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Show 1 NEW HOME OF SALT LAKE HARDWARE COMPANY The,, wonderful growth in business in Salt Lak'o is shown in thc illustration herewith. Thc Salt Lake Hardware company has so grown, so enlarged iU business, as to necessitate tho expenditure expendi-ture of a half million dollars in property prop-erty wherein to handle its business! Thc two upper pictures shows what has been done in six months. On October Oc-tober G last year the ground was broken bro-ken for the erection of a building wherein tho wholesale business of this lirm could be transacted. Six months later to a day thc great structure on North Third West street was under roof and will be rcadj- for occupancy within with-in a short whilo. It is thc largest building build-ing in tho United States west of Chicago Chi-cago and there arc few others that are larger. Thc lower building shown is the new homo of thc company on South Main street, -which will -be occupied occu-pied as a retail store. In this latter building tho floor space is larger than tho building now occupied occu-pied by tho company on West Second South, A full description of this building build-ing has appeared iu Thc Tribune. As said, there arc few institutions iu tho country that find it necessary 1o invest in-vest a half million dollars in buildings in which to transact business, and that a Salt Lake firm 'has done this shows thc wonderful growth of business in Zion. Thc front elevation of thc new laiu street store docs not give an idea of thc magnitude of tho building. Tho front-ago front-ago is fifty fct, but by making thc p ntranco ten feet from the front will ;v; ' ' ' ' p ' ' I givo a plate glass window frontage of 'seventy feet. Tho addition to thc building in the rear will make the structure struc-ture 330 feet in depth and four stories in height, including thc basement, .which will make the floor space 02,000 square feet. Salt Lake, by the w.p, is tho only city in the country whero buildings build-ings can be erected having such great depth without facing upon two streets. This is due to the size of tho blocks, each of which conlaius ten acres, or four limes the size of blocks in other ci tie's. The building on North Third West, where the wholesale business . of tho. firm will be transacted, is, as said, tho 1 a rgest building in the western country. Teams can be driven into the structure to load and .unload. There will bo sev-i oral elevators, and all the conveniences for tho rapid dispatch of business will bo included in the great structure. The ' building will always bo known as one of tho landmarks of this great iuter-mountain iuter-mountain empire. . i'.i '" 1 1 i 1 Mim. 1 t 4 r :'rr7--'j '- v-3t! 1 j |