The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10
NR6iNlA ASSURED Of COURT Bun DING
cosaty 6oard Mixes ia'tia' Appeopri.
atjoa Of $4,000 for Such Pr. =

Virginians aud range residents in
general in behalf of the. erection ol
a suitable court building in this
city *as provided under the law
establishing tie range district cour,
is destined to bear fruit is exempli.
fed in the action OF the board OF
county commissioners at their meet.
ing last Friday in making appro.
priation OF $4,000 for such purpose.
Commissioner Mc1nnis was in the
city Saturday, having with him a
copy of the plans OF the proposed
building, which will be 65x105 feet,
two stories aud basement, 80 plan.
ned that additions may be made at
any time considered necessary.
On the first floor, according to the
plan as shown. will locate the
sheriff's Office, quarters for the clerk
of the court, and an Office for the
inspector of mines. On this floor
will also be court room and an
office for the assistant county at
torney. On the second floor will be
a court room, jury rooms, stenog-
raphers room, county superintend.
ent's room, aud unassigned space
which will be required at any time
the structure is complete. The court
room will be 28x32 feet, the same
size as the court rooms in the new
building in Duluth, and while the
structure as planned is considered
by some to be inadequate to the
needs at the present time the plans
are not yet accepted and may be
changed to meet all requirements
as may be shown to the board at
some future meeting.
The decision on the part of the
board had the effect of bringing to
test the feeling of Virginians
auent the diversion of Block 43,
otherwise known as the park prop
erty, to the county tor court purp-
oses, and at meeting of the Com
mercial Club held last evening this
question was definitely settled by a
rising vote of some fifty members
in attendance, the sentiment in fav.
or OF the sale of this property to the
county being almost unanimous.
The idea of legal complications
interfering with such action was
brought up, but was allayed by the
of the com mittee that the
question was already in the hands
of competent legal talent and would
be looked into thoroughly, and that
assurance had already been practi-
cally given that snch transfers
would be legal.
Atthis meeting Of the Commercial
Club the question Of another hotel
for the city was brought before the
citizens, and the committee in
charge made report OF interviews
with the Hamn, brewing Co. people
and the assuraace ct the intention
of that company to erect a modern
and cofAmodions building. The
work, it is stated, would have been
this fall but for the ILL.,
ness and death Of an officer of the
in charge of1this partic-
ular line of extension work. but that
the company's property at the cor
uer OF Chestnut and Central will be
improved the coming year with
such an edifice is practically a Ger.
tainty. The hotel matter wac left
in the hands of the committee, and
a committee will later be named by
President I.enont to visit St. Paul
and confer further with the com.
pany officials in the matter.
Upon recommendation OF Con.
greesman Miller committee was
to cooperate in the TAX
ing of the 1910 census, it being the
desire that the city may lose no
prestige in the coming count. It is
also to the interest of Northern Min.
nesota from standpoint of pros.
pective reapportionment that none
are missed. Such committee az ap.
pointed by the chair comprises
Messrs. VIM. Rooney, John Costin,
Jr, and O. H. Griggs.