Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-02-07 | Page 2 | Preservation of First Capitol Sought

If of First Capitol Sought I bill bili designed to secure en an ap- ap for fOl the purchase and by the state ot of the I t capitol building In Utah which s at Fillmore will be introduced n the senate by Senator Jo ph TI r Finlinson in the near future lapid disappearance or of the land land- of f the state having historic erest has caused legislators to too o Rider sider means of saving them mong Il mong the places which are Uni un- un i 1 consideration ire the Salt Lake tre Cove fort and old Fort Forton on in Beaver county The old 1 capitol building which Senator Finlinson Fin Fin- linson hopes to saVe has been used for tor state and county offices and for school and church purposes anti and andis Is still in a good state or of The statehouse in Fillmore was never completed according to plans and but one full session of the legIslature legislature leg leg- was ever held Id there This took place In n the winter or of 56 1855 and was the fifth annual session Several succeeding legislatures met there to conform to the law but at once adjourned to Sat t Lake where the work co be done with more convenience as the location of the capitol in central Utah was was found to be a mistake as the greater great great- er part palt of the population was was' in the tho northern counties