Show THE TH NEW SALT LAKE So many n improvements contemplated and assured for Salt Lake have hao been recorded corded r by The Herald Herold recently that It is difficult to keep track of them or appreciate their full significance The latest evidence of municipal growth nna thU enterprise is i the acquisition by Mr Ken Newhouse house of a large block of ground I in Lower Main Alain street and Fourth South for lor the avowed purpose of building splendid business blocks mocks and office ollice buildings to tu cost with the ground sev several gt v veral eral millions Such an nn 91 announcement is calculated to tf make mak Salt SAIL S Lakers gasp as they the real realize I ize its importance to the community It marks malks the most important step ever in the transformation from front the staid conservative unimproved town to a modern progressive pro essif cosmopolitan i dt ity of great proportions Coming Comin on the heels oC or railroad construction con truc h lion tion work WOrl the new nw smelters and mills In lit the valley the tite new terminal l stations and the extensive street paving pitYing mill anti other public this great groot real c tate nn anti amI l building enterprise will begin an nit era of construction that ought I to result rosult eventually e in the modernization 4 Hon tion of the entire business district dl t A number of factors fn tOra ought to con eon contribute contribute tribute to this movement most of or them 4 01 originating in the transfers of this week ck Unless the owners of property on ill Upper Main Ilin street are i willing tiling to see business bu move mOe down in the tile direction of the federal building b they will wm be corn com compelled c to bestir themselves and fur furnish nish adequate facilities fur for commercial tenants on their property They have haver r getting large Jarge revenues from from old buildings b but with the improvements contemplated at Third South and Fourth South the time center of or business activity is almost sure to move south southward southward southard ward ard unless some action is taken to toi i heck it ft p For Fot months there has hits been an enor cHar enormous enormous demand for offices and store storerooms storerooms storerooms rooms in Main street a demand that could not be supplied yet et with one or ot two exceptions the landlords who own of the tho Slain Main ain street frontage have taken no steps to keep pace with whit the i growth of the time city Apparently they the have believed that conditions would al always always 1 ways remain as satisfactory to them as they th y have been but they ought to bo be convinced by b now that the le 1 buildings will no longer suffice that 3 modern structures with ith fa fai i for tenants will have to be bo built bunt if they want to hold their tenants keep their property from depreciating t ing by b thO th of important Im institutions institutions II to another quarter of the time bust busi business ness R district Compared with other oilier cities of or its Us class Salt not fared well wen in its im improvements in the downtown downton district Residences Innumerable have sprung up over the city a great influx of pop population population hag hns ha created a demand for ac accommodations I 1 Comm rents and realty prices c have h C advanced greatly but the business houses of Salt Lake have haye not 11 t kept pace with Wi l the other improvements The fhe time has arrived arr c for to build and anti the wiser they th y the more quickly Iu kl wilt will they see the necessity for action |