Show WOMANS WOMAN industrial HOME many times la in the past reference has been made in our columns to the womans comans Wo mans industrial home scheme that was palmed I 1 m ed oft off on congress and by zie which b that body was induced to make large appropriations for a home for polygamous wives in utah who abandoned their marital relations we have pointe dj out that mormon wives sud and mothers possessed hessed too much nobility and independence of character to entertain MAY any thought of associating thera them selves with such an institution and from a full knowledge of this fact as aa well as a fair comprehension of the designs and methods of those who were operating the homell home scheme we found it an easy matter to foretell the outcome of the whole business mention has also been made of the efforts of certain non imor mo mons hereto havethe have therome the home homell converted into inta a public alic government building and ave the opposition of oth others ersol ot the gentile residents to the plan rhe fhe supporters of the proposition have not however ceased their operations as can be seen by the annexed circular which Js is being circulated in washington as stated in a special telegram to the herald we publish the document not as our view on the public budding subject but as containing a verification of our statements made regarding the comans womans wo mans home at the time of its inception THE BUILDING FOR FOB SALT LAKE the following considerations are respectfully urged to the honorable committee on public buildings as ab reasons why the proposed government building for salt lake city utah hould not cost to exceed the sum of your attention is also respectfully directed to the plan contained herein by which the expenditure pend iture of that amount will provide a building satisfactory in all respects ample for the needs of the city and the sum of be saved to the government the inhabitants of salt lake city are earnest and united in favor of a public building wide as their differences are on most other subjects the great increase in criminal prosecutions under the recent enactments of congress the duties of the utah commission which has charge of all the elections ju in the territory and whose headquarters are in salt lake city the increased importance of the united states land interests ard more than all a the recent decided growth of salt lake city have all combined to make a commodious place of business for the federal offices an imperative pera tive ve necessity As it is today the various government offices are situated in not less than six different localities in salt lake city at a cost to the government of about per annum iu in rents alone and that figure will be almost doubled when the leases of the present quarters expire the uniting of all these bK branches anches with which the public has so many dealings under one roof and in some locality easy of general access is a consummation the desirableness of which cannot be questioned As happens in every other city for which a public building to is proposed the question of a site has commenced to agitate various business and property circles in salt lake city it is realized on every hand that the vast volume of business which would flow to the government headquarters would have the effect to inc increase reamA values on all adjacent properties and already combinations and syndicates have been formed in salt bait lake city looking to the influencing of the commission which wal have the locating of the site bite whole blocks have been tied tie dup cupl under long options on the chance of the public bublic buildings uil dings being located somewhere contiguous since it has been decided by a committee of congress to recommend the insertion of in the appropriation bill for the purchase of a site and erection of the building the agitation speculation and dist discussions us in the circles referred to have increased by tenfold growth an unimportant important fact which should not be b lost sight of now that the amount to be bloused used for erecting the building and purchasing the land and for its site has been definitely named is ie that the sum proposed is not adequate to carry out both the purposes named had the land been acquired years ago before values rose to their present height in salt lake city a site might have been obtained and sufficient funds left butof out of to erect an edifice for the government needs deeds but even then it would have sufficed only for the time being but with land values anywhere near the business center of salt lake its as they are today the purchase of a suitable site would consume so large a part of the appropriation that it may be doubted whether the residue would be sufficient to erect such a building as would meet the requirements of the government the supervising architect of the treasury department addressed a request to the postmaster of salt lake asking him to solicit proposals from owners of corners in the central aral part of the city looking to the acquirement of a lot feet the postmaster poA master in his advertisement limited the location to two blocks east or west of main street and between south temple and fourth south streets an area which embraces the part of the city strictly devoted to business pursuits basing an estimate upon the value of foot frontage for corners within the district valued as quoted in actual transfers in salt lake ake during the past five months and it Js is safe to say any site such as the one named by the supervising architect would cost from 1000 to 2000 per front foot an expenditure of from to for the site alone this objection forms an additional reason for the adoption of the plan we respectfully submit which is as follows that the institution in salt lake city known as th the comans womans 18 industrial rome home already owned and con tooled by the government govern went be con converted into and constitute the federal building for salt lake city the reasons urged in support of this plan are I 1 the failure of the institution to accomplish the ends sought to be attained in its creation aud its entire uselessness to either the government or the people of utah 2 the saving of a large sum of money to the government 8 3 the immediate solution of a question which otherwise will require long I 1 investigation and delay fo hetue |