The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-03

make entertainments to protect the
property. During the day the water
raised so fast that large breaks were
made in the entertainments and the
workmen said 1t was impossible to do
any more and wanted to let It go, but
Jake Raleigh" as he is called, threw
himself into the breach, and by his
heroic efforts ultimately saved the city
the expense of perhaps 100000. The
Herald editorial of May 20 asks: Did
Jake Raleigh ever do any work. 1
answer from my own knowledge, yes"
He stayed on the ground during the
high 1cod and for four nights he never
took off his clothes, just slept at in
tervals on the floors or anywhere he
could rest so as to be close and watch
the men until the danger was past.
Nov, gentlemen of the city council.
there are quite a number of blocks
which are now covered with seepage
water that is a danger and menace to
both life and property. Immediate ac-
ton should be- taken at once for clean
ing up of the debris so that the resi-
dents suffer as little as possible. We,
on the west side, pay our taxes and
we pay double the amount proportion
ately to the value of our property as
the people do on the east side. We
are poor people, of the working class,
and the assessor knows what each in
dividual OWES and he is taxed to the
full extent of its value. The money is
taken to build boulevards, gardens and
buy electric chandeliers to beautify the
east side of the city. The greatest
portion of our city council are fight
ing for franchises for the corporations
that try for them, but they never tight
for roads, bridges, drainage or canals
Our bitches are not kept clean or open.
Our canals are not filled up at the
mouth because there is not sufficient
money allowed for the west side. Jor-
dan river at the mouth has to make a
new channel every year. All the filth
and debris which is washed into it
comes down through the second and
third precincts and no effort at dredg-
ing or making an opening at the mouth
of it has ever been made. Certainly
there is fall enough, as the lake has
receded two or three miles from it's
high water mark. Some time ago the
council appropriated $4,000 to prevent
this catastrophe which the people have
endured and, as far as the writer can
find out, the money went to where
the woodbine twireth.' We are the
tail end and eesspooI of our city. We
have to take TIE garbage, sewerage,
as well as all the surplus water, with
out any representation in the city coun-
Gil, and our taxes are taken from us
for improvements elsewhere. You gen.
tlemen of the council, the Blacks, the
Mulveys, the Davises, the Wells, and
the Fernstroms, will understand some
day that the people will arise and not
only petition. but demand that a diff
ferent course of action shall be pur-
sued for the western portion of the
city.
1--WE do not want City creek running
through our precincts. Take it away
and let it run down Main street where
want your garbage crematory. Take
it away and put it up at Fort Douglas.
Neither do we want your gravity sewer
toward which the people Of Salt Lake
paid taxes sixteen years ago, for the
city council promised that a gravity
sewer should be built for the west end
of the city in the course of two or
three years. The promise has never
been kept, at least in our locality. l
admit that the American party prom
Used at the last election, If they were
elected they would give US plenty of
water; they have given us plenty and
more than enough, which reminds me
Of the negro preacher who was request
ed to pray to the Lord for rain during
a dry season. He continued his prayer
full application until IT commenced to
rain and came down in torrents when,
running under shelter, he exclaimed:
Oh, Lawd, / prayed to you fo' rain.
but l only wanted a shower and you
have sent deluge. Respectfully,
Zone of the Sufferers"