Utah Enquirer | 1888-02-14 | Page 2 | Attention, Solons !

bolong utah county wants the agricultural college AND HOLDS A ROUSING MEETING TO TAKE ACTION A beautiful site andS offered for its location at spanish pork the natural facilities of spanish fork and its environs for agricultural and horticultural purposes arc dimply ver bial A proper sense of this fact and a desire for the establishment of the agricultural ri college provided for by the late congress of the united states incited the inhabitants of spanish fork salem payson benjamin and lake shore to offer inducements to the territorial legislature and petition that honorable body to cause said institution to bo located on a lovely site on the south side of spanish fork river and about one and one half miles south west of spanish fork city on thursday the ath dinst committees from the above named settlements convened in the city hall spanish fork city to confer upon that subject the meeting of joint committees was called to order by R I 1 snell on motion the meeting proceeded to organize as follows for chairman R P snell secretary sam L page on motion the secretary read an arti cle published in the of last friday taken from affie salt lake herald of feb ath bearing on the subject to be discussed discus ced mr martell reported the action taken by the citizens of spanish fork on tha matter and that 00 had been the amount subscribed by them the secretary read a letter from R J nuttall reporting subscribed by the inhabitants of salem mr mcclellan Mc CleIlan was not fully prepared to report the exact amount subscribed by the citizens of payson sir hickman reported subscribed by the citizens of benjamin mr argyle reported subscribed by the citizens of lake shore voting was unanimous on the tion of the location for the experimental farm mr martell moved that a committee i of five be elected to draft a petition to the legislature the representatives of I 1 each settlement to nominate one of their own number motion prevailed on motions severally put and carried alie following were elected members of i that committee thos H vilson payson geo W hickman benjamin L argyle lake shore thos C martell W 0 creer spanish fork the committee on petition retired to their room and on returning reported the petition drafted the petition was read amended and then adopted B P snell and T C martell were elected a committee to transmit tho petition to our representative in the legislature and forward a synopsis of this meetings proceedings to be published subsequently mr mcclellan Mc CleIlan reported subscribed by the citizens of payson the petition read as follows to the hon the legislature of utah territory in session contended cont ened GENTLEMEN we your petitioners petition ers a committee duly authorized by alie inhabitants of spanish fork salem payson benjamin and lake shore in alie county and territory of respectfully represent that WHEREAS the late congress f the united states enacted that the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be annually appropriated to and for the benefit of agricultural ri colleges in the states and territories ri severally for the express purpose of augmenting the agricultural interests of the country in nn inteli gent and scientific manner and tho conditions of said en require those receiving the benefit of said appropriation to provide an agricultural college school or farm therefore tour petitioners petition ers do hereby agree to appropriate alie sum of five dollars for the benefit of said institution providing your honorable body cause its location to be on the tract of iund briefly described as follows A tract of land of sufficient area lying on the south bide of spanish fork river and about one and one half railus south west of spanish fork city and situated centrally between the above named set J elements and half a mile of the U C K E and within a short distance of the D 1 G B IL its altitude being at the desirable heights of feet gives it a commanding view of the entire valley with its numerous cities well tilled farms productive orchards and extensive meadors mea doys and arf in close proximity to its beautiful lake abounding in fish said tract slopes in three directions thus favoring it with various climatic influences and contains several kinds of soil all of which are adapted for experimental analyses and the maturity 0 f crupe such cereals tubers fruit grapes etc it excellent water powers good irrigation rights and only awaits the ft ell driver to send forth gushing streams of pure artesian water such as are quite numerous in the vicinity wherefore your petitioners petition ers respectfully ask eliat your honorable body favorably consider chiq loi cate the agricultural collece for utah on the grounds of the above described site i and for the of the ob 1 eject of our petition we respectfully ask that you appoint a committee to inspect the location and as in duty bound your petitioners petition ers will ever pray P anos IL anos C MARTELL SAM L WILLIAM acx G W A E ISAC W 0 CREER L HUBBARD TUTTLE A WILLIAM BOWEN aco F BOWEN DON C J W J J mcclella McClEL Ll