The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-26
Senator Rawlins Receives Import
ant Information.
METHOD OF PROCEDURE
RULES UNDER WEIGH SITE
WILL BE SELECTED.
Advertisements For Proposals Will
Be Published Within a Few Days
-Speculations as to Sites - Ex-
pected That the Deseret News
Corner Will Be Offered.

Senator Rawlins yesterday received
the following from Washington:
Treasury Department, Office of Super
vising Architect:
washington, D. c., March q.
Hon. j. l.. Rawlins, United States
Senator, Salt Lake City, Utah:
"Sir-I have the honor to acknowl-
e1ge the receipt of yours Of the 10Th
inst, relating to the procedure to be
pursued in regard to the erection OF the
proposed United States building at Salt
Lake City, Utah
THE department. is in daily eXpecta-
tom of receiving a copy of the act OF
cession of jurisdiction, and when that is
received, if in duesform, advertisements
will be published asking for proposals
for the sale of &. suitable site, to be
opened on a certain day at the depart
ment. AS soon as possible thereafter an
agent of the department will visit Salt
Lake City, examine the sites offered,
and submit to tho secretary a report
thereon; after consideration of which
the location of the building, and the
amount to be- paid for the site, will be
determined. Thereafter, one of the
proposals having been accepted, the
title papers will be submitted by the
vendor to the local officer of the de-
partment OF justice, who, after examin-
alton and approval, will transmit them
to the department, which will then
ssnd them to the honorable attorney
general for final approval, which, haV-
ing been received, the site will be paid
for.
1T will then be in order for the de-
partment to determine whether or not,
under the provisions of the act author
izing the building, the design and SUI
pegintendence should be submitted to
competition under the 'Tarsney act.
Should it be decided to take advantage
of procedure under that act, the fact
viii be made known through the press,
and applications will be in order from
architects who ds1ire to enter the COM
petition. These applications will be con-
sidereid by the department, and a linn
tied numbe OF architects, as prescribed
by the act, will be invited to enter the
competition; the proceedings under
which will be as set forth in the de-
partmeut regulations governing COM
petitions, copy Of which is herewith en-
closed. Respectfully yours,
~. K. TAYLOR,
Supervising Architect"
The information contained in the
above communication is looked upon as
the most encouraging news the people
of this city have had regarding the
government building. The fact that ad
vertisements viii be published within a
few days, asking for proposals for the
sale of a site, is, in itself, an item that
will stimulate and arouse new interest
in n prospect and hold out new prom
iSes that the authorization and plans of
congress- will be put into execution be-
fore the nineteenth century fades. 1t
rests with the department, of course.
whether local architects will be privi-
legged to compete for that part Of the
work, as provided by the Tarsney act,
mentioned in the letter.
While there has Deer much specula-
ton of late as to the probable location
of the building. matters have not
shaped themselves as yet so thai it
would be possible to state with any de-
gree of certainty what site will receive
the recommendation of the agent. One
thing is certain-wherever the building
is located, the benefit to be derived by
business houses INK property owners
of the vicinity will be something enor-
NOUS, for the traffic of the whole city
Will center there, where the p~oStoffice
will be located. It is evident that con
tending factions, with this in view, will
use every method and pull every string
to ecure the plum, and when the ad-
vertisements make their appearance,
something startling may be looked for
in the way of Offering inducements. The
result will be a saving of thousands of
dollars to the government in it's outlay
for the land.
Gus Holmes of the Knutsford and
Frank Knox are now in Washington
plugging" for a State street location.
Their work at department headquarters
may prove very effective.
The church is in the contest to a great
extent, and, it is rumored, will offer
the DeseTet News corner and S100, 900
bonus when the agent BLOWS in" This,
the institution can we'll afford to do, for
it means that the property ON that
block, most of which is owned by the
church, will double in value should the
site be selected