Show I THE SITUATION 1 RELATIVE TO A ACOURT AHOUSE COD COURT HOUSE During the Ue past several se months the County Count Commissioners of Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San- San t pete County Count have e been heen working energetically energetically en en- I en-I upon a plan to commence the building of a a Court House The project which was tentatively under way one ono year ago which was to borrow with a 30 per cent grant from P W V A and which required a bond election has been abandoned It is out of or the picture Times are too hard in this count county to justify a bond issue With only about 61 64 per cent of the taxes paid aid and payable It would not be bevise wise vise to fo to Incur an additional debt upon the property of or the county furthermore the people of the county it was thought would not favor avor a bond issue and therefore it was rag useless to call an election Some other ther plan had to be devised if it we weare weare are ire to have a new Court House The proposition upon which the Commissioners have hae recently been working is to build a Court House with the FERA labor which is beIng being beng be- be Ing ng employed ed n n the county co nty There does loes not seem to be any good reason why the labor which is being employed employed employed em em- upon varlo various s projects of a doubtful value aside from the fact that they put men nhen to work and so take them off the relief rolls can cannot cannot cannot not just as well be employed upon a project of a more valuable and permanent nature Accordingly According after canvassing the situation from that angle the Commissioners Commissioners Com Com- missioners concluded to cancel the application and to apply In Instead Instead instead in- in stead for the time approval of an FE FERA FEA A project for the county which will ultimately mean the time erection of a suitable Court House building This Tills has now been done The architects who have been re retain retained retained re- re tain d by the county shave ha prepared I plans which call caU for the erection or of ofa ora I Ia a proof fire-proof structure principally out I of local materials The footings will willbe willbe be of cement concrete the foundation foundation I tion and walls of stone and the floors of reinforced concrete The I construction is to be divided into several separate work projects Its completion will require it is estimated estimated esti esti- I mated about two years time The first project is to get out the stone and cut it into proper sizes During the last three weeks in Dec this project was prepared b by the tho County Surveyor with the assistance of the FERA District Engineer It I Iwas was submitted to and approved by bythe bythe bythe the County FERA Committee Comm it Was submitted to and approved bythe by bythe bythe the Engineering Department of the State FERA Committee An effort was made to have the same presented present present- ed to the tole State FERA Committee for approval during the last week of December or the first week in January January January Jan Jan- uary so that work could be commenced commenced commenced com com- at once The State Committee Committee Com Com- however did not meet and would not meet until January which was the date for its regular meeting The Commissioners hoped to have the project approved at this meeting but for some reason or other the approval was not given and it is not known here whether It was acted upon or not This is a feasible proposition The FERA has already erected buildings In other parts of this state of equal cost and of less utility For example an Amusement Hall in Delta a Hoste Hostess Hostess Hos Hos- te tess s House at Jordan Narrows aDAh an aD AIrport Ah port and Hospital at Price and andIs andIs andis Is now erecting two school buildings in the tho north end of this tills county one oneat oneat oneat at Moroni and one at Mt 1 Pleasant Ito Ita cost to the county count will not be bea a burden upon the tIle tax payers The county will have to pay the industrial industrial Industrial indus Indus- trial insurance for the themen themen themen men engaged in iii the work but this will not Clot be additional for forr time the county county county coun coun- ty has to pa pay that whether the men work on roads or streets or what whatnot not Some Somo time before the building is Is completed the county will have to purchase heating and plumbing and finishing materials but these things can bo be financed perhaps If times times get better without any additional tax levy The Time business is being held up at this writing awaiting the approval of or the State Committee Why not let that committee know that the project has the approval of or the county and of Manti City and get the men to work |