Show BEAVER VANTS OlmTHING Heartily Urging Its Claims for the State University THE I FORT CaMERON SITE I A THOUSAND ACRES THAT CAN BE USED IN EXPERIMENTS The Good Showing Mnrte 1 > AVnsli inprton Countys Annual Report Seaiiian Taken for an Englishman English-man nail Booth for n Southerner Personal Reminiscences The discussion that has now been carried on for several months on the proposition to unite the University and Agricultural college and place the united institution in some certain locality lo-cality has grown somewhat wearying land the people are beginning to disregard dis-regard the voluminous dissertations of the inky champions and the lengthy speeches of the oratorical advocates disregarding the fact that in the discussion dis-cussion some of the best and most scholarly len in Utah have taken a hand I Under such conditions a new phase of the matter is looked upon with I interest and calloused listeners who IwH turn a deaf ear to any argument on the advantages of Logan or the metropolitan conditions in Salt Lake will listen l with pleasure because of the variety to the proposition that comes from the south Beaver exulting ex-ulting In her Importance as the metropolis me-tropolis of southern Utah and the city of arbitration for all disputes in that section comes forward and asks that the great educational institution be located there The matter which contains no element ele-ment of Jest but is all in earnest is I being vigorously pushed by Presley II Denny the well known lawyer of Beaver Bea-ver Yesterday he was busy with I univer members of the committee on sity and agricultural college and was presenting quite forcible arguments to Ib kn up ghlu desires lbie sm seen in the chamber by a Herald reporter and asked his reasons for preferring such a request i My one reason for doing so is very plain Beaver is the best place for an institution of this character you can find in the territory There we have for a site the old Fort Cameron reservation reser-vation on which there are the bar vaton y racks officers quarters hospitals and other buildings that could be utilized for the various college purposes For the purposes of agricultural experiments experi-ments no better location can be found in i the territory as there are 1000 acres of firtile land that could be readily irrigated and would produce In i abundance the grains fruits vegetables veget-ables and grasses on whose growth it will be desirable to experiment But more than this the southern I portion of the territory deserves a public pub-lic l institution Heretofore the legislatures legisla-tures have declined to go farther south I than Provo though they have extended extend-ed their improvements into the north almost to the boundary line The district dis-trict represented by Beaver contains a third of the lands and 50000 of the inhabitants of the territory Besides th at there are vast resources that will lte developed by the incoming of a railroad and will cause that part of the territory to become the most important region within its borders That in the t borter apportionment of territorial institutions one should go there is an equitable I fast hard to be disputed with any degree de-gree of consistency or justice I But Beaver is hard to get at Interjected in-terjected the reporter being a great many miles from any railroad Would II not the same arguments as to inac I oessability only In a more pointed I sense that are applied to Logan be pertinent in your case I Yes they would at present But j we ask only that the determination should be put off for two years Within that time we have every reason to expect that the Nevada Southern will build up to Cedar City and the Rio Grande Western will build down to meet it This line will be a very Important and will make Beaver portant one wi one of the main points on the trunk line between Salt Lake and the coast The advent of the line means the building up of the country and i Is not unreasonable to expect that by the time the next legislature meets Beaver trill be able to show without fear of successful contradiction that the contrdicton proper prop-er place to locate the great educational institution of Utah will be on the Fort Cameron reservation But what will be the cost to the territory there to locate the Institution thereThe reservation is still owned by the government and I do not doubt but that it would be given free of gven charge for such a purpose The buildings build-ings are owned by Messrs Farnsworth and Murdock and could be purchased reasonably They are sufficiently large to be capable of accommodating many departments Of course the great building must be erected independently but this could be done leisurely I Mr Denny is advocating several other reasons and wants ngtese committee com-mittee to consider seriously his proposition propo-sition prpoI |