The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-23
The City in Brief.

Work has been begun upon the super
structure of the new Methodist church on
Twenty-fourth street.
The resurvey of the streets of this city is
bound to lead to confusion and cause a
great deal of litigation The trouble has
just commenced.
The window frames have been set in the
second story of the new First National
bank building, and brick-laying on that
story will be completed without delay
Mr.. Thompson, the architect of the new
Reed hotel, was in the city yesterday over
looking the preliminary work on the foun-
dation of that soon-tO be magnificent struc-
bture.
At the burning of Bates barn Monday
night the usual difficulty was experienced
in getting an adequate supply of water in
time to save the property. This defect in
the WI ter sys ZEN should be remedied with
ont delay.
Negotiations are going on for the sale of
the bank Of tireclay about eight miles from
Ogden, to some Denver capitalists 1t has
been thoroughly tested and is pronounced
to be very superior article to withstand
an intense and prolonged heat.
The constant demand for houses to rent
is sure indication of the steady and rapid
increase in the population of this city. A
hundred small cottages would be tenanted
within week and pay big interest on the
money it would cost TO build them.
The attention of the municipal police is
y called to the fact that the ordinance in re-
lation to leaving horses on the street I'M
hitched is violated every hour in the day.
Every person VINO is guilty of this ofenSe
should be arrested and heavily fined.
Mr. s. L. Ives, the father of E. j. Ives,
David Kay's chief clerk and bool-keeper,
has come TO Ogden to reside. He has lived
for a long time at Los Angeles, California,
which city he represents as being very
dull al present, consequent upon the reac-
tion of the boom,
Yesterday, Reed & Snyder sold lot with
a twenty five feet frontage on Twenty
fourth street, adjoining the Farr Brothers
implement store, to Walter P. Dwyer, for
the sum of -, $50. The next adjoining va
FAINT lot was sold for the same price. 1t is
. understood that large business block will
I be erected on this property in the near
Nnuture.
y 1t is the intention of the owner of the
Kay building, on the corner of Washington
avenue and Twenty street, to use the
first floor for offices as soon as Mr.. Kay
vacates the premises. He has asked the
city council to permit him to build a re-
tanning wall three feet from the building
on the Twenty-hfth street side. to be sur
mounted by a fence, so that he can get ac-
cess to the building. AS this would not
interfere with putting the sidewalk up to
the grade of the street, his petition should
be granted.
In regard to the Pacific Short Line pro
ject, abont which 80 much has been said
and so little is really known, the writer of
this has positive information that the
schemes not slumbering, but that every
energy of the syndicate is being bent
toward overcoming the almost insurmount-
able obstacles that have stood in the way
of building the road. Contracts have been
let for the building of forty-fve miles more
of roadbed ON the eastern end of the line,
making altogether l65 miles, and such work
viii be done on this end as can be done to
advantage during the winter months.