Show THE WATER SUPPLY yesterday many hydrants it this city blistered in tile liot nun and to fastal to yield a drop of water to aux ious housekeepers A visit to tit e now reservoir the fail that 4 it was that lie old small reservoir Is of in capacity cara city to keep the entire water system in operation durling these dog days supply pipe carry enough volume to fill both reservoirs inot tile purpose of building the now one theo the o are anxious citi tire asking these are questions 0 y ill no doubt tile city council could answer with tOt self tile city council cannot perform impossibilities it cannot make more public improvements than it has anoney r legal credit to pay for tim will be tile art 0 unjustly but we cannot refrain from calling emphatic atten tion to certain facts which are now and have been mell known because they were stated to the city council and the public more than a year ago by our esteemed predecessor the Ir erald the city is entitled to WO gallons of water per day from ogdon river it cannot at supply a aw that quantity and at the same while people ro famishing for water call the cily council bring relief fill A p p ardently the only remedy is to put in a larger supply pipe A pipa sixteen inches in diameter wo il cost it would carry four tinie sas much water as lie present pipe and yet it would not carry all the water to which the city is entitled we are informed that a pipe twenty inches in diameter be to carry tile quantity of gallons per dar this pipe of twenty inches diameter is to the present eight inches as four hundred is to out of the new join it seems to us that a sufficient bum of money ins properly and should be used to lay in a now supply pipe for the water system sanio objections have been raised in advance to this project one boffl cial rays that titz standard and tile public wanted and got a now city hall and therefore have no right to kick because of the inadequate i ater supply we are prepared to main fain that the building of the new city hall has not interfered and does not now interfere with tile other improvement another official claims that sewers have been demanded and that they are of more importance just now than the water supply the cost of sewers will not come out of the general treasury the exception of tile main sewer the cost of the entire will be a tax the proper ty directly benefited aud not upon the municipal fund therefore this in bishes no bar to proper investment in r an increased water system till STAI mill go even further than the city council does in praising the enterprise and timely action of that body in building the city hall we take pleasure in saying that the public is grateful and that the men who voted for the con of this building will be remembered and praised for yea r to clybe if it now lies in their power to do one more thing and gire ogden a better water supply they should do it at once the present situation is pitiable bisno greater sufferer than salt lake but in tile case of tile capital there is an excuse which we do not have money will give to salt lake the advantage which ogden nkoyo located dir act ly the in this part of the country irwill indeed be if tile flit nation in oddo shall be permitted long to exist wo believe that tile council is do to to everything in its power for file public good and we hope to me that body beize this quell tion instantly and grapple with it |