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Show OGDEN CHOSEN FOR SANITARIUM Oxdfn had bn rhnirn Thursday u th ail of th atata'i propoatd 11112000 tuberruloaia aanitarium by! a jpai'ia.1 commijuiion meeting in jtha offirci of Governor Henry H ' : Blood, ex officio rhairman. Tht commiMlon, engaged In the it aUction Uuk ainca na appoint- ment under a meiurt enacted by the lait legislature, adopted the report re-port of a subcommittee recommend i ing acceptanr of 32 acre aa a do- 'nation from the Ogden chamber of i jCommerr. I The aitt fronta the east aide of Harrison avenue between Seven-' jteenlh and Twelfth etreeta. Mite Considered During a long aerlea of meeting!, the rommliilon, which puiri out of cxiatrnce u noon a the formaline of acquiring the site are completed, conaidered location In Salt Lake City and other arctiona. It aludied a proposal that th sanitarium be built at the Utah atate mental hospital at I'rovo. ao that facllitlea of the latter Inatitu-tion Inatitu-tion might be uaed. but the auggca-tion auggca-tion waa rejected in fear of administrative admin-istrative difflcultiea. Work on the aanitarium la to be i apeeded under the terma of a public pub-lic worka administration grant of approximately e"2.0uo toward th coat. Architect Eber V. Pier of Og-drn Og-drn la to be imtructed to aubmit plana about November 13, and conatructlon con-atructlon will atart December 24. The aanitarium muat be completed within 14 month.' , Hazard Disregarded Sewer connectlona and water for cooking will be available. Plneview reaervoir Irrigation water will be purchaaed over a 40-year period with no Interest, Governor Blood aaid. The communion, in selecting th aite, disregarded any peril of local action which might exiat under a state auprem court ruling that individual in-dividual officials might be aued by property ownera proteating public work. Governor Blood reported h had been asaured by th attorney general'a office that auch danger wa alight in the sanitarium case. With Governor Blood a ex officio chairman, tha commission constats of James Bant, Eureka; Ora Bundy. Ogden; C. B. Hawley. Salt Lake City, and Mrs. D. C. Gibson, Helper. |