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Show A Fine Strlctubb. The bnilding for the First National Bank of Utah, now rapidly nearing completion, is really one of the finest of the kind in the west, and will bo esteemed a leading lead-ing feature of Salt Lake commercial institutions when years shall have given this city a growth such as San Francisco Francis-co now has. The building has a basement base-ment and four stories, with an altitude from the ground of nearly a hundred aod twenty feet, affording most capacious capa-cious and cievated ceilings. Tho ground floor contains a banking room of the most liberal dimensions; a vauit of great strength; a 'Sweating'' room of proportions eaual with the banking room, and which will bo upholstered, painted and furnished in the most tasteful and luxurious style, aod sup-plicd.wilh. sup-plicd.wilh. commercial and news papers, magazines, etc., for general use; coat rooms, etc. The second tbor has two suites of offices, of most capacious dimensions, one front and one rear, comprising two large apartments each; a janitor's room, aud a most commodious commodi-ous side room which can be utilized io a variety of ways. The next floor has a largo hall, suitable for lectures, parties, e'.c,, while tho floor still above has another, large baii with an eighteen-foot eighteen-foot ceiling, detuned we understand, for the Odd Feilow. The iron front is of elegant dciuo; the stairs have a gcatle slope aad a liberal w-dlh, every floor is supplied with hydranus and watc r closets; acd the entire structare is girdled and permeated in-idc with piping lor g as, hot air for heating purposes, and water. A t a l k en the r oo f will contain water, f treed up by an engine; and fro;a the cupola on the roof ih- i tvt view et Sjit LAke eiiy can be ob ! tainol of any phoc we have asecnJed. ! Mr. H'ls-ty is coine to heavy cx-. cx-. renso in the bailing, architect ara!,j 'and err.-nu'-nta1'; hit the struct are I when c.t;nf Ictod will be worth the out- ilay, will tio hecor to his ta:e and parse, and be a lasting credit to the city. |