| Show from the dally of december 21 THE BUILDING the salt lake papers affect an eager joy over the project prope ct that the bill providing a government building for their city will become a law K that prospect were less illusive our congratulations would be freely tendered if in tact they had not been offered borne time ago we may extend cordial good wishes anyway for considering that palt lake is the capital and hence the headquarters cf the territorial officers by the president we are inclined to think if utah is to have but one public building it should go there under the circumstances ogden will not feel constrained to compete for the prize her magnanimity ought to be a sufficient answer to all charges of and will we trust atone lor many of the past humiliations she baa unwittingly inflicted we regret however that the appropriation asked is BO email two hundred thousand dollars will hardly furnish respectable picking for the official fingers through aih it will caeto pass to eay nothing of the contractors the site it is true will not be expensive it cost much to get land enough in salt lake on which to spend soil down there is of excellent quality quantity alone makes it cheap the amount fixed by the bill ought easily to pay for the choicest kind of a site and put in a tolerably good foundation then the good foils on the jordan will be praying for another appropriation herein we fear is the danger it will probably be several months before the present bill can be passed several more before the government engineers can get them elves out here and to work no one knows how long before ground will be broken or how long before when once broken it will be repaired with rock and mortar in the meantime the fund will be melting away and will need re an investigation will be required before further money is voted and the peculiarities of congressional economy will possibly demand a couple of years postponement of the work in all four or five years will have then passed and thia oi course will be fatal for by that time it will be perfectly apparent that no matter bow badly salt lake may need such assistance from the national treasury the nations money must follow the procession and get into the places where other peoples money circulate lubricates bri cates aid accumulates by that time there will be less question aa to pre emin ence over all the cities between the missouri and the pacific than there is now and ihen it will be extremely difficult een with a fine site and a two hundred thousand dollar to coax another a fv a where one is not needed if silt lake will accept a friends advice ehe will ask now for all elie ever expects to want |
