The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-20
LAYING BROAD
FOUNDATIONS
Vegas People Expect to Build Pros
porous City.
STEADY GROWTH is SHOWN
New Townsite Company Leads the
Way.
Especial to The Herald.)

III OGI httie city mas Deenr uneNenI1ul-
The residents are pursuing the even
tenor of their way, attending to bust
ness, making money and shaping con-
ditions to the point where ali will be
in readiness for the onward stride that
win make the greater and more pros
porous Vegas. Look where one will,
there IS energy and that Improvement
with a foundation that plainly says
here is a place that has a future. is a
natural location for a city and is
backed by financial forces that will
verify every prediction that has been
made by the most enthusiastic advo-
Gates and promoters of Las Vegas as
the commercial and industrial metrop-
oils of the semi-tropic belt, and the
great city midway between Salt Lake
and Los Angeles.
Foundations are Broad.
The townsite improvements, virtually
the railroad interests, are laying a
massive foundation in whatever they
do, upon which to rear a city and en-
terDrises that will mean a large and
prosperous population. Their construc-
ton of the company arteries, the grad
ing and curbing of the seven miles of
streets, all exhibit the great confidence
have in the future of the Vegas valley,
and as a focal point that now presents
the ma gic creation of three months,
Las Vegas City in embryo.
Besides the depot and railroad build
lngs these factors have set the example
of solid and neat construction in q 10
cal sense by the office building they
/ have erected This building is an or
nament and sets the pace for other
builders. The style is in keeping with
r-Rl irerr ic
and neatly decorated and well ventil-
ated, and in the burning days of the
sun is cool and refreshing; for no mat
ter how hot "Old SOL makes it in this
CLINE, with the air circulated through
building and protected from the
burning rays, one is comfortable and
free from that sweltering effect so OBJ
noNious in a humid climate. Whilst
the internal decorations are such and
existence so pleasant the outside is re-
We lead and show you our confidence
IN the works we do"
- Cement Walks.
They are surrounding their buildings
with cement walks, and likewise hav-
ing cement sidewalks for the public
with a Rour-foot space between that
and the street curbing for greensward
and flower beds. The company is set
ting the pace in good and artistic
building. The spirit thus amplified
has its effect. and private buildings and
business blocks are following. in a COM
parative sense, in line. The newer
buildings are all partaking of the per
manent and better class of structures.
and with the onward march there win
be greater Vegas of solid buildings.
Residence Buildings.
c. c. Chamberlain the designer of the
townsite office building and of the
principal buildings of Vegas, has in his
Office a design of a cottage which is
one Of twelve that is tos be erected here.
In style it is a modified bungalow. The
exterior walls win be of cement block
rock faced. with spacious porches, hip
roops, and inviting appearance. The
interior is OF the roomy home-lilSe sort
neatly embellished and fitted up with
bath tub, lavatories and those modern
fixtures that tends to make home a
paradise. These buildings will not all
be of like construction. Some are con-
ceived in the Moorish mission style Of
architecture.
In addition to this, the architect is
preparing plans for Judge w. r. Thorn
as, who will erect the most imposing
business block of Vegas, on the corner
of fremont and First streets.
County Seat Agitation.
An agitation is on foot for changing
the county seat from Phoebe to Vegas
Phoebe is out of the way. and d trip to
the county seat, a distance of $50 miles
from this point, is expensive and takes
at least four days to make. 1t is of
great expense to iitigantS and a burden
to taxpayers This fact is forcing at
tention and provoking the movement to
bring the county seat to the center of |
population in Lincoln county, which is
on railroad line, and the natural
point is Vegas. The citizens recog-
nizing the $641. 900 of indebtedness of |
the county, are graphing with the
proposition in a practical manner to |
accomplish the desired result. In or
der TO avoid the opposition. we can
not afford the expense of new county !
buildings" they propose through the
largely Interested parties of this sec i
ton to raise a fund of $4,000 for cOun-
ty buildings. Such, fund would sup
ply business headquarters and reten-
ton institutions ample for the needs
of Lincoln county for years to come.
Timber Land. 4
Frank Manuel, a well known timber
expert, during the week returned from
a trip into the Charleston mountains.
some thirty-five miles distant from this /
place. He reports fine quality Of /
timber, spread over an extensive area,
sufficient TO supply all domestic and I
mining purposes for many years to !
come, for all the country around, in I
Guiding the Bullfrog district and the |
many mining camps that are becoming /
the Mecca for the many wealth hunt |
ers- Thousands of acres have not been !
located These, with the timber stu 4
ated so closely TO a ready market, viii i
be Of great value. By utilizing this J
natural supply the cost of timber will 4
be reduced by one-half to the mining I
districts company is organized that ]
will install a saw mill and make the (
circular whirr and turn 10 the happy !
tune, Cheaper Lumber" He also 4
states that 5000 feet above the desert |
plain, in the same stretch of timber. is |
a natural spring of pure crystal water. |
giving a flow of over 500 miners inches
the water ripping down the mountain I
side for about a mile and a half, and, !,
sinking, taking a subterranean course I