An editorial, "How to rebuild the mansion," in the Jan. 15 Deseret News would give "some solace" to the Utah taxpayers in that the restoration of the mansion will cost them only $1 million, the other millions to be paid by two insurance companies.
Actually the mansion can be restored without charging the taxpayers one single penny . . . sell it to a private individual as a historical building, which it is, and on the condition that it be restored as was.By selling the mansion, we have the opportunity of projecting to the people of Utah that we do not wish to live in a land of "pomp and kings" and "titles of nobility," but that our elected officials ought to live as the rest of us, in their own houses and at their own expense.
Mark E. Anderson
Salt Lake City