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Show WHY NOT COMPROMISE AND BUILD ONE GOOD WATER SYSTEM? Price will never attract the class of citizens and home builders that every community desires and nt the same time grow to the proportions it ahould nttain until it has better water. This is the main reason for tho city's not having at this time five to aoven thousand population. We have the resources BUrroundlng to mnkc an important im-portant city, but for tho drawback of pure water which accms to be more noticeable and more frequently fre-quently commented upon na time goes on. This month tho Bcveral cases of the city of Price against tho railroad and operating coal companies for the alleged pollution of tho waters of tho Price river, from which tho city gets its aupply, arc to come un in tho district court locally. lo-cally. There will no doubt bo the usual demurrers, demur-rers, postponements nnd delays and appeals in the cases, followed perhaps by endless litigation in the higher courts of tho Btate. The defendants defend-ants arc not going to simply lay down. Hugo sums of money on both aides will be spent, enough in the end to build a pretty good ' water system, not alone for Price but for Helper, too, which also ia n party to litigation now pending. pend-ing. At court time in Price, the week of October 15th, attorneys nnd other representatives of tho lltlganta will be here. Why not, nt that time, some effort nt compromise of the cases 7 The Sun believes the suits have not gone so far but that settlement might bo made out of court that would result in purer nnd belter wntcr for all. Few of tho coal camps have tho kind of water tho inhabitants and tho companies want to insure in-sure tho hcnlth of cmployea. Better water in these camps means a better class of employes and contented ones with more efficient acrvlco nil around. All interested from Price to Cameron, Cam-eron, inclusive, nnd also Kenilworth, Storrs, Standard and others could bo induced to come into an enterprise of tho kind nt small cost to each, tho magnitude nnd benefits conaidcrcd. No one of tho places mentioned could afford to put In auch n system as is required, but working work-ing together it would be a mere bagatelle to any one of them together with the ones mentioned. This litigation is costing money which had better bo spent for the good of all along the lines suggested. |