Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-25
fFIorenee Blade.)

rected the work with such skill that by night he had cleared large DOT tion of the site of brush. had erect ed a kitchen and mess shed, set up big ra5ge, pitched tents, etc, and had supper cooked on the grounus for, the men. Everything moved vita military precision. Under such man. agement the new prison will grow rapidly and there will be no waste of funds or time.
 Captain Rynming's splendid execu- tive abilities coupled with his years of practical experience as a contract or, and builder, makes nim the most capable man the board of controi could have found to take personal direction of the construction work on the new prison,
 The captains Is very enthusiastic over the work before him and in a conversation with the editor of the Blade Monday declared that the new prison would be the finest one in America in every feature. In the first place the site, he says presents .every natural advantage and condi- ton that could be desired and could not have been more ideal had it been made to order. In the next place the plans were drawn to conform to these natural advantages and conditions and call for all the latest and best features of prison design and safety devices.
 It is expected that the constUrr. tion work will be so far advanced by i December as to permit a transfc all the prisoners from Yuma to the Inew prison by that date.
 The legislature of 1907 passed a law removing the territorial prison | from Yuma to Florence and apprcpri- ated the sum of S120.600 for the con ! structiOn of new prison.
 l The same legislature eEacted a law providing that prison labor might be utilized by the governor in the cree I ton and maintenance of the new ir- ! Stitution, the money for the construc- i tion of the new penal institution was | to be raised by taxation running three years, S60000 to be raised in | 1908 and S30,009 for each of the years 1909 and 1910, so the sum of S6O,00O i is now available in the treasury to begin work on the new prison. 1 A Blade reporter in a conversation
 with Governor Kibbey this week was i informed that it is the purpose and 1 intention of the administration to l Ipusn the work along as rapidly as I possible. We propose" said the Gov l ernOr, ito see what is in prison labor; we will give it our best attention and 1 Iendsavor to secure the best results | possible from this system of labor" 1 The building will be reinforcd con l crete and under the supervision of all i the best architects in the west, Cap tain Rynning, superintendent of the ] territorial prison is a contractor and 1 builder of well known repute and the convict labor will be entirely under 1 his supervision, which is a guarantee that it will be well done.
 l The site for the prison is an ideal
 one, situated in the center of a I6O acre tract of the finest farming land i in Arizona and Governor Kibbey says l the board of control proposes to 1 make the land surrounding the insti- tuition not only productive but to make it one of the most beautiful ] spots in all Arizona, the soil is ex- 1 cellent and the territory will develop
 water system that will be adequate to meet every requirement of this
 large acreage.
 We hope" quoth the governor.
 to make this prison farm the most productive 160 acre farm in Arizona
 and to raise sufficient produce to sup ply the prison, thus largely reducing the cost of maintenance of the insti-
 tuition"
 The Blade feels safe in saying that
 it is the earnest desire of Governor
 Kibbey and the board of control to
 erect in Florence one of the finest and
 most up-to-date penal institutions in
 the United States. an institution that
 will be a credit to the territory and
 tue men who made it possible that
 such building might be erected in
 the geographical center of Arizona.
 The administration contemplaEes
 the construction of a public building by prison labor with anything but enthusiasm. ''it is an experiment
 truly" as Governor Kibbey well says,
 ''but the legislature authorized it auc
 we VII do our best 70 make it both practicable and profitable" Books have been written on the value of
 convict labor but as yet it is an un- tried problem in Arizona, but we feel Iconfdent that Governor Kibbey. aid
 ed and advised by Captain Rynning.
 will make it a success as applied to the construction of the big Florence prison.
 There are now confined in the
 Yuma prison 400 inmates. The average
 cost per day. per man, is 40 cents; this means at the present writing the expenditure of about S57,000 per an hum The number of inmates is rap lidly increasing and by the time the
 new prison is completed there will be at least 800 men to be fed and cared flor behind its grim walls This lmesas much for Florence and Pinal lcounty. it means the expenditure of
 from S60,0O0 to S100.000 per annum in Florence, it means that during the next year, pending the construction
 of the prison, that large sums will, oi necessity, be expended. much of
 which. will be left in this city. We Ihear men say that a prison is not beneficial to the growth of any com
 munity. that it injures the town, etc.
 this is simply humbug, any well reg iulated public institution contributes Ito the growth and welfare of com. lmunity. particularly is this true as re
 gards rhe territorial prison. The cost lof maintaining this institution is i'm. lmense. This prison will bring every
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