The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-13
THE WAFER VAIL,

In another column is printed com
municstiOn from resident OF the
North Bench. 1t need hardly be said
tat the subject matter is water.
That is what the Nortu beuchers write
about when they address the City Coun-
Gil and the public through the press.
The people up there ere little late, this
year, with their walls, the one now pub
llshed being the first, we believe, that
has come out. Ordinarily these COM
plants come with the swelling of:the
buds aud ,ntinue with profuseness aud
regularity until the leaves fall and the
winter SHOWS descend. Let US hope
that the delay in beginning is an indi-
cation that the crop of walls this season
is to be a light one, and early harvested.
Let US also suggest 10 our good friends
on the bench that the place to preset
their appeals is in the City Council,
direct, rather than through the news
papers 1t is only telling the truth to
say thet the public has grown weary OF
these annual wells, of this name-call-
ing, of threats of lawsuits, of assertion
and denial of rights, AID SO on, without |
regard to time. season or limit
Last year and the year before we
heard a good deal about suits to COM |
pei the Council to provide the bench |
with water, the people up there claim
ing that they had right to an equit-
able proportion of the streams flowing !
into the city. TEE HERALD urged
them then to institute such suits, and |
for ali time settle dispute that was
annoying to everybody. We under
stend that the same kind of talk is
again INDUCED in, ana We therefore
again suggest to tie aggrieved the pro-
priety of going ahead with the matter
and getting the courts to cay if the City
GeEnsp must sGppIy tho water ae
manded and required. Tie problem
must be solved sometime. and the
sooner the solution comes the better |
for ali cone. Yned. # the courts say !
that the rity Is Bot required |
by lax or equity to ptosids |
.ns necessary fluid, the quaFtea will
end, and the good people who are climb
ing the mountain and establishing
homes among the clouds will probably
possess their souls in peace until such
time as the municipality shall be finaR-
cialIy able and willing to carry waterTo
the uplands. If the courts shall say that
the Corporation must furnish water for
the people above the water line, the
tribunals will probably accompany their
decree with an explanation OF where the
City will obtain the water and how 1t
will get the money to meet the expense
of conveying it; when the Council will
necessarily and we doubt not cheerfully
| proceed with the work. At present the
City Council is quite as much puzzled
to know where and how to increase the
! water supply as the North Benchers
can possibly be.
In this connection let Us say to the
writer of this mornings eommunica-
ton, and to the dry bench residents
generally that they don't want the
''surplus water" from City Creek. their
assertions to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. When water is required most
indeed, about the only time of the year
when it is required for irrigation-there
is no surplus. To carry the stream to
the bench in the early spring when the
creek is high and running to waste
would simply be to cut the distressed
people to more expense for trees, gar
dens and lawns, which could not be
kept alive during the summer. for the
water would be necessarily shut off dur
ing the warm months of June, July
August and September. If there were
a surplus through the summer it would
long since have been conveyed t.
the uplands; but it would be an agra
walton of the case to convey the sur
plus to the hills in spring when it is mo-
required and shut the gate when thu
water is needed. .--.