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Show ENORMOUS BUILDING; RECORD. The enormous record of building permits per-mits issued so far this year, and the great buildings in progress in the business busi-ness district, show, in a way impossible of heing misunderstood, tho tremendous growth of tho city. u business 'Struc tures .alone the figures amount to $8,(187,000 in the aggregate, tho details being carried in The Tribune yesterday morning. None of these are visionary schemes, but all are in sight. A good many of them arc in process of erection, some well on towards completion. They include in-clude the Nowhouse hotel, for which ground hns been broken, $1,500,000; the Utah ilotel company's project on the old Deserit News corner. $2,000,000; Thomas Kcarns's business block on the west side of Main street, midway between be-tween First and Second South, for which plans arc being prepared, $1,000.-000; $1,000.-000; and other extensive buildings ranging from $00,000 to $-150.000. and down to $10,000. were enumerated. Besides, there nro the hundreds of dwelling houses being constructed all over the city. I It; is a magnificent record all through, and, as we have heretofore observed and proved, it was the splendid triumph of the American party at tho municipal election of November, lflOo, which gave the city and all this immense building programme its initiative, its push, and its splendid strong! h. |