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Show GOOD TBIES COMING. Tha Work of Paving the Streets and Laying Lay-ing Sidewalks will Commence June 1st Sure. HUNDRED3 OF MEN EMPLOYED. Business Interest?, Including Eealty Dealers, will Have no Kick Coming Com-ing About Hard Times, Husiucss will bo good this summer. Hundreds of laborers will bo employed in tho building trades and paving tho streets and laying sidewalks; so Unit everybody will hae money to throw at tho birds or buy lawn tennis clothes. Two or three weeks ago the outlook lor new building projects wis rather dreary, but now money is getting easier anil many plans which have bet-n held in abeyance pending a less stringency in financial marts, will be put into execution. In some of the architects ollices visited this morning, it was found that they had received orders to go ahead and perfect details with a view of immediately immedi-ately commencing work. Stie.t Paving. The city council has certainly decided to pave a' portion of tho streets of the city. They knew they would have to do something to redeem their reputations, or their tianies would be "mud" in the next election; and so it has been delinitcly setiled to put down psiumcuU which would make the work of Ho.ss Sheppard in Washington, 1). C, look pale under the gills. The matter has been referred to the board of public works and tmo of tho fuue-tionariis fuue-tionariis of that oflico informed a Times representative this inoruing thai they would at once advertise for bids, and the work would commence by Juno 1st on the district comprehended by South Temple, Fourth South, Main and State streets. Mu Sidewalk 'roleU. There have been no protests tiled in the city council on the subject of laying sidewalks and it is not believed there will be, as only four days remain for doing so. liy the law, protests must be made bv a majority of the property owners abutting on the line of the district dis-trict sought to lie paved, w ithin thirty days from the time aiivortisernen's aio first published, so that now it would be almost impossible for enough of them to get together to prevent the prosecution prosecu-tion ot this important improvement within the limitation of tlm lime allowed. al-lowed. Caught on the Fly. Heal estate tranfers yesterday were both encouraging and highly creditable. Harvey Hardy has booketi the tirst passage on tho new stage line to Deep creK". He and other great men will sit on the front boot. K. C. Hoot a prominent real estato di aler ami money leaner of lienvor, is circulating around the city today and has become stuck on the town. The sidewalk nuisance on the southeast south-east corner of Second anil West Temple streets remains unabated. This morning morn-ing the n.ud was clear over the tops of shoes. A little pieco of asphaltum wall; which could be repaired with profit is that lying between thedillen hotel and Main street. It has been worn away so in the center, that enough water stands on it to float a gondola. Fred Halo has received his commission commis-sion as architect for the new .SpatTord block on Slate street, and he has commenced com-menced preparing the plans for tho work, which is to begin almost immediately. im-mediately. A verbal agreement has been entered in to between Councilman SpaiTord and tho Masonic fraternity by which that society are to have all of the third and part oi' the second stury of the building. |