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Show F CONSTRllCTllI -j MUXES F!H f Builders on Various Big' Struc- Itures Close Week Marked With Progress. NEW PLANS ANNOUNCED Notable Additions Are Enlargement En-largement of Power Plant and Tennis Club. Commencement of work hist week on the jjreat $375,000 addition to the Jordan river steam power plant of the ' Utah Liffht & Railway company Rave new spirit to building operations in I the city. ' This work is to be pressed .forward to completion -without delay, according to statements coming from the general offices of the company here. It is a . big undertaking and when completed will make of the Jordan river station one of the largest steam-electric generating gen-erating plants in the country. Another new pioca of construction , that was exclusively announced in The Tribune during the week is the Salt Lake Tennis club building that, is to ' be erected on tho block bounded by Second and Third South streets and Tenth and Eleventh East streets. Work of construction on tho big club house will begin at once. Work on Orphenm. Incorporation articles of the Orphenm Theater Construction company having been officially filed during the week, work on the new theater building on West Second South street is to be commenced com-menced during tho present week. Concrete laying at tho .Newhouso hotel was begun last week, the contractors con-tractors declaring themselves to be ready to push the -work rapidly from now on to completion, which is expected to come by the end of the year. Outer brickwork on tho Hotel Utah annex is going up rapidly now, while other parts of the construction are made to keep pace with it. Practically Practic-ally all of tho cement floors have been placed and the outlook is that the month of October may bring oc-cupancy oc-cupancy of tho big addition. Make Rapid Progress. At the Walker building, the Auer bach building and tho Keith-O'Brien new storo structure work is progressing satisfactorily, there being ever' effort made to get these great business structures struc-tures readv for occupancy at tho earliest earli-est possible moment. What will add further activity to. the building trade are the L. D. S. hospital annex and the big umvorsity building that are coming into the field of construction. With all that is now being done, and with that which is in immediate development, de-velopment, tho building business in Salt Lake is to have a prosperous summer sum-mer season. |