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Show BUSINESS AFFAIRS. A Denver Company Oranizad to Invest Money in Salt Lake. WITH A CAPITAL OF $800,000. The Financial and Mining Record to Issue a Special I tali Edition Natural Gas Husiness Kriefs. The svndicate of Denver capitalisls, headed head-ed b- G. C. Bartels. who have in the past two or three years invested a lsrge amount of money in Salt Lake, and who now own Popperton Place, have an abidiny faith in the future of the city, as they are now preparing pre-paring tofcompletc the work of grading the streets at Popperton, and will erect several fine residences there, aud make it to Salt Lake what Capitol Hill is to Denver. To accomplish this the syndicate has just incorporated in-corporated with a capital of 800,000. The company is officered as follows: G. C. Bartels, Bar-tels, president; Joseph 8mith, vice-president; A. S. Miller, secretary: Hugh H. Thomas, treasurer; Edward F. Col born, general manager. Other members of the company arc: F. L. Kohlfing, Arthur Sehenk, W A. Marean, Herman Strauss, B. Berry of New York, M. J. Treat of Kansas, Ellen E. Randall and James W. Skinner. Mr. Col-born, Col-born, the manager, is the only Salt Lake member of the compauy. A Utah Edition. Edwin T. Schenck, manager of the Finan-eiol Finan-eiol awl Minina Ttetoi'd of New York, one of the leading journals of the kind in the country, coun-try, is iu Salt Lake and he intends to get up a special Utah edition of his paper. The A'-r,,rl is about the only New York journal which adyoeates free coinage. Rusiness Briefs. It is understood that Mr. John McDonald will erect a handsome brick block in the near future on l.is property on East First South. Bids are being received for the work of excavating for the Auerbach Bros, new block on tlie corner opposite the Dooley building. The scaffolding has been removed from the north front of the old Godbe-Pitts building, build-ing, and the front looks much better for its new coat. Another of the old shacks which disgraced Market row has been pulled down and the .work of excavating for the new building has commenced. Work on the joint city and county building build-ing is progressing finely, and the foundations founda-tions are now up so as to present a good idea of the plan and size of the structure. The scaffolding is cleared away from the west towers of the temple which is a big improvement on that side, bnt only renders the other more unsightly by comparison. L. X. Smith has just returned from an extended ex-tended eastern trip. He says that the discovery dis-covery of natural gas here has caused a big revival of interest in Salt Lake among eastern east-ern people. |