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J o w. w lf t iZ Y V rr r f Z Lm f 1 I v ALT LAK CITY Cirri has actually aclu aclu- c I ally any under way buildings 1 cur purdy ly for business s I 1 and hut ls hou-ls lh that l will cost i J J when hun hen completed more than thon I I three and d one-half one million dollars This PhIM dues does not mean that tha buildings have been contemplated that will cost that much It does doos not mean that the total worth oC ot the buU buildings now goIng go- go goIng fl fling ing up In the cit city is that much There Thero arc are dozens of or apartment houses and hundreds of or residences that will wll swell the th totals far beyond those figures certainly double and probably quadruple quadruple quad Quad- ruple rUIle them It means that tho the business men in interested In- In in Salt Lake Lae City have ha actually actual actual- ly Jy sl signed netI contracts or otherwise undertaken undertaken un un- enterprises that will cost then more than It means I that the tIlt brick and the mortar and tho the stone stono an and tho steel which represent that three and one half million del dol- Jai JEll is II now actually being put in place antI and d that by tho the end of ot another six months by far the tho greater part of ot that I huge huga amount will have ha been spent I What ha t It Think of or it it you who are mana managing illg to exist nicel nicely thank you ou on an Income in income ln- ln I come of 1000 a car If It you had hatI lived GOO COO years before Homer the j most ancient of or the Greek Greel poets was born orn If lr you oll had beS' beS begun n life when the Pharaohs of Egypt were were still building I their pyramids and when Tyro and Sidon and anti the art of navigation were scarcely known if you OU hud had been ben earning earn earn- carnI I lug ing as much then as you are now and I I had hatI continued t to earn carn it through all these years an and if It you OU had never spent a a. C cent of ot your our earnings hut but had permitted them the to accumulate arid and accumulate and accumulate In in all that time YO you would scarcely have havo enough money gathered to equal the tho amount nt that Salt Lake is spending 1 t for business blocks block In tho wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale anI and retail centers of t the city this year Imagine the years years ears of or toll toil you ou would have c to put in In through all those years to gather that amount amount while whilo Tyre ITe was rising and falling whilo Per For Persia sia sla became great and faded off orr them the tho m nth map bUe Alexander cemented to together together to- to gether the Grecian empire and subsequent quent ages demolished it while the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman empire gained command of at the tho whole world and antI then crumbled into a hundred pieces before the tho onslaughts on on- or of the barbarians from tram tho the North while Christianity gradually spread throughout Europe and dispelled dis dJs polled the hl darkness of the Mediaeval days dalI while the Feudal system flour flourished flour fished d and became a thing of or tho past while Columbus discovered America and the thu Spaniards and the French and the Dutch and und the English gradually spread their way across the thc Alle- Alle and the Mississippi and antI the thc immense prairie country countr and last atall of at all the all all those years you would have ha had to toll toil as cis you are ure toll toil toiling tolling ing tag today to earn your competence just that the business mon men of ot Salt Late Lake might have enough enO to build their Stores and their nod oud ono one or two hotels in a t few tew month months Many lUll Men L t l. And after atter all all tho the figures arc comparatively comparatively com com- Just For one uno man mun workIng workIng work- work Ing years or men ruen workIng work work- Ing tn one year yeal even en with the advantages advantages afforded by tho the lives lives' of at the countless millions In tho the past ages w 1 0 have struggled for tho progress of ot humanity hu hu- manity could scarcely do all the work that Is r required in the Ole construction of these c buildings that are up on a afew arOw rOw few acres of ot Salt Lakes Lake's most valuable ground Think how man many are arc playIng play- play lug Ing tn or have played their part in the raising of these theae buildings The forces nt lit present employed on the tho ground J. J r JI 1 dL i f combined total close to 1000 mon men There are arc men at Work work the tho Newhouse and Boston buildings alone and all that is s got son going ng on there now i is tho masonry on the tho walls and anil tho the building of tho floors and palli on the inside walls They Ther took I tho the places of ot otas as as' as l large rge a n number of or structural iron workers who in in turn turp succeeded cdell even a n larger number of ot men who worked on the excavation and foundations They will be followed followed fol fol- lowed lJ by corps of or carpenters plasterers plasterers plas plas- and finishers and plumbing Plas-I Plas experts ex- ex experts experts ex ex- and electricians equally as nu nu- in to the tho aggregate I Theaters Are Arc Going Coins Up I Last week Weel there here were 60 50 bricklayers I I and helpers hard at work worl and working work worle working ing overtime on a single wall of ot tho now Lyceum theater And that buildIng building building build build- ing complete leto and rea ready y for tor occupancy occupancy occupancy pancy will represent only of ot the just just a trifle more than one ono one hundredth part of or tho total outlay on the bun buildings ings under construction construction construction con con- for tor business purposes CB in Salt Lake Lako Think too of or the tho number of or men who have been beon at work worle on tho the material materIal material mater mater- ial before it Jt ever saw lEav Salt Lake Lake or of tho the men who have ha been at work worl Inthe in inthe inthe the Iron fron mines of ot the tho Great Lakes re regions rc- rc gions in tho the smelters and tho the rolling mills where the structural steel is made mao of tho the quarrymen In all parts of ot tho the country who info have hove done their part in the tite of ot the city of ot the men in 1 cement plants of or the tho railroad yes CS and of ot the sailors who whey have given a a. part of their lives U that Salt Lake might bo ho a beau heau- beautiful city and a hive hivo of ot industry Think of ot all tho various Carious parts that go 0 to tomake tomake make malte up the tho whole of ot one of these many buildings furnished and ready for occupancy and antI of or the tho uttermost parts of the earth that contribute of ot their the resources Think of at all these and antI then say It if you daro laro that tho the three and one halt millions are not economically spent or 01 that wage waCe earners makini- makini 1000 a n year could have done more And yet yot wage earners mean meana n a city of at people And the tho bul buildings now gono- gono up in Salt Lake would keep a n city of ot that size Elm busy busya a year in construction r See 0 Still Salt Lakes Lake's Future Fuhn e And is It worth while For what is this of people scattered throughout Utah and the United States and foreign countries working In other words are the Salt Lake business men and capitalists paying too loo much for tor their whistle Assuredly not Thuy Thoy are practical men who are spending their good hard cash on these buildings but they are uro also somewhat of ot visionaries visionaries dream dream dreamers ers ens if Ir you Uk like For thc they have hoo assembled assembled assem assem- bled the efforts of ot these men for tor forone forone torone one year that many times that number number num num- ber bel might have an opportunity for tor I greater efforts for tor years to come Two or three of ot the office buildings now stow under construction alone will furnish shelter sheller for tor wage earnor earn- earn urs or urs On account of ot the Ole facilities afforded alI al- al 1 I forded in the tho buildings the tho l people using thorn them will be bc able to do du double j the work It with less effort than they I would had not the buildings been erected The hotels under unde construction construction tion Uon will wUl afford homes for tor several hundred nightly the tho theaters will IUT- IUT lurI i I nish them with amusement in tho the thoI I hours of or relaxation the tho warehouses and depots and und stores under construe construe- tion will bo hives of at activity for years i to comeI come conic And from these buildings the development development de de- I of at the tho whole Intermountain moun utter tain territory will be largely d directed 1 Assuredly the tho Salt Lake business II r e Tv it t I. i r. 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F i y a 1 7 4 t 1 r 0 ri r H H HH M 4 t f. f M M I M M M M MH H Q 0 Building ng In the tho business heart t of or Salt Lake are drawing tho the attention of ot the entire countr country country- Atthe At At- f tho the lr present sent time there are arc nearly a Q score of business blocks largo l antI and small being constructed at a cost ap- ap f pro hn at three millions and a halt halo dollars docs not docs n not t Include tho the business blocks contemplated or those finished tJ this ls year year lt represents tho the construction now under way There Is s probably bly halt half that amount amount of or money being expended on residences and apartment houses too Tho building boom Is the tho greatest In the tho f history of or Salt Lake but business mon men confidently expect to see this record surpassed in 1909 Tho great f building era ela is caused c. by a 0 demand for tor more office space and more modern accommodations owing to tho the Influx In In- Afflux Af flux hundreds of of ot business and md professional men during the tho year eal t Of t f f f O 0 I. I I men Tien nr are arc vl visionaries i They have havo seen of ot the tho future of or Salt Lake I as the metropolis 0 of a n great teat region the tho surface of t which has a as WJ Vet Set et hardly be been ben n scratched They lire dro planning for tor the ctt city that Is is but oven on o n more than that for the city that is Is to be They have faith In t their city and antI andin andin in the territory that surrounds s it And they have adopted tho maxim that spells progress j I BUILD NOW I I I I Millions in Pause PaUl e a moment if It you will at State street and Fourth South turn your face tace in the direction of or one ono oC or the tho beautiful sunsets ets of late into summer in Utah and contemplate lato tho the growth of or Salt Lake A few tew years ago the thc land at which you ou arc now looking was all residence resilience territory The rhe houses along State street that have been turned into places of or business tell that story Last year it was still largely a n residence section though there was a sprinkling sprinkling- of at stores around its edges Yet Tet within a little more than ono one block of at where you ou are standing thero are now buildings under construction that represent an outlay of or close cloo to t In that samo territory there thero are arc bull buildings completed almost within tho the year that cost the owners nearly a 1 million more And in the same district there are arc buildings already announced that will mean men easily additional Mind you all that is within a a. radius radius radius ra ra- dius of ot a little more than one block and within one quadrant There are three other quadrants two of or which contain much ground on which business business business busi busi- ness buildings are rapidly taking the place of residence and much vacant land destined to be covered with big business blocks in the near future And in iii tho the quadrant behind you is tho the city cily and county building surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded by y Its Us beautiful park an park an object object ob ob- ob of ot beauty which an any city In the theland theland theland land might well be b. proud I live ive million dollars spent pent being spent or soon to be spent on a tract of ot ground not much more than 20 acres in extent Where can the record rec roc or ord bo equalled in any city double or treble or even four times tine the size of ot Salt Lake Great o Prominent In the tho district Indicated of course ourse are the Newhouse and Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton blocks of ot which tho the gaunt steel skeletons are already practically lI clothed with brick and antI stone stono Inc Incomplete m- m pluto as they are something of ot what Samuel amuel an and his corps of ur assistants planned for tor Salt Sail Lake can ron already be bo gained At tho the corner cornor of ot what will wUl bo be Exchange Ex- Ex x- x change place and Cactus street you will find now only a pile vUe of ot stone sand boards used In construction work and other building materials scattered around arou among th the dust caused by the tile heavy wagons constant constant- ly Iy passing to and fro in work for the tho buildings For tho the block is still in of inthe the tran transformation sta stage o. o Yet if It you stand there thero for 1 a m few moments and turn your yom c eyes es westward westward westward west west- ward you OU will forget torget all about the dust and tho the debris in the tho realization of or the Salt SnIt Lake that Is to be To right and to left as you 1 0 look to tho life west are arc the tho Boston and the Newhouse structures magnificent pieces of or architecture architecture ar ar- ar rearing their forms sk skyward skyward sky sky- ward until the observer almost becomes becomes be be- comes dizzy in contemplating their height Cha t Buildings Beyond through the space between the buildings s that Is soon to be paved and oud will bo ho known as Exchange place looms up the tho Federal building ItIs It Itis Itis is no mean structure itself but ut it Is almost |