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I Contracts let ami work iu progress ou permanent improvements in Salt Lake and its immediate vicinity to the amount of 22,.")0),000 all to be expended within the next twelve months! These figures may appear large, but the facts are here to sustain 1 hem. - . . This does not take into account enterprises that are merely in the formative stage, but actual, real, tangible undertakings, the money for which is already appropriated and upon which work is ac-iu.ijjj ac-iu.ijjj in progress. j In other words, these are not paper estimates, but bona fide J works. The expenditures in the past year have been large.'and substantial substan-tial progress has been made. But with the sh6wing here made, can it re doubted that Salt Lake in the next year will fairly "hump it-tf-Jf?" Incidental to the expenditures here mentioned, there will na-fturally na-fturally be much other growth and many otheieterpcises and nnder- j takings will have their fruition. In this industrial edition The Telegram seeks to set out some f uts that justify the belief that Salt Lake is on the eve of an era of prosperity, and that the coming year will establish the trend of fu-t.ire fu-t.ire industrial development. . VAST EXPENDITURES FOR RAILROADS, alt Lake is the natural gateway to the sea. And those railroads, rail-roads, transcontinental trunk lines of commerce, which seek to grid-i grid-i ituf. the great American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Ife(n to have no choice but to come this way. iT v Within a very short while the Salt Lake Route, most direct line the seashore, has brought Salt Laie and her languorous sister of TJie southern Pacific coast within a handclasp of a day. The sound of 0i( k and shovel, of steam plough and mighty drill is heard afar off on the arid wastes of the great American desert where a thousand brawny-armed road-builders are preparing the way for another thoroughfare tho-roughfare of steel that will when finished join Philadelphia, mistress of the Atlantic, with San Francisco, queen of the Pacific, by way of Halt Lake, fair keeper of the gateway to .the Pacific and the Orient. Millions of money are being poured out in Utah in the construction construc-tion of the Western Pacific,' Gould's link in one transcontinental artery ar-tery of commerce. Most of the construction has been placed in the hands of Utah road-builders, and thousands of brawny workers are now boring through the aridness of the desert that Salt Lake, may come into her inheritance queen of all mountain cities. The projected pro-jected road will be completed within the next three years, it is-prom-i ised. PREPARING FOR INCREASE OF BUSINESS. In connection with the building of this new feeder to Salt Lake's prosierity an a number of important and costly improvements. "J hee will be undertaken in conjunction with the Rio Grande .system, !also a Gould projerty. Locations have been purchased, condemnation condemna-tion proceedings have been begun, and before the new Western Pacific Pa-cific has found a new path to the Pacific, Salt Lake will be given a new and magnificent station, with a vast trackage for both. its passenger passen-ger and freight traffic. .Officials of the road conceal the details of the projected improvements improve-ments b"t sufficient is known to assert that the new station of the Rio Grande-Western Pacific system will be all that could be desired, and equal to all requiremnts for years to come. The trackage will be suned by a steel viaduct of modern construction. The station will bc'jof stone and brick, and will be two stories high and capacious jjOygh to accommodate all the operative officers of both roads. Not I less fliao $2,000,000 will be expended on this improvement, first and 1 NEW SMELTER PROJECTS ON LAKE SHORE. r f Nor is this all. The Rio Grande bas already commenced the luilding of a spur from near Bingham Junction to the new Garfield die the ore output and thereby increase their dividends. When this is done more wealth will fall into the lap of Miss Salt Lake. SHORT LINE RAILROAD'S GREAT PLANS. But the Rio Grande and the Western Pacific are not alone in the matter of city improvements. For almost a year the Oregon Short Line people have been busy tearing out, grading and filling in on the property from Fifth North to Second South streets, and from Third to Fourth West streets. Excavations amounting to $130,000 alone have been made. . Improvements already have caused the expenditure of $500,000, and those mapped out for. the first part of 1906 will cover another half million.. Following this expenditure, later will, be not less than a million more, it is predicted- These improvements comprise the installation in-stallation of a system of trackage of the latest and best method,of twenty-teven miles. The present capacity of freight yards will be more-than doubled. A viaduct will span the length of North Temple street from Third to Fourth West streets. The steel has already been ordered for this viaduct, which will cost atout $18,000. The freight handling capacity of the road will be more than doubled dou-bled when the new platforms are completed. This work will be done first because the influx of freight is so great that chronic congestion is now the daily complaint. Following will come the. erection of a joint station with eight tracks for the use of the Oregon Short Line and Salt- Lake Route, and any. other line which may care to use the tracks in common. The new depot will be a two-story edifice of the latest and most approved style of architecture and commodious enough to house all the operative departments of the two roads. At Ogden the Oregon Short Line is putting in improvements amounting to $200,000, consisting of buildings and trackage. Here ard in Ogden the improvements require the employment of approximately approxi-mately 1000 men, with a payroll of $45,000 a month. At Pocatello in Idaho the O. S. L. is expending large sums in improvements. im-provements. The branch from St. Anthony to Yellowstone park is being rapidly pushed. The same is true of the Garland branch to Malad, nearly completed. The Minidoka and" Southwestern is also nearly completed. Work on the branch from Idaho Falls to the Jackson Hole country is being pushed. And as all these are in the territory that pays tribute to Salt Lake, all these things make for the prosperity of the Queen City of the Mountains. SALT LAKE AND OGDEN ELECTRIC LINE. More than a million dollars is now in course of expenditure in connecting Salt Lake with a string of enterprising hamlets along the line of the Salt Lake & Ogden railroad, the "Lagoon Road." The objective ob-jective M)int of the extension of the road lies a considerable distance up Ogden canyon, where President Bamberger purposes establishing a popuiar all-year-round resort. All who have visited this famous canyon are ready to rejeat the trip, and the management of the road hae iindertaken to make it possible for the tired worker of Salt Laie to lay down his duties at the end of the day and a few minutes later land in the midst of one of nature's most wondrously charming spots. The new toad passes through many thousands of acres of fertile farm-in: farm-in: land, more than half a score of fast budding towns, which will soon be offering inducements to builders of suburban homes to become be-come a part of them. The road is now operated with steam, but will be elecwicized throughout. It will be equipped with modern and approved ap-proved freight and passenger rolling stock, and the frequency of train service promises to make the many little towns along its line choice horaesites for those who work in the city yet love the quiet of semi-sylvan semi-sylvan life. REAL ESTATE SITUATION AS IT IS TODAY. The real estate situation of Salt Lake City as the year wanes is far more satisfactory, according to the dictum of the leading realty comv'rus of the city, than it has been within the past five years. ' The realty transactions show an increase over last year of 23 per (Continued on page 9.) I - Smelting company's mammoth plant at Garfield beach. This branch road is fourteen miles long, and the cost of construction is not far from $25,000vper mile. Hundreds of men are employed in this work,-and work,-and more could be used if they could be found. And while on the subject of Garfield beach it is just as well to cover that important point and the work that is being rushed forward there as rapidly as possible. The new smelter being erected at this point is one of 8000 tons' capacity per day the largest in the world when completed. The name of the smelting company is the "Garfield Smelting company." It is the property of the American Smelting and Refining company, however. Approximately $4,000,000 is being expended in this titanic enterprise. Ground was broken last August, and it is expected ex-pected that the monster crucibles will begin extracting precious metals met-als from the ores next July. This enterprise gives employment to from 1800 to 2000 men, most of whom have their homes in Salt Lake and spend their earnings here. Not a far cry from the Garfield Smelting company's wonderful plant the Utah Copper company is also building a 12,000-ton concentrator concen-trator at a cost of approximately $3,000,000. Over 1000 wage earners earn-ers are employed on this gerat enterprise. They, too, live in Salt Lake and expend and invest their earnings among the merchants of the city.: The. Boslou Consolidated Mining company, of which Samuel Newhoiise is the ruling spirit, will early in the new year begin the erection of an immense concentrating plant in the vicinity of Garfield beach i hat will cost not less than $2,000,000. DEVELOPMENT OF RING HAM'S WEALTH. Nor is this all. Bingham Canyon is not Salt Lake, but Bingham Canyon's wealth is a part of Salt Lake's. The mining princes of the canyon have their homes in Salt Lake .and add their wealth to that of this city. 'And Bingham Canyon is fairly groaning with its plethora of wealth. The Copper Belt road, which has climbed the mountain sides in sinuous curves that would shame a viper of the sands of Sahara, us ing twenty miles of track to cover a little stretch of some two miles, has a bigger burden than it can carry. More than one mine in that rich gulch would double its output could the Copper Belt handle the ores that are now blocked out and awaiting the haul to concentrator and shelter. The engineers of the Rio Grande are now planning and devising ways and means to handle the millions of wealth that draw no interest and benefit none simply because it cannot be put into cir- dilation. The task that confronts the Rio Grande is a serious one, I and thymine owners are clamoring for a solution quickly. Meantime I the Rio Grande officials are working as fast as ever. they can to han- more than one-fifth of the city's streets ha?; been provided with concrete con-crete Sidewalks jon-either jside. . Saty Lake now owns llCLSO-miies of sidewalks; the .mileage of , water 'mains has 1 been increased from 141.15 Vilei to 145.15' miles;, the sewer -mileage -has been increased npwardsj of ?0 per cent, from 19.13 to 59.46 milest and the paved 4is-: 4is-: trict has been increased from approximately 5 miles to a little short ! of B miles.; (The cost of these improvements made in the past year- has befnnot less than .12,000,000. ; In addition to the above, other city improvements 'have been' nade amounting, to $51,564.38, covering expenditure for repair and i addition to fire station No. 1, repairs to the Jordan and Salt Lake j i canal,' changing, the wooden flumes into .concrete. 'conduit's, wooden and steel bridges, street and sidewalk repairs. ' WATER SUPPLY FOR 250,000 PEOPLk t One million of dollars have bees voted by the people for the installation in-stallation of a permanent gravity water system and the improvement of. the sewer system. The water is to be, taken from the vast watershed water-shed of Big Cottonwood canyon. The work is in charge of Assistant City Engineer' George M. Bacon, who has the matter now well -in ; hand. The contract for the installation of the big conduit has been let and work is now being pushed on it. "Forty million gallons of'wa-ttr of'wa-ttr can be brought into, the city daily by means of this conduit, and the-experts assert that '.if necessary, this amount can be : increased ! from this source should it become necessary to develop large quanti- J ties. ' x The originators of this vast scheme plan to have sufficient water supply for the city until it shall have grown beyond the 250,000 limit of population. In addition to the above operations are going on for the immediate imme-diate development of water in what is known as the Liberty park flowing wells, to be used as auxiliary to the regular supply of the city in case of drought. It is expected that these wells'will be put into commission shortly should the development now going forward prove the volume" sufficient for practical use. It is expected that the new Big Cottonwood system will be completed com-pleted and in operation by next July. When completed the city will have sufficient water to take care of all needs for many years to come. It is noteworthy that the purity of the supply leaves nothing to be desired. de-sired. . . maSTORY -OF prosperity if; - .. ." ' Y , (Continued from par !) ' cer.t. the larger dealers assert that at this writing the market has lost all semblance of limpness, and inquiry from both home and abroad is increasing markedly. This inquiry is not confined to business busi-ness pre jerty alone there is a strong and healthy sentiment in favor of baying for both speculative and home building air.over the city, with a trace the better for property in the eastern districts. A straw indicative of the' prevailing conditions inthe business section: Not a single vacant store building for rent, and inquiries on yr file for eligible stands in all the offices of handlers of this class of property. ,.;'' Approximately permits for f 2,600,000 of buildings to be completed com-pleted the present year and that ensuing have already been taken out To the. initialed, this means a much larger volume of building, since one of the tax dodger's favorite methods of cheapening his property in the" eyes of the assessor is to reduce the size of his permit to the lowest mark possible. PROGRESS OF BUILDING IN PAST YEAR. Among the more ambitious structures either begun or completed com-pleted this year may be named: The Atlas block, a five-story modern structure for business, costing cost-ing approximately, $ 250,000. The Y. M. C. A. hall, second to none in the country, 125,000. - The. new Packard public library, 150,000. The new Orpheum theater, f S0,000. Building. being erected by S. D. Evans on State street, north of the' Bell Telephone building, $50,000. Addition toBelLTelephone building, $75,000. The nw home of the Salt Lake Herald, $150,000, ( .Tim New York building in Market street, $75,000. Woodmen of he World, Market street, $75,000. ,. New Masonic Temple, First South and Second East, cornerstone jKjf which is to be laid Sunday, $150,000. Oid'Methodist church on East Third South street, which is being remodeled and thoroughly modernized for a hotel by Gus S. Holmes, $50,000. ' : JLySew building of P. A. Sorensen in East Third South, $75,000. Federal building, just "completed, $500,000. New hotel of John E. Dooly, to be erected on the corner of West Second South and South First West, $750,000. First Presbyterian church, in South Temple, $125,000. First Methodist church. Second South and Second East, $52,000. V- St. Mary's cathedral in South Temple street, $800,000. Modern apartment of E. D. Swan in West Third South, $20,000 Corey Bros.' apartments in West Third South. $75,000. Utah Ice and Storage company, addition to plant; $50,000. New building at State fair grounds, $10,000. Business block of M. B. Lichtenstein in State street, $30,000. Horn's warehouse. West Second South, $7000. Z. C. M. I.'s warehouse, $25,000. , Vogeler Seed company's warehouse, $7000. Bennett Glass and Paint company, warehouse, $20,000. And many other warehouses. Among the more ambitious homes just completed may be men- v lioned that of Judge Dickson, at a cost of $40,000, the home of M. H. Walker, $150,000, and that of A. C. Ellis, Jr., at a cost of $20,000. ') SALT LAKE PEOPLE AS HOME-BUILDERS. But it is as home-builders that the people-, of Salt Lake have .. made a record this vear. Practicallv 1000 hoWs have been erected j ' in all parts of the city and its immediate ePVironS,..These homes are of the best, most modern and most substantial type. Of these thousand thou-sand homes about 600 of them ranged in cost Yrom $1000 to $1500. Of the remainder the cost of building ranges from $1500 to $6000 and $7000. A fair number have touched the $10,000 mark. It is pleasant to reflect over the business done the passing year pnd see that the vast volume of it has been in behalf of the modest home-builder, the man who works for his daily bread as a wage-enrner wage-enrner and frugally saves enough to buy the ground on which to jiulld the little home. Noteworthy is the fact that the majority of these little homes are A'-ee and clear of mortgage. A certain realty man had occasion a few ( fteeks ago to attempt to buy a number of such homes, and he was , surprised to find that not more than one in a radius of four blocks ( was cumbered with a mortgage. "This is our home; it is not for sale," was the general remark encountered. During the year there has not been the slightest labor trouble. Work has been plentiful and wages have been good. Much work has boen delayed simply because good mechanics were not to be had at liny figure. In all branches of the realty business f he demand is good and growing stronger daily and weekly; confidence in all kinds of property prop-erty is waxing strong, although figures are not advancing uniformly. As a consequence prices are somewhat "spotty." . This change has 'come more noticeable within the past two weeks. The entire realty colony is confidently predicting a steady and healthful growth In the realty market from this date on. STRIDES MADE IN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. In the matter of public improvements Salt Lake City during the past eleven months has made such strides that it would have taxed - the powers of many seven-league boots to keep apace. During the " year just disappearing the Board of Public Works was authorized to execute the following work: Sewers, 10 1-3 miles; water mains, 4 miles; sidewalks, 60$ miles; street paving, 3J miles. The work was taken in hand, large forces of men were put to work, and now, just as the season of snowfall approaches, the last odd jobs of the vast improvements im-provements are being finished. The following table of comparisons will aid the reader in grasping grasp-ing the wonderful strides made during the year just closing: 1902. 1903. 1904. . 1903. Miles. Miles. Miles. Miles. iewers . ...7 11-8 3-4 101-5 Water mains .... 41-2 3 4 4 -tSiewalks ............ . 3-4 21-2 15 60 1-2 Street paving 13 4 14 3 4 312 On January 1, 1905, there were in the city of water mains, 141.15 Vrailes; of sewers, 49.13; of sidewalks, 50.30; of paring, 5.43. For pur-fcoses pur-fcoses of comparison it may be stated that there are in the city proper I (pproximately 250 miles of streets. ' From this it may be seen that |
