Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-08-01
FRIDAY, AUG. /, 1919.
PAROWAN VOTES NO

A CCORDING to sentiments expressed at meet
ing of the Commercial club and citizens last
Monday night, the people of the county seat town
are not willing that the county should be bonded
in the sum of $4,000 for county hospital, same
to be located in Cedar City. The meeting was
called at the request of a committee of citizens of
this place, who anxious to have the matter
receive the endorsement and support of the entire
people of the county. When the status of the mat
ter had been explained the proposition received
the Endorsement of number of the influential
citizens of Parowan, including Prs. MILFORD Day,
but was strongly objected to by others, who frank
ly stated that they favored county hospital if
same were located within the limits of Parowan
but were opposed to voting anything to go to Ce-
dar City and the majority conceded with this
rather narrow view.
Cedar City asks for the county hospital, and
contends that we are entitled to it, the following
grounds:
l. Cedar City is the largest and most populous
city in the county.
2. Cedar City is centrally located.
3. Cedar City pays nearly as much taxes as
all the rest of the county, excepting the railroad
company.
a. Cedar City has long been center for the
treatment of surgical cases. and has been conduct
ing from to two private hospitals for the past
twenty years, and from one to two hundred major
operations are performed here annually; whereas
pTacClcdly ITO surgery is uoHe III IdoWdii, WIidl
operative they have being sent to Cedar City
or other towns for attention.
5. Notwithstanding Cedar City is the largest
and most important city of the county, it has no
county institution, the county seat being held by
Parowan, despite its fewer population and less i'm
portance business center If a county institu-
ton is to be added certainly Cedar City has the
best claim to it.
6. Cedar City was first to agitate for the coun-
ty hospital and it's claim is backed by the proffer
of four or five thousand dollars by some of its pub
lc-spirited and philanthropic citizens to be used
in furnishing and fitting up the institution. Par
owan people have made no such offer.
7. The physicians of the county who are doing
any surgical operations of consequence reside in
Cedar City.
8. hospital, even though it be erected at
the expense of the county, is to a certain degree
a public institution and should be located where it
will do the most good for the entire section Cedar
City is situated at the junction of four important
highways and is distributing point for the entire
southern end of the state. The travelling public is
far more likely to roll in here than at Parowan,
when in need of hospital attention.
For these and other good reasons which we VIII
not take time and space here to enumerate, we
hold that Cedar City is the logical place for the
county hospital when it is erected, and while the
people here would much prefer that there be no
division or opposition to the matter, at the same
time we do not anticipate that such opposition as
has developed on the part of some people in Paro-
wan will present any serious obstacle to the car
rying out of the plan And really Parowan might
just as well be nice about it as to take hostile
attitude.