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Show BUSINESS AM) Bl'II.OINtl. ' Tliere is a dusty ha.e in the air from falling walls and old-time roof trees now being leveled to make room for liner residences and more capacious business houses. Tho city sewer work is being driven to completion. City railways arc in process of completion and enlargement. en-largement. The water mains are reaching out their life-giving arteries, arter-ies, carrying health and comfort in their gushing streams. Building material ma-terial is In great demand at advanced prices. The suggestive cries of "More mort," "more brick," echo along tho busiuess lines, not always with satisfactory satisfac-tory response, for the demand is greater than the supply. Paving districts for streets and sidewalks are being organized organ-ized and the owners of rock and paving material are feeling the public pulse with reference to the kind of material ma-terial likely to bo most in demand. Gravel, shale, sand-beds, lire and build-iug build-iug clay, in fact, all kinds of crude material ma-terial which can bo utilized for practical prac-tical purposes, and which lie convenient conven-ient to thiseity, arc claimed and located as valuable property by men who, a few months ago would not have taken these claims as a gift. In connection with the military reservation oil the East bench, it is expected that congress will appropriate money and labor to transform trans-form tho sage-covered plat lying be tweeu the boundaries of the city and the military post, into an attractive park and drive, adding alike to the pleasure of soldiers and citizens. Tho once bare and sparsely settled valley west of the eity and of the Jordan river, is lilling up with cottages and tree-lined streets, and connected with the city by steam and shortly by electric elec-tric cars. Alio lake shore is in process of improvement im-provement for the bathing season, and within a year or two, at farthest, beautiful beauti-ful Antelope island, with its sandy beach, fresh water springs and freedom from dust and mud, will be eonuected with the main land by a railway built upon piles. Antelope bathing place is yet to be the most pleasant and desirable desira-ble of all the summer bathing resorts on this continent. |