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Show AMERICAN PUSH. IS ON. The business push is evidently ou in curuo-t. Now Ihat i ho Amcncan party, control for another term is assured, every one's confidence ill I ho future 'of Salt Lake is fortified, and money for investments poura in, eagor of opportunities. op-portunities. Tin! fact announced yesterday morn- j ing of tho puri:hn:o by r. Aloniu of J tho Auoi'bach'' properly s)ielwCi'n t ho main Auorbacli stoic building and the six-story Jioyd I'ark- buililing on the smith, wil.li the bjlenlion oft erecting I hereon a sixteen-story modern si eel business block, is one of 1.1 ic direct out-growl out-growl lib of the Amorjcan success. . The purchase of tho Kinitsl'oid hotel ho-tel and of the large two-story building on the southwest corner of Stale and Third South st reels, was a bo announced an-nounced yesterday morning.- The programme pro-gramme is slated to be to tear awsly the Iwoslory structure and put up there a largo modern business block. Tho Kuulsford will probably ho con-, limied as a hotel for two years longer, with tho probability thai, at tho expiration ex-piration of that time it will be changed into a lingo department store. The. excavation for the fen-story Jvearns sky-scraper just north of the Aucrbach store, is drawing, toward its completion, and the basement will bo put iu and tho slipcrstnicturo erected wjlh (he utmost possible despatch. Work on the. Utah Hotel,, on the old tithing corner, Is being pushed with all practical energy. This with the Mora u sky'-scrapor will tend to establish estab-lish the equilibrium between north arid bouth Alain streets. Other great improvements along thc street arc projected, and undoubtedly (he coming year will see an' immense progress made in tho advancement of l Salt Lako City. The Hoard of Public Works at its meeting I-'riday night awarded contracts con-tracts amounting to .'JG7.1S7.G5 for public improvements. The largest of the contracts .was for the paving with asphalt of Third South street from Stale to Tenth East street, the contractors being Strange & Maguirc.'who bid $M7,S52.29 for the work, this bid being upward of $15,000 below the estimate of the City Engineer. Engi-neer. Tho contract for Sewer extension No. 225 was awarded to the Haines Kennedy Kenne-dy Construction Company upon its bid of $10J,S:!2, which was $2000 below the engineer's estimate. This extension exten-sion runs from South Temple to and including both sides of Third North, and frpm , Second to Eighth "West streets. Thc same compuny obtained for $17,-50;.27 $17,-50;.27 the contract for Sower extension exten-sion No. 228 in tho same part of tho city, this b'id being $5000 below tho engineering estimates. These improvements give ample proof that tho American parly is determined de-termined to keep up its record of making mak-ing a metropolis of Salt Lako Cit Thc paving extension on Third South street eastward gives fine opportunity for thc paving of all the streets between be-tween South Temple and Third South with north and south connections be-; tween those streets. Second "West stroct between South Temple and Third South will doubtless be paved next year. Thc paving of Third West between be-tween South Temple and Third South is already under way, From these huge contracts already let and Xrom thc further contemplations contempla-tions of improvements, tho American parly testifies to tho public its good faith and its earnestness in improving the city. And it is all excellent, honorable, hon-orable, and busiiicss-likc. |
