The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-01
SWIFT WORK ON
NEW BUILDINGS
Structural Operations on Huge
Scale Throughout the
Business District.
BIG PROJECTS REVIEWED
REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT IN
CONSTRUCTION SHOWN.

parently mad race to be the first to
reach completion. more than 100 large
buildings all over Salt Lake City are
being built onward and upward, a
silent but eloquent testimony of the
progress of the city as a rapidly grow
ing business center of the great inter
mountain country. 1t is necessary only
to mention the progress of a few of
these buildings to illustrate the effect
of the rapid construction of these edi-
fees on the tourist public passing
through the city.
From north to south on Main street
there is at present a beautiful parade
ground along which the cohorts of the
disappearing Grand Army of the Re
public will march next week. Thanking
this beautifully decorated thoroughfare
are scores of buildings in various
stages of completion, evidences of Salt
Lakes progression.
When the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie passes the Brigham Young mOnu-
ment on South Temple and Main streets
the veterans of the war Of the rebellion
have only to glance TO the east to note
the beginning OF one of the greatest
hotel projects OF the west. Where for
merly stood brick and stone ramparts,
which in the OLD days protected the in
significant settlement of religious ref
ugees from blOOdthirsty red men, there
is now in the formative stage one Of
the greatest hotels in all of the west.
in another year the beautiful structure
of a magnificent pile, marking the
place where the pioneers struggled to
make possible the growth and develop
ment of the new territory, will look
across the tabernacle grounds, a mOnu-
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Of a state settled scarce half a century
ago.
The Newhouse Hotel.
-Four blocks down the street another
hotel, as large and as beautiful as the
one at the head of the street, is being
built This is the Newhouse enterprise.
The progress of both hotel projects is
about equal The excavations Of both
hotels have been about completed. Steel
contracts for both have been let, and as
many men as can find room to work are
being employed to construct the new
buildings,
Not far from the site of the new hotel
being built by the Utah Hotel company
at South Temple and Main streets are
other buildings nearing completion.
The administration building for the Of
fcials of the Mormon church will soon
be ready for occupancy. This building
is a valuable and beautiful addition to
the buildings of the church on this cor
ner. On the Latter-day Saints college
campus, scarce half a block distant, is
being built the big modern gymnasium
for the boys and girls attending the uni
versity. The skeleton of steel is COM
pleted, and the brick and stone work is
climbing up the steel sides Of the skele-
ton at a rapid rate. The gymnasium,
- h. - F1,n frr-
gest and most useful in all of the west.
In the other direction, at South Tenn
pie and Market streets, is being built
the new Vermont building, an Office
building, modern in all its appointments.
1t is only one of a dozen such office
buildings planned for the immediate
vicinity of this busy corner. The same
distance from the corner in the other di-
rectiOn, the lions Cooperative Mercan-
tile institution is opening up on South
Temple street. The excavation for this
structure has been completed, and with
in a few months the big department
store will have an entrance and a big
store facing on South Temple street,
as well as on Main street.
New Business District.
While the building activities in this
district continue active, there is no lull
in the work in the newer business dis
trict at Third and Fourth South and
Main streets. Just of Main street large
crews of men are busy erecting the
Commercial Club and the Mining Ex-
| change buildings On the Commercial
! Club block there is a friendly competi-
! ton between the brick and stone ma
sons and the structural iron workers
Though the builders If the superstruc-
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/ club are pushing them closely, the iron
/ workers are keeping slightly in ad-
/ vance. All labor troubles incident to
/ the building of this structure have been
amicably settled. and all wOrkmen on
/ the building, with the brick, the stone,
/ the terra Gotta and the steel. are work
! ing in unison toward an early compile
/ ton Of the building.
! Across the street from the Commercial
/ Club building is the new Mining Elk
] change. It is only a matter of weeks
/ when this pretty building will be COM
pleted. The structure is modelled after
/ the New York stock exchange, and in
/ beauty is second to none. The building
is now practically completed. and a
/ crew Of men is putting in the facade of
/ pillars at its entrance.
/ Commanding the approach to this new
I business district stand the tall Boston
and NCWn0uSe buildings. now practically
I completed Each day tenants are NOV
ing into these building and the skilled
I workmen who have been putting the fin
ishing touches on these buildings have
/ little more work 10 do.
Big Hotel Completed.
Within a block OF this new district. the
new DAILY building, an up-tO-date modern
/ hotel, will be ready for occupancy within
! a short time. The new hotel looks out
I on the beautiful park surrounding the
/ city and county building. The construc-
/ ton OF this hotel is rather an innovation
! in building in Salt Lake. 1t is made en-
! tirely Of concrete and is absolutely fire
/ proof. There are $50 rooms in this hotel
soon to be thrown open to the travelling
/ public
! Back in the other direction. where the
I magnificent Judge building houses hun
dreds OF tenants is the gateway of still