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WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
Some Questions for Tho Convention
Committee Oh Education.


SAT- LAKE CiTy, March IS, 1895.
kdfor Dcsrsi NewE
There lsa possibility that the oIu-
Caucnd article may be reached for
difcus.rn ami action by iue state
Constitutional Convention this week,
anu believing that many Ui your read.
rfs will De- interested iu some reliable
data upon this HuI Jurt, which b. now
uuB0i the most important before tuu
convention, / tfus. that you can c1t-
sftruyy gIru tuuco ia your columns
60 lfieI presentation U. some mttI
tsauuR uIUn phase Ui the subject
mRtiUs
The committee on education have
reported unanimously ON educational
nr.icio iUf the consideration tf iuu
Convention that prlvlIca frr tHu
union Of tho University and agriUu
tuul college anu Tor their location co.
ulu place.
am convinced that n majority af
tho committee iu mating thuir report
hlI Boo view tuu uui 100 and location uI
these two higher educational i1stiiu.
ti1ua ri Sill Lake cry uu1 % sH, 900
the recently acquired Font Douglas
sltc. ltis uron 500 lhttuf pfol.sIuDu
that Interest rputusF,
DO bEIayuIs uuu oit.E1Ha want This
uulsuH 10 uusHfftI uiiiTmlIIEHIY,
which location Haa tlu greater gImHr..
sstivu advantage Inls qluiy o. sar
TALLY answered uN thr dHfa uufrIuuu.
i0iu fUfuurI 90 aud nov icrtc..
leo cnsr 90 fhhll be- decided iI ft.
move tue Umyerity 10 the Fofl ID u..
.aa rite, 30 should la .uIwu tIal-
/. The new buildings necessary 90 !
accommodate tho ClmbIuUd iuFtI. ]
lions will coat over s2Il,U0J iu raau 40 /
UuuH. This FUg1uI Itcm OF EXPENSE .a |
more than Duo yca,'i Territorial i've. /
nue., no that such removal, 10 ufuiIri /
urou, cannot take effect i0r severe. /
ytgtu 90 come,
2. That tho pfoioui uuigguUy /
gfJuniH w1ull thUu revert to Salt |
Lake CITY. These grounds sui build.
.ngs are worth s25O,UUU, THIS Will De
the third Item OF expense,
.. Ihu pfOpIsiiiOu 80 unite the iusii.
iutl0ua Al Salt LAKE Guy No. tnu uamu
of economy 10 really pTJUItiti0u that
tue Territory VI Utah shall lose tho
use u "a property worth 0uo.quariur VI
million d0llafs, which Will revert Co
Salt Lake City, Of another properly
worth the same amount, which will
revert 20 Logan Cily, aud also 1i au
Immediate expenditure OF another
quarter VI million dollars Tor lust
such buildings a. tho Territory now
has At Logan.
seoond-ln case tho Convention
decides 10 unlto tho Uulvets
ny and Agricultural COLLEGE
10 Logan, then the present Col
lrgo buildings ht Logan will accom-.
moiato all departments OF blgn iuatltu-
lions. The buildings are twelve Ia
Tho main building, one VI
HE largest college structures in tho
country, has seventy fine rooms nov
tlnlahei, VI which numtOr thirty 90 |
fixty are occupied. Tho tiut cot Of
these buildings was slb7,5l38L The
main building cost fluUBlj.lu, anu the
contractors lost heavily ON II. The
building can not DO duplicated iot loss
than 100000.
Tue scientific apparatus, machinery
and domestic arts equipments cost,
without settling up, $50, 900. Much OF %
cannot DO removed without great eK.
pense ana Injury.
The college farm comprises los acres
Of fertile bench land under close cult.
walton, one mile from the business cen.
ter OF Logan, IL has permanent water
right IL furnished with IRE hydfauts,
high water pressure, irfigatng canals
anu dunes, choice orchards Aud viue.
yards ana young forest trees. The
Tree use for twenty years OF fertile
tract Of meadow land In the Logan city
park has been granted 10 the college
experiment station and is planted TO
many kinds VI forest trees.
The title 10 these grounds IL IN Logan
city and tue grOundH viii revert % that
lily IN case the present uso OF them 10
abandoned. The flut item Of expense
Cor llssl Ia removing from Logan be-
estimated at the conservative nEugo OF
$4,000.
lhusr facts should have weight anu
influence Ia the discussion u this tuU.
lrcl aud should be- given that consider
alton their Importance demands.
10 the union proposed (aud on the
Fort Douglas site, 90 uoid0ubt INTENDED
by tue commilieu) viii entail direct
lnsa 10 the State OF 100000, nuI other
uniavOtablB contingencies that space
viii not admit " Presentation ia this
lotter, should such a proposition obtain,
nnd DO irreyOcably embodied la our
iourH respectfully,
kunERr s. CAMPBELL.