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Show believe, of the city proper a little over half of the present capitol grounds. I inquired the value of this generous otter and am told the, land is worth 1500 per acre. In other words, Provo otTers a site worth 15500 if the territory will remove the capitol to tha city ami abandon a twenty acre site valued at :1"iO,iK).i. Another statement state-ment I must mention. Mr. King says tho precedent of establishing the capitol outside out-side of the metropolis of the state has been followed all over the country. Let me see: Boston, no; New York. yes. Well, we are not a second New York city as yet, but wu will he ages before Provo is n second Al- . bimy. This scheme reminds me of Colonel jr Sellers' land scheme in congress as told by Mark Twain. Ihe light may 'be on,' but Provo is not 'in it,' and there is not tho Slightest n ason to believe that she ever will be, at least so far as the capital of I'tah is cert earned. Provo is a good town as good, probably, any in the territory outside of Salt Lake, her people are enterprising and progressive but the spirit of lion Quixote should ii"t lie allowed to permeate the air of the garden city. " CAPITAL REMOVAL. Hon. W. H. King Taken to Task bjr Sec re- ! tary Itiair of the Capitol Commisston. j Secretary Hluir of the Capitol Commission in an interview with a reporter una morning paper, has this to say regarding the pro. posed removal of the capital from Salt Lake City: "Mr. King is quoted in this morning's Jhrtihl as saying that the capitol site In this city is 'limited to a few acres of ground, with n adequate water supply.' Iain surprised sur-prised at tlie gentleman's assertions. He was a member of the legislature when they accepted as a capitol site from the city, the: generous gift of twenty acres of the! choicest land in the city, situated at tho head of the longest street In the territory. As to w ater, I'll gamble dollars to red apples that there was more pure water used on the capitol grounds last year than has been drunk in Provo in five years, and more than hij .on through the entire Provo system, if they hael one." "What is the capacity of the reservoir spoken of by the gentleman from Utah county?" "The capacity of the reservoir on Capitol hill is two millions and a quarter gallons of water. There was not a day Inst summer when there was not, from .'00,000 to 1,000,000 gallons of pure mountain water In the reservoir. reser-voir. We hud thirty. five water hydrants in operation for watering lawns and shrubs, besides numerous irrigating ditches for watering tie i s. This water also goes with the land and is cm the laud.'' "How much land does Provo offer?" "Our grounds are not limited to a fow acres of land. I notice by the Dinpatd that Provo offers for a site Ihe msgnificent gift of eleven acres of bench laud ouuido, I pUlc 1 |