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Show KENYON HOTEL TO BE IMPROVED Handsome Building With Up-to-Date Equipment to Be Erected to Supply the Growing' Business. The Keayon hotel U to be dismantled and an eight story modern structure costing cost-ing at ieast 81,000.000. wiU he erected in its place. This is the decision of th proprietor, O. J. Salisbury, after negotiating with Salt Lake capitalists tor several months.- The plan contemplates the dismantling of the present Kenyon hotel building at Main and Second South streets and tha construction construc-tion of a hotel structure, . eight stories high, aoo by m feet, and with a wing running back of the present Wilson hotel. 330 feet deep and 60 feet wide. This will involve the expenditure of at ieat If.OOO.OOO. and will mean a hotel of over 400 rooms. Mr. Salisbury originally intended a remodeling remod-eling of the present building by constructing construct-ing two stories on the top of the four story hotel building proper and five stories on top of the three story mnex on Second South street, but upon gong over the situstiou with the local canitallitt It waa agreed that au entirely new buildiuft would be necessary to. meet the growing :ourist business. According to plan, the three story annex wlU bd. torn down nr&wbUe the main building build-ing facing Main street will be used as a hotel, then the part cf the new structure first completed wlU bo used while the hotel building proper facing Mala street, is being torn down and re-erected. The building will be thoroughly modern. It is understood an elaborate scheme hat been evolved for a magnificent lobby with eatraaces on Main and Second South street. Elaborately fitted fe will be Installed and a grand Mnquet room provided. Every room will bo provided with hot and cold running water and by a patent srrsnge-ment, srrsnge-ment, arb room will be contlnuoufly tilp-pliad tilp-pliad wih Ice water. |