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Show NEWHOUSE OFFERS $50,080 PRIZE fORJOTEL PUNS Seeking to secure for Salt Lake City the best the world affords, aiming, td bring the architecture of his new hotel building up to the. highest standard, i Samuel Newhouse has offered as a pre- of L. J. Morton, superintendent of the construction company. The company's temporary office building is in course of erection, and will soon be completed. Bids are. being received for stone and erasite.. mium the large sum of $50,000 for the best plans for the new hostelry to be erected by him on the Walker property, prop-erty, Main and Fourth South streets. This is Jn addition to the cost of the plans, which are in themselves, an item of great expense. Although no definite plans for the hotel have been made as yet, it is understood un-derstood the building will contain bOO rooms, be modern in every respect, and rank with the finest Jin the Lnited States. , . 4 j Every traveler who has come to tne citv recently has remarked upon, the j lack of sufficient hotel accommodations, and insisted that another first-class houso would do well here. On his visit in NewYork City, on his way to Europe, Newhouse engaged, it is asserted, the manager of Uel-monieo's. Uel-monieo's. tho finest cafe- m the East, for the cafo of his hotel. He also arranged ar-ranged for an additional expenditure of $150,000 for bronze ornaments on thp Boston and Xewhouso buildings. Excavating for the two skyscrapers is going on rapidlv under the direction |