The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-02
THE CANAL.
Judge Shows Final COntribu-
ton TO the Canal.

Editors Herald:
L now plainly inform you that
intend TO go to the polls and 70
j. "Yes." But this is not because
st think the subject of the wat
d question has been or is exhausted.
my Judgment it Is not. Some lig
70 has been gained. Some by public
tons and some by private talk on Il
q streets and other places. Il is with
my personal knowledge that Il
Folly family, which you know il
cludes all the ofishoots by Whatevl
name they may be called, have ha
; all they could do, and ell they ougl
to be asked to do, from the lime (
arrival In this territory till the pres
ent time. II they have left undon
! things they ought to have done. an
done things they ought not to hav
done, it is because the Foresight fam
lily did not see the end from the be
ginning, and the Wiseman famil
made an injudicious choice OF sub
iecte. Should l complain unceasingl
should tnd myself in the ranks @
the Hindsights, which I concede Ar
men good in their places, much as
dread them.
II the Utah Lake, the nslura
reservoir of water. can be damned
up 60 as TO secure a larger sup.
ply IN time OF need to be
| usaI aitbo- h., A. ;,Loh;sos y I
Lake City or the inhabitants of Sail
Lake County, or by both, the Folly
family, wnen they must, will GER
tainly do it, no mistake about that;
o. If it can be tapped so as to draw
of one foot OF the water instead of
raising it, and thus getting supply,
the Folly family will do that. The
Folly family will not let millions of
dollars 10 that lake lie idle and suffer
their ducks and ducklings to go to
roost hungry. Mr.. Editor, you may
depend on that. Sir, you may de-
pend on that. This is something that
the knowledge teat, when it gives
down the milk, will tell us. As soon
as the ducks aud cocks OF the Folly
family get it they will quack and
crow. Now, there are some mem
hers OF the Folly family who believe
the knowledge bag of Utah Is already
sufficiently filled to tell them and all
that is wanted is a little bran and
slops to feed the COW while the calf is
at the teat, to make the milk flow. |
My COWS won't give down milk unless
1 water and feed them. Give the
COW the bran and Stops, and the milk !
will flow into the bag until the
COW will low for the calf. |
Il am told sufficient surveys have
been made to test this. but have not |
seen them, nor should 1 know any
thing about their sufficienoy if I had.
If more surveys are needed and the
money is forthcoming, they can be,
and l doubt net will be made; | am
willing to trust the City Council with
this as with other matters. l do not
think money is wasted in gaining
knowledge, and judging from the
good condition of Sister Prudence, l
do not think the Prudence family |
think go.
1t is within my personal knowl-
edge that soon after l came to this
territory talk was held in tine Folly
family in relation TO their future
needs as to water. At that time it
was talked of the feasibility of erecting
dams and reservoirs in City Creek,
Red Butte Greek, Emigration Greek
and in Canon Greek, and thus get a
supply in time of need, but then, as
now, there was enough to be done.
Thus there was water enough for the
present use. So they, like all others,
only taxed about it. The knowledge
now in the community, if rolled into
action, is quite sufficient, in my judg-
nent, to settle that matter. But
hat cannot be done without money.
have no more knowledge about this
han about The Utah Lake matter.
Men who give such subjects their at
ention, know, or may know, more
han all the rest OF the Folly family
put together.
In one OF my letters, as 1 have
before said, in counting the coat l set
t forth as l thought in its worst
possible light so that if it was a fail
Ire, as did not know but it might
De, the worst wonld be known. l DO
lot bslieve that the interest on the {
ponds will be s per cent. per annum,
lor do l think it will be as low as 4
per cent. II the money could be
at 4 per cent. per annum,
t would then be only half as bad as l
bus portrayed. I think it will be
4 and 8 per cent. Again. I
ook the highest amount. $3.50, 600.
doubted and still doubt about its
costing that amount. II in this am
correct it makes it still better.
| assumed the city revenue to be
S150,000 per annum. Il is not my
Judgment that it reaches that amount,
,ut this 1 do not know. 1t cannot ,
% less than 100000 per snnum;
100000 or $4,000 per annum is
probably not far from the trnth.
These influence the matter incident
lily. Seeing the snowfall in the
MOUNTAINS last WllL5r thought II
would influence the vote, yet my
Judgment was that it ought nct.
None OF us know how soon the SHOWS
nay be less. 1 know too that some
injustice would be done, if the canal
De built. l did not believe nor do l
now believe that the injustice would
De greater than in any other matter
If pubic nature and of az much
At times people get to
Ileep. do not seem to see or care how
.hings move about them. Yet when
awake and their minds called into
action there is sufficient energy to
,suse such a measure to move of
tremendously.
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, I think
ignorance may be and sometimes is
\ bliss. have exposed my ignorance,
n this matter, and in so doing 1 have
perceived the effects of knowledge
being distilled about me. l am done
ill vote,
Yours truly,
u. Snow.
P.S.-After the election I intend to