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Show THE CLARK BUILDING. A morning contemporary has been informing the waiting public at intervals for the past two years that Senator W. A. Clark was about ready to build a mammoth structure on Main Street, to be used as an office building and for the accommodation accom-modation of the daily, and that the building would be an ornamental monument to the growth and. progressiveness of the city. The only drawback, draw-back, it has been stated, was the inability of the Montana senator to secure sufficient Main street area to construct a budding of the size he desired. de-sired. That would sound very good were it not for the fact that for over a year Mr. Clark has owned fifty feet frontage just north of Second South street on the east side of Main. A very important import-ant area is that, but Mr. Clark announced that ho desired about thirteen feet more. Thereupon Mr. Walker offered him that number of feet just south of his realty for a reasonable consideration, which proposition the Senator rejected. Now if Mr. Clark really had the much vaunted project in view it is scarcely likely that he would permit a small item to interfere with his plans. That was over a year ago, and still there is no new building. Mr. Clark Is lauded as the greatest and most progressive citizen in the Northwest, and people are growing slightly weary of his much flaunted commercial greatness and elaborate plans for the enhancement of Salt Lake and 'his long standing inactivity, notwithstanding the stupendous amount of advertising he receives. re-ceives. In the meantime the "progressive senator permits per-mits an old shack to disfigure Main street; one end is pre-empted by a bootblack and just north of him a shrieking Dago vends bananas; the main hall is utilized by a howling showman who exhibits ex-hibits keleldoscoplc pictures at ten cents per view. The public meanwhile is pondering upon i the commercial enterprise of the lavishly flattered flat-tered and much 'advertised millionaire, |