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Show oo SKYSCRAPERS FOR SALT LAKE CITY Salt lake, April 20. Formal approval ap-proval of the plans and specifications for a twenty-four story building to be erected at the northeast corner of Main and First. South streets Is expected to be made today at a meeting meet-ing of the board of directors of the Deseret National bank. The building Is expected to cost ?1 000,000 Parkinson & Bergstrom of Los An geles. who drew the plans for the Kearns building and the Hotel Utah, will be the architects for the new i-tructure The senior member of the firm will reach Salt Lake today wltb the plans, which are to be submitted to the directors. Decision to erect a modern home for the Deseret National bank was reached by the directors some months ago. and preliminary stops were taken tak-en to care for the lessees of the ad joining property on the north, which belonged to the Sharp estate, and which had been purchased by the bank. All arrangements were made with the exception of the frontage occupied oc-cupied by A. Richter, real estate. Mr Richter had a twenty-year lease on the storeroom, and was reluctant to surrender possession |