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Show 4 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT any dry season, even when managed with frugality and distributed to its utmost capacity both day and night, is wholly inadequate to keep alive the trees and shrubbery of the city, to say nothing of garden crops and lawns. Nor does the supply under the most favorable circumstances admit of any increase in the area to be irrigated, without which increase our city cannot extend in size nor advance in beauty; for, without water all efforts in these directions will be futile. ' Tour committee find that there are two classes of land owners within the corporate limits; one who by appropriation and use of the waters flowing into the city for many years have secured a permanent title in said waters; another, who purchased or took up lands on the outskirts of the city proper, after the waters flowing therein had been appropriated and used by the class first named. This latter class, although they have been allowed to use sur- 5. An early photograph of Main Street, Salt L on each side of the street. plus water, when there was any, have no permanent water right, and when the waters are deficient, as during the past summer, they are left entirely without, and are the greatest sufferers as they are not only deprived of irrigating water, but also of water for household purposes .... " In view of these facts, and many others which might be enumerated, your Committee are fully convinced that it is the duty of the Corporation to take immediate steps to secure a larger water supply for irrigating and household purposes for the city. Your committee believe that the inhabitants are looking to the City Council to inaugurate ways and means for this object, and that any practicable scheme for accomplishing the end desired will meet a hearty response from every property owner who wishes to see the value of his property enhanced by the growth and increase of the City." City. Note the water flowing in the " ditches" S. L. Tribune |