The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-04

hearty support, did not reached their frui
ton. But shall we say the failure to real
what was sown is attributable in this cast
to the sewers! Even the most successful
of business men has his years of reverses
and frequently what seems to him an i'm
prudent move terminates in unlooked-for
success. 1 don't believe in repining, and
when people talk 10 me about throwing up
the arrangement and annuling the agree
ment with the farmers, / say don't do it,
whenever there is water in the hills there
will be success in the project Well, it
took just such year as this to demonstrate
that something else must also be done; that
more water must be had. Did any of you
hear that the city council had sullenly sat
down and said they would or could do moth
ing further! The supply of water which
had always been looked to as ineXhaustible
having partially failed to meet the
! demand, the question became more
serious than ever and occaSioned, and
| still occasions, much anxiety and patient,
ceaseless toll upon the city council. Early
in the season, fearing the inevitable and
with a view to lessening the drouth of the
present season and if possible prevent
ing it before another, they appointed a
commission composed of two scientific gen.
tlemen and one experienced water expert
and endowed them with authority to spare
no pains or expense in devising plan to
improve and increase the water supply.
That commission, after deyoting them
selves to this work for more than three
months come back to the council and say
they have visited all the canOns and Utah
lake, examined all the sources of supply,
given the whole subject careful considera-
ton and cannot recommend any system of
surface supply, as by succession of years
of drouth such as this, no permanent de-
pendence can be placed in the rainfall from
which such supply must necessarily come,
and consequently urgently recommend a
system of artesian wells, by means of
which a supply of water may be obtained,
and system of pumps to convey it to the
necessary elevation to be available for all
parts of the city. This work is being pro
ceeded with
AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.
Now I ask the question-if every man,
woman and child III the city was square
toed Liberal, and if Liberalism filled the
air and shrieked itself hoarse frem the
housetops, what more could be done! |
am aware that Liberals and the Liberal
organ are necessarily making fresh sugges
lions, but like many others of their ideas of
government, they are impracticable and
nonsensical. A man said to me the other |
day, "Why doesn't the city council grapple |
with this water question.
Now there is Bear river" said he, bill |
lions of gallons of water flow to waste into |
the Great Salt lake from that river every |
day that might just as well be utilized here |
if canal could only be dug srom Evanston |
to this city, | replied that at Niagara |
Falls there was much larger supply, and |
there was premium offered by gone one
to the man who would make the best use of |
the water there, and that he might as well |
be figuring on broad Liberal basis while |
he was about it. The steps that are being
taken to increase the water supply are well |
directed and honest efforts, and they will |
result, let US hope in the procurement Of
water enough for all, and be of q lasting and
permanent nature. But If after the wise
of money in the construction of
artesian wells the waters under the earth
should dry up as those on the surface seem
to be doing, let US not reVile and blame the
city council, no matter which party it may
be composed of.
l understand that some of the Liberal
Stumpers are quoting some figures taken
from the city books and are attempting to
make some points against the party in
power with them. l have tried to find some
If these points. but they are too fine for
ny perception, although learn they were
greeted with loud applause at the meetings
where they were made. One of the speakers,
Judge Powers-O. w. Powers. The o
stands for Orlando, and don't know what
ihe W stands for, unless it stands for the
water he is promising so lavishly. Wen
all it that anyway. Judge Orlando Water
Powers says that the citizens have paid
more than 81 ,619, 600 into the city treasury I
n the past fifteen years: that the city has
ssued bonds to the amount of 100000,
making the total receipts more than S2,O19,- !
100. That there has been expended on the
irrigation system in this city during that
lime S44S, 1862 &C, and he says it leaves bal
lnce Of 81 $685. 900 not accounted for.
SHADES OF THE IMMORTAL BOB WILLIAMS
What an argument Here is city that s
las no streets to improve or keep IN re- /
epair, no streets to light, no police to pay ]
or, no fire department to run, no expense t
or keeping prisoners, no system Of water I
works to build and operate, no parks to i
purchase or improve, no salaries to pay,
zone of the ordinary expenses OF city gov
but just to provide an irrigation
ystem, that's all. Now, that may be the
LIBERAL idea of running governmental
ust provide water and let everything else
o. land opine that if they were ia power
hey would find it would take all the city o.
evenue, and more, too, to make good their
vatery promises) but fancy a city coun
il has one or two other things to think of n
A man gets 81 200 a year.
lie has large family to support. He
ponds 500 a year for drinks, and what a
ecomes of the balance There's the c
rgument in nutshell. Now, s2,000,00O =
our cigars day at bit apiece, that's so
ents. a day, or SlS2.50 year and for fifteen
ears it amounts to g, 1880. Now if you
hould tell the ordinary smoker that he
urned up 81, 700 in his mouth every fifteen fl
ears he would not believe you, yet here
re the figures. Now do this to show You il
HOW ASTONISHING FIGURES ARE il
hen added together for long periods of
me Aud in regard to this big deficit
hitch has been discovered-this hole into
'hich the city revenue has been poured
It us see if we cannot reach the bottom a
it.
fifteen years the Improvements 7
to our streets have cost------------ S29f, 49,
olice department ------------------ 2OS,4ll.6l
ire department ----.-------- 9l,645.g3
rison expense ---------------------- 72,226.61
treei lighting ----------------------- l63,6o6.27
alaries ----------- 265, 063 90
Taterworks ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 333,034. 40 I