The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-12
Herring-Hall-Maryin Company
Is Establishing a Branch
in This City.
TO BUILD SKYSCRAPER
in VERY NEAR FUTURE
Local Offices viii Have Control
of Entire IntermOuntain
Trade.

Within ten days. OF two weeks at the
outside, q new industry will have To-
Gated in this city permanently, an in
dustry which will only give employ
ment at the present time to about g
dozen people, but which in the course
of timo will mean employment fo- a
considerably larger number. The new
industry is the Herring Hall Marvin
Safe company. with chain of offices
extending from Maine to California
and which is more familarly known as
the "safe trust D. F. Parker. mana
ger of the agency department, of Ham
ilton, o., is in the city at the present
time completing the arrangements for
the opening Of the Salt Lake depart
ment of the Odd Fellows hall on Mar
ket street will be occupied by the new
concern. and il will be known as the
Shealey Safe and Vault company. W, j.
Shealey, formerly chief clerk of the
Southern Pacific at Ogden, now of this
city, will be the manager OF the local
headquarters.
Location Is Temporary.
The location on Market street viii
only be temporary, as the steel trust
plans the erection Of q skyscrapeT In
of which will be occupied by it. Plans
for this building have not been drawn
as yet, but as SooD as q suitable loca-
tiop can be secured the matter will
be turned over TO some able architect.
and with the acceptance of the plans
ground Will be broken and the work
of building pushed. This much is Ger
tain, the frame work of the building
will be of steel. and it will be as abso-
lutely fireproof and modern IN every
respect as any building in the country.
The location of the ''safe trust II
this city will mean a great boon, for
Salt Lake. Already plans are under
way for securing from the railroads
special rate for heavy materials shipped
here In carload lots. and This rate will
not only apply to the goods used by
the Shealev Safe and Vault company,
but will embrace every other kind OF
heavy matter such as metal aud other
like material. The plans have pro,
gressed so far in such a highly favor
able manner that Mr.. Parker says the
securing of the rate Is now fully as
sured.
The local office will have entire con.
troll of the iDtermountaiD region, and
will embrace all Of this state, Idaho.
Wyoming, Montana aud western New.
ada. On the books OF The trust this
office will be known by the serial
%, - VI ohA'N
of the trust in the United States, and
is the completing link in the chain OF
offices reaching clear across the con-
unent from ocean TO ocean.
Covers Wide Field
Fully so per cent OF the big bank
vaults, safety deposit vaults and the
like in the country are turned out by
the Herring Hall-Marvin Safe com.
pany s great mills. and among the NUM-
ber IN this city are the steel vaults III
Walker Bros bank. the Wells-Fsrgo
Express company. the Mccormick bank
and several others. The stcelwork in
the big banks now being erected in
Denver are being built by the concern
which IS to locate here.
Mr.. Parker was formerly resident
of this city, and for the past four years
be and the other officials of the COM
panv he represents have been watching
the development of this city. For this
length of timc it has been the intep-
tion of the company to open headqusr
ters here, and long before the election
The stock was ordered Mr.. Parker says
The office would have been opened here
no matter who was elected president OF
the United States. He expects that
the stock now on the road will reach
here in two weeks at the outside and
the office will be formally opened for
business. He will visit this city twice
a year
Mr.. Shesley is widely known here
and was member of the staff of fox
Nor Governor Wells.