Show MONEER SQUARE the initiatory steps have been taken toward coward making pioneer square a permanent public park that is the matter has been broached in the city council this is a most commendable movement and it ought to be carried out as soon as the financial status of the city will permit at present the square is an unsightly object being crisscrossed criss crossed with t with cheap structures bearded with decayed trees and scarified fied fled with last years circus rings besides which it is a in wet weather or immediately and for sometime sorrie time after a thaw while at no time of the year does it present anything but a disagreeable spectacle it is historic ground such a spot as appeals to a feeling deeper and more lasting than mere sympathy and could with the utmost propriety be set apart as a perpetual memento of the discovery and occupation of the soil upon which a metropolis has grown whose greatness has but just begun if the plan is carried out it would be an excellent idea to reproduce out of the same materials as nearly as possible t the h e identical cabin which gave the first shelter apart from tents to the vanguard of the pioneers and upon the selfsame self same spot where the original structure stood this to be surrounded for a limited extent by sagebrush a patch of scrub oak brush and a few specimens of the cactus family here would be a standing reminder of the condition of things prevailing I 1 in n 1847 and its would make it a great attraction to the city besides all outside of this little space should be laid off in the most approved fashion and ornamented to the fullest extent of good taste and feasibility it has been hoped on several occasions and the hope still lingers in some breasts no doubt that pioneer square would be devoted to rall railroad road purposes it being thought that its dedication to that end would be an impetus toward the creation of a line to the west such as could not be ipong restated resisted although the dedication has been made or at least tendered more than once nothing of a practical nature has yet come of it if there is anything under the infinite azure vault tor for which the people could afford to let that choice piece of ground go apart from that first herein set out and come anywhere near jirld themselves for so doin doing 9 it would be the turning of it over to those thoe who would cause a real railroad rall road to emanate from the square headed for deep creek and the coast material progress especially that class of it relating to natural development and A commerce would be by that project immen v encouraged and stimulated but it f the use thus suggested is not to be mode made of the land in the near future the city owes to ito if birthplace end and foundation at least so much respect and consideration as will redeem it from its present disgraceful appearance |