Show BUSINESS CORNER GORNER BRINGS BIG SUM SALT LAKE LOCATION IS PURCHASED PUR PUR- PURCHASED CHASED BY CHAIN DRUG COMPANY Four Hundred And Sixty Thousand Dollars Is Price Reported Paid Pard Building Will Be Immediately Remodeled I Salt SaIt Lake City The Cit The historic Walker Walk Walk- er site the northwest corner of at Second Sec See ond and South and Main streets has been sold by J. J R. R Walker and associate heirs in the Joseph R. R Walker estate to Louis K Liggett company a national national national na na- retail subsidiary of or the United Drug company of ot New York and manufacturer manufacturer man man- of or Rexall products according according accord accord- ing to W. W C. C Watt operating vice president of or the company and at present pres pre ent eat in Los Angeles The Tho purchase price is according according ac ac- ac cording to Eastern operatives of ot the company and Mr Walker The price is said to be the second highest ever paid for Main MaIn lain street real estate The site of or the tEe Continental Bank building which has a Main frontage of 46 feet and feet on Second South sold for or 01 per foot toot while the Walker land brought a foot The Liggett company has included in its plans for tor Far Western expansion sian sion to make Salt SaIt Lake the distributing distributing ing lag point for the intermountain terri tern tory Mr Liggett In a message to The I Salt SaIt Lake Telegram said Liggett company will open a Liggett store on Second South corner as soon as the remodeling Is completed probably about April and will rent the remainder remainder remainder remain remain- der of at the property Mr Liggett said he cannot say positively positively pos pos- what will be done later as some leases have about two years ears torun to torun torun run but present intention Is to teardown teardown tear down the building at the end of ot the I lease period and build a fine tine large structure I u u Mr Liggett said he will probably open other stores In Salt Lake later The site has a Main street frontage of or 48 feet teet and runs run feet on Second South street The Liggett chain of ot drug stores has recently added links on the Pacific Pa Pap clUe coast Three hundred stores are operating in the United States forty Carty I stores In Canada and in England The stores in England are operated I under the name of the Boots Pure I Drug Company Ltd The campaign of at expansion on the I west coas coast opened wit with l the purchase I of four stores of ot the Kress Drug company company com com- pany in Los Angeles five stores of ot I the Bowman company in Oakland eight stores of the Stout Lyons ns Drug I f company on the coast Deals are under ander under un un- der way for the purchase of ten Bartel Bartel Bar Bar- tel drug stores in Seattle Wash and three stores of the French Drug campany com cam company pany in Tacoma Wash Portland Oregon will be tu tue headquarters headquarters head head- quarters of a further string of ot stor stores s which the company expects to acquire acquire acquire ac ac- ac- ac quire In every important city on the tho Pacific coast Twenty one drug stores are now in operation on the west i coast I |