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Show March 1927, Zach went to work for Skaggs Store, WhICh was changed to Safeway in a short time. He I coal and trained here for about a year, and was then sent out as a stove manager on relief work. In 1929 he was sent back to Midvale groceries from P. C. Rasmussen's store to them. He also built two stores at 51 North Main. One of these was later used by his son, Sam F. as a Western Auto Store, later as an appliance and furniture store. store manager and was very successful here for the next ten years. In April, 1939, he was made as manager over various districts: Ogden, Provo, Boise and Salt Lake for the next twenty years. Frank Soter's store and hotel, 1912. Frank and other Midvale businessmen pushed for paved streets, sidewalks and gutters. He and others en couraged Bill Cox to organize the Midvale City Band which played for Saturday afternoon concerts and Saturday night street dances. Harvest float with loch Brown, Mel Frame, Arnold Javaine, 1935. Zachariah Brown married Erva Newbold and they children: Darrell, L. Ray, Erva Dean and had four Donna. He was president of the New Zealand from 196'8 to 1971. At present he is Salt Lake City. a --. Temple Bishop of a ward in SamF.Soter ZachariahE. Brown THE STONE PLANT processing plant came into existence in early 1912 when the state government under Gover nor William Spry decided to build a capitol building. The "Utah Consolidated Stone Company," composed of two companies: The Walker Stone Company and The Curley Stone Company, successful in bidding the job, picked Midvale for its base of operation. The initial ground-breaking ceremonies for the state capitol building took place in 1912, construction began in April 1913 and the building was completed in July, 1915. The stone company chose as its site of operation, the northeast property of the Midvale Smelter Com pany; south and west of the present-day railroad under Midvale's stone Frank SOTER HOTEL AND APARTMENTS Gregory Soter bought property at 92 North Main in 1909 from James P. and Elanor Kiholm. He had worked for the D. & R. G. Railroad and saved enough to buy a restaurant in Murray; with savings from this business he invested in Midvale. John Dunn and Sons did all of Soter's construction in Midvaie and Magna. In 1912, the Soter building was completed. On the main a Specialty Shop with his brother, Nick, they sold Greek and Turkish records and had a coffee shop. He added pool tables, auto accessories and gasoline. The hotel was on the second floor. In 1914 the Dunns built a duplicate building for him in Magna. Frank brought his brothers, Mike and Jim, to the United States and they eventually managed the Magna floor he had where pass at North Main Street. This site contained J. B. 1915, Frank purchased land over one said that the stone company employed people in processing the granite hundred stone. J. B. Samuel on Second Avenue 139 came to Midvale from Texas in position with the stone company was chief clerk and time keeper. He lived in the old Nelson Board ing House at the southeast corner of Main and Center. He reports, "even in that day we had labor problems. A strike by employees slowed down the stone processing 1912. His first from Sarah Bennett and in 1922 built eleven homes there. Later, when economic conditions deteriorated and occupants could not pay their rent he not only carried their rent, but had his brother, Nick, deliver large Samuel, father of Laura Cerrone, former city deputy recorder, business. In a building which they used. |
