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Show THE STJiEET PAYING. CONTRACTORS ARE CORDIALLY IN-. IN-. VITED TO BID ON THE WORK. Thy Say They W on't liid. But They Don't Mean Jt I'tali l'otatoo Crop; It Has JU-cii a Had Year Thousands of . Rusliels of fruit Wasting. The arlvertlsemr'nt appears elsewhere in this issue of The Times fur furnishing all lnhor and materials for the paving of Stale t-treet wilh asphaltuni from Smith Temple to Fourth South street. Jt remain to be seen whether the conditions imposed by the hoard of public work are so seere and arbitrary that no paving company will bid oq the work as one of them asserted yesterday. leiii Sugar Factory. Many contradictory reports have been received re-ceived from The Lehi Sugar factory, the first run of suar has been reported as having hav-ing been made every day since Monday and t.ie same report has been denied the. same clay. The probabilities are that several tons have, bpcn turned out since the -works were started, but that none of it has been up to the standard in color. This ha- been accounted for by the management, by the newness of the machinery, the rust in pipes, etc., which it would be necessary to thoroughly cleanse by running the. juice through tlu ni before a Xo. 1 article of simar could be made. A run of tiflti n tous vis tnrT""l out this morning which was superior t - - wliich has been made- before; thtj tpi j iv iss verj- fine, Vitit it wa- a shade oif color. This was put throu:vh nsraiu a." ' t ill come out. tomorrow to-morrow morning w h u i' is expected it will be fully up to all requirements. A w Block on State. Work was commenced this morning on the excavations for a new block on State street below Second South. The building is to be put up by the O'Mears Bros., who leased the ground of Alderman Spa fiord for a number -uf years, and Burton, Andrews S: Groesbeek. The plans already drawn are for a building three stories high to le of brick, the front "f it being pressed brick wilh stone trimmings. trim-mings. It will have a frontage of eighty feet on Slate street and will be approximately approxi-mately a hundred feet deep and will cost $-!'., X. An Abundant Fruit Crop. There has never been a more abundant fruit crop seen in Utah than that w hich was grown this year. The quality, too. has been excellent. On some farms both in Utah and Salt Lake valleys, hundreds of bushels have gone to waste. This is parti ularlv true of peaches and plums, for w V- i iV demand as comparatively light, "".is summer has demonstrated more than e . . i the urgency of having fruit canneries, eva io stors and vinegar vin-egar works established here. Har sstiiijr, Fotaloes. Utah farmer;, are at the prasent t'.tne engaged en-gaged in harvesting their potatoe en .p.. The yield is not at all satisfactory to them, nor is it so larp-cas it has "been for the past three years. The average crop iu Self LaKe and Utah valleys is about 100 bushel i 4l't-'acrc. There are a few exceptional eas. TV here a larger yield is obtained, but -the c;.? ars not many. The quality is cr.'-.-.i.ioi -y good. Odds and Knds. Real estate transfers vesterdav footed ur .? 10,021'. ... The Ji f tli tier of windows is being put in the McCorniek block. A ball is to be given on November o, by the retail clerks association. A bank has been established iu Springville with a capital of .?r0,000. A w ooden frame work is b.' ing put on the Dooly block on which the cornice is to be fastened. Business men are pleased with the new postotlk-e regulations which gives them Lhcir mail by S a. m. There are only two short pieces of gradin to be done on the ire.il S.alt Lake & iU-l Springs railroad, between tnc sprmgs and Bountiful. , & ' Business men report this as having .- touirh month lor collections in -tli' ? The he country precincts money has b Fra ring easier. " The chamber of commerce committee to s 'licit subscriptions to the bonds of the ' at Western railroad was appointed by i ii-u Simon today. It is expected that it will eoniUience rustling at once. A communication was received by the secretary sec-retary of the West side association this morning from the manager of the Pay-on cannery, who wants to move the concern to Brighton and run it in connection with the pickle factory. |