Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-09
RESERVOIRS AND LAWS.
A Correspondent Makes Suggestions
as 10 Both.
The Addiction Coyotes People Bear
In travelling 60 tho capital OF
GARFIELD County.

kENslSaToN, Piute County, Uiah,
Feb. 2sth, 1897.
To the Editor:
Ths am iuut OF snow that fell on the
mountaios snd hills, makes me think
OF the necessity on tue part OF the
young generation OF looking to the
ways AMI means OF saving that bou a :
teous gift OF naturs, which the Ara 8
spily cal a Aatee Alsl! |. g., The
GIT OF God, and not let II rul to waste
IN re than we can help. In the years
OF plenty let us provide for year OF
scarcity.
There has been a good deal o reeer.
voir talks these few years past. y me
have been made, some are being built,
on the tapis.
Ill should not be deemed inoppor-
tune, should like to offer som ideas
about this sui beet In addition to what 1
wrote In the DISCREET NEWS several
years ago.
IL seems TO me that IN roy eople are
little too hasly in filling the reses-
voiEs. They ought to give the dams
time to settle down, aud zee whether
they viii not crack. Even rock OF
masonry dams will settle down some,
although not so much as earth-maoe
ones. Many times have seen solid
walls OF masonry settle down and
crack or bulge out either one way or
the other.
AS many reservoirs will be built in
the creeks or rivers above towns OF
| settlements, 1t would he well Tor the
builders to be careful and watchful
for much valuable property anu even
humsn lite may he enda ugsred or lost
through little carelessnsss in the
building OF the reservoirs. Anu they
| GU hit not to be filed mure than one.
fourth or one-thiru the capacity in the
| first year in the case Of those damned
with earth ami timber, while those
built of masonry could Ds filled up 10
not over halt. Then II can be seen
| whether they viii stand; and II they
should happen to break the uamsge.
would not be SO great nor the break go
| costly to menu.
Moderation is good In all things,and
| especially soiu the filling oil reservoirs.
Ii may also happen that some soluble
side of the dams, and hence the W ashou
might happen tners. Eternal yigIlance
Is the price Of SAFETY as We'll as OF ] b.
erty. Aud Us human lie might be In
danger below may reservoirs, to say
nothing OF valuable prOpertyl such
| reservoirs should be CONSTANTLY
a;ched; and | think /, would pay to
usve house tunl near, go u watcher
could live there all the time to watch
the dam and the water, snJ at the trst
danger shut out the supply anu mend
| the break. IA stitch IN time saves
uine." II garden or small farm coulI
| be added to the house 50 much the
better, as 1t would lessen the cost oil
| hiring the keeper.
The reservoirs could be turned into
| fish ponds AMI thus add TO the
revenue; aud the keepers would b,
there TO watch that the fsa be- not
stolen by those not having right
TO IL.
feel sorry that our Legislators do
not see fit 10 adj the tax on inherit.
ances aud the income tax to the laws
OF Utah, 1 believe 1t TO be shorl.
al bted policy not TO enact such law.
How long will the poor have to stand
the burden OF being faxed to heip the
I
| the poor have barely to live from hand
| to mout.
We In the country are looking for
law protecting US from big cattle anu
sheep drOves from eatinG out all fed
| rom our cows aud working horsrs iu
the neighborhood OF our settlements
| and towns.
| AIN sorry also that the Legislature
| cannot originate law that will enaOle
certain settlements to separate rom
certain counties and join Themselves
with whom they would have more
power and ben, fit in mmon. eau
Instance the town OF CoJo o, in Grand
valley, whose inhabitants wish very
much 10 join Plute county. They have
to pass through Piute c1unty seat in
order to go TO Panguitch, tle geograpi-
icsl ositiOn OF tne If All from Coyoio
| to Panguiteh oeiug that OF come.
what acute angle with the apex Ia
| Junction. The distance In bes line
betwe nCoyoto and Panguitch Ii about
| twenty-five miles, while by going the
triangle they have to travel over
fifty miles there being very steep
mountain between the two, passable
on horseback only foT three or four
months In year, thus greatly eT-
hanclng the cost OF a trip to the cuun
| court or county officers whenever any
OF the Coyote people have any busi.
ness with such. Anu as Garfield
county il ten times the size of Pluto
county, our sou .heTn Deighkor ought
not 10 bsgrudse few quarter sections
cut OF their large domein.
| III, EDDIJARD DEgkuypg.