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Show CORNER STONE LAYING. E?erything in Readiness at the Oity and County Building. ANOTHER MINING COMPANY, The Pheenix, Incorporated with a Capital or $(00,000 Prof. Garvin Talks of , the Prospects of Deep Creek. On Monday afternoon, with all the pomp and ceremony befitting so important an event, the corner 6tone of the joint city and county building will be laid by the Masonic fraternity. Chris Dichl is now making his collection of coins and papers to go in the box, and among them will be a copy of this issue of The Time;. Active work on the building was only commenced in October last, and wonderful progress hns been made since then. The cement basis, with tons of steel rails, have been laid with great care. The foundation and interior basement walls are finished, and a good start has been made on the massive walls of the superstructure. Sufficient stone has been cut to raise the building thirtv-elirbt feet above the foundation founda-tion walls. The four lofty steam derricks, with their big arms sweeping over the entire en-tire site, are in operation. They are fixed upon wooden platforms, and are braced with about ten thousand feet of cable. Several changes In the origiual plans have been made, one of them being the substitution sub-stitution of granite columns for sandstone at the entrauce, and the cost of the structure is estimated at $450,090. Contractor Bowman is busily engaged in preparing for the ceremonies ou Monday. A platform has been erected at the northeast north-east corner of the building for the convenience conve-nience of those who wish to be present, and another is being put up iu the well for those who will take part. Mr. Bowman is winning many encomiums for the manner in whicli he is pushing the construction, and even though he should not make a larsre profit on his contract, yet he is doinir his work so well that he will still have made a fortune in the reputation which his efforts ou the joint building will bring him. Chris Diehl has prepared the scroll for that event, and the people who, 2000 years hence, tear down the building to make room for the forty-two-story edifice which will then be erected, will find therein the following: By the favor of the Great Architect of the universe, on the 25th day of July, 1S'.I2, and in the year of Free Masonry, A. I- 5SU2. His excellency Benjamin Harrison being president of the United States of America; His excellency Arthur L. Thomas governor, gov-ernor, and Elijah Sells secretary of the territory ter-ritory of Utah ; His honor G. W. Bartch probate judge, C. E. Allen, esq., county clerk, and Messrs. John Butter, John P. Cahoon and Hardy selectmen of Salt Lake county; His Honor Robert Newton Baskin, mayor; t'has. E. Stanton, Esq., recorder; Harry T. Duke, Esq., treasurer; Fred. J. Leonard, Esq., assessor and collector, and Edgar M. Janney, marshal of Salt Lake City. Judge C. F. Loot bourow, president, and Messrs. M. H. Beardstey, C. M. Bell. H. F. Evans, 8. C. Ewing, Eli A. Folland, O. H. Hardy, J. A. Heiss, F. Horn, L. C. Karrick, John L. Lawscn, P. J. Moran, E. E. Rich, A. C. Simondi and C. E. Wantland members of the Salt Lake City council. This corner stone was laid by the Most Worshipful Watson Newton Shilling, grand master of Masons in Utah, assisted by the grand otlicers and members jf the grand lo!ge of Ancient Free and Accented Masons escorted by Utah Commandery No. 1 Knights ' Templar and in the presence of the memhers of the eight masonic lodges in the jurisdiction, jurisdic-tion, with the ancient ceremonies of the h.aorable masonic fraternity which may the G. A. O. T. U. ever protect and foster. NEW MIXING CORPORATION. The Phoenix Incorporated With $000,000 Capital. The Phoenix Silver Mining company filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk today. The principal office of the Ciom"pany will be in Salt Lake City, and it will exist for fifty years. The business of the company will be to locate, purchase, lease, patent, hold and operate mining property prop-erty and to couduct a general mining business. busi-ness. The capital stock is placed at 200,000 shares of the denomination of ?3 each. The amount of stock subscribed for with the names of the stockholders is as follows: H. T. Duke, 1000 shares; A. Hanauer, 1000; W. H. Hoffheimer, 10,000; F. Rehrman. 10.000; John Bunce, lOoO; Andrew Gebhardt, 1000; William Schade, KMX); working capital, 100.-J(H). 100.-J(H). The officers arc: W. H. Hoffheiraer, pres-dent; pres-dent; A. Gebhardt, vice-president; W. Schade, treasurer; and F. Rehrman, secre-retary; secre-retary; who, with H. T. Duke, John Bunce and A. Hanauer will form the board of directors. di-rectors. The property owned by the corporation are the Vina, Neptune and Frederick mining min-ing claims, situated in the Big Cottonwood district. THE CHARLES WANI.ES9 COMPAXT also filed articles of incorporation with the eountv clerk vesterdav. The pursuit of this company will be to conduct a general hardware business, with headquarters in Salt Lake, and it will exist for fifty Ter with the usual provision. The capita! stock is placed at $15,000, divided di-vided into 15, ooo shares of $1 each. The names of the stockholders are Charles Wan-less, Wan-less, 13, tWO shares; Fred Wanless, 137, aud Francis Mary Wanless, Francis M. Brown and ft. A. Cowan, one share each. The officers are Charles Wanless, president, presi-dent, and Fred Wanless, vice-president, secretary sec-retary and treasurer, and these, with F. M. Wauless, will be a board of directors. TUB DEKP (KEEK COUNTRY. Mr. Garvin Says Capitalists are Awaiting the Assurance of a Railroad. Some three weeks ago The Times published pub-lished an exhaustive report on the Deep Creek country by J. C. Garvin of Leadville, Colo. Since then Mr. Garvin has been in cat, but on business beut, and he has again arrived in Salt Lake. His report has created considerable interest among capitalists, and lengthy extracts of it have been published in several eastern papers. In conversation with Mr. Gnrvin today a Times reporter gleaned some interesting facts with reference refer-ence to the feeling of eastern capitalists in restnrd to investing in the Deep Creek country. coun-try. They all say that if it were' an assured fact a railroad will be built, transportation in sny shape and form cannot carry them fast enough to the scene of operations, but until this fact the railroad fact can be assured, as-sured, they do not feel inclined to invest thousands, not to speak of millions, of dollars dol-lars where there is no show of some kind of return of intorest upon the money invested. The report which appeared in The Times, Mr. Garvin says, was given off-handed from notes roughly taken at all points in his three months jourhey. His official report, going thoroughly into details, has been submitted :o the syndicate he represented, and is now n n n r 'rTi(lnrtiiin .ml uritl. ..i. j . iitiw. Vu.,.v.. ...i lux .ci inm initio :ers cleared up, there is no doubt hi Mr. Garvin's Gar-vin's mind as to the result of the openiu" up of the Deep Creek country. Smelting, concentrating works, etc., etc., at Muncey Creek, Nevada, and. with this accomplished, will come a legitimate boom to Salt Lake City such as has never yet been dreamed of. The Times is well aware that more than one line is projected for the Deep Creek country. One road has already twenty miles traded, and Colonel Murray with the amount of eastern capitalists in the field at the present pres-ent moment, Mr. Garvin and his friends feel feel assured that a railroad into that counti-3' will soon be an accomplished fact. - |