The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
MCDONALD BROS.
MAKE Big RECORD
HustIing Contracting Firm
Completes Seventeen Years
of Operation Here.
MANY NOTABLE BUILDINGS
J. G. MCDONALD HANDLES IN
PoRTANT WORK IN HONOLULU.

| With tie advent OF TIE mex year
| Tuesday, Alexander and James E. Nc
Donald of Salt Lake win celebrate he
Seventeenth anniversary of the estaD-
| lishment of the contracting and build
| ing firm of Mcdonald Brothers, one of
the largest and most reliable concerns
| of its kind in the intermountain region.
| A little more than \ year ago today
this firm turned over to The Herald its
new home. erected at a cost of over
100000. and the New Years paper OF
| 1906 was run off the rev presses.
No contracting firm Of Salt Lake or
| vicinity has a better record behind il
| that McDoaal Brothers. With the con-
struction of the majority of the most
pretentious and artistic buildings in
| the city to their credit. and with sew
eral important structures under way as
| the present year closes, the firm has
established an enviabie reputation for
| reliability and thoroughness in its
work
The seven-story tuilding row being
| erected on the east size of Main street,
| between Second ard Third South
streets, by Mcdonald Brothers for the
| Utah Savings & Trust company Of this
city at q cost of approximately $4,000
| is the most important work now engaS-
The building is IF reinforced concrete
construction, "a material thar is COM
rarativeIy new in local building opera
tions, and when completed will be ono
of the finest office and bank buildings
in salt Lake.
Other Operations.
The Miller apartment houses, on
| North Temple street, opposite the Tenn
| T.In- a - rIicfi.,Il hx- Nc
/ Donald Brothers. These apartment
/ houses win cost IN the neighb1rhood or
! $1,000 when completed. ss3ss
| OF the structures rih- the city erected
by the firm in the past few years. the
| University club building figures prom
| inently. The building is one of the
| handsomest club structures IN the west
and was erected at a cost of 100000 in
1894 for the University cluo of Salt
Lake. The exterior and interior con-
| struction work ON the building is of thc
highest quality. The Chadbourna hotel
| building. on State street, between Sec
end and Third South streets. was put
up. by Mcdonald Brothers at a cost Of
/ $50. 600. The Halloran building, on Third
South, between Nam and State streets,
known as the Metropole hotel building,
has just been completed by the firm
The Whitehall apartment house, ON
| State street, between Brigham and
| First South streets, was erected by Nc
| Donald Brothers, and was one of the
first modern apartment house struc-
lures put UP in Salt Lake.
| Extensive Government Work.
Among the largest building opera
tons attempted here by the firm was
| the erection of the buildings at Fort
| Douglas. Here officers quarters, bar
racks, stables, a post exchange build
| ing and large number of other post
| tuildings were Dut IN at Il total cost
Of over 100000 The post buildings at
FeTt Wright. Washington, and the post
structures at Fort Duchesse. Utah. are
among the other government reserva-
ton buildings erected BY Mcdonald
Brothers.
]. f. Mcdonald is one of the most en-
ergetic contractors and builders in the
| intermOuntain country. His work has
carried him into various parts of the
country, and his experiences are ex-
| tremely interesting.
In Honolulu Three Years.
Joining the First regiment of United
States volunteer engineers. recruited
from the intermountain country in 1898,
Mr. Mcdonald served as n government
engineer in Honolulu and vicinity for
five months when, leaving the service
of the government. he Superintended
the erection of a $4,000 residence for
William Goodale. manager of the ia
nous Wialuia plantation, near Homo
lulu. This work was followed by SUI
perintending the construction of the big
Boston block on Hotel street in Homo
| lulu, one of the largest structures in
| the city. Mr.. Mcdonald remained in
Honolulu and vicinity for three years,
engaging in the construction of several
of the most important buildings in that
| city. He returned to Salt Lake in 1902.
Mcdonald Brothers are among the
| first Salt Lake contractors to adopt
! reinforced concrete as building ma
! terial for office and warehouse struc-
lures. In the east and along the Pa
| cific coast this material has gained
/ fCothold with contractors and builders
that promises to make it widely used
/ throughout the entire western country.
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