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Show GREAT ACTIVITY IH !f! Iff HISS Business Section of Salt Lake- , ! Rapidly Being Honey-combed d ! With New Structures.. ' . f 1 H PROGRESS NOT CONFINED ' i j H TO ANY ONE SECTION 1 lH Same Conditions Also Apply to' 111 the Residence portions ; EJJ Much has been said of thc rapid growth of thc city of "Salt Lake and .of : ; fj the tremendous amount of building'-be-I iug done, yet it is almost impossiblc.io appreciate what this rn.ca.ns without a. .- thorough examination of the city. A' It : 'iB man who visited the city after an ah- F; ll sencc of two years recently remarked ' on tho changed appcarauce of Second . ifi and Third, South streets, especially .h.C' )i twecn West Tcmplo and State street's, :JL ''! aud the number of new business. huild- ings which have replaced the old a'dpb s residences which' formerly stood' there. "' Another, noticeable change in the ap- I pearanco of tho'business- sectiou of.thd, i," I city is that pro'duced' h.y f ho now build-, r ,, :iuH ings along Main street below Third 1 ! j South. Thc Newhouso skyscraper and kit iil the Judge building havo effected an un- ' 'jji ilrl usually nandsome appearance iu tho' 1I lower portion, of Main street, and thsr ; ' f IH high board fences in different locations " X along the street indicate that the good work is still going on. , ,r jH Just north of the site of tho Now-' Q-j 1 !H house, structures the foundation of the T-jj A new Salisbury skyscraper is nearinc 'it t ll completion and within a few weeks tho, jj walls' will begin to show above the high' fm yjM board fence. At the corner of Fourth; fl ' ipj.H South nnd State street tho foundation- I 1 of the J J. .Dal- block is also beini 1 'lll carried forward rapidly. On Thira' 1.4,1 South, between Main and State .stroots,' '3. flM where only a few months ago stood a ' M long row of high basement residences, , appears a new structure, thc steel beams) ' tJI aud brick work being already in placo . up to tho level of tho second story. 3H Crowds of. workmen line tho Avails and so rapid is the progress that a chango :fl iiH can bo noted almost from hour to V. hour. This is tho new Aucrbach thc- i; atcr, to bo known as the Colonial and '"Tl' IttH to bo devoted 'oHbc production of high 1 j.'TI class musical comedies and- dramas. ; V f'H On West Temple. ', .H On West Templo. between First and ; j .l Second South, on the west side of tho '. jjH street, tho old adobo buildings which. (? have stood as landmarks of the old pio- ; vH neer city for many 3ears have been j fllH torn down and in their place appear tho ' M walls of thc new Simon building, tho j futuro homo of the wholesale depart- jyjH ment of the Paris Millinery compan3 1$ jH Although only a month or two ago tho , J jJH property now occupied by what will bo ' 1 UiM one of the handsomest buildings of tho 4 IH kind in Salt Lake City was practically 1 inH a vacant lot, tho main portion of tho If, lH walls of tho new building. seem nearly t jiH completed and read3- for the finishing J t.l touches of the Workmen. Just north of thc Simon buildin.c Pl workmen are bus3 preparing the founds- F tion of tho Jennings-Worthingtou $s ffH building. This is to bo a warehou?o M'l also and the completed building, with ,iiH the Simon building and tho handsomo fiH structures occupied bj' tho Strcvcll- 'vVH Paterson company will give that section , LH of West Temple an unusual' attractive- , appearance. Real estate men already '$ . talk glibly of the wholesale section of the city arid point to the erection of tho A new buildings along1 West Temple and Ji 'H west on First and Second South as an ft," -'H evidenco of thc fact. 2, JM Tho new Syndicate building at tho fjy corner of First West and Second South ,) ti has not yot been started, but the archi- u IH tects are working on tho plans and sa3' .tj . that work will be pushed so that tho h structure will be completed during tho f. t ;H winter. The old buildings which for- , J. mcrly occupied the property havo been jH removed and the foundation will be 1 1 jjM started immediately. ) fM Church Office Building. H At the corner of Richards street and , 1 South Templo work is being carried forward on the foundation of the nevr ' ' iH office building for the Mormon church. i On Main street, just north of First 'M South, tho walls of tho new Callaway, ' Hoock & Francis building are in place nearly to tho roof. The vacant land to ,f rH tho south whero tho New McCornick fi ,M Mclntyro building is to be erected in Li M dicates that somothing will be doing thcro in tho near future, although no fMil progress is being made at tho present; vm time. On State street, just north of thc 111 Knutsford hotel, excavations are now being niado for another new theater, w aud within a few weeks work will bo (t . ;H started on another, near the same loca- V ' tion. On Second South, between State . n and Main streets, Georgo G. Dayle fr Co. are erecting a now two-story Jbuild- i '. jH iug for tho accommodation of their own f : jH business and a few possiblo rentals. jM These are only a tew of tho change) f that havo taken place rcccntl in tho f ll business district. Stretching nway from rf .L.H this section in all directions, thc streets ; nro lined with handsomo new buildings t ; VH in course of construction. On thc north ' '. IfH side of Third South, between First and S 1 ' j'H 1 if t h East, aro two handsome apart- ' IH mont houses nearly completed. Alonft , I I Brigham street, east of State, aro two . imposing structures recently completed, Jt yM tho apartment buildings of Dr. Stauf- tt9f v fcr and the "Hamilton." Farther cast litv is the new apartment houso being erect- i J :H cd by Oliver Meridith, and all over tho I - rH North Bench can bo soon new buildings , of tho apartment variety, either uearly 'H completed or well undor way. VH Much could be said of tho erection of , ' new dwellings going on in the additions y 011 the outskirts of tho cit3 All along V JH thc East Bunch, from the uewly-crealed , jH section to .bo known as Newhouso Fark, v ifr'l formerly Popperton Place, real estate J p, ('jH dealers have been buying up thc land, -fl lu3'ing it out into house lots and build- iS'il iug a city in miniature. Some of thc MrH most beautiful homo locations in tho v 1B..H city aro seen on tho East Bench as far : 'X'M iM Ijf Eouth as Thirteenth South and oxtond- 'f iur up over the flat country of the ft ' bench almost to tho mountains. Only L a fow months ago this ground was un- fl oceupiod. Todav the homcseokors have H begun the erection of beautiful homes ft'4 in Westminster Heights, and this sec-tion sec-tion which a year or two ago was almost m: too far awaj- to be considered for build- if 1 ing purposes, is thought of as within I I oasy distance of the cit3r, , and realty 'V' dealers aro selling homo sites Severn! I blocks to tho south and eastward of thih property'. . , , E , On the West Sido of tho city, Oakley I Oakdale and Lake Breeze aro bcin. t built up b- pcoplo from out of the stat' who have como here to find home- i , These localities are only a few of tho.s , on tho advanced lino or growth; near the center of tho cit', activity is eve greater, and tho man' vacant plnci 1; along some of the handsome street ; have been filled in, beautiful homes n, V pear where only a short time since wen p- moro or less tumbledown houses oi th f old type, and well kept lawns havi 1 superseded tho tangled gnrden patches ; ' which onco were there. It is a signin if:) cant thing, according to tho statement '.r iJ of one of tho leadiug real estate me- '' here, that although during the past si V weeks thore has been practically i' speculation in real estate and vory littl 'Mi of a spectacular nature in trading, ye ml dealers have reported tho customary fW amount of building and remark on the ' steady business that is being done. |