Show GOVERN GOVER MENT tiM AFTER EXPENSIVE GROUND the national government dres not any great quantity of land and in tile the city of washington not already dedicated to some public ube and when it requires a building site or orts paco space fora park it has haa to go into the public market marke and tand purchase it it may bo be surmised that th atthe the gov not get very much the better of the bargain in such cases Recent recently th t government tt tb buy certain land lying between the cap capital ital grounds and the grand now new union railway station said to be the inest in the world some bf this land is unoccupied but much of it is covered with brick dwelli irga the owners have made tenders of their property to the government a at t prices ranging from 2 to a 5 per square loot foot A lot 25 xa X would amount to nill and at 5 to lp co congress digress appropriated toward the purchase of this proper and itis it is that the entire coat cos tofit of it will be about |