The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
MUCH BUILDING
NOW IN PROSPECT
Era of Tall Buildings Is
Now Fairly Begun
for Salt Lake.

Although as western cities go Salt
Lake is old-old enough to have reached
years of sedateness-her physical
growth during the past year has been
as vigorous as that of a healthy infant.
And the $2,71S.444 which have been put
into that physical growth during the
year were not all sunk into one district
nor vet one class of building. The
growth of the city in the past year has
not been a specialized one. While big
business blocks have been building, the
church people have tried to go the
block builders one better, and the
school builders have determined to keep
their end of it up. while no ward in the
city has failed TO erect a multitude of
now dwellings. Yet all the time there
have been more people than dwellings
I'm the city. and so flat builders and
rooming house and hotel builders have
Joined i'm to lengthen and broaden the
city. Together their efforts so far have
resulted in an investment in earth.
stone ard labor OF the sum above men
toned. which is. tOge Their with S1.2o0. 900
put into buildings which were projected
but not completed last year. s1,045. $50
more than the sum invested in 1905.
And that 1905 was no slack year for
the builders may be judged from the
fact that during it were erected the
Clty's three-story federal building.
new public library, the nurses home OF
the Latter-day Saints hospital, new
state fair building, the three-story
! home of the Y. NJ. c. A., the West
minister college chapel, the Greek Cath
Ole and First Presbyterian churches,
and active work done on the still un-
completed Roman Catholic cathedral.
Two Glasses of Building.
The building operations of the past
year may be divided into industrial
building and home building.
In the industrial building line some
of the most noteworthy activity so far
| has been in power generating plants
/ Two new power companies have en-
| tered the field. one of which is putting
up a $4,000 plant for the distribution
/ of electric light and steam heat
| throughout the city, and the other,
/ $4,000 plant for the manufacture of
gas and coke. Besides this, the Utah
Light & Railway. which controls the
present electric lighting and street car
system of the city, has passed into the
hands of Hartman, md the first mean
| ing of the change is a complete ply
( steal reorganization. To include this in
the years building growth of the city
| might be considered too anticipatory
were not the details of the work al
| ready decided on and, so to speak the
chicken already Matched though not vet
through the shell. At the same time
the demand for structural iron in the
city the past year has justified the
construction of a new iron foundry
| costing S25,000. The railroads have
added to the building activity of the
year by the completion of one new
| freight depot at a cost of $4,000, and
soon two new union depots will grace
| the city, While the construction of rail-
roads is well advanced.
Extension of Commercial District.
A feature of the years industrial
building has been the breaking away
| from the old commercial district where
space restriction had advanced rents to
tn, maximum. The tendency to move
ouC is a growth of the present year and
has not yet gone very far. A fore
glimpse of the good it will do the city is
| seen i'm the purchase of a building site
by a publishing house on the corner of
a territory hitherto sacred TO the col
ored population of the town, and sacred
in no other sense. Now the coIored
people will have to move and the Mace
| will be reclaimed by business men who
are preparing to follow the lead of the
publishing house. In the business dis
| trict of the city have always been n
number of one-story shacks, relics of
the early days, anonymously damned
between six and seven-story modern
buildings They served to shelter Chi
nese eating houses. break the contour
of the sky line and uphold the fire in
surance rates. Last year saw their
doom. Some of them are gone already.
the rest are following. Where one STOOD
ON East Third South, a s92, 900 business
block is being completed. Where an
other was. a $40. 900 hotel annex is eoino
I'M. Where a row of them stood nrac.
ticaIly opposite to the federal building
s50. 600 have been put into modern store
buildings On Main street where stood
an oId-fashioned three-story BUILDING
one of the city's banks, the Utah Saw.
ings & Trust company, has completed
four stories of a Seven-story bank and
office building that viii cost s1ao. Ooc
when completed.
Newhouse's investments.
At this time an eight-story building
is as high as the Salt Lake builder ba E
aspired. But plans are already being
drawn for a twelve-story sky-scrapeT
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