The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-10
A Beautiful Spot of Ground
Recently Laid Out.
AND 1T Is NOW ON THE MARKET.
1t is Within Twenty-Five Minutes Drive of the
PostOtiice--A Magnificent View and
Excellent Soil.


climatic inducements, her warm and hot
sulphur springs, her iron springs and every
other kind of a spring that is to be found
upon the great continent of America, bene-
fetal to health or that has an attraction
for people in or out of health-haye only to
be known to be appreciated and Immediately
taken advantage of. The territory of Utah
has, for many years, been held presumably,
under cloud by misrepresentation on
the part Of certain clique, but
through the aid Of telegraphy, railroads
and other means of rapid transit, Utah
the Territory Of Utah-although she ought
to be and should have been a state many
years agO-cannOt be hid under bushel.
She will not down. The cream will come
to the top, and the quality thereof proves
WAat Is underneath. No Watery substance;
no thin, adulterated matter; no make-be-
ieve stuff, but the genuine article-an az
ticle that has only to be tested to discover
that it is all it is represented to be.
SALT LAKE CITY Is GROWING,
not, perhaps, 50 fast as she ought to have
grown, in the estimation of some people,
and the time has arrived when, to meet the
necessities of the present hour she must, or
has got TO accommodate residents or those
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borders and widen her skirts, to be in keep
ing with the march of onward progress.
Men having excellent foresight and rare
Judgment saw, many years ago, what a
HERALD reporter only beheld yesterday,
OF course, THE HERALD man was asleep,
and the men with an eye to the future We're
wide awake, up with the lark the morn
ing,n and have got thar Ire.
Nh G. D. Amos, a Sc0tchman from
I.lEgyb9rl- - man and butcher, Nf G7llh0Gjd
business habits, respected by all who
know him, took it into his 3ad to inyCs
in Utah, some Of the money he had made in
Utah-and it goes for the saying, that such
men are not too plentiful in Salt Lake city,
Ogden, Provo, or anywhere else IN the ter
riuory-aud well he has been paid for his
risk He Acknowledges this himself. There
are no flies on Amos, ana not fly was
ever known to be around, even IN the hot
test weather, his well equipped establish
ment ON Second South street.
From Mr.. Frank EOOte, the Well-EnOWu
asSayer Of this city. now deceased, he puf-
chased. for a good round sum, what IS now
designated
THE AMOS ADDITION.
He boughtitn not so much with view to
making d pile Of money, but because he
loved the locatiOn-near to town and where,
with an outlay Of very little, ne could, with
an eye leaning toward the business IN
which he was and is Immediately engaged,
have all he could desire-plenty of land.
fine crops of lucerne-four crops per year
and home as retired and quiet, as the
most fastidiOus could wish.
About two years ago Mr.. Amos sold to
Mr. Kinney, sixty-four acres, now known
as North Salt Lake, and which, by the way,
is now being built up IN q manner that very
few people in this city, unless they go out
to the Hot Springs occasionally have the
idea Of. There is a town, an ''ad-
dition" OF anything else one may have &
mind to call 1t, growing up in North Salt
Lake. sure.
But Mr. Amos himself, with a foresight
that cannot be beaten, even after disposing
Of the land now occupied by North Salt
Lake, kept in reserve the piece upon which
he now resides, siXty-twO acres in extent,
and known as has already been stated, as
the Amos Addition" Very few people in
this city, no matter how long their res
idence therein may have been, know where
the property which a HERALD reporter, at
the invitation of Mr.. Amos, visited yester-
day morning. is located. Well, the Amos
chat is the first fling is To-
Gated almost west of the Smelter building
on the Utah Central railroad, the southern
portion of the estate terminating on Ninth
North street The western end is on the
Jordan River, and more lovely spot can
not be imagined. The river
MAKES BEAUTIFUL BEND
to the west of Mr. Amos house In the
bend, there is a grove of tall, magnificent
trees, and under foot the clover and grass
is so fine that one almost imagines he is
walking on carpet. The whole surround
ing brings wildly to mind an estate of an
English or Irish land owner. The river,
the trees, the grass, the stock Of fine cattle,
the horses, chickens, turkeys, the barns,
the corrals, etc, all go to make up a scene
that is lovely in the extreme. England or
Ireland can show nothing better. In the
month of May, when all the fruit trees,
rose bushes, immense Canadian pOplars,
are in leaf and bloom, the Amos Add
ton" must be lovely place, and one, while
it may have been in Obscurity in the past,
is bound to come to the front in the very
near future-in fact, and IN word, the
one visits the place he is surprised
that it has not been brought into the market
before now.
The amos Addition; as already stated,
is bounded on the west and northwest by
the Jordan river, stands Ona ridge high and
dry. and the whole siXty-tWo acres OF land
owned by Mr.. Amos are valuable to an
extent that can hardly be appreciated. The
land is very rich: the finest lucerne in the
WOflu IS now SDEOuGlIlS Jul VI JIG SlOtIllu
and as for the production OF potatoes,
onions, carrots, cabbage and fruits OF every
no soil can beat it. From the
Jordan river all the water can be had that
is required for irrigation and other pur
poses. In addition to this, however, there
are
TWO FINE FLOWING WELLS
IN the estate. These were found at an aver
lge depth of about $50 feet, and the V ateris
excellent in quality In fact everybody who |
)uvs and builds on this addition can have,
without doubt, a flowing well for the cost of
sinking. There is no question of water sup |
Div upon this estate. There is water to the |
asst and west, north and south, to satisfy |
and plenty to spare. Amos is |
WAY ahead in water, and the. moment it is |
nut upon the land, after having been pre-
jared and seeded, something will be the re
ult. Four hundred bushels Of potatoes to
he acre have been raised upon this land
ime and time again, and this result can
re repeated without very much trouble. 1t
5 only question of putting the seed in the
round, and gaining a result that ought to
re satisfactory to anybody.
The ''Amos Addition" can be reached, by
ne aid of horse and buggy, in twenty five
minutes from the postoffice in this city.
When you get there, standing in field of
ncOmparable fineness-a ridge, dry, high
nd desirable in every respect-One can
axe in at glance, looking to the south
asst, the Mccormick building, the Temple,
he Tabernacle, the Wasatch block and the