The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-09-10
LOCATING COMMITTEE
MAKES STATEMENT
DECISION IN FAVOR OF CANYON CITY IS
MADE AFTER INVESTIGATIONS.
Committee is Greatly Surprised at the Develop.
ment, Push, Enterprise and Intelligence
Of Great West.

Inc committee TO locate the
West Texas Normal college be-
gan it's labors in Fort Worth
August 9, 1909, where it contin-
ued in session during four days
listening to the representatives
of cOntesting towns explain the
advantages claimed by the re-
spective places. The committee
then arranged for itself a trip of
more than two weeks, including
nineteen bidding points.
After carefully studying the
topography of the cities them
selves and the surrounding ter
ritory and the sites offered by
the respective towns, the com
mittee returned to Austin, and
for three days carefully consid-
cred all the facts in each case.
The committee thinks it has not
failed to take into account every
important point that could be
raised in favor of any one of the
group of splendid Texas towns
that bid for the location of this
school. To reach a decision has
been an exceedingly difficult
task. Without attempting to
give a summary of the argument
which SuStainS the conclusion,
the committee desires to say it
has kept faith with the pu bic
and its own good conscience and
deliberately reached the conclu-
sion that under all the circum-
stances the location of the nor
NAL at Canyon City is in the
interest of the development of
the state as whole. This deci-
sion is final, unless the commit
tee fails to agree with the local
committee in Canyon City upon
details of the bid or unless Can
yon City should fail to make
good its bid.
1T will be remembered that
Canyon City is favorably located
in a great section of the state
and that its bid consists of prop
erty and labor to be donated for
the erection of a plant to the
value of 500, 100 and a choice of
seven sites of forty acres of land
each.
The committee will return to
Canyon City in a few days and
select a site and enter into con-
tracts with good and sufficient
security and then make its final
report to the state board of edu-
cation, whose duty it will then
be to have the buildings erected
and the college ready for work
not later than Oct. /, 1910.
The committee was surprised
and delighted at the wonderful
development of the great West,
and at the push, enterprise and
intelligence of the citizens who
hold it's destiny in their hands.
We feel sure that the good of the
state demands that the next leg
islature shall establish two addi-
tional schools of high order,
amply equipped and well sus-
tanned, to take care of the edu-
cational and industrial develop
ment of the state west of the
ninety eighth meridian. We are
pleased to be able to announce
to the public that the state board
of education is also of the opinion
that the next legislature should
establish one more school, posi-
bly, two, in the territory in
dicated.
I'VE wish to say that certain
newspaper reports that have
gone out from Austin concern
ing the attitude of members OF
the committee toward various
towns were made in utter ignor-
ance and at variance with the
facts in the case. We further
desire to say that any statement
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