WATER SUPPLY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 132, 8 September 1871, Page 5

WATER SUPPLY.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chronicle.)

Sir, —There is something quite reviving in these dull times in some of the eorresp nidonce appearing in your paper latterly, but when 1 see such a disposition to crack up our district as was shown last week by " Progress," whose new-born interest in our welfare seemed to grow so rapidly after •» his advent in our midst, that after a few days he appeared "busting" to make it known, 1 am in great hopes for our future. There is a danger, however, should such ideas as he suggests go forth unchallenged that injury to our prospects may result. This must be my excuse for troubling you. It is undoubtedly a great loss, not only to Mount Ida but to the Province,'that " Progress" was not a resident at Naseby when evidence was sought on the great question in this district by the Water Commissioner; and even now, sir, it may not be too late to avail ourselves of his unique water scheme. L would humbly submit, then, that he should forward the particulars of ois idea to our representative in the Assembly, and tnere is no doubt but a lasting benefit would be conferred on this community. Why, he has attempted to do more in twenty lineH to solve the very tough question of increased water supply to this district than all the voluminous and wordy reports of Warden and Warden's Clerk, added to the great amouut of information collected by Mr. Haughton, whether by evidence or observation—indeed, even the Commissioner himself, able and exhaustive as his report was admitted to be, is thrown quite into the shade by " Progress." There is, I think, just one leetle difficulty—a mere matter of detail—in the way of carrying his scheme out successfully, which I have no doubt his fertile brain will have no difficulty in overcoming when it is pointed out to him. I refer to the tailings, confound them ! They have always been a nuisance to us; but there is a hope that now, with such a genius in our midst, they will soon disappear or dissolve. If not, the series of dams he contemplates constructing in the Main (iully will attain considerable dimensions, to say nothing of the decrease in available falls for our tail races. Now, I admit the subject is getting too deep and difficult for me, and I must conclude ere 1 make a mess of it. I will just say, though, if his ideas on the culture of timber be not inure practicable th;<n his watery notions, I sincerely pity the unfortunates who may have the temerity to udopt his suggestions.—l am, &c., Hopeful.