Show WATER several days ago a representative of THE STANDARD presented a bottle of water taken from abe oden reservoir to one of the leading chemists in tho detate requesting a complete quantitative and qualitative analysis of the same the gentleman promptly replied that euca an analysis cluid oaly be male in two places in the uni ed states namely at ann arbor michigan Michi ean and at tho smithsonian institute at washington D 0 and that abe price for making such analysis would ba from to 2 50 the may imagine our surprise when we noticed in a salt lake the next day anch an alleged analysis of ogden water by one of our leading ogden physicians the salt lake chemist informed us that a still and the ingra ments used in a perfect water test cost between and 1500 and that even if such a still existed in utah it would require a man to make abe test or analysis who waa familiar fani liar with abe dorkas it required a great deal of expert enca and aa there was such work in the whole rocky mountains to keep one man busy it would be 1 eible to find a man capable of doing abe work in the west bat the chemist assured us that for 15 he would gladly make a test for organic matter and at the same time looking at the water eaid a man would be a fool to pay 15 for such a test when the organic matter was visible to the naked eye aa such mutter waa plainly visible in the water hakea from the reservoir there was no occasion to have the analysis made dr joyc who made the analysis above referred to took abe water after abe slime and slush had been removed and the reservoir partially cleaned and it is barely possible that the water is pure since the cleaning atthe surface of the reservoir it i also eible that when there Is no wind blow int that good water may come clown abe 11 but when there is a storm or the wind blows the water and the waves in abe reservoir are dashed against tho boards on the aides and on abe great wooden pipe on which hang the mud and alime scale that organic matter is immediately washed in abe water when it is like that the people get germa of disease in the water even after the water company has removed the nasty mess from the surface the only way to have pure water is to have the reservoirs cemented both the bottom and abe eiden and then there should ba two 89 that one can be cleaned while the other ie used ane city council should insist upon having proper built |