Show i I SWIFT WORK ON NEW BUILDINGS Structural Operations on Huge Scale Throughout the Business District BIG BrG PROJECTS REVIEWED REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CONSTRUCTION SHOWN Rearing their tops top skyward in an ap apparently apparently apparently mad race to be the first t to reach completion more than large larg buildings all over Salt Lake City are an beIng built onward and upward i a silent but eloquent testimony of the thi progress of the city as a rapidly grow growing growing ing center of or the great inter intermountain Inter IntermountaIn intermountain mountain country It Is necessary only to mention the progress of a few o of these bese buildings to Illustrate the effect of ot the rapid construction of ot these edi edifices edifices flees on the tourist public passing through the city From Prom north to south on Main street streel there Is IB at present a beautiful parade ground along which the cohorts of th the disappearing Grand Army of ot the Re Republic Republic Republic public will wUl march next week Flanking this th beautifully decorated thoroughfare are scores of buildings In varIous stages of ot completion evidences of Salt Sal Lakes 8 progression When the Grand Army of the Republic lic lie passes pa es the Brigham Young monument monument ment on South Temple and Main street the veterans of the war of or the rebellion have only to glance to the east to note not the beginning of one of the greatest hotel projects of the west w st Where for formerly formerly formerly merly stood brick and stone ramparts which in the old days protected the In Insignificant Insignificant significant settlement of ot religious ref refugees refugees refugees from bloodthirsty red men there then thenis is i now in the formative stage one ol t the greatest hotels in all of ot the west westIn In another year the beautiful structure of a magnificent pile marking m the tin place where the pioneers struggled to U tomake tomake make possible the growth and develop development development ment mont of ot the new territory will look tool across aero s the tabernacle grounds a monument monument ment mont to the enterprise and prosperity of ot a state settled scarce half halt a century ago quo The Newhouse Hotel Four blocks down dOn the street another hotel hot I as large and as beautiful as the tin theone theone one at the head hood of ot the street is being built This Is 18 the Newhouse enterprise The progress of ot both hotel projects If Is about equal The excavations of both hotels have been about completed Steel Stee contracts for both have been let and as many men as can find room to work are an being employed to construct the new buildings Not far from the site of ot the new hotel hote being built by the Utah Hotel company at South Temple and Main streets are an another other buildings nearing completion The administration building for tor the of ot officials officials of ot the Mormon church will soon be ready dy for occupancy This building Is III a valuable and beautiful addition to tc the buildings of ot the church on this cor corner corner ner ncr On the Saints college colleg campus scarce half halt a block distant i is being built buill the big modern gymnasium for the boys bos and girls attending the uni university university University The skeleton of or steel is com corn completed completed and the tho brick and stone work is ii climbing up the steel sides of the skeleton skeleton skeleton ton at a rapid rate The gymnasium when wh n completed will be one of ot the big biggest biggest biggest gest and most moat useful in all of or the west wesL westIn wesLIn westIn In the other direction at South Tem Tern Temple Temple pie and Market streets is being built bull the new Vermont building an office building modern in all Its appointments It is only one of ot a dozen such office buildings planned for the immediate vicinity of this busy corner The same distance from the corner in the other di direction direction direction the th Zions Cooperative Mercantile tile institution is opening up tiP on South Temple street The excavation uc for this structure has been completed and with within in a few months the big department store will have an entrance and a big store facing on South Temple street as well as on Main street New Business District While the building activities in this district continue active there is no lull lullIn lullIn lullin In the work in the newer business dis district district district at Third and Fourth South and Main streets Just off Main street large crews of ot men are busy erecting the Commercial Club and the Mining Ex Exchange Exchange Exchange change buildings On the Commercial Comm Club block there is a friendly competition tion between the brick and stone ma masons masons masons sons and the structural l Iron workers Though the builders if lr the superstructure ture tune of ot the new home of the Commercial club are pushing them closely the Iron Ironworkers ironworkers workers are keeping slightly in ad advance advance advance vance All labor incident to tc the building of this structure have been beer amicably settled and antI all workmen on the building with the brick brlek the stone I the terra cotta and the steel are work working big ing in unison on toward an early comple completion completion completion tion of ot the building Across the street fron froB the Commercial Club building is the new Mining Ex Exchange Exchange Exchange change It is only a matter of ot weeks week when this pretty building bunding will be com corn completed completed The structure Is modeled after the New York stock exchange and In beauty bt auty is 1 second to none The building is now practically completed and a crew of men is putting In the facade of ol pillars at its entrance ent Commanding the approach to this new business bu district dietrict stand the tall Boston and e buildings now practical completed Each day da tenants are mor moving moving ing lag into lato these building buDding and the skilled workmen who have been putting the fin nn finishing touches touch on Oft these the e buildings have little more work to do Big Hotel Completed Within a 8 block of ot this tills new district the new MW Dab Datar building an modern modem hotel betel het will be ready read for occupancy within a 8 short Mort time lime The new hotel looks loo s out outon outon on oa the beautiful park surrounding the city elt and county building The construe construction tion tto of this hotel is ill rather an innovation In building in Salt Lake It is made en entirely enI of concrete and Is absolutely a fire tire fireproof fireproof I proof There are ale GOO rooms In this hotel hote soon to be open to the traveling public Back in the other direction where here the magnificent Judge building houses hun bun hundreds hundreds drea of or tenants tena ls Is 1 the gateway of still sun another business district Rut East and west weeton weston on Third Thin South street tc t business J property has hall doubled and trebled In value within the last few years yean The Colonial theatre a recent Dt addition to the dramatic homes home of Salt Lake Is te on Rut East Third South and next to It dozens of workmen are em employed emploYed in the big new Hew Mission theatre thea The framework for this build buildIng lot lag Is te already up six stories and the H workmen are busy bus night and day to com corn complete complete plots it for the tan fall and winter season Indications of tn the spread of or business activity to the eastward are a apparent all al Along State street The builders of the new Holmes building at Second South Sou It and State Stat streets are wasting no time Farther larthEr down d the street on cut the east side there theft are several handsome new build buRd laSS lags which add udd dd ta to the beauty and the bus business iness hiess activity of jf this district On OB the west side aide old oW adobe houses hous eyesores ey ores for foi years are being torn tom down to make room I for substantial sub and ad d handsome new bus busi business 1 ness structures The development of the west side of or orthe the city Is shown in the building of dozens of large warehouses and more particularly particularly in the construction of ot new depots for the Oregon Short Line and Salt Lake Route railways and the Denver Rio Grande Grands railroad The TM union depot for the Oregon Short Line and the tho Salt Lake Route wilt will be opened during p 5 3 A R B Rw week w k Though It wil not be quite com corn completed the building will be thrown open to the G A R B crowds and the finishing touches put on as rapidly as possible po The Rio Grande Gran e depot will be the Ute Salt Lake station for fr the Denver Dener Rio Grande Grands and the Western Pacific railroads It will probably be opened early curly in the theOne spring One of ot the most mo t important phases of the building operations in Salt Lake is III the building of ef homes and t houses in all ail parts of ot the city This building activity is confined to no section of the city From Grove to Fed Federal Federal Federal eral Heights the streets are lined hind with new homes home new apartment houses houes and a 1 new stores storN In the other direction the building activity Is apparent from Warm Springs to Wandamere and there are dl ona directions that may be taken with the same evidence of progress And this is on only I the beginning |