Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-07-15

I 3 internal revenue tax of sl6 per ton o 3 all sugar refined in this country durinl the next six months As she entiF , stock on hand must be refined within , that time, it Is thought that the trus |, may be made to pay the legitimate tsl
 on it's product.
 Nor 8 member of the High Sohoo
 Board has asked OF intimated to th'
 HERALD shat it should support the plsl
 to purchase the Churchill property fo
 High School purposes nor has au!
 other citiZsn of the district. Int
 HERALD supports that proposition be
 cause the High School Board csn gel
 have appropriated for the purpose bhar
 in any other deal is could possibly
 make; and property, too that is fully
 adapted to the purpose. What kind oi
 High School building could be erected
 for the s15,0Oo to S18,OOO the Board
 will have left foF that purpose sitter a
 block of lend that is being pushed by
 real estate men is purchased St Sl0,OOC and upward, Is secured and a reserve of l S3,O0O to S5.OO0 is made for furnish
 ing, fixtures, etc, of such a building ? l The present Grammar school build | ing on Monroe street cost upward of 1 $24, 900 and the plans are yet in an un- finished condition. That building was
 built the most economically of any pub lio building ever put up iu Phoenix and includes 8 large portion ct the two
 story brick structure preceding it, the
 portion retained representing ss least $5,000 of material and labor which puts
 the building at cost Of $29,0OO. The
 cost of tbs rev Methodist ch uIcb on
 Monroe street was $25, 900 and yet is
 there any one who imsgines that we should have building inferior to that and smaller for the use of the High School? Yet such must be the char scter of she proposed building if S1O,OO0 of the money at least is to be spent in the purchase Of land to give boom to some portion of the suburbs, and S3,0OO to 1000 for furnishing and fixtures. Now,let us consider the Churchill prop eFsy. There is block Of land iD one of the most desirable locations in the city; it lies high, clean, with the best of drsinsge1 the oity affords. On that property Is large three story building of handsome design and without ex- ception the best construction of any building Of that class in the city,
 the woEk having been done by days works. This building, with some encouragement of the in- terior, will afford fine set of office, recitation rooms, library rooms and lsb- oFatoFies. The building, ss it stands cost oveE S23,OOO. Fms building and the block of land are offered for $15,- GOO, as we understand it, leaving $15,- 900 in the hsnds Of the Trustees to construct an additional building. With these facts before them the Trustees will be derelics to the trust the peo- pie have reposed in them if they do not take that property. By DO other conceivable proposition can they get so much for the S3O,OoO, not even if they were to accept the donation of block of land in the Montgomery addition. In the end they will have S48, 1000 worth of property for their s3O,OOO, taking the figures the opponents to she Churchill say they have. B block of land to sell for, S10,OO0, ss the value of the Churchill lots, and the value of the building, S23.OOO which morey has been put into the building and the S15,000 which the Trustees will 1 have left for further improvement of the property. Is Is simply an intelH- l gent business proposition in which all the requirements for school purposes l will be thoroughly satisfied Notwith- 1 standing She petty, trucking abuse of | B so- called newspaper beaped on the l public who see this matter in a busi ness light, and on the Board of Trus- | trees, who have simply dared to con- sideE it, good, sound business judgment will prevail in the end. If the oppoe- 'ion can show 4 better proposition now s the time to do 1t rather than to re- IoFt to mere, unmanly abuse of oppo- ,ents.
 THERE are many forces st work cal ,uIated to broaden the religious and loctrinal ideas of today into a universal, religion where sect shall oe unknown, aud among these forces here are none mora active and mora