Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-03-20
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SCHOOL SITE
Charles O'CaIIaghan Advocates Site in
Park Addition for Proposed High
School Building
WOULD COST ABOUT 100000
Could Secure Several Acres Of Level
Ground at Low Price
Editor Herald:

No. a. are giving serious and intel
ligent consideration to the matter
of the site to be chosen for our
proposed new high school building
many of whom are DESTROYS of con-
veying their views to the School
Board and know of no better way
than thru the columns of The
Herald.
Since Mr.. Jones recent commu-
nication on that subject, the writer
has heard numerous expressions
of opinion and much insistance
that data for a site more desirable
than that proposed by Mr.. Jones
be presented to the board for con-
sideration, and these expressions
and insistences are responsible for
this communication
1 think we will all agree that if
it can be procured at a reasonable
cost, the ideal site would have to
have the following requisites:
Enough of ground 6 to 5 acres or
more, } level or nearly so; centrally
located, with maximum sunshine
and good drainage and an elevated
position.
1t is quite evident, from the
nature of our topography, that 1t
is utterly impossible to get site
with all these requisites, and if we
are to choose a site at all we may
as we'll make up our minds that
the site must be lacking in one or
more of these desirable qualities.
But if we must choose a site the
logical thing to do is to select one
that has more and lacks less of
these qualities than any other site
available; and when the School
Board with the approval of our
citizens, will adopt this method of
selecting a site, without fear, favor
bias or prejudice of or to any
person, persons or locality, they
can find it without any trouble.
Acting upon the opportunities
of many of our citizens as well as
on my own jugdment, have pro-
cured some data and take pleasure
in submitting, for the considera-
ton of the Board and the electors
; of the district, a site that offers all
of the enumerated advantages
except one, and this one objection
it lacks only in a small degree al
= the present time, which time
will lessen and eventually wipe
out.
: Blocks s and 9 in Park Addition
taken together are rectangular
solid block 4OOx5o2 #, containing
So acres, all level except for q
t very gentle slope sufficient for drain
T. age. The Northeast corner of this
$ tract is just across the street from
! Otto Mathiesen's home The two
n blocks can be bought for a sum
!. approximating ST, 90. 100 tc
S 100000 or about $4,000 tC
y to 100000 per acre. Second
/ street, 90 feet wide and two alleys
II 10 feet each, run through these
d blocks, could all be vacated, leav
II ing a continuous block of land.
1, l believe the only fault that car
be found with this site is that it il
rs not centrally located, and this i
y in a measure true at the presen
time, but not to such an extent a
some of our citizens seem to think
The whole district and not tn
Ct city limits, is to be considered il
n determining a central location
Is there are two centers to be consi
e. dered; the geographical center an,
Is the center of population. From
it careful study of the geographic
center of the whole district W
lis find it located somewhere in tn
mountains west of us, but to elimi
ut nate all that uninhabited part G