Show pit 0 NESS COHNER 6 19 1 ING 5 BIG SUM SALT LAKE LOCATION IS PUR CHASED BY CHAIN DRUG COMPANY four hundred and itty sixty thousand dollars Is price lepor reported ted paid building will wili DC be immediately remodeled salt lako lake city tho the historic walk er site tile tho northwest corner of second south antl anil alain Et streets eti ecta has be been an sold hy by J R walker tind and associate choirs lit in tho the joseph R walker estate to louis IC liggett company a national retail subsidiary of at tho the united drug company of now york and manufacturer of rexall products according to W C watt operating vice I 1 president of at tile the company and at present in los loa angeles tho the purchase price Is according to eastern operatives of the company a and nl mr air walker tho the price la Is said ta to bo be tho the second highest over ever paid fo for main street real estate tho the site alto of 0 tho continental biank building which has a main cotret frontage front 1 of pa feet aud and 10 fact on second south sold bior for or DG 12 per toot foot while the ilia walker lot laca brought 33 a foot the liggett Ll gott comp company a ny has baa in its iii alk is for pa fa western oxman slon sion to malto make salt lalo lahe the point for tho ilia inter intermountain torri tory mr lr Li lidiett laggett giett in a mos message ago to all the salt calt lako lake telegram said liggett c kompany will open it a liggett store on second south corner as soon as tho the remodeling Is s completed probably about april angwill and will rent tho the remainder of tho ilia ifo property perty mr liggett said bald he bo cannot say positively what will bo be done lator later ng as some leases cases have about two years yeara to run but bui present intention Is to tear building at tho ilia end of tho the lease period and build a tine fine largo large structure mr air liggett said lie he will probably open other stores in salt lako lake later the site has a main alain street frontage fion taga of 18 48 feel and runs feet on second south street tho the liggett chain ot of drug stores h has as recently added links on tho pacific coast three hundred stores are operating in the ilia united states forty in canada and TOO in england the stores in england a ato arc to operated under the name of ther boots pure drug company ltd the campaign of expansion on oil the w west ost roast boast open opened ed with tho ilia pur chABo of oc four stores of the ilia kress drug company in los angeles Angol cs five stores or of tile the bowman Bo willan company in oakland eight stores of oe the stol stoa L lyons dru drue company on tho the coast deals aro arc un tin dor der way for tho ilia purchase lirse of ten bartel drug stores in fit seattle wash and three tin eo stores or of the french drug company comay va ay in tacoma wash portland oregon will he ba tile the blead quarters qua itera of a further string of stores thich t tile tho company expects to acquire in every important city on the i pacific coast twenty ono one drug stores j are now in operation on tho ilia west boasi coas 4 |