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Show RELIEF IS IN SIGHT FOR VICTIMS OF PESTHOUSE way. with the walla falling in by reason of the recent heavy rains. The site chosen, it is thought. Is an Ideal one. The lack of shade trees will be overcome by rnaktngi the building only one story high with a wide veranda all the way around, and with canvas awning. The new peethouse will have baths, toilets and all sanitary requirements, and will accommodate forty patients. The law passed at the last session of the Legislature makes It necessary for the peathouse to be erected more than a quarter of a mile from a stream of running run-ning water, and twenty rod from a highway. The law requires the completion comple-tion of the pesthouse by July 1st New Site Is Chosen, and Sanitary Building Will Be Rushed to an Early Completion. : Health Commissioner Stewart, the Finance and Sanitary committees of the Council, and "Water Commissioner Mc-Knlght, Mc-Knlght, who were out on a tour of Inspection In-spection yesterday to locate a desirable site for the new pesthouse, have decided to recommend the selection of an eighty-acre eighty-acre tract of land owned by the city on the east bench, half way between Parley's Par-ley's and Emigration canyons. The cost of the building will be 85000, and it will cost an additional 81000 to pipe water ffm the canyon. The commission went to a proposed sie west of Jordan river, in the morning. morn-ing. This place has thirty acres and can be secured for $500. Well water could be supplied this place. Hell's Hollow Is Considered. Heirs Hollow, the scene of the Collins tragedy, was also visited, but this site was considered underslrable because of the torrents and cloudbursts that sometimes some-times flood the ravine. The old pesthouse was Inspected through field glasses, and it was found ! to be in a fearful condition tn every I M |