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Show THOMAS MS1 RESIDENCE FOUNDATION ALONE WILL COST ? 12,000. Contracts for the Mason. "Work and for Trimming the Stone Were Let Yesterday. The foundation alone of Thomas Kearns' magnificent new homo on Brig:-ham Brig:-ham and G streets will cost $12,000. Yesterday Yes-terday the contract for the mason work of the basement up to the water table was let to Maron & Fielding, their bid being S3.069. The contract for trimming the granite blocks of which the basement base-ment walls are to be constructed Was also let yesterday. This contract went to John Sheriff for $4,300. The stone used in these basement waJls is known as Wasatch granite and comes from the Little Cottonwood. It is gray-blue in color and very hard. Each block will be hewn and partly faced and it is thought that this work will consume the greater part of the i winter. The foundation will be sixty-two sixty-two feet fronting on Brigba.m street, by ninety-four feet fronting on G. The excavation is now being made. j Architect Neuhausen is hard at work I upon the plans for this residence, which j will eclipse anything between Denver and San Francisco in beauty and sta- bii.'ty. The ptyle of architecture will I be pure Italian renaissance. I |