Show ABOUT FORT CAMERON the committee submits A favorable elport OTHER legislative WORK A full text alo committee saw sit the deserted camp its history s session of alic legislature taa cly devoted to the discussing of rf y tot a branch of i C insane asylum at fort ii neron which is given in full below THE COUNCIL tin announced that 11 F 51 xia xi 1 to ahe release of dower had i fi ik ud jo that II 11 F 12 pro i ii nr assessing ti and collecting ji m herds had boon ii 1 ali vas referred 10 the chii f u judiciary ina aliu latter to on was and means aliu lionso further announced that oo 00 ancil amendments to sections 1 and ofila 1 the anti bill biad heon concurred in but unit section 2 ic lating to imposed on minors for ansin biad been re jt carl ctrl and eliat a commit iro was a for cmiller Se abil isayan vi arc appointed on conference confer enre froin alie A was presented by sir annd I 1 rom citizens froni washington county iskin bu appropriated to repair alic roads which biad ben by recent livoda the petition vas banned binned by isaac 0 McFarl me and foi ty live outliers Ke forred to the committee on highways mr rooth presented a claim of 1015 1 or rent of brovo court house for the past tw for uso of first district court to committee on claims alio committee on judiciary reported on C F relating to bond of guardians and U F 57 providing cases 0 detainer v here ii justice court is in alie precinct recommending their ndoc i tion alie committed commit teo alao ranor ted on 0 F 28 injunctions submitting a substitute liichi they recommended be adopted the committee on municipal corpora tiona and towns reported on C F 31 delatin re latin to characters and alio duties of city alao on C F 35 providing for alij incorporation and government of aitio ci tio recommending passage alie committee on aliye block reported on C F 11 relating to damage done by Ch trays recommending its adoption iian certain amendments are prepared the committee on agriculture reported en C 1 3 the bud bill and submitted a substitute alic committee on printing reported t ant C r ib had been printed appointed to campion made a report of m esti gation recommending that alio same be purchased ed for the use of a branch insane asylum on notion of C C richards faither action sis postponed until act lon daiy diy and in alie time copies be ordered printed C F lib relating to bonds of guardians as taken up on second raiding alie rules arc suspended and the bills gabd C P 37 relating to trials in justices chui coui a in case of forcible entry and dc taihei W rp on second leading rho rules suspended and after minor the bill as read alie third time and passed the substitute for C F 26 relating to injunction is taken up and adopted third reading alie as ordered printed C P 3 relating to alio destruction 0 certain ini mils and and as up and alie substitute icid rending alie substitute aas ordered printed C r 31 supplementing and amend ing alie charters and dehan proscribing and regulating the duties and government oatlie and clauses clab ses fars taken up on second pending aich alie reading as until tu da alie council then adjourned and isit ed the industrial training department of alie bait alke academe iu accordance artith the invitation previously accept ed tite alio on fort cameron made alie ol lowing iho joint and d to mait rort cameron in bhaer county utah and investigate inesti gate alie and surroundings and re port upon tins ad is ability of alie tern ton purchasing lucli fort for the purpose of establishing a branch territorial if alum beg to report that on the 12 dinst committee proceeded by rail 10 milford and from there to bhaer and port cameron b atigo arlinr at alie ladt place on lo 10 alio 15 the at once began an investigation of the buildings grounds and general of furt Cai noron und athu red considerable information to cost of material for building purposes and provisions ind general supplies for future maintenance te nance and returned to salt lake city arriving liero on the IG fort Cain cron way at one time a united states military pot it wl erected in the year 1872 at i cost of about fa of alie labor performed by use troops stationed at the place and was abandoned and ceased to be used fur military purposes in the year 1882 there are nineteen separate buildings alie walls of which arc constructed of bocka of lavi laid in KOOI 1 kiino mortar and covered with ordinary roots they arc acs known as the i two story building willi 14 feet bi h on eacle stoby the building is lect elect nud is surround ed with a two story venanda 10 feet w Olli cers cover feet a 12 foot ceiling a one story building with porch in front the a one story feet ceiling ja fot biru a basement of alie parac size with a 7 foot ceiling the guard house a one story building feet with 12 feet laih alio Sut lera store with aeiline 12 feet sui I onu atory buildings one wins of chich hyx t feet alie feet there i under this building deft uin rany thero aru four buildings conr story digh 12 brot tl epp arc L one v in nd the xi 0 ret quarters there arc of Imil dini cadi one is a double building 1 atory and a half kiili the lower ceilings feet in eacle of these five buildings there arc four rooms fc ct four rooms feet two ryo iri feet two rooms fact and two hall wenyi G feet wide in ea eala ln vl irli is chiv leading fc th upper story ot its K half of the il din Joun OHi efra quarters A t tory ln building loper ceil na t liis 1 i building bierc farl rooms I 1 fact t 0 o t beet ball cven apt rpt ivila miach stair casca in cich thy BI sr feet of tho ton proper tharo are four f can ji 12 feet high ill addition to tho foregoing Jore going there is a frame stable iet stalled for 04 head of animals and to which is a phed the entire length of alio stable 12 feet wide there arc six frame buildings which were used as the workshop feet and other outbuildings buildings out the company and of ficera quarters hospital commissary and guard houses are located in the form of a hollow square facing inwards the interior of this square is forty rods on each side containing ten acres sown with tamo grasses forming a beautiful gawu eur rounded with a fence and two lines of trees immediately in the rear of die officers quarters is a park of about ten acres in which tharo are two miniature lakes of water can ba utilized as ice ponds in the winter time in the vicinity oi the park there ara sixty acres of first clas land which has been under cultivation and yielding heavy crops of vegetables and grains in addition to the foregoing there are twenty of arst cass land yet unbroken making in aill a tract of acres to this land there is a full and complete water right and the supply is ample for all purposes the fort being located on tho beaver river above all other claimants or users of water from the stream it lias the advantage of always having a good supply of pure mountain water for culinary sanitary io cr and fire purposes any pressure sired can be obtained hy carrying UK rater in pipes a distance not to succeed jour thousand feet fort camaron is distant from malfo rd about miles and from beaver cita about oue and a half gilck is thu railroad harveys are made and a railway route is located halt a mile of the fort stages make regular daily connections between ahlford and beaver the at beaver seldom registers as low as 10 degrees below and us hith as 95 degrees above zero and hie climate is such that all classes of grams vegetables and the hardier varieties of fruit can be grown fort cameron its buildings improvements and aco acres of crould can be purchased for alic aum of as per of the onor of the to and in which is shown alie present condition of alic title marked exhibit A alic purposes of an insane asylum an estimate ia made with an economical and judicious expenditure of alic sum of in addition to for the purchase of the buildings buil dinga and grounds accommodations for patients and attendants can readily be obtained from the foregoing data the committee respectfully recommend eliat alic sum of be appropriated to purchase fort cameron and grounds as per tender made that be appropriated to put building buil diug in 1 condition to receive patients and to furnish waterworks water works electric light plant sewerage and similar improvements eliat alie law be amended so aa to make fort cameron a branch of the territorial insane asylum at which place shall be kept all cases deemed incurable and that proper provision be mada for maintenance the expense incurred by the committee amounts to this does not include transportation for which there is no charge A L WILLIAMS J L J T II 11 0 BARTON to alic joint commatee com mUtee legislative assembly it C lund chain nau SIR we offer the fort cameron arop erty consisting of one hundred and sixty acres of land with all buildings and improvements for alio sum of we a good and perfect title with water rights to the property the title of tho land is noy in the brov orn munt hut under special act of congress tha of the improvements have the refusal of alie land when thrown into the market for sale in case of purchase we guarantee a and titia joire P T sir thurlian Thur nian in view of the importance of aliis i aport I 1 move its reference to alie committees on asylum and education combined I 1 do this because I 1 want alie commetta com mittA on education to consider if forfa cameron would not be a more suitable place for the deaf institute it v as referred A few other items were attended to when the |