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Show 51+3 october 5, 3.92.3 The Honorable Board of We State Capitol Salt Lake City 1, Utah Gentlemen 3 it is my pleasant duty to report to you that the University at Utah hen now acquired 298.59 acres of land at : Port Douglas, with 61 tmorary buildinge located thereon, " at 100 per cent dincomt and has contracted to purchase - g 1.5 temporary buildings on land which the City of Salt Lake _ in obtaining, these buildings to cost us $7,951.70. There will also be some incidental teee connected with the ‘ : acquisitiono Host of the buildings in question have been avail-a able to us under permit or lease for a year or twea- None A Of them in suitable in its present form for laboratories and the ones on the plot acquired by the City will have to be moved from their present eite whenever the City eeee . fit to revokelthe permit for us to usethem in their present loca'tiono: , ‘ There willbe considerable expense to condition-a ing the property which we have Wed and the maintenance ‘ costs of this expanded campus will, of conree, increasea We do have enough land for growth over a good many years ' ‘ and, for the firsttime,will be able to plancmpue development intelligently. H The money setupin Senate Bill 202 (Chapter 122,13" at Utah, 191.7)up and amended by Senate 3111 12 passed at the last special session of the Legislature was made available to the Univereity' for the purpose of acquiring Fort Douglas" Income]: as it my: appears that ' most of the money will not be needed‘ for this purpose, I an requested by the Board of Regents: to apply to the honorable Board of More for release or this annoy to the adversity for drawing plane, altering existing ‘ structures, and erecting new buildings in needed, to capitalize on the opportunitiee afforded by acquisition a of the new property, Already a request hen been eubnitted to the Building Beard to denim an architect to prepare pre- ‘ ' ‘ ' liminary plane for a benic science builtflng for medicine. |
