The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-12-13
SIX NEW CAPITOL
SITES OFFERED
Announcement of Committee That
cuIbertson Heights Has Been
Chosen.

Oklahoma City, OKLA, Dec. 13.-The
senate capitol committee has prepared
bill and contract for the location and
building of the capitol. The Culbert-
son site bills have been printed and
distributed among the members. The
report is scheduled for this afternoons
session. The committee proposes a
joint capitol committee conference
with the house to locate the capitol.
The house members are opposed and
want the senate to act directly on
house bill number one, passed by it.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. 13.-En-
couraged by the squabble which is now
going on between rival real estate fac
tons of Oklahoma City over proposed
capitol sites, several other cities and
towns yesterday presented proposed
free sites and guarantees of free cap
itol building in the form of the memo
rails offered to both branches of the
legislature.
The senate capital committee an
nounced yesterday that it will report
bill this afternoon choosing the
northeast" site, or the Culbertson-
Howe-Parker tract, for the capitol
buildings accompanying the bill with
a joint resolution Incorporating the
contract between the state and the
holding company backing the site.
Since the announcement Saturday that
the senate committee has decided upon
the northeast" site, the Putnam Clas-
sen interests have again gotten busy
and have announced that they will
back the old Putnam site proposition
with a guarantee bond of $500,000 that
the state will realize $1,700,0O0 from
the sale of lots there, or will back the
Linwood boulevard site, comprising
1000 acres of land three miles closer
in than the old Putnam site, with a
bond of 100000, guaranteeing that the
state will be paid $1,500,000 from the
sale of lots for free capitol building.
AS the senate capitol committee has
decided on the Northeast" site and
framed bill to fit that proposition,
neither of the Putnam Classen PROPOSE
tions are likely to be considered by
the committee, but the hackers of these
sites will have them presented on the
floor of the senate in an attempt to
have one of them substituted for the
Culbertson-Howe-P Parker site. This
will bring the fight squarely upon the
floor of the senate which, through the
developments of yesterday, will be fur
ther complicated by the site PROPOSE
tions of several other cities and towns
of the state.
The following sites were offered by
other cities yesterday:
Shawnee-Three propositions, each
guaranteeing $1,700,000 for building
and furnishing a free capitol and the
expenses of removal, supported by a
$5O0,OOO bond and donating the site,
one of them presenting Woodland park,
comprising fifteen acres of land in the
heart of the city as the site, and 1900
acres of land to be sold for the benefit
of the capitol fund.
Eufaula-1,00 acres of land within
one mile of the city and 100000 cash
bonus.
Enid-Choice of three sites within a
mile of the city and guarantee of en-
ough money to build capitol buildings.
Granite-Forty acres for site, COM
prising Sulphur Springs park, and GAO
acres of land with granite building
stone in abundance for building the
capitol.
Skiatook-5OO acres of land, $500, 900
bonus, free gas for five years and free
water for twenty years and free build
ing stone.