Arizona republican., 1905-10-15
Ii Will be Phoenix s for the
 Mere Asking
A GOVERNMENT BUILDING
Says Congressman Minor Will be AL lowed This City if Delegate Smith Will Demand an Appropriation of $I5O, 1000 for 1t.

A federal building is within reach of
 Phoenix. It all depends upon Delegate
 NJ A. Smith If an appropriation is
 made for the building at the coming
 congress the credit will be chiefly Mr.
 Smiths. If the appropriation is not
 made for it the fault will be wholly
 MT. Smiths.
 Hon. Edward S. Minor, one of the representatives lately the guests Of
 Phoenix, took the matter up on the
 last day he was in Phoenix on his own motion. MT. Minor was a member of
 the house committee on public build
 ings in the last congress, and 1t is quite likely that he will be a member of the same committee in the next.
 He made an investigation of the needs of the government here in the way of public buildings Postmaster McClintock, at his request, prepared a statement of the situation for him, showing that the government is paying for rentals in this city in the neigh borhood of S6,o00 a year. The sum is made up as follows: Secretary of the territory, s600; United States survey or-general, S1,2OO: weather bureau, $4S0; United States geological survey, $18O; supreme court and United States court, United States judges cham bers, supreme court clerk and United States court clerk, all $500; post-of- flee, $500, United States land office, $70O. aggregating S, 96O. Until the of flee of the United States marshal was removed from Phoenix it paid rent al of 5000. The office of the adjutant- general of the. territory under the Dick military law has become a semi federal office. It was also shown Mir Minor how these offices are scattered about town, and it was further shown him that the quarters in the capitol used by the surveyor general were needed by the territory, and that it would not be long until it would have to be moved.
 MT. Minor said it was the policy of the government to erect public build ings where as much as four per cent of the investment could be saved an nually. It appeared that that much could be saved in Phoenix, and he had no doubt that an appropriation of S150000 would be made if the delegate from this territory would ask for it; i otherwise not.
 It had been reported that MT. Smith would only urge the passage of a bill for a public building at Tucson, but it is not the policy of the government 1 to put up buildings, only where they are needed, and they are needed only | where the federal offices are located. l
 Postmaster McClintock showed Mir i Minor a comparative statement of the | business of the post offices of the | principal towns of the territory for the l fiscal year ending July 1, 1904, the | latest period for which the figures of | the offices outside of Phoenix were | available. The business of the local | office for that period was $3O 966; | Tucson, $21,563; Bisbee, S1S,319; Pres | colt, S17,745. The business of the Phoe- | nix office for the year ending July 1, | 1905, was 32,2O3. The receipts for the | three months of the new fiscal year show an even greater increase than that of the year 1905 over 1904.
 Judge Goebel accompanied MT. Mi ! nor in his investigation Of federal ! needs here, and agreed that an appro- priatiOn of S15O,O0O could be secured with the cooperation of Delegate Smith.
 The congressman were in conference with several citizens, who assured them that in the event of the appro- priation, the government would be given a free site.
 The securing of a federal building here would be no disadvantage to the rom whom the government Is now renting. The building could not be finished before the expiration of he present leases, that of the post office being for five years. Before the expiration of that time the rental val Ie of all these will almost certainly lave so appreciated that the property holders could secure more from other chants.
 In the last congress Delegate Will ion tred to obtain three public build ngs for Arizona, one for Phoenix, at cost of $1OO,OO0. and one for each. Tucson and Prescott, at a cost of $5O,- 00. That, however, was out of the question.