Show CONSTRUCTION WORK ON BUSINESS BLOCKS IS BEING PUSHED TO LIMIT Everywhere the work on all the big structures going up is being rushed to the utmost limit Citizens who vho visit the new ne building sites find them to be veritable beehives of industry Moreover Instructions Instructions instructions have been issued in every case that there shall be no letup until the buildings are entirely completed The Tue Newhouse district is naturally the main maln center of ot attraction because of the magnitude of the building construction there and the natural pride which all Salt Lakers take In the genius and spirit behind that big enterprise en Work ork Is on in full tull blast all the time except when weather interferes Thompson Starrett company compan the con contractors contractors contractors tractors who are putting up the majestic Newhouse and Boston buildings opposite the postoffice report r port that the high walls of both structures are practically corn com completed and the workmen are arc busy on the root roof roo arches now Inside these those big buildings is a 3 small army of plumbers plumb rs electricians clans elevator men metalworkers and carpenters They arc are all plying their re respective respective trades with the utmost speed and the Interior work Is fast mounting upward In III competition with the comple tion lion of the th exterior The Newhouse building bUild in is farther to toward toward toward ward completion than the Boston build Ing and it if is expected that it will be ready read for occupancy by Jan 1 with the Boston building completed one month later The dirt is flying on the Commercial club building site on th corner of Cactus I street and Exchange change E place in the rear of the Newhouse building Raleigh Har Harmon Harmon 1 mon mono who have the excavation contract I have hae twenty teams t ams busy hauling dirt out of the big hole that Is being Jug dug for the II foundation The work there has been going on only this week but it is figured that the excavation excavation excavation will be completed by b Oct 12 1 The digging there Is being done by b the trap method and the only difficulty yet en encountered en encountered encountered countered has been in itt striking water Over Ocr on First West Yest at the corner of Second South street str et the preliminary work In preparation for the big Salt Lake I Hardware warehouse Is on in I earnest Raleigh Harmon also have havethe havethe the excavation contract contra t there and have twenty teams on the job It will be fin finished finished inside of a fortnight they estimate One of the tile Interesting features fea ures of that th t particular excavation is the big steam shovel which Is tearing into the earth It attracts a big gathering of citizens daily dally who watch Its wonderful workings and mechanism with deep interest The Lyceum theatre building on State street treet just north of ot the Knutsford Is s now one story above aboe ground and going up rapidly L D Martin now has a force orce of bricklayers who are sending the walls skyward skard york Work on the super superstructure superstructure structure Is scheduled to begin before the end nd of this week The Daly hotel building corner of State and hird South streets opposite tho city ity and county building Is under con contract contract tract to be completed by May Ma 15 The foundation and foundation walls are in inand inand inand and a force of carpenters employed by b bJ T J Armstrong the contractor is now busy preparing forms for the cement ement su superstructure superstructure f I IThe The Paris Millinery compan s whole wholesale wholesale sale building on West Yest Temple street is another creation of Contractor T J I Arm Armstrong rm strong Irons Its walls and superstructure sup are practically all completed and the work workmen workmen workmen men will spend this week In placing fire ire fireproof fireproof proof floors in The building will cost about when finished The Callaway Hoock Francis build building In ing ng on Main street just north of First South Is being hurried along by b Con Contractor Contractor tractor Oliver Hodgson Its walls are practically all up and the and Interior Is nw receiving the attention of ofa a bil big force torce of men menThe menThe menThe The Auerbach theatre on Third South is s probably nearer to completion than any of the big structures Its walls are up and the roof and floors are arc rapidly ap approaching approaching the finished stage The In tenor work worl also is 15 being aggressively pushed along and the contractors report the he progress In every eve department as very cry satisfactory The erection of two depots both of which are now going up is something that hat few cities may ever boast of The Oregon Short Line depot work has as assumed assumed umed big proportions and the heavy su and wall work which Is en ent entailed tailed ailed t in the erection of so substantial a building is slowly but surely being car carried carried ried ned out The Rio Grande depot work Is Iset yet et in its infancy being confined so far faro farto farto to o foundation work but the start has been een made mada and big operations will soon follow ollow n |