The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-16

large mercantile store and also a
bank. Kenneth c. Kerr, district pas
sengcr agent of the Salt Lake Route,
secured three lots. These were adla,,
cent to the Tooele Valley railroad, and
Mr.. Kerr purchased them for the site
of large warehouse. DR., j. A. Phlpps
of Butte, Mont, purchased the third set
of lots and he intends to build large
drug store. Mr.. Phlpps paid $3.50 for
his lots. in addition to 5000 minimum
Eugene Palmer of the Stowe Pal-
mer Real Estate company OF Tins city
got two iG;5 on the corner of Date ana
Fifth streets on bid of $1,000. ana
Tobn N. Kirk got two lots on the cor
ner of Broadway and Date street Oh
bid of $1,000.
Frank f. McGurrin of the Salt Lake
Security ard Trust company OF TINS
city secured two lots on Broadway on
q bid Of $l050, on which he intends TO
erect bank He could give out no
details concerning his plans Thursday.
ter OF the Richter Real Estate company
of this city; A. n Mckay, managing
editor of the Salt Lake Herald, w. IL.
Penfield of Butte, Mont. Mr.. Rich
ter secured two lots on Broadway on
which he will erect a pressed brick
store building, and Mr.. Fenfield is con
templating the erection of business
block His lots also arc located on
Broadway.
The auction sale lasted two hours and
fifty-five minutes. and during this time
tv,o.thirds of the lots were disposed of.
The lots in the proposed business dis
trict went first \ site in the center
of the city was reserved for Il large
hotel, and this with several other
reservations. was not placed on sale.
This hotel Will be erected by Mr.. Nc
Gurrin. A site also was reserved for
4 large Iumber ward, and buildings are
under construction or this at the pres
ert time 1t is hoped to have a good
lumber yard completed very soon in
order To accommodate those wishing TO
build on their property, The new hotel
which is to be erected by Mr.. McGurrln
will cost in the neighborhood of $20,-
000.
Location of Smelter.
The location for the new smelter is
Immediately north of the new sub
division. and is about 500 feet higher
than the city proper. This will pre-
vent the smoke from the smelter inter
fering with vegetation, and, as has been
said before, the valley is extremelS
fertile and excellent for farming pur'
poses, According to authentic state
ments made Thursday, after the com
pletion OF the smelter, which is to cost
100000 the mountain which sepa-
rates Tooele from Bingham will be tnn.
neled and the ore from the Utah Con
solidated property carried right through
the heart of the mountain TO the big
Tooele slnelter. There will also be gl-
gantic improvements in the railroads
of Tooele The Tooelc Valley railroad
now runs from the Salt Lake Route
station TO the smelter site, and two
Denver G. RIO Grando engineers were
in Tooec Thursday looking things over
It was reported that their visit meant
the building Of branch line of the
Denver 6 Rio Grande TO the smeltcr,
also.
And il vas through one great rail
read project which was successfully
carried to perfection that the building
of the Tooele smelter and the advent
of Thursday was made possible, Until
the Salt Lake Route was built, Tooele
was inaccessible. and one heard but ht
tie OF it. But when the country was
opened up by the Clark road. Tooele
began to branch out