Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-26

| the other creeks tnaJ the Guy is going
to tap for water supply, can be built
for about $4,000 less than it was first
supposed so that this money. can be
employed in the construction of pump
ing plants and stand pipes. The peo-
pie are willing that this money should
be spent, if only some action is taken
to save water and give folks water.
Add to this 100000 gallons the $1,000
600 gallons recovered by Land and
Water Commissioner Luce from DR..
Seymour B. Young and we have 6.000,-
009 gallons a day added to the water
supply. Salt Lake City has $4,000 peo-
pie, perhaps. Call it 10000. Di-
vide 100000 gallons of water among
10000 people and we have 66 2-3 gal
Ions, or 266 2-3 quarts for every man,
woman and child within our borders.
1t takes a quart of water to wash in,
sometimes two, possibly three, or even
four and admitting that some people
are so foolish as to wash eight or
even ten times per day, that would re-
quire only forty quarts of water, leav
ing us each 226 2-3 quarts each for
drinking purposes. This too, outside
the waters of City Creek and Parley's
and Emigration canyons where steen
millions more come in through the
mains every day.
AS a matter of cold and disinter-
ested fact, with proper application
of the laws governing the water sup
ply; with proper precaution taken
against waste, there need be no water
famine here. There is none. If the
authorities do their duty there is an
ample supply. OF course we need
more for future use, but Salt Lake has
water to waste-and she wastes it,
The water department has had several
inspectors out during the heated term
'expostulating" with people for turn
ing on the hose, yet every night up
Brigham street, from the official resi-
dence of the president of the church
away on out past the mansion of T.
kearns, the hose has been running all
night with no nozzle on. One of
Truths men took two o'clock prowl
some time ago and counted seventeen
nozzleless hoses running on Brigham
street lawns. A hose without nozzle
makes little noise and is not easily
heard, especially when by an inspector
who works during the day and sleeps
at home in another part of the town at
night. And the people who permitted
their hydrants to run did it because of
pure cussedness. They knew the
water was doing very little good yet
they turned it on and went to bed.
And Notwithstanding the fact that the
water department was cogniZant of
this wilful waste it did nothing to stop
1t. You haven't heard of any ones
being arrested for wasting water.
sprinkling out of hours, have you? Of
course not.
So If the story that Luce has seved
3,OOOOOO gallons per day from the pas
lures of Seymour B.. Young is true
II 1t is fact that the wells of Liberty
park Will yield an equal amount in a
day, 1t does seem that we ought to get
along on the additional &C 2-3 gallons
per head, until the new pipe line is
completed. But go ahead and get more
water II 1t is possible, for if we can
nave more let us have it. The water
OFFICERS talk so glibly about millions |
or gallons, however, that we have
come to believe there can be no short |
age and If the figures announced are
true there would not be, if every tan
and every hose in town should run
VIDE open all of the time.
There is so much CUFF in this water
business that people are getting tired