Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
PUBLIC BUILDING SITE.

Two weeks from today sealed proposals
for a public building site will be opened
and submitted to the consideration of the
proper authorities. Doubtless a great
many propositions will be made the gov
eminent, and a strong rivalry will spring
up between the advocates of various loca-
tions in the city tina may be deemed
available for the rpo Proximity to a
public building, with its postoffice and
its federal courts and Offices, is deemed
desirable from a business point of view,
and real estate interests will govern
themselves accordingly in the matter of
recommending a site for the structure
that will in due time adorn the city of
Butte.
The rivalry of locations will become all
the more intense by reason of the fact
that the business center of this city is
not definitely fixed. Business is creeping
with more or less rapidity along almost
every street, in all directions from the
vicinity of our leading establishments.
It's chief trend is sensitive to many in
fluences, and the selection of a site for the
federal building will be one of them. 1t
follows, therefore, that the convenience
of the people and the interests of the
CITY should be duly weighed by those
who submit proposals for a site on the
22d Of this month.
Importance that no attempt should be
made to speculate off the government, by
trying to secure unreasonable prices for
real estate offered for the purpose. Such
a course on the part of those offering sites
would be unjustifable from any stand
point of view, and would most assuredly
fail when duly weighed in the crucible OF
a federal investigation.
1t was a long enough ana udIu enough
struggle to secure the appropriations
necessary to insure to this city a credit,
able public building, without having the
proposition embarrassed by unjust de.
mands in the sale of real estate for it:
site. We have no doubt proper con
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grounds for a site, to the end that Butte:
ambition for the speedy construction O.
a public building may be realized.
The final selection of a site will be madt
by a commission of three, to be appoint
ed by the secretary of the treasury, one
of whom will doubtless be a treasury
official. While there is no limit placed
upon the amount to be expended for
site, it lies within the power of the secre
tary to decline to accept any site tina
may be slected by the commission, if il
his Judgment the cost is'too great. Dis
erection is therefore the better part 0
valor in the proffer of a site to the fedora
government.
Happily there are many desirable loca
tions for a federal building in this city
any one of which is more or less meri
torious. The sites most centrally locate
are upper Main street, at the corner c
Copper and Main; the old Pavilion, o
West Granite; the Noyes corner, on Eas
Granite; the Thornton ground, wit
frontage on either East Granite, Wyom
ing or Broadway; the corner of Wyomin
and Broadway, north of the McDermot
hotel; the Kemper ground adjoining tn
public library, on corner of Park an
Academy streets. 1t is not improbabl
that one of these locations may be ulti
mately slected, unless some still NOR
desirable places for a public building ca
be named.