Arizona republican., 1912-08-24
.FT. GRANT SITE
 |S IDEAL PLACE
Arizona's New Industrial School Will Be the Envy of All Other State Insti- tutions; Can Be Easily Remodeled

l DuTH or tH6 DOdIQ OI COIbiOI i6Iui ilCN | yesterday morning from Fort Grant. As announced in The Republican sev- eral days ago it was undertaken for 1 the purpose of looking over the aban- doned military reservation with a view of selecting as lieu lands, 2000 acres of it, with its improvements, for the purposes of a state industrial school From the report of what the officials found, it may be safely said that this is once when the govern ment has certainly been liberal with 1 the state, for the grounds are ideal and the buildings numerous, large and 1 just exactly what the school needs, l for the most part, though they will require some remOdeling and some re pairs, especially as to the old shingle roofs
 There is a little controversy as to title but it is believed it will be easily strengthened out The reser- VatiOn is of course administered by the war department and is now un- ] der the charge of a caretaker, who with his wife, alone occupies this veritable village which was at one time a regimental post and the only one iever established in Arizona. The caretaker was a former bandmaster in the army. But in some way not explained, the interior department has a claim on the reservation and its maps have included a part of the | reservation in the forest reserve | which it is known takes in the Gra- ham mountains that OverShadOW it. | Whether there are official orders giv ing the interior department any inter est or whether it is a simple error of the map makers, has not been de- termined, but whatever the facts, congress says Arizona can have 2000 acres of it and either or both of the departments can undoubtedly be made to eat out of the hand of congress. The caretaker ayers that the interior department must be wrong and point ed out the forest reserve line which is marked as running by the post, some distance away.
 Governor Hunt said it was his first visit to Fort Grant though he has been travelling all around it for thirty years, and he was amazed at the de- lightfulness of it's location on a wide l shadow of Mount Graham, a fine old hill covered with pine timber. It is only two miles from the little village Of Bonita where a half dozen families live and stream of water lined with ash and sycamore trees runs by the ', post perhaps a hundred yards distant It is likely this stream is not per petual in a dry year though this year | i+ iC r1InninO Q 6pan Q summer long The water supply ot the post however comes through a pipe line from living springs high ur in the mountains, to the water works at the post where there is an avail able pressure that will tear the roofs 1 off the houses unless it is used ju- f diciously. It makes ideal fire pro- f lection. In addition to furnishing water piped wherever it is desired , there is a big swimming pool 5Ox2Ot feet in size, with a fountain in the center Of it from which the water : spurts 25 feet in the air.
 Verify the old soldier in charge Ina! turned his sword into a plowshart and the arts of war have already given way to the pursuits of peace for he has a fine crop of vegetable. | SIOWlL6 OIi lliS pal 5lCuIlu' "iiCi !, | in other days the nations warrior! turned out for their daily drills.
 The governor says it is impossible | from memory to say how man. buildings there are or to recite thei utility but he does recall enough t , make it quite plain that they vii , amply accommodate all the students , teachers and shops that will be re | hxr ho ind fn the next generation, unless all tn children of Arizona become delin quent.
 The most imposing structure wa formerly utilized as officers head quarters and bears the local name o Browns Folly" given it on the oc cason of it's building when it wa generally regarded as an unnecessar
 waste of money. It is said thi structure alone cost $100,0O0, and i is a veritable stone mansion. Thel there is a house known as the Guar termaster's building, that is said t
 have cost $4O,OOO and it is in a goo
 state of preservation. There is a
 amusement hall with hard woo
 floors, used for dancing in other day as we'll as for theatricals, bein WIIH d stage at OllO CliNl olI
 with a big wide veranda all aroun it. The hospital building is larg enough to accommodate 100 beds an
 there is besides a well built dispens
 ary buildingi and a morgue or tenn
 porary receptacle for the dead. .i
 Among the minor structures ar
 blacksmith and carpenter shops an
 like buildings that can be used i z manual training and industrial arts
 a cold storage building; a big stor
 bake oven fully equipped for sup
 plying the staff of life to hundreds
 a band stand; a guard house with bi
 steel cells, and finally a big stor
 corral large enough to accommoda1
 1000 horses. There are other struC
 lures for the use of civilians foun
 around an army post, some in zoe
 repair and some that are not but ca
 be repaired if needed for any pul
 pose. Many of these have adobe wal
 two or three feet thick, the mo
 comfortable kind of a building in tn
 climate in the summer time. AT they are all included within the POI
 acres that the state board will III
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