Show MAIN STREET NOW NOVI I IHAS HAS NEW OUTliNE I Jennings Block Corner an Ex Example Example ample of Salt Lak Lakes s Growth Pedestrians who dodge str street t cars automobiles and vehicles ot of aU all kinds at Main and First South streets and still have plenty of room to do it in would not have foUnd the same conditions ex cx exIsting had the they lived in Salt L Lake ke In the sos Right In the middle of what I is isnow I now First South street stood the city meat market and adjoinIng It on the south was the Jennings block There was then no FIrst South street and Main str street et was practically the only thoroughfare The J Jennings block was built In 1861 1164 and was then one of the most buildings If not the finest In the e c y From 1864 1861 until about 1867 1167 or 1868 1863 It vas 15 occupied by the Jennings emporium During Durin the tho time the emporIum wr wa I catering g to the wants of the people f the city In the general merchandise l I a the city was established to the north of It at a point which is now the middle of First South street The city corporation had direct charge of the meat market and booths were rented to the various butchers of the At that time it was compulsory for U butchers to do business In the city meat market In or 1869 1169 Zions Cooperative Mer Mercantile cantile Institution started business In the Emporium building About this time or ora ora a little before saw the closing of the city meat market and the butchers who had booths or stalls were scattered all allover allover over the city One of the pictures shown Is that of the old Jennings EmporIum building with a band of Ute IRe braves on horseback lined up tn front of It taken the first year the Z C M lI I took possession of the building In the late Salt Lake was little littlemore littlemore more than a good sized village Painted braves belonging principally to the Wash Vash Washakie akle akie trIbe of Utes rode boldly Into the city and swapped anything they had from horses to moccasins for tor the goods or of the white man The Indians shown In the picture were under tinder the tribal rule ot of old Chief Washakie The old city meat market which occupied pled pied the tho ground In what Is now First South street was a frame structure The second picture shows First South street and Its Main street Intersection as Jt it appears today todar Fifty have made considerable of a change for the tho better e |