same for the use of ' those whom the city may not now be able to furnish waler. I am heartily in favor of anything that will Improve our water sybtcm or enlarge our water wa-ter supply. (Signed! JOSEPH A. WEST. August iye Hi 10. Editor Standard: In reply to the above letter of Joseph A. West, will ! bhv ;b-.it the cit of Ogden has made j arrangements to exchange tbx: water flowing from tbe Ogden city sewer into the river for water higher up In Ogden river. We have also arranged to give the sewer water, coming from the new sewer now being constructed, In exchange for the oldest water right on Ogden river. We will hae all tbe water Ogden City can possibly run through another -1-Inch conduit. It is because we have made arrange- i monts for the wafer that we want a big pipe line to carry It down the ' river. i Our present conduit rung from Wheeler canyon, with a branch to Cold Water. If we build an additional conduit from Cold Water canyou. the present pipe line can feed exclusively from wiieeler creek and also from Warm Creek canyon. The city hns purchased the Lewis springs in Cold .Water canvon, aud with the water |