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Show I. NEW CITY BUILDING IS i I NECESSITY. SAYS I MAYOR "Ogdcu's need for a new eft building, build-ing, or rather for a joint, city and county building, Beema almost lmp i Stive," said Mayor T Samuel Drown in-4 today in dlscusslm; the condition-surrounding condition-surrounding one proposal i proac.hmc, bomi 1- i I ion. to b( next Wednesday, April 11 The bond isue proposal Is for 5250 000 to pay tor tho city s share of the building cost while the county will be asking jor provision of I similar amoun to ply the county's share. The plan for ihe building la to pro- jtlr an adequate structure on the mu nicipal property between Hudson avenue ave-nue and Grant avenue and south of Twenty -fourth Street, in th' area gen - , 'rally desiKnatecl ;ts Central paik , City officials have called attention 10 the fact that there i not now suf- liricnt vault space in the municipal bulldlnz to store, with safety, the valuable val-uable records which affect every citizen citi-zen of Ogden. Legal records, birth records, death records, building pap-1 pap-1 crs maps and dedication plat-. Of ft -i rial proceeillnps of the former councils coun-cils and commissions and other data o( Inestimable value are kept at the City hall. Rome of these, despite ev-, cry possible utilization of space, must Ihe" stored awe) in sections of the I II building that can not be considered even "near-flrcproof." :i That the building is old Style, mat f it is antiquated in some respects, that it can not be satisfactorily remodeled and that building of an' addition to jt would be useless expenditure is gen rally acknowledged by former offi-I offi-I rials and others who are acquainted I with the condition I At the same time, the cits officials I call attention to the fact that the coun-1 I ty court house is even In worse con- I ditinn than the city hall, that there is I i ren greater need for the eountv build- I Ing at the present time than the city hall section. "We might get along another year V Or so with the old city hall, except I ing for the lack of vault room, but when II comes to the county building ft that Is absolutely essential rich' now," H .said ( ommlssioner Miles I. Jon - "The result Is that we ought to build ibo Joint structure right now, city and county Joining and thus securing a pood, substantial, adequate building 1 That will not only meet the needs ol ! Today but of the future. The struc ture can be built much cheaper by city J and county Joining in she plan than I by each building separately." The city commissioners hae been thoroughly considering the plans for I the building, which will be a modern office structure with the usual "artis tic" phases and waste space eliminat-1 eliminat-1 ?d. Troxision will be made for ample office room, foi court rooms and Oth er essentials. One of the greates I conveniences to the public will be that all public offices of the city and coun- ty will be under one roof and that H all courts, excepting the federal court, H will be In one building In selecting the site for the propos-I propos-I ed buildin, the c ii and county offit lalfl ! have not only taken into on.-ideration 'he fact thai the city has this splendid property near the center of Ogden available for the purpose but also thai it is located near the trm'tlc center I of the city and also not far from the tailroad centers, the depots of Ogden. I nn |