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Show J LANDMARKS FALL 1 1 IN PATH OF PROGRESS lU Tho demolition of three old adobo ' TPijildlngs in three days Is tho record jfl"0 by tho c0011"8101 workmen in 0l(Wflcarlng tho ground for Perry S. flSrealh,s now EmP'rc block at the south-S south-S Pt corner of South Temple and First ,c Ojst streets. The work being dono in removing old-tlmo landmarks already 'SOnl'E!Ve8 nn idea of the change that Is to .2M mnde ,n thQ suth Temple land-VOUu;t?vtpc land-VOUu;t?vtpc u,nd lt 18 Predicted that many .Primitive structures In that local-iKini local-iKini cIudlnff the Continental hotel 'Jin! lnff' noar t,,e corner of West Tom-Ji0- and First- South strcclB, will fall I t i under tho ban of the destroyers during the present building season. Two of' the three houses on the ground recently purchased by Mr. Heath for the Empire block-are said to havo been constructed during the first three or four years of the original settlement set-tlement of Salt Lake City. One of the tenants, an extremely old lady, remarked re-marked as she was moving from the house yesterday that she moved there over forty-eight years ago, and the houso she was leaving was at that time twelve or fifteen years old, making the structure upward of sixty years of age. It was built at a time before mortar was mado to properly seal the adobe brick together, and It was discovered that most of the lumber taken from the building had been made by whlpsaw, evidently before sawmills were much In use in the lntermountaln country. |