New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-06
Scheme Proposed by Oklahoma
to Erect One.
WILL SELECT VIRGIN SITE.

All Public institutions to Be Grouped
In Place Built on Ideal Lines-New
State to Employ Architects and En-
gineers to Lay Out Grounds.
Shall the people of Oklahoma erect
an ideal capital city in which would
be grouped all the state institutions.
or shall they be distributed over the
state in separate locations. as a sort
OF pap to each section? is a question
that is now being agitated throughout
the new state writes a Muskogee q.
ID correspondent Of the Chicago Post.
Argument for the united plan pre-
sents the opportunity Of building city
that would be the only one of it's kind
in the world, where every building and
it's surrounding grounds could be laid
out on a plan of absolute permanency
and with relation to it's surroundings
and it's contemporary state institutions.
This plan, it Is asserted, would save
the taxpayers of the state $5,OOO,OOO.
or $25 for each voter in the state.
For the other plan it is argued that
certain towns in the state would be
given one institution each. and the
state would thereby divide it's property
and extend a certain state interest to
the various counties where such insti-
tutiOns were located.
Residents of cities where there are
hopes Of landing some state building
favor the latter plan. The average
citizen, who has no favorite town,
wants the state buildings centralized
under the ideal city plan.
Some Of the strongest men in the
state are working on the ideal capital
city plan. They propose to have the
state elect nonpartisan commission
which shall have entire charge of the
work of building this city. It is pro-
posed the state shall condemn two or
three townships as site within fifty
miles OF the exact geographical cen
ter and then let the commission Sc
lect the most advantageous city loca-
ton out of this prescribed area.
Expert engineers and architects
would be employed to lay out the site
and place the grounds for each build
ing in a general scheme with the 9TH
err institutions. Here would be locat-
ed the state capitol, the penitentiary,
the asylum, normal schools, agricultur-
al college, some Of the experiment sta
tons, school Of mines and other insti-
tutions supported or endowed by the
state. When all the land necessary
for the state buildings should be segre-
gated the remainder could be laid off
in town lots and sold for residences or
business
Conservative town site men say that
in this manner the state could sell at
the first sale $5,OOO,OOO worth of lots.
which would be available for the con-
struction Of the state buildings. BY
other plans the taxpayers must pay
for the buildings. In addition to this.
as the city grew additions could be
laid out and sold by the commission,
and the state would have a big income
from these sales for many years.
In addition to the state buildings, the
commission would also control the
1uAA\1petl plOpCllJ iuc StdIC HOulu
own and operate all street car, light,
water. telephone and other municipal
franchise properties. AS the streets
are laid out water and sewer mains,
telephone and telegraph wires are to
be laid under the streets in conduits
and the street once made would sell
dom have to be disturbed-in other
words, as the city builded it would
conform as near as possible to modern
methods and requirements.
To carry this plan into effect it will
be necessary for the legislature to call
an election for the people to vote the
needed power to a commission or other
body to have charge Of the proposition
1t is believed that the first state legis-
lature will consider such call.
The enabling act provides that the
state capital shall remain at Guthrie
until 1913. This gives five years for a
decision as to permanent capital.
This would also give time in which
this comprehensive plan Of model
capital city could be carried into effect,
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