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Show H MqRE ROOM VVANTED, H yTe jiotjce p tlio columns of our cou; H ntry contemporaries, thnt f,hcre are a H number of very meritorious claims for m eslabllBlimont of yublto institutions in B yarlous parts of tlio state that frill H probably be presented to the ryOjfUlat- B uro this session, and we presurap it H will be Bimply a question of fuudu in H most oaaps, us to whether thoy wll bp H granted or not ns in the instances that H hare catrie to pur nqtlcp tlio) o can be np H question as to thp justipc of the request, m pr the utility of the institutions asked H for. The legislators jvlll ffnd as their H" predecessors hare done, tljat wo are all H much more ready to recalyo than to H There, nrp few if any of tl)0 tajepayors B jrho will say that the taxes a rp top low, HMl: and that thoy ought tq bo Increased, H yet this is the only safe- way of meeting Hr tho petitions of the Ynrjqus applicants, H Tho expedient of borrowing might be H resorted to, but it is rcaspnablo to H conclude that this should be ()one pply H when absqlutely necepsary. H As far as reducing tho expenses, by H cutting down tho salaries of any of the H publio oUlqlals, is poucorupd, thcro is H pot the lcust lllfcliljoocl of anything of H (.lift kind being done, but op the con H trary, as Is customary it is quite prob- H nble that a ralqo will bo given in this B branch of tho publio scrvicp. With this situation confronting us HBl nothing but a striot senso of the dpty HBl jre owp to th? part of t)ie state, H could induce us tP prosent to our read- H ers the need of a request qn the part of H ' the friend and patrons of tho southern H branoh of tho stato university, for an B additional building in which to moet HHJ he growipg demand for higher eduoa- HHl tion which that institution has deve- M pped among our citizens, JJefqre the M I advent of tho lranoli Normal, It was be- H i ypad tho rcaoh of tho sans and daugh- ' tors of the prdlnary working man to get aBBBBBaaL 4 Jiy education beyond that of the dls- ttB"l I ' school, and it has takon three or four years to ponylnce our people that m the benefits of the Jfighc-r pduoation so H easily to be obtained by the urban pop- H ulatlan, is aptually with, in their reach, H bub they are becoming' awake to tho H I fact at such a rate that they bid fair H to outdo their pity cousins In tho effort B (or thobencfltu extended, und if we can m judge the futuro by thp present, there H will be at least four hundred young men H and women clamoriug for admission V the next sclpol year tq a little building H that is taxed far beyqnd its capaolty to H accomodate the two hundred and twen m tyor thirty young people that are now H being dally packed within its walls. B We are informed that tho Uranoh Nor- H fqal faculty recently made an estimate H of tho probable cost of tho erection of a H suitable building for tho accomodation H pf this growing demand for knowledge, H and that the University Hoard basing H their estimate upon the idea that this M part of the country had readied its H growth, aqd that the cost of building B would be less than in Salt Lake B c'ly declined to indorse the estt- B mates of the Faculty and estimated B l'lat 523000 would be ample to supply B the needs of a country such as ours, ad- m ding that the present building cost but H 818000 to build it, when It is a well M known faat that the 818000 refpredto by B the Hoard of regents, was only the fifty H three or four percent of the cost that Hl that the state paid, and that the people Hj t)f this olty bore tho rest of the expense. H The idea that this part of the country H has reached Its growth In population B BeemB to those who havo seen tho won H derful mineral deposits In this and Hj the surrounding counties, and the In- H tereBt that is being taken In the devel- fK opment of them, ridiculous, but admit- HD 'n? le statement to bo a fact: the Kt bountry eontalns thousands of school BQ children, nudraanyof them ara now Bn attending institutions of learning Hi farther North, owing to he lack B tit suitable accomodations nearer H llbtne. And those who aro now Hl attending this school will, unless H fetiUablo fasllltlcs are hocured, havo to B go to the parent institution to com- H plote tho course: which will involye an B expense that many of them will be un- M able to meet. |