The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-24
City Council Recedes From Refusal
to Trade Sites.
STABLES AND SHOPS GO
PLEA OF SCHOOL BOARD MEM
BEERS EFFECTIVE.
Majority Report Held That the City
Council Gould Not Give Up the
State Street Corner for Other
Land-Minority Pointed Out the
.Way-Exchange of Sites Probable

The necessity for a suitable site OF
which to erect the proposed twenty-class
room school building in the north centra
portion of the city. so as to relieve tht
overcrowded conditions at the Lowell anC
Washington schools. and the mutual ad
vantage accruing to the municipality an6
| to the schools from an exchange with the
| city of land for other sites owned by the
| school board. We're so convincingly pre-
| sented to the city council last evening by
members of the board of education, who
Were accorded the privileges of the floor
| that the majority of the council who stood
| in the way of the school movement were
forced to retreat from their position.
The matter came up on the report OF
! the majority of the committee on water
| against negotiation with the school board
| for an exchange of the clty's 12x12 rods
of ground fronting on State and North
| Temple streets, now occupied by the
waterworks shops, pipe storage and for
street department stables, for the old
Sixteenth ward site and the Eighth ward
site owned by the board of education. A
minority of the joint committee, Council
that the exchange be made
The majority report commended the
desire of the school board TO provide
needed educational facilities, but argued
against the proposed exchange, pr1nci-
pally because il was deemed the values
are SO disproportionate and because no
street would suffice for the waterworkS
shops, supply station and stables.
Advantages of Exchange.
The minority report maintained that the
exchange would be advantageous TO the
city, the Sixteenth ward site to be used
for heavy supplies and storage, the
Eighth ward lot for the emergency sta
ton and light supplies. and a tract of
CITY land short distance up City Creek
canyon for stables. The minority believed
the cause of education should be encour--
aged, that the present site for stables and
shops is too valuable for such uses. and
that the exchange would be for the dis
tinct advantage of the masses, the only
condition to be imposed being that the
school board should pay the expense of
moving the shops and erecting stables.
President Nelden argued that the minor
ity recommendation before the council
great need of a school building at the
head of State street, and maintained that
the school interests were always of the
first Importance The school board presi-
dent pointed out that it was a case.
really. of transferring property from one
department of the city government to an
other.
Mr.. Movie of the school board said the
trustees had been trying for years TO get
a site in the northern part of town for the
new school building. and the city corner
was the only suitable one available He
believed the stables should be taken away
and on the site fine school building
erected, for it was all in the best interest
of the people
Some Difficulties.
Attention was drawn by Mr.. Bamberger
to the fact that the board is limited 10 a
mill tax annually for erection of school
buildings. To force the board TO buy land
would mean a delay of two years in build |
ing the school house and the money for |
land would come from the taxpayers Inc |
only alternative. if the council would not !
listen to any trading proposition what |
ever, would be TO erect the school build |
ing on the Twelfth ward site, and that /
would not very much help the over-crowd- /,
ing at the Washington and Lowell I
That the new building should be built /
in the central part of the oyer-croWded |
district was emphasized by Judge Hen
1erson. If the state capitol is ever to be
erected. the stables at the mead OF state
street will have to be abandoned in order
that that part of town may be improved.
In closing, Judge Henderson said: In
L contest between place Tor school chlIu-
arts and pipes, give the children and ed
Ications cause the benefit of the doubt.
Opposition Vanishes.
swayed by the please of the board of
,ducation Councilman Siddoway declared
1e saw new light. He wanted other parts
If town TO have the same school facilities
IS his part of town enjoyed. and suggest
ID that the council committees and the
school board get together again on DEN
lite proposition, based on equdhtS VI ldiiu
-alueS-
councilman Callister expressed the be-
ief that the school board should have the
hon and stable corner by exchange. and, /
m his motion. both reports were recon-
nitted in the hope that the council ana
he school board will get together on
rading proposition