The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-10
SUCCESSFUL WORK.
Salt Lakers Gobble Up Santa
Fe Lots.
HOW THEY BOOM THEIR TOWN.
Intelligence, Pluck. Persey GRANGE and
Printers Ink the Levers
MIR. Hsnna's Views.

Mr.. II. w. Hanna. the gentleman who
has sheen booming town lots in Santa
Fe through TIE HERALD for the past
three weeks, and who is shrewdIy
taking advantage of our boomlet to
divert trade in his own direction, is
closing up his affairs in Salt Lake, and
this week expects to leave town TO work
up another field. To learn something
of the big company be represents, aud
the plan they have adopted for booming
their possessions so successfully. a re-
porter OF HE HERALD called on hin
yesterday and proponnded number of
Inquiries. Mr.. Hauna-a very youpo
man for the respons. bl mission he fills
was found at his desk in CUMMINGS d.
Collins Office up to his eyes in maps,
surveys. pictures of flowing wells, and
copies of The HERALD. Asked how he
telG regarding the business he bad done
in Salt Lake, he said:
Il have done excellently-better than
] could haVe anticipated, l was given
LOO lots only TO sell in Utah. ami
should nave had no difficulty in dis
posing Oh HI or them through my ad-
Vertisements IN your paper, had been
allowed to Go so. Bat the president OF
our company, o. F. Brant, of Los
Angeles. passed through here the other
day, and cut me down to IS. Ihave al
r, sold between 80 and CO."
Are there many Salt Lakers who will
migrate to Santa Fe?"
There are number who will go and
build there, among tn m Mr.. Philip
Pugsley, who bought Ave lots, and Mrs.
Hill, who says she will build q resi-
dence. A good many more, take 1T
bought merely as a speculation. The
price of the lots, So, is so low that
good many buy and intend to forget
lhem-making them a nest egg. as it
were. trusting to realize 500 or l 900 per
cent in few years. They can do so, in
my opinion, with safety. as there are no
taxes to be bothered about until 1890,
and the titles ara all guaranteed"
How much of a town have you at
Santa Fe nuw?"
Eighty acres were LAID out originally.
Most of the centre lots are gone already,
aud we have the nucleus OF a town
which wilt make good place on the
nextmap."
How lar is the town from San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles?'
About 400 miles south Of San Fran
cisco and ninety-two miles north of Los
Angeles; it is in Kern County in the |
San Joaquin valley. with a charming !
climate we'll suited to the growth of |
grains, plenty of rain in the wet season |
an pion+u Of for frnT,o ~ Nd
lakes for irrigation
Who compose your company and |
for what object is it formed?'
"Our company is called the San Joa-
quin Valley Land Company, and besides
owning quarter OF million acres of |
land in this valley, it operates silver
mines 10 Nevada, coal mines in Penn
sylvania, and is now arranging to float I
another big scheme. The president is
now Oh his way TO Texas, where the |
company are constructing an irrigating
canal which will cost over a million
dollars. One OF the gentlemen interested (
IN the company is J. B. Haggin, the
Colorado millionaire. Well-known, l
believe, in Utah"
How about railroad connection H'
I'VE shall have railroad within
three months, the San Joaquin Valley |
Railroad, Il branch of the Atchison,
Topeka 81 Santa Fe."
Besides Mr.. Hanna, the company has
an agent III the Southern States
working up q colony to migrate
20 Santa Fe. He expects to leave
OR Thursday, though his
business may keep him here all of this
week.
Mr.. Hanna is very much struck with
Salt Lake. He thinks we have every
hing necessary for a sure boom, and I
s SO strongly impressed with the op-
for real estate investments,
hat he is endeavoring to induce Presi-
lent Brant to put in some money here.
That gentleman was only able to make
/ brief stay in Salt Lake, but Mr..
danna says he was very favorably i'm
PRESSED with what he beheld,