Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
HIGGINS SITE
 NOT AVAILABLE;
 NOT FUR SALE
L. R. Allen of Court House Site Committee Offers Suggest ions of His Ideas on the Question.

Word has been received from Thomas Higgins, of Los Angeles, ! owner of the Higgins mining prop erty in this district, who was written to regarding the availability of a site on his ground for a court house, that he does not care to sell any of his property, and it will thus not be available for court house purposes. This information comes to a member of the court house site committee of the board of trade While this news is disappointing to the committee in that it was considered one of several sites-and the more sites available the better-there are probably half a dozen other locations equally as good or better that can be mad in different parts of the town. A close-in loca- ton, of course, will be the most de sirable and this can be obtained in several different places by the com binatiOn of from half a dozen to a score or more of different properties. It is thought that the county, in the event of the removal of the county seat, will require a piece of ground approximately 150x200 or 2OOx2O0 feet.
 l.. R. Allen, a member of the site committee said last night:
 It might not be a bad idea for property owners in different parts of the city and whose properties adjoin, to form neighborhoOd court house site clubs. poel their property, have survey made that will provide the necessary space for the court house and as well a encouragement of the lots so made that while each member of the pool will have a smaller lot the lot will be shapely and worth twice as much, though perhaps from 20 to 40 per cent smaller than the original lot or lots put into the pool It could be handled on pro rata plan all the way through, and whatever sum the county may be willing to pay for the site could also be paid over to the members of the neighbOrhood pool pro rata to square fOotage turned in.
 Tn the erection of the court house a large amount of money would be spent not only for the building itself, but walls would be put in around the grounds; that part of the ground not actually occupied by building will be beautified, planted in trees and those who nave lots facing on it could well afford to have lot twenty to forty per cent smaller if they could have it facing on such a desirable improvement.
 Perhaps in the arrangement it might be desirable to do away with old streetsseud trails and create new ones. In this the cooperation of the city council could doubtless be de pended upon
 In order to avoid friction in the handling of proposition of this kind in which from half a dozen to q score or more of property owners might be interested it might be a good idea for the individual members of 9 club after it is formed. to each place his property in the hands Of a properly selected. unbiased committee of three or five. such committee to act as a trustee to be empowered to act and arrange for the landscaping. To- cation of streets, placing of the court house and the distribution of the lots that would be of a pro~rata size in square feet to the amount originally turned in. In this way it could be ar
 
 would get a square deal: at any rate every mans new lot would probably be squarer than the old.
 There isn't any reason way some such plan could not be followed and a dozen different sites, all desirable. obtained. There isn't any question at all but that wherever the court house is placed on such a plan it would be a great improvement and add quite considerable in value to all property in the section of the town in which it is located
 On account of practically all the buildings in Bisbee being of frame all houses could be easily audcheaply removed from the old lot to the new and this expense would probably be borne as part of the expense Of con stTuctiOn of the court house.
 There is room along the line of the suggestions herewith offered for the suggestions and new ideas on the part of others. and I, as well as other members of the site committee,