The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-16

are badly bewailing the task imposed
upon them to keep alive their trees and
the growth in their garden patches.
They are entitled to water for irrigation
and cannot get a drop from the source
that should supply them. While floods
are spelling the fields and gardens below,
they have to pack water in buckets from
their wells to keep their garden patches
from drying out.
| They hold certificates as to their right
to the use of water from April 1st, but
can get no water to use. What are their
certificates worth? They say they want
the city authorities s'burned up.' as
their gardens are being served. They
certainly have just cause Of complaint,
and some of that water which cannot be
controlled below, might be turned into
the canal and water bitches above and re-
lieve them of the drouth.
What sort of policy is it to be fighting
the floods in the southwest and leaving
the east to dry out? The people of the
First, Second and Tenth wards had origi-
nal rights to the use of the waters of EN-
igration creek and Red Butte creek. They
made the first bitches to conduct those
waters. When the Jordan and Salt Lake
canal was constructed, the folks below it
in those wards were given supply from
it, while the waters from those creeks
were to be used by the people on the
benches above the canal. But just now
they get no water below the canal from
either source.
The city council ought to remedy this
evil. If the watermaster does not know
enough to supply the needs, according to
the rights of the people who own prop
erty in this city, some steps will have to
be taken to remedy the wrong, or there
will be unpleasant litigation on the sub
ject.
There is another wrong under which
some of the citizens are suffering. When
the streets were somewhat leveled off last
year, the grade was so lowered in places
that the water sects were carried down
far below the level of the lots, so that no
water could be conducted to them. The
fumes across the sidewalks were left
high and dry and so were the gardens.
Not drop could be drawn into them un-
less by building dam which would make
lake OF the roadway.
The consequence was that the trees died
out, vegetation was destroyed and the
water rights OF the people, certified by
the watermaster, were set at nought
and they were damaged in feeling and
property. When appeals were made
for irrigation rights, the owners were
informed that the city could not be
kept for a cabbage patch. But the dis
tricts in which these complaints are made
are distant from the business parts, and
the people have right to grow cabbages
or anything else they please to raise that
the soil will produce.
Unless something is done to right these
wrongs, there will be some expensive law
suits for city officials to meet. The peo-
pie have been advised to plant trees, and
Arbor Day has been fixed by proclama-
ton for the purpose. What mockery
that is, when those who plant the trees
and have vested rights to the use of water
to feed theia cannot get drop, and all
through stupidity, Incompetence and in
solent disregard of their rights and COM
plants. Let the City Council take imme-
date action or there will be trouble.