Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-30
SOMETHING MAY DROP.
The Charities Committee to Meet
This Afternoon to Take
SOME ACTION on THE POOR FARM.
Chairman Terry Receives an Cffer Of q
Tract of Land.
MAYOR GouRLEY is IMPRESSED BY IT

The Committee on Charities has been
called to meet at o'clock this after
noon, when it is expected something de-
cisive will be done toward the purchase of
a new Poor Farm. The only business thkt
has been regularly referred to the commit
tee is the ordinance presented at last Mon.
days meeting of Councils providing for tho
| purchase of the Alexander farm at Hutton,
but it is expected that something new will
be developed in connection with the matter
before the meeting closes
Chairman Perry intends to submit to the
! committee two letters he has received from
| parties at Courtney, q few miles above Nc
| Keesport, offering . farm there with 40
| acres of river frontage at $225 per acre. Tho
letters are addressed to Mr.. Perry as Chair
/ man of the Charities Committee. and are
each signed by James Loutell, Thompson
Nolder and DR.. II. j. Billick.. The first
letter is as follows:
Another Sitc offered tho City.
We noticed in the papers the intention OF
Pittsburg Councils to purchase q City Poor
Farm. We offered, in regular order, at the
time sites for Poor Farm purposes were Of
fered. a site on the Monongnhela, Is miles from
the city, on the McK.& B. r. R "a farm of from
100 to 800 acres. For richness Of soil, location
of land, ETC., this farm was equal, If not
superior to any farm offered at the time for
the purpose. The farm was visited at that
time by the Chief of the Department OF
Charities, and he pronounced 1t good farm.
II not asking too much OF the Charities
Committee, we would be pleased to have you
visit the farm and pass judgment on the
location. We think that after visiting and
viewing this property we can convince the
especially-that are just as available for
City Farm purposes as any other farm yet
and for less money per iss acre
now being gardened and under a high state
of cultivation and, without doubt, the finest
piece of bottom land you will find
on the Monongahela river, q hill that
seems to be formed naturally for o
reservoir, as fine farming land on the hill as
can be found anywhere, plenty of good rum
all convenient and some on the farm. There
can be q wide street graded from the bottom
to the hill, giving good, comfortable grade.
From a Hundred Acres Up.
This tract of land can be had in any num-
Der of acres from leo to 800 and for q less
price per acre than the farm offered on the
Allegheny river We think it would be ad-
visable for the Charities Committee to visit
this land before making a purchase.
The next letter, received few days ago,
is an answer to a note from Chairman
Perry asking specifications as to price. 1t
reads:
Your note IN regard to the price per acre
is at hand. We offer this farm, not that it is
inferior to others. at the price of s225 per
tom land that cannot be bought for less than
$500 to $500 per acre. We are willing to SUBJ
init ir to the committee II, after viewing the
OF the soil, etc. you decide it is not availa-
BILE as Poor Farm site, we will be satisfied
Any further information desired will be
gladly given.
Chairman Perry says he will present the
letters to the committee at to-day's meeting
and will recommend that the committee
visit this tarm, or any other that seems
reasonably available, in body. He thinks
THE committee is the proper body to look
into the propositions made for Poor Farms,
now that Chief Elliot has intimated an un-
willingness to 60 any further in that direc-
tion.
Perry Is Won by the Description.
Mr. Perry says he has never seen the
the description given that it would be in
nearly every way desirable and worthy at
least of inspection.
Mayor Gourley is favorably impressed
with the offer made. Said he: 'That sounds
like a fair offer, and if the farm is all the
parties represent 1t to be I would not
oppose the purchase Of it. don't remem-
ber of having seen it when we visited farms
offered last year, and don't even remember
that it was offered, even though the owners
say it was. One feature of the proposition
strikes me fayorably, and that is the offer TO
sell any part of it above 100 acres That
you know is the limit place on the size of
the farm, and don't think We should buy
more"
There is no record in the City Clerks |
Office of the above farm ever having been |
formally offered, and if Chief Elliot looked |
i. over he must have done so when he was |
out on still hunt for options last fall. The |
Chief could not be seen last night in regard |
to the matter.