Show City Will Purchase Pu chase se the State Exposition position Grounds r r C y Representative Benner X N X Smith and anda a special committee of the city cit council counci last las evening agreed tentatively tn to a aplan aplan aplan plan whereby hereby the city will buy the states right of occupancy occupancy of of the expo exposition epo grounds in the southeastern part of town thus enabling the state fair faIr association to Improve Agricultural park p rk as a place for holding future ex cx expositions exposItions positions and livestock shows hows and at atthe atthe atthe the same time ridding the southeastern section of a condition that has been een obnoxious for several years by the fair fall association falling failing to park the square re and otherwise improve it in accordance with wih the terms of the grant from the city It Ii It required only a little time for the council committee and the legislatures committeeman to agree age on the terms to be recommended to the council counci and the legislature Representative Smith was of the opinion that the state would accept to vacate the th exposition square square but the council committee deemed this figure too to high to pay for fora a reversion of the ten acres to the city Twenty thousand was suggested as about the right sum payable in four yearly yeary installments Instalments and this was agreed to as a basis of a report to be made to the respective bodies odIes By reason of the fact that the square square is too near to Liberty park to make it I desirable for park purposes it is probable probable probable able that if It the city gets ets the land back backi it i will ivill be cut up into building lots and sold in this manner The state tate could not do so for the reason that It I Is bound to hold and improve it i as a place for the state fairs until Agricultural park is used for the purpose |