The copper era., 1909-01-28

the United States, and the absence of restrictions on our part affords un- limited opportunities for frauds upon investors in the shares and upon creditors of such corporations. The fact that some of the states are com peting for this business and are placing substantially no restrictions upon the formation of "tramp cor porati does not in any wise ex- cuse our territory for doing the same thing.
 recommend tha you carefully re- wise the law for interpretations, and that yol fix franchise-tax to be col lectel from all corporations upon their formations in this territory.
 THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. At its last session I directed the at tentiOn of the assembly to the unde- rability of the location of the in- dustrial school and to the inadapta- bility of the buildings and grounds at B -nson to the purpose ot such an in- s,itution.
 Further observation and experience have served to strengthen my opinion then expressed.
 I then said: While the manage ment is excellent, the administration of this institution is necessarily un- satisfactory, and in my opinion must always remain so as long as it is at tempted to maintain it at its present location and with its present facili ties
 Its location is on q hillside in the environs of Benson. The ground about it is naturally sterile, and there are no facilities for an adequate water supply to establish or make attractive or even useful the ground if it were not sterile.
 The building was badly designed for the purpose for which it Is now used-indeed, I am of the opinion that it was not designed for that pur- pose at all. Nor can I see that it can be adapted to it's present purpose, and certainly not with regard to future demands, without mourning greater cost than would provide for new proper construction entirely.
 With the small number of inmates at this school it is impraCticable to apply to any great extent those methods for their treatment and dis cipline that are now prevalent in modern institutions of like kind: and if the number were larger there would not be room for their accom- modations. It is already over-crowd- ed, which in itself is bad from every point of view. While it is to be re- gretted that there are so many fath- CTS and mothers in the territory who are so lost. to not only their sense of duty, but to every sense of shame, that their children must be taken from them and committed to such an institution for the children's sake, and in the hope that they may Ee- come better citizens than their par ents, it is not to be expected that the number will, with our increasing population, grow less.
 Provision for their proper care, discipline and education is already inadequate and the immediate future requires further provision.
 It IS particularly desirable that some provision be made for fitting the inmates for some honorable em- ployment in She future as well as O give them an elementary education. There should be adopted and prac- trcel rules of reward and promotion for good conduct and penalties and reduction for bad conduct. To do this there should be a classification of the inmates and consequently facilities for their different housing and other treatment, all of which is practically impossible at the school as it now is.
 A manual training department would be excellent, but again we are met with difficulties. One solution, 1t seems to me. is to abandon the present s.to and buildings. It i~ quite possible that the building there could be put to public or even private use and would mt be complete loss to the territory. A site should then be found with at least l60 acres of land and be had with d reliable sup ply of water and of a proper degree of fertility and responsibility close to a market for the disposal of the products. At least three buildings should at once be erected, which need not be of great cost, two for the ! boys and one for the girls-so separ- i ated catch from the other that there could be complete isolation from each other. In addition to, these | buildings should be, of course, the necessary barn, shop and other build- jugs. The boys could then be taught various occupations, as farming, blacksmithing and carpentering, and the girls could learn the work of tn, | laundry, of the dairy and poultry ydtd, as well as the necessary seam- stress work of the institution.
 Ir has developed now that the de- sign and construction of the ain | building was % faulty that 1t is fall