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Show WANTLAND. Hothing Else is In It A Building Schem Which Eclipses All Others. TO BE THIRTEEN STORIES HIGH. The Block to Contain an Opera" House, Hotel and Dry Goods Emporium Six Hundred Offices. Wantland is the latest aspirant to carve his name in a niche of the tempi of fame by building a big bljck. 11a has been writing to people in tho east, telling them of the enormous profits that were being made in Hub city on property for rental as olliees and business busi-ness rooms. A short time ago it is known that Wantland was negotiating nego-tiating for a site on which to erect a riudendoits structure. He not only got options on one, but on four coi uers. One. of them is on Slate street, one on West Temple, a third on Second East, nnd the last on Second South. Alter tying up the ground, he wired .Mr. C. K. Troekmorlon of lioston, to come here and look the situation over, and make a report to the parties he was representing. Air. Trock-morton Trock-morton arrived in the city on Monday and after spending two da s iu Mudying the prospects for the continuance of business prosperity here, aud considering the advantage of tlie ditl'crciit sites proposed, he announced an-nounced before leaving ior home last night, that hu was fully satislied with, what he had seen, and believed the scheme would go through; he went to far as to admit that as far as he was personally concerned his report would be favorable. Alter a good deal of persuasion Mr. W antland ga'e tlie general outlines of the proposition. All of tho corners under consideration are 1 -" feet deep nnd from l.T to 111) feet in t he other direction. di-rection. The plans of the building which is to bo thirteen stories high, were also shown. Tho lower llooe the structure is to contain an opera house of abont !!''Uil capacity and is to be titted up in a luxurious manner. Tho remainder re-mainder of the lower story istocontaia a largo number of stores if so cut up, or it will bo arranged for a dry goods emporium of a magnitude eqiial to Daniels & Fisher's in Denver. The second and thiid stories are to be devoted de-voted to a hotel, thesi.c being sufficient to aceommodato fully as many guests as any of those which are now built in the city. The other ten fctories are to be used for olliees. It is estimated that the total cost of this magnificent monument to Utah's greatness and to the vim of Wantland will approximate fully three quarter of a million dollars, and will in design and expensivencss of construction eclipse anything iu. the whole west. To accomodate the vast concourse of people who will either live, do busines or have business in such a mammoth hive, it will be necessary to provide no fewer than ten rapid- running hydraulic levators, . which will make a round trip in three ' quarters of a minute. Several of the kind, running with such a frightful velocity are now being used In some of the skv piercing blocks which are already al-ready built in the east and it is said that no disagreeable sensations are experienced ex-perienced by passengers, who are , wholly oblivious of the tho rale of speed at which they are traveling. There will be such a keen competition com-petition by the several interests, to have. this towering palace contiguous to their own property, that it is anticipated some encouragement will be offered in the way of subsidies, as it would of itself tie a most important element in establishing a new center of business. As it now stands, there are favorable prospect that the scheme will go through, and Wantland is waiting rather impatiently to hear of the decision de-cision of the capitalists on the report which Mr. Throckmorton will make to them. |