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Show Utah Pioneer Trails Fourth Salt Lake Mercantile Institution Built On Hotel Utah Corner "The Story of A Street" continues con-tinues for a second installment compiled from S.U.P. Memorial Foundation Records. The fourth mercantile institution institu-tion was owned and managed by J. M. Horner & Co. and located in a building later occupied by the Deseret News Publishing Co. on the land on which the Hotel Utah now stands. This store was soon taken over and directed by the firm of Hooper and Williams. Willard Richards was the first postmaster in Great Salt Lake City. He was at the same time the editor and publisher of the "Deseret News." Due to the infrequent in-frequent mail service, at first, Postmaster Richards, distributed the mail from his printing shop located lo-cated on the site now occupied by the Hotel Utah. Later, the first post office building was erected south' of the Council House just north of Livingston and Kinkead Co. The first two story commercial mart erected in Utah was the old Constitution Building. It was built and owned by the mercantile firm of Livingston and Bell, successors suc-cessors to Livingston and Kinkead, Kin-kead, and occupied ground on which the latter company's store formerly stood. In 1851, the post office was moved into this new building and William Eell officiated offici-ated as postmaster. One of the earliest buildings, the third on Main Street, was constructed con-structed on land owned by Thomas S. Williams. It was located on the northeast oorner of First South and Main Streets. Mr. Williams was a young man of much promise in Nauvoo before the Exodus. He later joined the Mormon Battalion and on arriving in the Salt Lake Valley was given as his inheritance, by the church authorities, the land referred to. On being made a member of the J. M. Horner Co. Thomas S. Williams Will-iams deeded thisproperty to that company. Shortly afterwards the Horner Co. sold the land to the firm of Hooper and Williams, a partnership consisting of W. H. Hooper and Thomas S. Williams. In 1857, Williams sold his interest to W. H. Hooper who later entered into partnership with Horace S. Eldredge under the firm name of Hooper and Eldredge Co. It was in this building that the firm established es-tablished the first Mormon bank in Utah. Continued Next Week |