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Show An Old-Fashioned Building. About seventeen years ago Royal B. Young, who owned 33 feet front on Main street, between Brigham and First South, determined to erect a five-story five-story and basement building on the property. In the fashion of those days, he went to his old friend. Contractor Watson did not know much about the building, the only stipulation being that it must be strong and durable. Mr. Watson did not know much about graceful grace-ful curves, facades or how to get the most possible floor space, but he did know now to make a strong building, and he carried it to excess in this case. He put in foundations massive enough to support the largest railroad bridge in the world, and supplemented these with buttresses and columns which would do credit to a feudal castle. The result was a building which combined awkwardness with strength and a minimum mini-mum of room with a maximum of masonry. ma-sonry. The features which made it objectionable ob-jectionable for ordinary mercantile uses just fitted the purpose of the Salt Lake Security ts Trust Co., which purchased the building a few years ago and is now carrying out the original intention to utilize the basement for a safe deposit de-posit plant. Within these massive walls the ' Trust ' company is constructing vaults of the strongest and . most approved ap-proved patterns, especially designed for protection from fire and burglary. |