The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-24
Utah Materials Being Used
Almost Exclusively in
Structure.
. HE new building FOR the Farmers
and Stockgrowers bank will be
constructed almost entirely of

"HE new building for the Farmers
and Stockgrowers bank will be
constructed almost entirely of
Utah materials and will be one
Of the most modern bank buildings in
the west. With Roman CoriDthian
front, after the order Of Arco di Con
stantino at Rome, the new building will
have an imposing appearance.
The building will be 27 feet wide,
$50 feet long and 43 feet from the
first floor TO the ceiling, The front
will be of Utah white stone with four
Corinthian columns OF birdseye marble
thanking an arch window of solid
bronze grille and plato glass and with
large bronze doors. The interior Will
also be of the Roman Cornthlan or
der and finished In birdseye marble
There will be the main floor of the
building, a basement and n mezzanine
floor, tho entire building being de-
voted TO the use Of the bank. The en-
tire building will be lighted by cell
ing light that will be IL by 60 feet,
making the place as light as day.
Patrons rooms will be a feature of
the bank. They will be in the base
ment and will consist of two rooms
for private use and larger one IN
which fifty persons may be seated.
Safety deposit vaults and three large
storage vaults will also be in the base
ment Money and book vaults Wall be
on the ground floor.
On the main or ground floor there
will be q wainscoting of Utah marble
IL feet high, above which there VIII
be plaster. Also above the wainscoting
there will be 40 pilasters and IN the
room there will be IL free standing
columns of Utah marble. There will
be wide marble stairs leading from
| the ground floor TO the basement. The
main banking room will be on tins
| floor and on a mezZanlne floor In The
rear will be directors room, commit
| tee rooms and large mezzanine bal.
cony. The meZZanlne apartment Will
be finished in mahogany.
The fixtures Of the bank will be
in keeping with the style Of architec-
4 ture. The walls Of the public lobby
will be adorned with mural paintings
and marble writing desks and Roman
benches will add to the stately eff
| feet. A woman g room will be at the
right Of the front vestibule and will
be fitted with telephones and every
modern convenience.
The plans for the new structure as
mere set 1OTCn DY DOn " iOuHSy Oi .
and Frank W. Moore, associate archi'
tects, have been selected by the build
ing committee Of the bank and will be
submitted to the board of directors OF
the bank for approval as soon as the
board is chosen, which will be some
time this week. Tho building commit
tee was chosen at meeting OF about
a hundred stockholders which was hello
about n week ago.
The building committee expects tx
complete the building at cost Of from
s60,0 900 to $4,000, which Will be mucf
cheaper than to attempt to rent a suit
able site on Main street. The promot
ers Of the bank hope by curtailing ex
penses TO put the bank on a dividend
paying basis as soon as possible. Worl
Of tearing out the old building will bt
started at once.
Although the bank has not yet beer
organized, it is the consensus Of opin
ION among the stockholders that tn
president Of the institution will b.
either Governor William Spry or Sen
ator Reed Smoot. Charles S. Tinge,
will be cashier Of the new bank.