The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-02
HAS SELECTED THE SITE
The Commissions Work Is Fin
ished in Butte.
PRICE IS ONE DOLLAR
Public-Spirited Citizens Do the Rest.
The Location Is on Montana
Street. Between Broad
way and Park.

The new federal building will be To-
Gated on Montana street, between
Broadway and Park street, on plat of
ground running from Broadway to
Park on the west side of Montana, and
| 100 feet deep, giving the site, as will be
seen, fronting of 212 feet on Montana
and $50 feet on both Broadway and
Park street.
| The site is designated as the east
$50 feet of block 81 of the original town.
| site. 1t was decided upon last evening
by the members of the commission sent
here by the treasury department to ex-
anime the various sites offered and
make selection. The commission has
prepared and signed its report to the
secretary of the treasury and the thing
is irrevocably done, as there is no ap
peal from the decision of the commits
sion The price the government will pay
is 81.
| The announcement of the selection
made by the commission is not made
by the board, as the members are en-
| joined from making their action known,
but instead they must report their Sc
lection TO Secretary Gage. who, in turn,
makes the announcement, but 1t is
known that the gentlemen of the COM
mission have formulated and signed
| their report, and when the announce
ment of the secretary is made, which,
it is understood, will be as soon as the
report reaches him, probably within d
| very few days, there is little room to
/! doubt it will bear out the foregoing
| statement.
In the selection made the advocates
| of a downtown location win out against
| those who favored an uptown site and
the last conner in the list of competitive
| sites proves successful. The announce
mentfthat the site described has been
definitely selected will undoubtedly
prove a matter Of a great deal of sur
| prise to those directly interested
as well as to the great ma
jority of the general public, for
| the reason that up to S o'clock
last evening the site chosen had not
been offered in the competition and it
| was not known to any one except those
| who were interesting themselves in the
matter that it would be.
The members of the commission
| themselves did not know up to late
| hour yesterday that so advantageous
an offer would be made and had decided
| upon another site and intended to wind
up THEIR business mere ana
leave for home last evening.
But during the day the COM
missioners were informed that Ger
| tain gentlemen desired to submit new
| proposal, and they accordingly decided
| to postpone their departure until to-day
to give opportunity for consideration Of
| the new proposition.
y AT o'clock last evening committee
| headed by Judge A. H. Barrett, which
renraSantp6 q a har of h,,ci
men, called at the rooms of the commits
sion at the Butte hotel to submit the
new proposition. The other members of
the committee We're T. M. Hodgens,
Joseph Oppenheimer and S. " Kemper
They We're armed with map Of the city
on which Postmaster George W. Irwin
had had traced, for the benefit of the
committee, the'routes of the postal car
riers as they will be established when
reorganized after the help is added to
which the new rating entities the Butte
posroffice. The map showed that the
site offered by the committee, the sue
cessful one, was nearer the center of
The city, with regard to the carrier sys-
TEN, than any other offered. with one
exception. That was the site directly
opposite the one selected, at the corner
of Park and Montana
After exhibiting the map the COM
mittee submitted it's proposal, which
was to sell to the government a site
$50 feet by PIP feet bounded on the
north by Broadway, on the east by
Montana street and on the south by
Park street, for 81 and give a clear and
complete title, mineral rights and all,
to the property. The interview lasted
less than 20 minutes and the commit
tee withdrew.
When the commission came to con-
slider the site as compared with the
,N+ f,,1rz
reach a decision. Commissioners Win
dom and Hall, when seen last evening,
declined, as they were bound to do,
to discuss their selection further than
to say that it had been made and that
Secretary Gage would probably make
the announcement in a few days.
Commissioner Window did say this:
We are here to select the most avail
able site to be had at terms that are
the most advantageous to the govern
ment and our action has been govern
ed by those considerations alone From
this you can form your own conclu-
sions."
AS the next most available site. the
Park and Montana corner was held at
$4,000 or $4,000 more than the amount
allotted for the purchase of a site, and
all the others that were available at
from $4,000 to $4,000 more, with the
exception of the Copper street site, Of
fered for 81, it will not be difficult to
understand what site was selected. The
selection of the site determined upon
was the result of some great hustling
on the part of the gentlemen compos-
ing the committee which made the ten
der. For several days they have work
ed quietly but assiduously, raising
subscription to purchase the site from
the present owners, and virtually pre-
sent 1t to the government. 1t was
only yesterday that they succeeded in
pledging the required amount Con-
tracts to sell were at once executed
and the property so placed that 1t can
be turned over to the government as
soon as it is known that it has been
chosen and the necessary formalites
are completed. The present owners of
the ground are James H. Lynch, Mrs.
Mary Patton, NJ. Myer, julius Levy,
Mrs. Matte Thomas and Walter Hale.
Meyer and the Hale estate own two
lots each and the rest one each
AS soon as the selection of the site
tl,a