The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-22
HOW BINGHAM CAMP
CAN SECURE SEWERS
Col. Wall Offers to Install
Sewers in Copper Camp
Free of Cost.

The following letter from Col. IL. y.
Wall TO the town of Bingham by way
of the proper authorities Will prove Oh
interest. The colonel is operating a
milling plant up the canyon, and opJec-
ton has been raised by the health au-
thoritics to the tailings from the mill
The colonel offers to install a sewer sys-
tem for the camp at his own EXPENSE
The letter follows:
To the Honorable Mayor and Board oil
Governors OF the Town OF Bingham
Bingham Canyon, Utah
Gentlcmen-I regret exceedingly that
personal interest compels me TO rcsist
the enforcement OF certain provisions pl
an ordinance recently adopted ny your
honorable body wherein you declare the
discharge. of mill tailjngs into BinE-
ham crcel: waters TO be pupllc nuis. r.
ancc and order the practice apaIe4 ny
the health officer Of your toWn- Hal =
therefore procured an injunction 10 pS
issued by the Judge Of the third 1udlclal
district court OF the state OF Itah. IN
and for Salt Lake. county: restraining *
the enforcement OF said provision .ot
said ordinance With due respect for
the opinion of your health officer in mat
ters offensive TO refined taste or uetIl-
mental 10 public health, | beg 10 SuS-
gcst that the only relief from the deadly
effects OF The practice which Is cspe-
cially excepted from the penalties pro-
yided in said ordinance arises from e lns
acids which llow from my mill and unite
with the licensed products of the numer-
ous toilets along the stream.
In fact. If the discharge OF such tall-
ings could be made 10 keep pace
with the discharge OF the ietid mat
ter referred TO, one could readlly pc
licvc that sanitation would be almost
complete for all that portion OF the dis
trict lying below my MIL. and as | eN-
pcct shortly lby the aid Of the court
il need be) TO operate, my mill continu-
nusIy all that will remain To be
done to place the inhabitants of Bing-
ham upon a reasonably sanitary plane
will he 20 Install proper system OF
sewage ducts. extending from the lower
portion OF my min to the southern limits
OF the town corporation. and connect all
toilet outlets herewith. | am aware that
your health officer and many other good
citizens Of Bingham believe, or at least
saw. that the present method Is entire
Is sanitary and satisfactory, but there
are many others. including eminent physi-
clans and the state board of health, who
do not agree with this view. But IT has
been persistentiy urged that the people Of
Bingham arc unable TO meet the demand
upon their mcager resources which VIII
he involved in the cost OF construction
OF an adequate sewer system. II this be
true. the situation is deplorable, provided,
of course, that the necessity really exists
for such sewage system. ! am convinced,
people Is much oveTdrawn. but ! am also
convinced that the necessity is most
urgent; and lest there be even one more
little one" sent TO an untimely grave
by the lack of proper safeguard in this
respect and in order that no hardship
may fall upon any resident OF your town.
rich or poor. on account Of the cost Of
constructing an adequate, even If un-
necessary sewer system throughout the
district named; that is, from my mill
to the southern limits Of the town, I
hereby with your permission. offer 10
establish forthwith and without cost or
To n single inhabitant OF
your town. system OF fumes or pipes
of ample capacity To carry and conduct
all toilet matter to point below my
mill ana discharge the same here in the
main stream. to he mingled. absorbed by
ana carried away with tailings fIom said
mill.
This proposal is conditioned upon con-
nection being made with said sewer in
stead oi the open stream. as now prac-
tiCed.
Trusting that I may have an carly
and favorable reply. l am. very respect
fully yours, II. y. WALL