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Show MANY DESIGNS FOR BATTALION STATUE Nearly Seventy Suggestions Offered by Prominent Artists From ALL Sections of the Country. Competitive designs for the proposed monument to be erected on the capitol grounds in honor of the members or the Mormon battalion have been received aiid opened by the competition commission. commis-sion. J Nearly seventy designs have been submitted by artists and sculptors from every part of the country. There are about nineteen drawings, twenty-five water color paintings and twenty-five miniature models of suggested designs. These have been placed in a vacant room on the fourth floor of the capitol building awaiting judgment by members mem-bers of the commission. B. H. Roberts, chairman of the commission, com-mission, announces that the committee will mako its decision as soon as possible. possi-ble. The recommendation will be submitted sub-mitted to the legislature, which will make final decision as to the design. |