The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-14
NATIONAL COPPER
BANK FURNITURE
Magnificent Quarters for New
Financial Concern Ready
in January.

What is expected TO be the finest
banking room in the entire west is soon
to be fitted up for the National Copper
bank in the Newhouse building. Dur
ing the last week contracts were signed
for the entire equipment of the bank,
and work is to be begun on it at once.
The contracts include vault, as well
as the fixtures, furniture and recora-
lions.
The corner room in the Newhouse
building was especially designed for
bank, and is provided with every posi-
bic safeguard against fire and thieves.
The walls are thick and of solid stone
and steel. The long windows are pro-
tected by steel grills. Immense bronze
doors protect the entrance. Between
the bank and the inner hall of the build
ing are bronze doors also.
There will be ample space for the
bank. The room is seventy-one feet in
length and flfty-eight feet wide. 1t has
in addition to the floor space a mez-
canine gallery seventy-two feet long
and sixteen feet wide. The room is
twenty-eight feet from floor to ceiling.
The entire scheme of fixtures and dec
orations Will harmonic with the Gre
clan architecture of the room. Skyros
Italian marble and bronze will be used
almost exclusively in the fixtures, while
the furniture will all be of mahogany.
Ceramic mosaic, laid in blocks, will
form the floor. At the base of the fix
lures will be a strip of Pompeiian green
marble, and above it great slabs of Sky
ros marble. Above the counter tops
there will be a bronze grill. containing
panels of double plate glass. There are
four great columns which support the
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and will be protected at the base by
bronze grills. Around the mezzanine
gallery marble balustrade is to be set.
The general color scheme will be in soft
tones of gray, ivory and gold. The walls
will be finished in oils and the ceiling
in water cOlOrs. All the furniture will
be of the best Cuban mahogany, and
the wood trimmings Of the room will be
of the same material
On the ground floor there will be the
vestibuIe from which one enters the
lobby, containing two large marble
check desks. Around the lobby will be
ranged the various departments of the
bank, including offices for the president,
vice presidents, cashier, and cages for
the employees, besides a ladies' room.
The mezZanine floor viii be occupied by
the bookkeepers. 1t will also contain
the directors room.
The vault will be eleven feet wide and
twenty-five feet in length. Its erection
win be begun Immediately. A unique
feature Of the vault will be its new
model circle steel door. This door will
weigh thirty tons, and is to be the very
latest thing Of it's kind. The vault,
made of armor steel, lined, will be faced
with Skyros Italian marble, and will be
surmOunted with a magnificent marble
clock.
A local firm, the Freed Furniture &
Carpet company, has the contract for
every part of the fixtures and decoTa-
tons excepting the vault. Arrange
ments have been made by the Freed
company by which the A. H, Andrews
company viii supply the fixtures, while
the decorations viii be done by the
Mitchell & Halbach company of Chi
cago. Irving Goodfellow of Salt Lake
is the architect of the room. 1t is ex-
pected that the banking quarters will
be ready for occupancy soon after the
first of the year.
The National Copper bank was organ
lied about five weeks ago by a number
of wealthy men, nearly all of whom
wrested their fortunes from the hills
They do not intend to make their tank
essentially a mining mans institution.
lHEy UGlleNe lildl tie city anu sur
rounding country are advancing so rap
idly in population, wealth and business,
that there is plenty of room for their
bank, and they hope to make it one Of
the great institutions of the country. 1t
will have a capital of $500, 600 and a
surplus in the beginning of $4,000,
which has been subscribed by the stock
holders. w. W. Armstrong is president
Of the National Copper, and John Dern
and w. V. Rice the vice presidents. The
other officers are:
Executive Committee-W. W. Arm
strong, John Dern, w. V. Rice, Lafay-
cite Hanchett and J. B. Risque
Directors-W. w. Armstrong, John S.
Bransford, John Dern, A. G. Ellis, jr.,
Sherman Fargo, Park City; James Far
rell, George E. Gum, New York; La
fayette Hanchett, David Keith, Duncan
MacVichie, p. J. Moran, w. V. Rice, J.
3. Risque, w B. Thompson, New York
and Z. A. Wall.