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Show BETTER WATER I AND BIGGER , I CITY I M. P. BRAITLT ADVANCES SOME ) H OOOD IDEA8. i B Grand Junction, Colo., Amounted to I M Dnt Little Commercially and Other M wioo Until City Bonded and Went I B After Purer Water and Better Sup j M ply, Says Walter T. Ooslcn. ' M. P. Ilruffet is the ownsi of close BB to n hundred thousand dollar worth BJ 'of pniperty nt Price. MoAt of this Is BJ reitl cslnlo. If the InuuIs are otod t HB lie will be tnxed ns much or pcrhapn ' H more timu any individual tiroerty ' BJ owner hcroubouls. Ho coitsidvrs nn BJ inipnncd wnlcr system the best lit B stiiietit 'oplc here nut inakiu "That BJ the cit) of Price is in need of a good BJ Mid bettor stipplj of wntcr for drink M iug nnd (iillunry iimm Is not open to ' Bfl ilitestion," Void ho at tho Tavern last , M 'Juesdin etiniiig. "During tho trial , iBJ of the irHtit suit brought by tho city ' BJ i'f HclHr to rentrnlu the conliimina- i BJ don of the walera of tho Price ricr, ' BJ the fact was fnlh 0-.lablli.linl that the I BJ Mnwiltl i illlllitTiilliiilid nt imvli nf lb I lll riirioti ciiiiihi Hbove Price and that H of more timu twent sample of wntcr BJ tnken fur pur)HMeH of atialni nil ro- , H Malrd th preseiire of colon bacilli In ', M ilamrenmn iiuanlllv. mi it I nu hulls- i BJ pitiable fail thai nil) K'txin driiktng 1 t BJ ilio wiitct of the Prico rier in thnlr R IBB undefeoutid form is Inking serious k 'BJ ninucea of iiuilrncling the moist dead u dBJ ly nnd tlllhy of iimlndien. It would n mB luirdly rcpilre it ihcinlcul nnalysts of M 9BJ those wjitcra to (ontuicc ono of their n H uMer tin nines for human coiiMump- 9 Bfl Contamination Pronounced. U B "The rontnminnlioii i so pro- j ii mured ns to often he shocking In Hip fu B nciihc of smell or to the Inula und most fB !B un-iiflilh lo the vision. It goes without M Bb somg that tho wollbciug nf tho torn- HhLbI UMinits of Prico nnd of it oil irons IBJ not onh jiisttfieN, but ilemnuds, nn H Bfl immediato imprmcment of (hi con- B jAfl diliou Personally, I hove sJil(n'd in H Wfl ilriiiking water for my individual Bfnl consumption while nt Prico for u long uj BH lime Mst and would a soon think at m violating u iiunrantino law nud sub H (Vj jeeting myscll to tlm ilnugsrotis risk M SH of ncfiulrimr it iitngcoua iiutlaily ns W I would of Inking n drink from a M BJ walcrlnp in Price It Is doubtful if In B rn thor city in the slale of Utnh, or jnj B ilsewhere, is deKndout iikui such nn H fHH iiinwholcMime water supply. The Prico HdnB , ner is contniniunted from offnl flow lnVJ ling from ih of the coal mine nnd I'B lis n iintunil sewer for tho sttrfnev F'Bfl 'ilmltinge nnd nil the slops nud filth HiBB of the upstrenm rommuultio. IliBH Best Investment Ever. I WJI "Ho long n Iblu roudition I or- W B iuIIIimI to exist, Prico onnnot hotc fur flH tiny iiinterinl cunt in population nor H )Bj for the (wlnhlishmenl nf jiuy buslnesft W HV and commerieal enterpriiHs which tin ' I BJ location of tho eltv tmiitlHs it to. oh- HV tain It is iuiMHslblu for me to ton- H IvVj ceire how any so no resident of the I gBJ Wimmunity of Price oon vote in op I (sisilion to n bond insho for the mil of B 9H of this situation There is no reusoti H, fBJ why Price should not bond Ita full 8 JBl limit if neetl lw and from a stnuilpoliu HI HpJ of ilollars anil ectils hi IhUh IhywI Hi 9HJ immtt can b made b tho tax paver. IlaVj j With nn adentiate wiHly of wIiiho- jBl istwe water, lite great lNtpmllmont to B B1 the growth of Die eity will Ih resmived H j(Bi and a further incrsmw in iiimhitliw H jB ln I )roKrly value should iHMttdi- m Bfl ntely itult. The ilutv nf th eity in BjfJ i.lHMront not only to the wumeipalltj If B end Ui it rtwiilcnla, Imt to vWtlng In SjTJ stranirer wIhi are subjJml to Kreol wl BBJ liusard whoit miihimiIImI to drink from BJ I the watdr of Price river. There I i iflfl every argument in favor nf tho 1kiii& LH and no sane reason eun bu iidviinecil SIB! for their defeat. " 'Hi Builds Colorado Town. ' AV Walter T. Goslln, banker and stoek. AfJ man of Grand Junction, Colo,, hua i, Bfl 'been visiting at Price during the pust ' flBJ few ibnnd wasintervieweil by Tho flBJ Sun tiH)it tho water question. He ftBJ statetl: "If I were n resident of " B I'neo and the city was not In iiosltlon tgji VB lo funtish n hotter supply of wutor H Bl tlwu it now line, I would sollyny prop H B erlv holding! to tho first bidder nnd B Bl iitnvo into some oountry where 1 I pHJ miulit he able to tnku n drink nf wntor II B without running a risk of tnking on JJu BJ tphotd fever or some other filthy BJ innlady I entmot fur my llfo under m BJ stand how there can bo uny npwti- m flOj tion to tho offort now being made hy m flBJ progrosstvo citizens of jour city to H, negotiate liondj for the purKge of I'Bfl piping in w'.tvr from Colton, Tho IJBl (Ccnitnued on paKcliTtt.) ft. J BETTER WATEUND BIGGER CITY (Continued from pane one.) city of (Irnnd Jt.net ion nenrlj doublml its MiHilatiou and its property viilue when it voted tho necoeaary monoy to establish its prtintnt splendid water system. No elty ran make a bettor investment." Butte nn's Views. Ueorgo E. Snyiler, uiiuing man from Butte, .Mont., has 1hh at the Tavern for set oral days. Asked lor an expression ex-pression of his views by The Sun upon this inusirtant iiueatiou, he said: "I am astonished that there should exist in a community of this si so any op-ni op-ni I ion to the voting of a bond issuo of any magnitude neeennary to insure au ndwiuate supply of pure drinking water. I cannot imagine a county f'St, hit usled in the center of n weal-thy weal-thy agricultural, mining and stoek-growing stoek-growing legion, willing to put up with contaminated wator when pur water is available at an espouse of 1 mt than two hundred thousand dol-ilars. dol-ilars. Tliaro is nothing in my judg-ment judg-ment eomrable with good drinking I water ns an iniluooiimrit to persons i looking for permanent loeatmns. On the other hand, no mnt tor what Hit eliinalie or limine opportunities of t eil may be, no sensible person would ever think of bringing n family into n couuiiiiiiity whoso wuter simply I ui known to bo infected with iioison i filtli." ' |