Show " " - - ----- - 4 - - -- — —— 1 - - ' - )1- - - y7 - t-- 1- - ' - 69 - - j 4'''' ' cAl'iAe V 1 d III U '''' '''-A- 1 '' "7ft -- 4 - ' - - 4 l' !' - 4 building- on West Temple le) " re pdrkino lot a -- 1 7: '" - - -- - year it ssas acquired by a predecessor company of the Utah Pnvpr and Light Co ' like otherlandinarks Nine lot torrtrtiminbtles7 eF-ea- lit ct Representatives of Wail Street bankers were on handI promising a plentiful 'supply of mortgage money for con struetion purposes and they Were expressing the Judgment that no place in the intermoun- tan west offered more attrac- tive investment opportunities than Salt Lake City Because of its location they said it was bound to become a major trans- rortation and distribution cen- - 4 sls I 1 But the lusty western ettY- took it all in staid e and went on building lot the future reptilation of the city at that time was approximately 51000 and It was growing fast so fast that there was a dire housing shOrtage New families rere coming in at an emated rate of 5000 per year Preliminary figures Preliminary figures on the 191 federal census were being nowise'' and then as now communities were very touchy if the count fell below expec- tailons The tide of protests fromm municipalities whose pop- tdation claims had beep de- flat ed by the count prompted Tbe Tribune to declare edi- tonally its dnibellet that the government would deliberately of IA filch have disap- mired locludekt the Obi' Kiwis' ford Hotel nisi Side HotelUnion racific Vote' llohnes r tA 7x i : - 1 - k 33 I vt : ? 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- I 7- -- t - - 171 - 1i 44 - 1 ' el01 ' :: ' ' ' - s ' Ort"- -t p!"rti t t lin 1:111 - ivi ii 1 Vorn-4- 4' '0' :i4r0- if ' - 1 ?cf-- - ' 1 01'1 t4 rt a If i i ' t -- 4 n: r --- -- t - 74 (): - J 0 4c1 of " i':14:0:' - It II - ' 4 - ' 4 Mining Profits of the building of the period was being financed from i The boom was nnning ternobrarily dampened late int 1890 after the Democrats de- eisively won control of gress and Wall Street went into a tailspin The Wall Street loan rate soared for a short time toi an- per diem or 185 - 1 ' '' -- L?' 1 -- ' 1 1 " 4 4' ellif' I ' ALP t - if ' 1 4' 1 4-- -- -- 104 k "- rAlt - N I - c's A t 1101 — I 1i 1 r 93t4-i- 14444 ter ' !4 :1 0" fi — - : t4 Ni 04 srti::' ' :' : I' : "'t - s I - jf ' ' tV some 7- still show no signs of diminishing in number and importance I i - -- per day - 1 ' A F A - -- lalletwallaist rht 1 ' - 4 th - iri'( rr-- i- -- i) ft 3ii :!'4114 vn d roalk e Circulation figures of newspapers were not commonly published in those days but by IDOO 10 years after The Tribune moved into the West Temple home its circulation was approximately 0200 daily and 11360 Sundayabout one-tenof its 'present-daeircujation ''' BuilailigiTiiken Over Soon after The Tribune moved to its Main Street Inca Wm the WeAt Temple building was taken over by a firm which later became Vtah POwer and Light Co Thereafter it was used as on office building fo Nafiolks Power company depart-- r ments until llast July when U P tkL's new operations center on West North Temple was co corn-Muc- - 3 eity - - T 1 e--- t i ( ' t-- "' riL tliZ' It a ili --- - -' ' - 1'1 l' i'- - - A'Z'' :1-ii 'lT'''5'' : 0 441(1 dci - Nice cottages were being eontracted for $1000 and an ele brick residence ' gant three-stortest $15000 The aristotrat of the construction workers was the bricklayer Because of the arnourst— of brick- - com —171yr struction going on contractors bid wages up to as high as $750 COMpiCtett per day or some 301 above the With the structure vacated St in Louis ssage or prevailing the power company let a con— Kansa But carpenter tract to Ketchum Lumber and being' in plentiful supply couldI1Vrecking Co to clear the site for parking Cars those contrapget only $33t) and ordinary tions which triumphed over l' construction A - undercount the population of a '-' - erected during the- building boom of the gay nineties The Tribune's old home is iring rapidly erased from the eitY's landscape to make way for a contraption which hadn't put In an appearance at the time it 'as constructed The prop- erty is being cleared by Utah Power arti Light Co prepara- tory to surfacing for a parking Few Hitching POO§ At the time The Tribre moved into the handsome new building in January 1891 the parking problem could be taken care of by the installa- lion of 'a tcw nunc hitching posts An artist's conception of tthe structure deseribedas the finest newspaper plant be- tween Chicago and San Fran-- eisco showed one horse and buggy in the street h The automobile was Just into when Tell)The use jog unemade its next- move Main Street borne immsdiately south of the present Tribune- Building Seers of the day were predicting that the new type vehicle would diminish in number and lin- portance with the construction short-linrail-- : of projected in roads The seers were imticipating A competjtive col- Ilision between autotntibtles and short-linrailroad but badly misjudged the r7u1t Constructorand Architect The disapy-earinlandmark Was constructed by P Il Lan- min then owner and publisher of TheSalt Lake Tribune at a costfor building fine press andOther equipment Of ahout $79:000 The architect a Mr onheini was yachted wth one of the ''nuet designing beautiful fronts' in the city Other historic build ings under construction at the 'wine time rot tageg !sac ti S1 c- Aito - ' ''''' I tr ''' 4k7Vh'' -It - Bark in 181KLi1 irernPndoliszLtiby O blinding boom was uncle!: way in Salt Lake City's downtdwn business district Building Dooley Block Constitution Building'- and Hooper Among the' Score Or more of Building A contract for a first major business structures par- durriass or erected completed tially fivestory brick building Ito by 150 feet was let for ing that year was a new home for The Salt Lake Tribune at $183000 A comparable strue133 S West Templejt vii15 VC' ture today would cost in excess of $1500000 cupicd by the newspaper until 1 -(- ' z- 1"'ftat-- ' P - - make room for ti) 'f::c':- - "" 'wino torn (lolvil v "2e a ( i - - 'k 7'7:71e1")"t ' - r Ai: '7' i The 61(1 Saltl Lake Tribune - t I ' - - V - 4 - t ' - 1 11 'W4471 -: - the building housed pUwer offices' - - loolmEMEEINIM110111MOMMI 1 rok i I 0 - - ' i 1 0 ! '- i714416" 1' 40N f ' 4-r1474- v 4 4 t t 1)e'"- e t menientos of pioneer -- n ill the west Nell Mtirbilrger By -- - me buellet belleVed' to ha been par( of the original at the historic Union mine equipment : 1 can sec" said Doc its an old whisky omynn 1 v A Iter being shipped barrel-- 56 capacity gallons ismall ''' 4 ' 00))i Yea- sarounvi the- - ihorn to-:b" j1 o freighted across the Sierra to Austin Naturally c2: 14 folks here didn't have- any use for the contents but — 4 because they needed-barrelbadly they managed to it!" i - 1 empty ' l ) 'i1:-Later said Doc an Austin blacksmith bad s! 4 the harret lkith hand forged iron liner and 'reinforced i Ctik i 'is 91 ribs and rigged a loop handle to enable the con' ' tainer'kuse in transporting ore from the mine ' :' 'I ' itis'-''- : 4 Mystery Strong Element i 1 lany articles in the collection are possessed of a r '" strong element of mystery One old gun was found '1 (1 N:' 44 tk' —still cocked—in a Nevada beaver dam A Reming- 4 ton buffalo gun of I856 vintage was uncovered in Paradise Valley: and another revolver badly disinle-- i 'y i i I grated by age was discovered beside a little heap of 1 t4-e' Another Adobe 4 crumbling human bones on the former site of an : N t!N '‘'''-'- 7 early Austin saloon Quite incidentally relics also fill case after case r Vrt1 40" 'et 1' cl i'S$A': 1 it:t the Tagert Museum another weathered adobe Despite the almost universal appeal of mystery ef (114 IkkrNo'14 1! "5iiNl 's!lti i and human drama asrepresented by the old weapons situated apart from the main house Even these n Itd l41 6 buildimzs are by way of being relics having been the prizes of the collection—both in popular interest ifZ-)0i 1 '''i'Ii :'1':i !!:- -:$::— 1 '' j F and in Doe's personal regard—are two complete poles Nevada was s011 under '- 11 erected 87 years ' 4' A ' - '''''" I 1 "! and insulators from the nation's first transcontinental territorial status -0 t 4" 4 i' ' ' ' '' I' line Brought ro completion in western ' '4'- ' ' "Well" broke in Doc ges turing mid) the han d144 A4 telegraph ' I '''' i'L ' r '!'t '''''--Utah Oct 24 1861 it was-thiline which terminated 1 4‘k holding the tallow pot- ") op can sre the general 4 - the Pony Expres as a means of communication of hat I have ' 'I 1 '4': 14 '"Z1--l iUs' r')t l l'11t ): r i L nature nod of between Eastern and Western United States There was an old ore To dibco‘er one of the poles from this line with reinforced with steeli'and adjacent to the car set an 4'1)t)e) Fhows u hiky barrel ore bucket I t : ' - collections - I - G i ' 'k 4W 4 Ile limited Telegraph Poles "Doe" Frank 'Tager st est nest nest nest 1 - l' ty) A- 17 (7-- C - 7 4' 14 ! ta ' tJ (---7-- ' hurried 'across the Neatly Intereepted as-yard one hand clutching an kncient tallow pot and the other an old revoiverand two rusty os shoes the desertweathered man gave his polite attention —— ---- - -t9III !t'Illls'I-—But why me7" heeselaimed as I finished a puzzled Ninth playing about his'eyes "Why should The Salt Lake Tribune want a story about me? Because I collect things? All the nut houses and Shucks! penitentiaries are full of people 'who collected things!" But nut the tame thingsThl course as Dr Frank G Tagert collects:and certainly not as many of Ithem fronting on U S Highway 50 in the old milling camp of Austin Nev is the rambling adobe residence occupied by "Doc" and Irene Tagert plus two small dogs and taTea sn v":11c'ele t: ' n of ptihoeneceor N e nda relies i ec t I spreads point Beginning over the entire house room by room On top of the kitchen cabinet in bookcases and whatnots on window ledges and on the floor - he I - a ! : '' ( ''' : :': t:: - K ' it! - 1 - 4 -- ' - '''4!tiA V:t ago-wh- en --- a i - ' t: r-- - :i: V4 carhaade I I ' ' ' f original insulator Mill intact had for years been ond of Doe's most cherished hopes but with abandonment of the line its equipment seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth Eyen his visits to the leading museums of Colorado Utah Nevada and California had produced Only poles without insulators and insulators without poles Not a single coraplete Out Prowling "And then one day" said Doc ''I was out prowling around Dry Creek Pony Express Station on the Peter Damele- ranch 36 miles east of Austin I got to talking to MrDameleand his sons- Ben and Peter Jayson I said I'd almost give my right arm for one of the old insulators Ben thoughtt he remeim bered seeing some of them around the ranch--ma- ybe out at the corral 'But what in thunder do you want nor good far adyttliir That may be' I said 'but let's go look at the corral!' "As we' neared it: my heart gave a conple Of and just about jumped out of my chest! One of the top tails was a telegraph pole with its original insulator still intact! And buried in the corral farther down was another pole and insulator! "The boys asked'easually if I'd like to have them When I finally rettovered my breath I said I'd be their friend for life if I might have a three-foo- t length' from the upper end of the top pole :And for gosh sakes' I SZid lake care of that other pole!! They told me they'd bring it in to me sometime Of course I knew all about that 'sometime' stuff I'd heard it before Unloaded the Second "But whatdo you suppose? Not long after that here come Ben and Peter up to the front gate and unloaded the second pole—complete with insulator Vknow" said Doe shaking his head incredulously "you could have knocked tne over With a lefthook!"Previously viewed only by his friends and neighbors Doc Tagert's valuable display was: this summer made available without chargeto the that public ons US 50 During the first collection-waopen inspection the Tagert guest book shoed visitors from half the - — flip-flop- - g tray-mont- lic states in the Union - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE I ' |