Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-27
|II|LD|NG BOOM
IN FULL SWING
New List Of Undertakings Now
Reaches Close to Total
OF S6,0O0,000.
BUSINESS BLOCKS GALORE.
salt Lake Now Experiencing the DIG
gcst Move In Erection OF New
Structures i'm Its History.

For the Salt Laker who Is taxing
etock of how big town ne ilVes IN
there are enough changes happening
every day TO make II impossipie lor
him to let the ink dry on any one estl-
mate.
Building operations for this summer
are so large that no just estimate OF
,ha;, scono cau be secured except by
c,ass,ng them altogether and observ-
Ing the tremendous total they reach.
The field is as prolific III suburban
homes as In business blocks, and the
,eaI estate market is filled with large
y .o,es 10 people anxious to cut up SUBJ
,,rban tracts into building lots. The
u sale of the Crismon farm in Sugar
House district this week follows the
openinE of the Burton farm several
weeks ago in this particular field.
The big business blocks, however. are
what are doing most to alter the Salt
Lake situation, and to prevent slump
which would otherwise leave the record
of this summer rather quiet one.
1t is worth while to look over the list
of buildings now under way or pro-
iected all together. Here are few OF
them;
The Auerbach thester, on Third
South for which an excavation is now
being made to cost 100000.
The Walker building at Second South
and Main, soon to commence. to cost
about $750,0O0.
The Salisbury estate building, be-
tween the Judge and the Newhouse
buildings, for which the site Is now
being prepared, 100000.
The Fort Douglas improvements, au-
thorized by the sixtieth Congress, TO
cost 100000. work on some of which
has commepced.
The Mccormick Mcintyre block, to
cost 100000.
The Galloway Hook and Francis
building on north Main to cost 100000.
New schoolhouse, on Walkers field,
$4,000.
Commercial club building, 100000
Boston Block, and Newhouse block,
100000 each, with the Newhouse hotel,
soon to be started. to cost sl,20o,OO0.
New Church building. corner Rich
ards and South Temple, S100,OOO.
jennings Worthlngton block, or West
Temple, to cost about $4,000.
Peery hotel, west Temple, to COST
$4,000
Postoffice alterations and improve
ments. authorized by Congress, 100000.
Mining Exchange on Exchange Place,
to cost S200, 900.
Oregon Short Line depot. to cost $780,
O00
Rio Grande depot. to cost s75O,00o.
The McCrystal block. on upper Main,
$4,000.
Besides these business blocks, there
are the big apartment houses that are
conspicuous for their number and the
elaborateness of design.
The McGurrin fats on Second East
street will cost $4,000. The Gibbon
flats on Third East will cost about
$40, 900. while a similar figure will cover
the David Smith fats in the same part
of the city, The Ritter, flats, which are
partly up, will cost $4,000, as will also
the Finch Rogers Mulvey flats which
are nearing completion.
These principal buildings, each OF
them reaching sums over $4,000 in
cost. make the total building now I'M
der consideration In Salt Lake nearly
sc, OO0. 900 in value, with construction
work on buildings of over $3,0O0,00
In value actually under way
In this estimate the large number
Of new homes. about dozen of which
have been completed this month, have
been omitted.
In Provo the Maeser Memorial
building is an important one as 1t
marks the beginning of a more beau
tlful B. Y. U. campus. and In Logan
postofflce building In the center of
interest since the Eccles and Nibley
homes were completed.
The list of buildings is a big one,
compared to what has been the past
rule, but IL promises to be greatly en-
larged in the Immediate future, as
the ''sky-scraper era" gets better head
way.