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Show tion to the new drug store location, thusly: - Where trout were wont to hide and seek And chase the festive fly. Times changed, and drugs now occupy The cradle -of this old creek. ' - EVOLUTION ILLUSTRATED It Is estimated that the shadow of the Newhouse building, when completed, will reach the corner of Third South and Main, at high noon, on this date one year hence, and Salt Lake will have stepped from . her swaddling clothes, to be introduced as a metro- politan city. ' j Now that the ground is being cleared for the skyscrapers and preparations for the excavation are under way, the most skeptical must surrender to the overwhelming evidence of reality. i The change in this section of the city will recall to memory an item printed some two years ago by .Moody Dow of Montana, who foretold the implements imple-ments which today interests every real Salt Laker, although at that time no one surmised any such movement as was indicated by the article. The above item was inspired by the discovery in the cellar of the Owl Drug store, the earmarks of City creek's former course through that section, and carried the reader back to the time of the famous Creek path of '51, when men, kids and cattle followed the path until Many men wound In and out. And dodged and turned and beat about, And uttered word's of righteous wrath Because twas such a crooked path. . But still they follow, do not laugh The freak migrations of that creek path. Huge masses of sagebrush adorned the section occupied by the Federal building and spread over an area of four blocks, as the creek spread out in small branches after leaving the point where Third South meets Main street. A pen picture in the possession of Mrs. Kimball illustrates the march of progress on lower Main street in vivid reality. The changes foretold by the Poet Dow were comparatively easy in 1904, and concluded with an introduc- |