The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-06-06
Qu,ee,slp Iimes
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1872
THE COURT JteCsE L0T.

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Oak and Walnut streets, was donated 10 the |
County of Leayenworth several years ago, |
On condition that The County Court House, |
when built, should be located thereon. The |
10; is sonewha; broken, will require some |
gradiag and filing TO adspt it 10 the pur-
pose Tor which il was designed, but it has 3
central and a.sA.ly location, and il suscept-
IDLE Of being made one Of the most beautiful
places in the county. The conditions upon
which a. Cory holds the land are such that
!! i Ia. a. h used for the purpose for
Will j: VS. given, the tile Will revert 10
the donor, hence i cannot be sold bv The
County, or exchanged for other property, |
tlt rurls, b. n-r.; for Co:rt House purposes
oi not az ali.
There are some S!.o lrofess TO think that
the amount Of wofE necessary to lie done
upon tie 10; IL order TO make i; available
fu5 The uzes cf III. County, will COS! more
,h4n the and il worth, ard hence they argue
"a. We had better let Il 90 and buy smother
p'cc,-,he block occupied by Gov. Carney's
res.dtnce being generally thought by such
pcrsoaa the hes. and nos, desirable location.
Another reason urged by those in favor OF
Change Is ;hai, in order to put the 10. at
present ovnsi b. the county in proper con-
dition to serve the purpose ui the public, 1t
will lie necessary 10 reduce the grades OF
Fourth and Walnut streets several feet, and
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t. pay large sums f"r damages which other
plopeiiT, in the vicinity Of the court house
lot, would sustain because Of such grading.
Tnese are substantially The arguments used
b. those who are opposed TO imProsing the
property at present held b; The county, and
those who make hem are very generally I'VE
don't know Of any exceptional in favor Of
Purchasing the Carney property
/, Is well knoWn that the title 10 the Carney
place is, or ;Ias heen, in dispute, the right Of
the present occupant being disputed by Mr..
Jgre. Clark, Who has recently obtained a
decision in the S.p-e-ne Court OF the United
States in bis .>ro.. ts, a. the parties are not
able to agrSe upon lie value Of the quite eN-
tensiye improvements made by Mr.. Carney,
the ~iIole mater = vet ia dispute. And
agsin. the lot held b. The county was origin
ally part cf.bc property Of Mr. Clark, ~as
donated by AiI, IL the public, on the
condiIiong anoFC zs5.ei. and if il is no. used
by the COUNTY Il. court koasa purposes, The
title vii! agsir vel "a him. This much nv
wsy % explanation. Eo6, ii Is argued By
those 10 favoc Of iuying the Carney place
thai the Governor would dispose Of his
intere.; IN the same for a sum efficient 10
pay hiGl ior hIs Improvements, and that the
recovery Of the county To-, through its absn-
Consideration To- Mr. Clast All
this 5 rGIaOI; 10, LAYING sIoken with ether
Of tie plrties interested, upon the subject.
We done know anything about it, bu; SO far
as the public inicros: IS concerned, whether
the story is true or false is 4 matter Of no
possible consequence, yet ii il made use Of by
those who are in favor of the change, 20
show that by abandoning the lot at present
held, the County would, in reality, lose
nothing. Bui IL, us look at the matter from
another standpoint: Mr. Carney asks, for
his claim upon the property referred 10,
forty thousand dollars. Say it could be
bought from him for thirty-fye thousand,
and quit-rlaim be chained from Clark IN
consideration Of the other lo., what then
have We gained? We have just as much
land as Te E2i before, one block further
from the Genre az business, bu. graded and
Ieaiy 70 build rpon-,he house, of course,
Sor'@ have 70 &c torn down. Could not the
Other lot be Tut in proper condition to be
used By the county, for much less sum Of
nioney, and when made ready, would it not
he much mere desirable place?
In the FIRE. place, all the talk about ''dsn-
ages to surrounding property IS entirely
foreign 10 the subject, for there is no conce;v-
able necessity .tor interfering with the
grades oi the streets ia any manner whatever.
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Secondly, -nm nut exceeding fifteen
thousand dollars would be sufficient TO do all
the gradins and filing necessary, and TO
bni!d stone vail, as far as a wall will tie
needed, on the Oak street front
Let the grade of The lot on Walnut street
be Il eel with the street; on Third street, |
let it start from Walnut on the grade, and !
rise little az it comes north, till at the cor
her Of Oak il msy be sig or eight feet above !
the sidewalk; this would furnish an immense |
body Of earth to be used in filling up at,he |
corner of Fourth and Oak. Thus we could |!
make smooth land OF about two-thirds OF the !
block-pot quite level, but as near level as it |
ought to be-and the broken land at the
northwest corner coIld Re ierraced down to
Oak street, making lot about the shape Of
the annexed disgram,
Walnut street