Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1893-05-07 | Page 5 | The Session's Work

THE SESSIONS WORK I Public and Private Improvements Now Well Under Way Tho Amounts to Be Expended on Various Big Enterprises Will Bring TSasierf II I Times Tho Z C 311 Dividend I With the letting of the contract for the gravity sewer the spring or rather summer sum-mer work will be well under way This contract involves the expenditure of over a third of a million dollars and avery a-very large portion of this will be in labor There will not only be the labor required to lay up the brick but the brick kilns will need to increase tho number of men in their yards The digging of the trench is alone a big undertaking and this will present n busy scene I Work on the copper smelter has been delayed awaiting the building of the railroad track into the grounds But this will be completed within a few days when an army of bricklayers will be engaged en-gaged on the walls and gangs of carpenters carpen-ters and other laborers Neither is there any dearth of activity in the general building operations of the city Any person can witness a lively scene on Second South street where three business blocks are being erected side by side The Hardy building is about completed com-pleted and the new front to the Davidson David-son building is coming out finely while I the Harmon building with a frontage of I over one hundred feet is having the I foundation set in I i The Karrick building on the corner of I State street is rising above the pavement in good form and the remodeling of the adjoining row is making good progress I The Brigham Young Trust comnany is alqo ready with 200000 in bank to begin work on the various buildings which the trust has projected I These enterprises with the half dozen of other blur projects like the Saltair pavilion I pa-vilion and city and county building are I certainly enough to make times easier than they have been for a year I i I