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Show be tf steel and reinforced concrete, assuring the greatest ftreugth and durability, possible, and making the structure fireproof. The exterior finish fin-ish will be a red pressed brick, with sandstone trimmings and with broad caves. Jn front on the Fourth South entrance en-trance will bo a broad veranda covering cover-ing th esldewalk and prettily decorated decor-ated with brass aud stone trimming with artistic metal chains and other decorations covcriug the corners and duos. The main entrance will be from Fourth South, although theie will be p.ii entrance on the Main street side. On Main street the building will extend ex-tend from the south end of the Xcw-house Xcw-house building to Fourth South, ft distance of ion feet, while on Fourth South It will extend a distance of 167 lec-t The lobby furnishings will bo beautiful beau-tiful In the extreme, and the stairs end corridors will be nrllatlcally fln-Ished. fln-Ished. . " The exoavatlon work for a building of snie uncertain character was begun be-gun tome time ago anil has been completed. com-pleted. Thlu morning the .Thompson-Starrett .Thompson-Starrett company secured Its final contract and set men to work putting In tho foundation. By next fall It is the hope of the builders to have the structure ready for occupancy. . i PLANS FOR BIC HOTEL ARE FINISHED Salt Lake. Feb, 11 A beautiful new five-story brick and concrete hotel will occupy the northwest corner of Fourth South' and Main streets. Details were completed and contracts finally let this morning lor the new structure by th John J. Duly company, and work was started in earnest. The planB for the building have been finished and. show that the structure v 111 be one of the best in the city. The cost will be In the neighborhood of (200.000 and the architecture highly arllhUc throughout. Tho Thompson;Starrett company will do the building. At the present time the matter of leasing the building has not been completed, but It la far j enough along to assure the tlnal signing of papers within a few days, and probably prob-ably before the close .f bus-lneBs t"-day. t"-day. The building will be known as the Lllard. and will be coustructed exactly ex-actly in ciformlty with the latest kr.own in hotel -architecture, In the building will be 150 roonin, Afi of which. v,U be supplied, with V.hUis Th' rooms will ho spacious f.nd thoroughly flreprr.nf. The other rooms in the building will ! n close proximity to elaborately Hied publlr. both rooms. The framework of the bulHlng will |