Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-11-11
ANOTHER SITE CHOSEN.
The Governor at Last Salts
fed with the Choice,
BUT THE TITLE is NOT CLEAR.
Saturdays Meeting Of the Insane
Asylum COmmissiOners-The
Governor Approves.

Four Of the members of Governor Waterman's
refractory Insane Asylum Commission met
Saturday, at San Bernardiro to take another
vote on the matter Of the site. Mr.. Grant, OF
Ventura, declined to attend the meeting and
Mr.. l. X. Fisher, of Santa Barbara, although
present. did not vote with the other three.
The Governor after delay of nearly week
finally vetoed the proposition to take the
Rhodes tract, which 1t will be remembered was
adopted by the commissioners when they met
here in Los Angeles The next vote taken was
In favor of the DAILY tract which lies near the
Rhodes. This the Governor also vetoed. The
last vote went for the Maccabe tract which also
adjoins the Rhodes on the other side from the
DAILY, and this was accepted by Mr.. Waterman
The tract consists of $50 acres, and the price
at which it is put is $4,000. Eighty inches
of Bear valley water go with it, together with
the five inches OF hot water which the Gov
ernor offered to give to any location which was
selected in the vicinity of the Arrowhead
Springs. OF course the same objection of in
accessibility holds with regard to this location
1t is vaguely said that the Santa Fe will put In
. spur up into the hills, but nothing authori-
tative can be stated on this point:
1t is limited by the San Bernard1n0 people who
understand the situation that In spite of the
fact that this location has been adopted by the
commission and approved by the Governor, the
erected there. There are two little contingent
eies, either one of which Is very likely to upset
Abe scheme. When this piece of ground was
cut mp into lots map was filed with the Board
Of Supervisors of San Bernsrdino county in
accordance with the provisions of the
law, by which certain portions of the land were
forever dedicated to public use as streets and
alleys. These cannot be used for other pur-
poses without the consent of the board. Now
1t happens that Mr.. Cooley, whose property
near Cotton was the first to be accepted by the
commission. but was afterwards refused by the
Governor. is Chairman of this Board of Super
vtsors, and there are in the board several other
men who are very iu-p'essed at the selection
OF the Maccabe tract If the board refuses to
allow the street and alley property dedicated
10 public use to pass out of Its control the site
can never be used by the State for the purpose
10 which the commissioners intend to consign
it. 1t therefore rests within the power OF the
board to head off the whole scheme
The other point lies in the question as to the
title to the land. The act requires that the
location selected should have perfectly clear
title, and before anything can be done In the
way of ompletfng the transfer, the Attorney
General of the State must pass upon its legality.
It is said, on what appears to be good author
ity, that there will be a hitch right here. The
land has some OF it, SO 1t is stated, been in liti-
CATION for considerable period of time. If
this 10 true, and II the Attorney General fails
70 be satisfied with the title the question of the
dte Of the Southern California Iasane Asy lum
will still remain open.