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Show THE NEW POSTOFFICE Mr. Matt lullen Offers I'nclo Sam a Site for the Sew Federal Building. THE LOCATION 18 SUBURBAN, But It is as Good as" the Industrial Bouie Site Several Practical Suggestions in Connection With the Offer. Speaking of the Industrial homo as a location for the postoflleo, federal court mid other department of Undo Sam's business in Salt Lake City, Matt Cullon said to a Times reporter today: "Why, if Undo Sam wonts to toko his business u mile or two out of the business busi-ness pnrt of tho city, I have a location for him much better in many respects than tho Industrial homo It our uncle will locale Ids building on the block extending from Tenth to Eleventh East and from Eighth to Ninth South street, I will guarantee guar-antee to secure for him free of charge the entire block, provided ho puts on it as good a building as ho did in Council Bluffs, which is a suburb of Omaha. The Council Bluffs building is built wholly of iron and stouo. It is located in the business center of that suburban town, and the Btono used in its construction construc-tion was hauled 450 miles from the quarries quar-ries of Joliet, Illinois. That building is fireproof, and $250,000 was impropriated by Uncle Sam for its erection. I am told that our uncle's rents here cost him more each month than ho would hove to pay for his quarters in Council Bluffs in a whole year, and that he does moro business in ion in thirty days than ho does in theOmiiha suburb over in Iowa in twelve montliB. And furthermore, all the buildings our uncle now erects for courts, postolllces, etc., nre fir proof, mid the Industrial homo isn't built that way. Now tho industrial in-dustrial home is about as well situated for Uncle Sam's use in a city of tho size mid business iiiiHrtaiice of Halt Lake as McKimmin's barn would be. Concerning the location I offer free to our uncle, it is, as 1 havo said, in iminy resHcts superior to tho Industrial home site. It is much nearer to Camp Doug las than tho latter mid therefore it would Im) more convenient of access to our friends at tho post, liosidos it is on the road to Mount Olivet, and people having occasion to visit that Bot would llnd it a convenient place for halting for rest on nn uphill drive and for contemplation contem-plation of Undo Sara's wisdom in locating locat-ing his heiulquarteis in tho suburbs; and 1 think my prooity, in one suburban portion of the town, is bettor than the homo is in another suburb, as mine is a little nearer tho K)st than tho other one; and then there is no rubbish on mine to tear uwoy and sell for awing, ns Uncle Sam's ageiitH would lind it necessary to do in case thev took tho homo, which is tit only for a soldier's homo or soinecliaritablo institution. insti-tution. If our undo takes niv property or the homo site either, I shall be ready to sign a petition for tho rental of a wir tion of one of tho now blocks going up on Commercial street for branch offices for him in order to accommodate the people in tho business part of town. That street, you know, is to bo the first pavod thoroughfare of Jon." |