The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-02
Mayor and Members of Council Inspect
Two Possible Locations; No Decis-
ions Due for Weeks
SHAN0AN ACRES
TOO HIGH; BELIEF
Asks for Bids on Proposed Sites; Must
Have Shade and Water; CiIy's
Land Suggested

Mayor Coffman, together with mem
bers of the council and one park
commissioner appointed by the may
or recently, made short inspection
Of park sites yesterday afternoon,
bringing the final decision on the
matter one step nearer to compile
ton. At that, there was nothing done
definitely, principally for the reason
that there was nothing that could be
done. Those making the inspection
were o. Coffman, j. w. Kayser, Dick
Mckay Henry DuBose and u. w.
Welborne.
The loctions visited were the wa
terworks property belonging to the
city and the ground on which is To-
Gated the Shanoan springs. In the
opinion of Mayor Coffman, the Shan
oan property would make an ideal
location for park providing that
other property to the. west we're
purchased for a fair grounds
Probably Too High.
The only trouble presented in CON
nection with this site, according to
the mayor is that it would probably
be held at too high a figure. There
is the shade and the water that would
make for an ideal park, and the
street car facilities add new and
strong argument in favor of the
Shanoan proposition. The water
works property comprises a fraction
over SO acres. "This would be plenty
of ground for a park" said Mr. Coff-
man.
There is an unlimited quantity Of
shade on the water works property,
and of course there is an abundance
of water, if we should desire to put
in a bathing pool. But there is no
street car line. If we could get
street car line built to that location.
I believe it would be ideal.
Plenty of Boating.
"The Washita river runs through
this city property and would furnish
us all the boating we could use for
a park several times that size. In
the event the water works property
is decided upon, it would be necessa-
ry for us to purchase another tract
of land to use for the race track and
fair grounds. The SO acres now own
ed by the city would only take care
of the park proposition. We must
keep the fair ground and park togeth-
er, if we are going to have them
both. The ideal land to be purchas-
ed in connection with the water
works property lies west or south Of
the city's land.
Wants Bids Submitted
1--WE can do nothing definite until
we have several different locations
from which to choose. 1 told the
boys that I did not want them to
make up their minds yesterday after
noon when we looked at only the
two places l want them to see a
number before making any definite
decision.
'I am going to call for bids from
anyone who has a 40 acre tract OIL
more to sell to the city for park and
fair grounds purposes. It must hav,
shade and water or I fail to see how
it can be considered. I want to re
ceive several of these bids between
now and the next council meeting
and then I want the members of the
council and the park commissioner
to look over every one of these sites
so that by the time we meet at th'
next session of the council, we viii
begin to know just where we stand
so that we can get some definite &C
tion.
Other Sites Proposed.
There are several other sites tina
may be considered. One Of these i