The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-16
BUILDING RECEIVES
ADDITIONAL BOOST
Work Has Begun on More
Handsome Structures in
Salt Lake.

Salt Lakes building business re-
ceived an additional boost last week
IN an announcement of the big con
strnctive programme for Fourth South
street between State and West Temple
streets, which will add approximately
$780, 900 to this year 8 expenditures
on the building account in this city.
Calculations heretofore made along
this line have placed the amount to be
expended in Salt Lake from June /
to the end Of the season at the sum Of
81, 100000, Now, however, these hg-
ures must be revised. OF course, it is
impossible at this time to state with
definiteness the total outlay on the
building account that may be looked
for in the balance of the year, because
numerous plans for residences are now
under consideration that may yet be
brought into the aggregate. But con-
servative appraisers give it as their
conclusion that the amount to be spent
will certainly reach $1,500,000 even if
it may not overstep that sum,
Work on New Hotel. :
Foundation excavation for the apart
ment hotel to be erected by DR.. A. E.
Rykert at the northeast corner of the
intersection Of Fourth South and West
Temple streets is now well under way.
This building will cost nearly $loo,o goo.
Work has been started by the Salt
Lake Security & Trust company on the
Holland apartments, which are to be To-
Gated at the southwest corner of the
same street intersection. the building to
cost $4,000. Messrs. Walker and
Cheesman are pushing construction on
SIX new garages on Fourth South be-
tween Main and West Temple Streets
and they have begun preparations for
moving away the old Cheesman resi-
dence across the street from the pro-
crossing Rykert apartment hotel. On
the Cheesmnn residence corner a four
story business and apartment building
is to be erected, the lower portion to
be devoted to a store for automobile
supplies of all kinds. The activity in
this quarter has already brought to that
section the name FGasoline Row."
and the prospect is that the title will
be we'll bestowed, as a number of other
garages are projected for that street.
building at Second South and Main
streets, outside work on the tower is
almost completed and inside woodwork
and finishing on the main structure is
being urged forward with rapidity. In
this building the progress has been
highly satisfactory from the beginning,
and the promise is that it will proceed
uninterruptedly to completion before
tho announced time. Much of the
building is already rented, occupancy
being expected before January l, 1913.
Work on Power Plant.
1t was announced by the Utah Light
& Railway company that the second
unit in its Jordan river steam electric
power plant would be put in commits
sion September 1. At this time it looks
as if this date Will be bettered, for the
new building in which the additional
machinery is to be housed is almost
finished, together with the second Of
the great twin smokestacks,
AS fast as circumstances Will permit
the work of construction on the new
high school building is going ahead,
as is the case with the new wing for
the L. D. s. hospital There is a veri
table boom in home building. especial
ly in the residence subdivisions.
f. Auerbacb 6 Bro. are making swift
work Of remodeling the old Knutsford
hotel, corner of State and Third South
streets, to receive its big drygoods
concern, while all that remains to be
done to permit the .Keith-O 'Brien com
pany to occupy their new home at the
of putting the Mission theater annex
into shape.
Builders are busy, with every pros
pect that their activity will be in
creased as the year grows. In their en-
tlrety the twelve months Will be filled
with prosperous times for the building
trades.