The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31
MURRAY BOASTS
RAPID GROWTH
Smelter City Shows Evidences
of Utah's General
Prosperity.
NEW CITY HALL AND
OTHER BUILDINGS GOING UP
Business Is Brisk Because of
Employment of Hundreds
of TOilers.

Murray. eight miles south Of Salt
Lake City, has the building fever.
Among the important buildings going
up there are the new city hail, the
Mormon church and the "Slag" house,
being erected by the American Smelter
and Refining company to abate the
smoke nuisance.
The city hall building is two stories
high, Of brick, and a handsome struc-
ture. 1t will be finished within n few
weeks. The church building is Of
brick and stone and cost in the neigh
borhood of 10000. 1t will be com
pleted in few weeks Work on the
slagn house is well along, 1t has
100000 brick in it,
The Murray bank and the Business
Men 5 association, enterprisipg organi-
cations, promise 10 give Murray anoth~
er big building, an auditorium, one Of
the best in the West, they say. The
site has been purchased, at State and
Seventeenth South streets, and every
thing is in readiness to receive bids
from contractors on the proposed build
ing tue IbSh VI Will pc hNCt
So, 1000. The structure is to be l40 by
so feet in size, and viii be used for
dances, caruivals, conventions and the
like.
Real Estate Is Active.
Real estate circles are active in Muir
ray, and land is selling at a good price.
There is hardly a vacant house in Muir
raw. Several residences are building
ba ,,rD,,n1 laN-S Iys1 and rho
town site is ideal
Murray City has growing popula'
ton. Now there are about 5000 souls
there, and the place is putting on airs.
city airs. 1t has a right to do so.
Eighteen months ago 1T was lucorpo..
rated as city. One of the signs of
its taking on city airs is the preparation
/ State street, from South Seventeenth
TO the creek The improved sidewalks
have been ordered by the council, and
the next thing will be the letting OF
the contracts for the Improvement.
Murray primarily is working man g
town. but there are several palatial
residences there. About 500 men are
empIoyed at the American Smelter aud
! Refining company's plant, and proba.
| bly, 400 or 800 at the Utah Consolidated
( Mining company S smelter one and
I half miles west OF the city. To one
( who happens along when the shifts are
! changing at the smelter works the
streams of humanity coming and going
are an impressive sight.
Has a Smoke Nuisance.
Murray has smoke nuisance, an in
! disputablc evidence that the town has
become n city, that has seriously af-
| tected the growth of the place. some
| claim, but this trouble will be abated
! 10 a considerable extent when the Stag
house Of the American Smelter and Re
fninp company is finished BY means
of this house the deleterious and poison
Gus matters VIII be removed from the
smoke Of the furnaces before it finally
is released 10 spread over the city.
Business is good in Murray. There
are fifteen or sixteen saloons there. The
city is within thirty-fve minutes OF
! Salt Lake on the street car, and will be
| closer when the street car line improve
ments are brought about, There IL
some fine agricultural land just outside
| Murray and il is said that vegetables
and many other living necessities may
be had in Murray cheaper than IN Salt
! Lake.
Murray is building toward Salt Lake
and il is believed that in the near fu'
| ture Salt Lake Will absorb Murray.