Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 2 | Classic Building at Head of State Street is Monument to Progressive Utahns

Classic c i ss i C Building b u I I d I rg at it Head H eid of Sf State te Street Is Monument to toi i Progressive Iro FIEST has been definitely settled upon by the tho P v O OCTOBER state board of as the date dat upon which t the e various various vari yari- ous ons state offices will be he moved to the the- new capitol building J This magnificent a granite structure now practically ly coin coin- pl ted stands as the fruition tion of a dream long g cherished by the people of Utah Aside from the old territorial l building one wing of which I was erected in Mil Millard lard county when the capital was at Fillmore Filimore- long since abandoned as the seat of Utah's neither govel government l neither neither territory terri tern tory told nor state has enjoyed the occupancy of a building owned b by Y Utah Since statehood by l courtesy of the city and county officials official 8 ithe fhe the headquarters of state offices has been regarded as located at the City and County building but hut the increasing demands for office space made glade by the growing county and city offices has gradually y forced l state departments from that building and today only the offices of the governor secretary of state state auditor the land board and f lilio the supreme court are housed in the Cit and County y building The Theother other state officers state departments and state slate boards are scattered r among the various office buildings of the city T To o 1 properly no pe these officers and boards the state is and has been for a number of years past meeting a rental expense of approximately l per annum The marshaling of all these offices office S under tinder one roof will bring together a very large force and for the first firs t time since fence since Utah became a state opportunity will ill be afforded for the c cony con- con y and expeditious transaction o of f the public affairs with ith the state by the people ther f. f In 1888 the city of Salt Lake preS presented to the then them territory of Utah a triangular tract of land at the head of State street on what was then known as Arsenal hill and d which has later later- route come to be known as ns Capitol hill This gift Sift was made to the state with the stipulation that the site which contained approximately twenty acres of land would be utilized for the capitol building of the state when erected th the presentation of the ground and the prospective e enhancement of land values in that locality the city conducted a public auction of the lots surrounding this tract In the bidding at this thus public auction I prices Prices were paid for adjoining lots which marked the highest values palue values values' that have come to this land at time an any before e or since the sale r During the long g series of years while this plot lot remained idle a gumber of f efforts were made t to e. e o commence actual work on a n aIa capitol dt t Ia U ono OUO time a competition was held for the tile selection of a design and