Arizona republican., 1911-03-19
Owner Of the Los Angeles
 Times Still Determined
WILL 60 10 ROOSEVELT
General Harrison Grey Otis Visits Phoenix and Makes the Statement That the Policy of His Paper Will Remain Unchanged.

] General Harrison Grey otis, of Los ! Angeles, owner of the Los Angeles Times, arrived in Phoenix yesterday lafternoon over the Southern Pacific from Yuma, Ariz., and registered at ! the Hotel Ford. General otis left Los ] Angeles several days ago for the pur- pose of attending to various interests in the vicinity of Yuma. and finding him self free for the trip, decided yesterday morning to extend his itinerary on to Phoenix and the Roosevelt dam. It was his intention to leave TOT Roosevelt immediately after his arrival here, but on account of the number of autos returning to the city last even ing over the road to the dam, it was considered advisable to defer the visit to Roosevelt until Monday morn ing Provided he carries out his pres ent plan General otis will return from Roosevelt Monday evening in time to take the train for Yuma.
 General otis will have his first sight of the big dam at Roosevelt next Mon day never having had the opportunity up tO this time to make the trip, al though he has familiariZed himself with the projects near Yuma, and many others carried on ny the government, by personal inspection. Referring to his projected excursion. he said last night to a representative of The Re publican:
 .The people of this valley have been doing great things for themselves, and the government has been doing its share to develop the resources of the country. I am more than ever inn pressed with the future of the Salt river valley. and certainly believe that the additional water which will be fur nished by the impOundage of the dam will be of incalcuable benefit to the lands of this valley. I am anxious to see with my own eyes exactly what has been done and look forward with the greatest pleasure to my trip to Roosevelt"
 Since the destruction of the Times budding on the 1st of last October. three committees have reported on the cause of the diseaster. and investiga- tions of the most searching quality have been made with the idea of fastening the crime on the guilty par ty, or parties. whoever he or they may be The three committees, ard their reports. were given as follows by Gen eral otis:
 First-The committee appointed by the mayor Of Los Angeles. after three weeks of careful investigation reported that the building had been blown up by dynamite, or by some other high explosive.
 Second-The verdict of the grand jury. which sat still longer on the case and went, if possible, even deeper into the cause of the explosion. sustained the decision of the mayors committee, and found beyond any doubt that the explosion had not been due to gas. but to an explosive placed in the building for it's destruction.
 Third-The coroner's jury, which re- ported just a few days ago. sustained the reports of the two above mentioned and previous committees.
 There has been no one arrested for the crime, and the perpetrator is not
  jury found twenty-two indictments, none of which have been served up to this time
 The work on the new Times building is going on with rapidity, and it will be opened for business in a few months. The building will stand on the original site, and will be on the same plan as the old one. The similarity design is so nearly identical that the granite stones used in the front of the old building will be used for the new one. so far as possible, and its appear ance will leave the old Times corner at First and Broadway practically un- changed. Although the general states that the new building will be built on the same lines as the one destroyed last October. it will be on a larger scale and considerably more modern. The completion of the structure will find the Los Angeles Times housed in as modern a building as is occupied by any paper in the world, with every device in the way of machinery and appliances for the publication of a great daily. The remarkable feat Of the. Times company in publishing a newspaper from the auxiliary plant two miles distant from the center of the city. at o'clock on the morning of the disaster, has been remarked around the world as a triumph due solely to the foresight of the owners of the paper. This auxiliary plant was installed in large warehouse. which had been used for the storage of paper. a short time after the visit of General Otis to San Francisco in the weeks fol- lowing the earthquake and fire in that city. Although not experimenting any similar catastrophe for the city of Los General Otis said last night that he considered it advisable to in- stall complete printing plant at some point removed from the heart of the city and from the main building in Los Angeles. which would enable him to