Show SOlONS URGED To JO MOVE PRISON of the tho two senate lulls providing for of of- the state prison to a now new sIte Is urged In Ia a a. letter sent to every member of the eighteenth legIslature Wednesday Wednes- Wednes d day y by the state board board of U ns The letter lettel briefly reviews the present situation regarding the tho prison and declares that removal is imperative both from the tue standpoint or of relieving the taxpayers of the maintenance burden and or of giving the Inmates employment and proper segregation The board or of corrections leller leher quotes several citizen citizens citi- citi zen zens at length in Iii support or of their namely Warden n. n E. E Davis Mayor l John F F. Bowman former former for for- forI I mer Attorney General Dan B. B Shields W. W II 11 Lovesy Loes member o otho oJ the tho board of education and President President dent Hamilton Gardner of the state senate In addition data on the operation of other penal Institutions of the country Is given showing that prisoners in the Minnesota l state penitentiary earn 2314 per Inmate more than they cost the state each year year- that the Alabama prIson shows a net revenue of apProximately approximately ap- ap proximately per year and that the Oklahoma prison last year earned net profit from it its acre farm arid and industrIes In Utah the letter points out the taxpayers have been approximately approximately ap- ap proximately per year for the past ten years to maintain Its lawbreakers lawbreakers law law- breakers in idleness The corrections corrections board estimates that sale or orthe of the present prison site will wili bring at least and that a suitable new site with adequate farming acreage can be purchased and buildings adequate fOr the next twenty five years ears erected at a total cost of approximately |