Weekly journal-miner., 1916-01-05
NO ACTION ON JAIL REMOVAL
 PROPOSAL
TIMERHOFF OFFERS LOTS FOR S6,000, BUT DEMANDS SALVAGE WHEN COURT HOUSE IS DESTROYED.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

(From Tuesdays Daily.)
 No action was taken by the board of supervisors at its meeting yester' day on tine proposal presented by Mayor Timerhoff to grant the county a lease on the east half of the city lots on the corner of Goodwin and Cortez streets.
 Mayor Timerhoff in letter to the body states that the city for the sum of 5000 will grant the county oo- year lease to the lots with the pro vision that the city be given all mater ial salvagei from the old court house when it is destroyed. With the sal vaged material the city council plans to construct a new city hall on the corner of Goodwin and Cortez streets Timerhof also plans to have the city prisoners housed and boarded at the county jail after it is moved. He would also give the entire second floor of the city building to the coun- ty to use as it would see fit.
 Other business before the board in cluded checking up the accounts of the justicesand deciding to advertise for yearly contracts for county print ing; 10 bury county dead; for care oi clocks; for furnishing books, supplies and stationery; for a county physi- ci for drugs; for bread for tic jail mess and the county hospital.
 The mayors letter is as follows:
 ''Mr. R. T. Belcher,
 Clerk of the Board oi Supervisors,
 Dear Sir:
 Tn response 70 your communi- cation of December 20, 1915, request ing me on the behalf of the City ot | Prescott, Arizona to submit a propo- sition in writing, stating terms that the City of Prescott would make to | the board of supervisors for the sale of the cast half of lots and 4, block 2l in the City of Prescott. herewith l beg to state that this matter was con sidcred at an informal meeting of the members of the board of supervisors and the mayor and the common courr cil. or that is. the members of the last named body that were present in the city at that time, and after lengthy discussion of the matter it was agreed by both bodies that the city and county assessors and a third party that would be chosen by these two parties form board of appraisers. to fix a valuation on the lots il question for the guidance of the city and coun- ty officials that they might arrive at just and equable price for the same.
 "The final report made by this body Of appraiscmcnt has been re- ceivcd by the city officials, and I pre- sume also by the board of supervisors, and I will state that from the stand point of the mayor and council the report IS very unsatisfactory. While we nave no doubt. that from an assess mcnt viewpoint the valuation made by these gentlemen is fair and equable but ill view of the fact that there are many conditions that must be consid- cred at the present time, which go to make an appraisement based on strictly an assessment valuation en- tirely out of the question. and l will endcavor to cnumcrate a few of these conditions.
 First: This piece of property is the only available corner lot in the City of Prescott that is available for the purpose for which it was originally purchased by the city. namely the erection of city hall. and should the county erect or move the county jail onto the rear end of the said lots il naturally causes deterioration in the value Of the front onc1haif of the lots.
 Second: In view of the fact that the news has been spread broadcast that on the rcconvcning of congress. on January 4, 1916, bills will be intro duccd both in the senate and mouse for an appropriation of Sl00O0O for the immediate erection of Federal building o1 the opposite corner which we consider will enhance the present valuation of the property in question at least 100 per cent.
 Third: lnasmuch as the city win be forced to move the present quar- tcrs of the city fire department and the city stables from the lots and will necessarily be under heavy expense ill erecting new quarters for the prop CT housing of same we feel that thc former offer of the board is totally in- adequate and offers no iuducement to the rity for the accordance of same