| Show HIGH SCHOOL LOCATION Matter Will Probably Be Definitely Settled Today OLD UNIVERSITY SITE Goy Wells and Committee Prom the Board of Education to Confer Today Board Will Probably Agree to Take Option on the Property at 5100000 the 12500 Already Expended Ex-pended by Board on Place to Bo Deducted Plan for Payment by Installments East Side School The present Indications are that the matter of a permanent home for the high school of this city will be definitely def-initely settled this afternoon a < t a meeting to be held by Gov Wells representing the State Land board and JMessrs W J Newman A G Giauquo I3 B Crltchlow and Joseph Gcoghegan ia i special committee representing the Salt Lake Board of Education l S Tho proposition upon which It Is most likely that the two parties will agree Is the transfer to the Board of Jfducutlon of all the property formerly hqld by the University of Utah In the Third precinct for 100000 From this amount the Land board will agree to deTluit 12500 the sum expended by the Board of Education in improving the property since taking possession of Jt lasTt fall and this 12500 Is to be considered con-sidered a first payment on the purchase pur-chase of the property But the word purchase Is not to be used The Board of Education is to talfe the property on an option with thcjprlviloge of paying 12500 each year ll the whole Is paid the title to remain re-main in the Land board till the final payment Ir made In addition to this Interest at the rate of 5 per cent Is to lie paid by the Board of Education on fho deferred payments Under this plan the Board of Education will be enabled to acquire a valuable piece of property for school purposes A torncyGeneral Brecden has been con ulted on this point and has decided de-cided 1 that The Board of Education can acq Ilre this property In this way without with-out addinG to Its bonded Indebtedness As the bond limit had already been rca hed this decision of the Attorney General will come as a great relief to the Board of Education helping very materially to solve the high school problem President Newman expressed himself I yesterday as being strongly in favor of accepting this proposition since the Land board does not seem to be in a position to make a better one He said that he would make an effort to have the committee of the Board of Educa tion meet with Gov Wells today and settle the matter so far as It can be I settled at a conference Of course the result of the conference will have to bo ratified by both parties to the transaction the Board of Education and the State Land board The members mem-bers of the Board of Education are still of the opinion that they should get the property for a much less figure the members of the Land board meet this with the statement that they arc Rolling the property to Ute Board of Education for a much less figure than I they would be permittedto sell it to anyone else I President Newman does not consider It feasible for the Board of Education Educaton I to purchase the Exposition square In the southeastern part or the city from the city at this time He favors the Idea of two high schools one on the eat side and the other on the westside west-side but does not consider It necessary to purchase additional property to carry this Idea Into effect The Board of Education now owns a piece of eastside east-side property that President Newman considers an ideal site for n high school This is the property In the Twelfth ward The lot has n street frontage of 165 feet and IH 330 feet deep I is located on the south side of First South street Just cast of the First Congregational church between Fourth and Fifth East Mr Newman argues that this piece of properly Is as far east of the business district as the University Uni-versity property Is west of the business district and that if a high school were established at each of the places the Oily would bo dUldetl for high school purposes as well as It Is possible to divide It |
