The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-20
Ardmore, Thursday, January 20. 1910

embracing over 5000 acres OF valu,
able land. and | therefore ask that
you, at the earliest moment possible,
pass a joint resolution properly auth
orizng our said member of congress
to express the desire of the State of
Oklahoma TO have said property. the
same to be used as an asylum for the
cage OF insane patients. And further.
that all OF our delegation In congress
be earnestly urged to aid and support
the effort to secure said property for
the state | find, on investigation,
that this property is o, sucfi character
ss to be Immediately available for the
comfortable care and keeping OF prob.
ably as many as 500 patients. and
believe that we should, at the earliest
possible moment, provide place
where the patients now kept under
contract at Norman can be trans
ferred.
vinita Asylum.
At your last session you made an
appropriation OF 5000 900 to build an
Eastern State Insane Asylum near
the town OF Ninita on 100 acres of
land TO be furnished by the citizens
of that community Before beginning
the expenditure of the 100000 in
buildings on this land, | advised the
other members of the state asylum
board to visit the several insane asy.
lums in the states of Illinois and In.
diana in order to better qualify our.
sci ,es to properly handle such an i'm
portant question. This committee
visited these institutions, made
careful investigation and reported to
me In writing "a copy of which l hand
you herewith). From this report you
will observe IL was universally uged
upon US by men OF great experience
that in order to be efficient and eco.
nomical an insane asylum was essen.
TALLY farm proposition, and that the
best results were obtained where the
area OF land was equaul TO substan-
TALLY two acres per inmate. and that
from 600 to 500 inmates was the num-
Der most economical to maintain at
each separate institution. therefore
felt that to spend 5000, 900 building on
leo acres OF land at Vinita would
not he a sensible thing for
the state to do did not
desire, on account of the great neces-
sity OF same, to delay this building un-
I'll future session OF the legislature,
neither did deem it good judgment
to depend on the state having an op-
portunity TO buy additional land at u
fair price after the state might have
expended 100000 In buildings. and
therefore be irrevocably bound 10
that location and be at the mercy OF
land owners who might fix extraordi-
nary prices for their land. and hence
before taking any steps TO invest any
of the states money I'm building. sent
al agent to Vinita, who was able, and
greatly assisted by the Vinita Com
mercial Club, In securing legal options
executed and recorded, upon about
1,l00 acres of land adjoining this m
stitutlon, and which options and
plat OF the ground | hand you here
with showing that the state may puI-
chase any or all of the several farms
at acreage prices, averaging about
thirty.odd dollars per acrde. am in.
formed by those who know, th9t
these prices are not above the pres
ent fair market value OF these sew
eral farms. And therefore. the legis
latur now has an opportunity. should
II deem wise, to buy such amount OF
this additional land as in its juds-
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