Main Building excavation site - July 1930 More than two years
passed before work was begun on the capitol's main unit, yet
correspondence flowed frequently between the architect and the
commission. By today's standards, the fiscal planning of the
Legislature and the commission was conservative indeed.
Appropriations were made separately for each unit, and the
business of finalizing contracts, paying fees, and ultimately
inspecting and approving each unit, was completed before steps
were initiated for the next phase. The Legislature enacted a
special levy on March 2, 1929, on all taxable property in the
state, '... not to exceed in any one year the sum of five cents
or so much thereof as may be necessary on the one hundred
dollars valuation of said taxable property...,' for the purposes
of constructing the main unit. A "Capitol Building Fund" was
created in the state treasury for the moneys raised by the levy,
and the governor and building commission were directed to
proceed with 'all reasonable dispatch to co