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Show PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE r IMPROVEMENTS Business Men Better Served Than the State. In view of the fact that large public contracts are often inadequately performed per-formed and public buildings found weak in construction, it is safe to say that private firms and individuals do the best building. As a notable exsm- , pie is the construction of the new safe deposit vaults of the Salt Lake Secur-f" ity & Trust company, which is of th strongest and most approved pattern.' The mass of masonry, iron, steel and' ,-concrete ,-concrete will stand for thousands of ! years. Such disasters as fire, earthquake earth-quake and flood would not have the I slightest effect upon it. The vsult might be tipped up and rolled over without so much as loosening a bolt. Vault experts state that ii the entire San Francisco cataclysm were concentrated con-centrated in the one spot where this vault stands, it would be uninjured ex- cept as to the paint on the doors. |