Show The Drainage Canal The Jordan Salt Lake Surplus Water Canal company is the euphonious title of a corporation organized last Saturday for the purpose of constructing a drainage canal from some point on the Jordan two or three miles south of the city to Salt Lake for the purpose of carrying off part of the immense volume of water that must inevitably come down from the mountains when the deep snows begin to melt The capital stock of the company is 12000 All residents of the lower portion of the city will rememberthe dis istroirs floods of last spring and unless this drainage canal is constructed speedily speed-ily 1 the damage to property will be much greater as the Jordan is already up to high water mark and the snows have only commenced to melt |