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Show A HOUSE jN WHEELS. A Bather Curious Sight Seen On West Temple Street This Morning, . REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS. Manufacturing Plants Looking for Locations Loca-tions in Salt Lake City Quiet Day . ' ".' On the Exchange, A two-story house moving slowly down West Temple street, between Second and Third South streets, was tho rather unique sight that met tho eyes of passers-by this morning. Tho house was one 1 hat had occupied I ho site where tho excavations for the new Ontario hotel is now going on. It was purchased by Carroll & Kern, and was being moved down to tho lot on West Temple, between Fifth and Sixth South streets. The work of moving tho house was done by Mr. W. E. Doyle, a practical house mover from Denver. After being placed on rollers, which ran on a trjcli of plank laid ahead of the building, the house was dragged forward by a windlass, pegged to tho grounil some hundred feet ahead of the house, and operated by two horses. A job of this kind is worth about $200. Kl'SIIINU TI1E WORK. The scene at tho site of the new Ontario On-tario hotel this morning was one of push and activity. Half a dozen teams with scrapers were busy excavating and as many men and one team wero employed uprooting tho trees that had occupied tho lot and tho street in front of it. In a week's time the excavation will be far enough advanced to allow the stonemasons to go to work. a cotton mill. Among many letters of inquiry iu Secretary Gillespie's mail this morning was one from the manager of au eastern east-ern cotton mill. He said that the company com-pany had decided to move its platit to tho west . and asked what inducements could be offered by Salt Lake for them to como here. If the right parties would take hold of the concern ho proposed to put up a big mill. Mr. Gillespio sent him samples of the cotton which grows to great perfection in eastern and southern south-ern Utah, together with much other information in-formation in the same line. THE REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. The members of the real estate exchange ex-change are just now too much interested inter-ested in the races to pay much attention atten-tion to business. At this morning's meeting there were but ten members present, . There were no offers. , Among the wants- was a site for a . livery stable iu the central part of the city by Tousey & de Ricqles. C. L. Libtiy & Co. wanted to trade a house and lot at Evans, Col., for a Salt Lake City residence. A ROLLING MILL. Among the mail received by the exchange ex-change this morning was ono from an iron manufacturer in Lockport, N. Y. He said that he wanted to move his rolling mill to the wesjf . The plant em ploys 150 men and has a capacity of forty tons of finished iron per day. His lino of business was principally the manufacture of iron from wrought scrap, and he asked for the price of scrap, the cost of fuel, aud the amount of scrap to bo obtained in Salt Lake- A WORKER IN WOOD. Another letter was from a man iu Richmond, Va., who wanted information informa-tion in regard to what inducements Salt Lake could offer to a man who would start up in tho wood forking line. He proposed to do general mill work, make boxes, etc., and asked about the opportunities oppor-tunities for obtaining timber. IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE. The first proof of the hangers to be sent out over the country, advertising Salt Lake's Fourth of July celebration, are to be seen at the chamber of commerce. com-merce. They form a very attractive sheet, printed in red and blue on a white back ground. ' |