Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-12
SALT LAKE CITY NOTES.
Increased Activity In Commercial
and Renl Estate Orioles.

u Real Estate Circles.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. S-GSpcciai
to THE BEE.l-An unusual amount OF snow
and ram, which in the mountains appears as
snow, promises a fruitful year. Tho ques.
tion of how tho precious liquid can be best
secured and applied occupies our city couu,J
Gil. A large reservoir was recently exec
waited at the east end of First South. o.
expected to be cemented to receive the spring
floods. The mountains furnish natural res
ervoirs of the water needed by our fields and
gardens, aud even IN a dry season enough
could be secured by damming up the noun.
tain streams, building reservoirs, etc. All this
- IN contemplation apd the many new farms
and gardens that are springing UP under tho
impulse of a large immigration are sure TO
show the effects.
This city has now a very extensive system
OF electric car lines, aud more are III con-
temptation. Tho electric cars have Just been
started for Liberty park, running down
Main street ana along the adjoin ing streets.
1t Is noticeable that the lines are all well
patroni2ed, and that the system works well.
With the rapid expansion of the city in all
directions, a system Of rapid transit Is indis.
pensable, and the electr ic cars furnish it.
Among tho expensive buildings TO DO
erected early next sprin & is one by the Auer.
bach brothers, TO be put up at the corner of
West Temple and Second South street, opp,.
site the Tribune building. The Messrs.
Aucrbach are Just putting the finishing
touches on a six. story business block on
Main street, the Progress building, which
satisfies every condition of "a first. class
modern building. 1t has all the improve.
ments aud presents u very imposing front.
Walker brothers have broken ground for "A
row of fine terrace buildings to be rented
early in the season.
The principal architect Of the city, Mr..
klcttng, showed me designs of a very
palatial residence, costing $4,000, which will
hp nrpltnl in Tho rnnrSn of thn ,,,
Another mammoth hotel is talked of on the
west side. 1t would be impracticable to no.
tice all the tirst'class buildings in c%ontempla-
ton.
Business is gradually expanding, irving
TO reach westward where the dopots are.
Property on First and Second south, some
four TO six blocks west OF Main, is held ut
from $40 to Sl50 per foot, which is very low.
considering the location. Nearer TO Main
street, both east and west, prices per foot
have advanced from $3.50 and $500 to $3.50 and
$500, or even more.
The daily papers here have repeatedly
given warning to those who expect to supply
building material that they must make their
preparations on a very large scale. Popuia-
ton is constantly streaming in, and If this
continues, it VIII be impossible to
date the multitude unless building proceeds
rapidly. Fortunately ~quarries of the finest red
and gray Sandstone are accessible by rail,
the Fort Douglas road having been extended
as far as Park City. 1t is becoming quite
Uue luSnlOU 10 use lnlS SlOne TOR fronts, IN
many coses to the exclusion of every other
material. y great deal of building was done
last year, but there has not yet been u build
ing boom. There IS every prospect for 1t
this year, ana to an extent little dreamed OF
by outCiders.
While the holidays have undoubtedly
checked to some extent the activity of the
real estate market, the sales on the DAY
after Christmas nevertheless amounted to
Sl05,2 $50, This market has u very decided
upward tendency Among the sales may
be noticed a good many purchases of acreage
for plating, chiefly south ana west. AS tho
city limits extend about one and one-hulr
miles across the Jordan, the part west Of the
Jordan river is now receiving the attention
of spectators. Acreage can still be had.
close to the lines OF the business Streets
within fourteen to fifteen blocks from Maiu
street. at very low prices. Twenty acres
west of the Rio Grande & Western depot,
about sixteen blocks from Main, was soru a6-
81. 900 an acre. From $50 for the lowest TO
81, POO for the best, according to learness TO
main lines of travel, are about the prices of
acreage west of the river, but inside the city
limits, though both farther north and south,
prices are much lower on that side of tho
Jordan. New real estate firms are spring
ing up daily. ~s
The holiday trade is reported to have sur
passed the expectation of dealers. The
hotels are filled with visiting guests. and tho
continues.
"A Very simple apparatus Tor obtaining
an electrical spark is made by a Ger
man physicist. Round the center of a
common lamp chimney is pasted a strip
of %tinfoil, and another strip is pasted
from one end of the chimney to the
within Il quarter of an inch of this ring.
a piece OF silk is wrapped around
n brush aud the interior of the chimney
rubbed briskly. In the dark a bright
electric spark may be seen to pass from
one piece of tlnfoil to the other each
time the brush is with drawn from the
Skinny. Many other experiments can
be tried with tue apparatus. .
Even satan ) ears 1t.
Boston Transcript.
And Satan trembles when he sees
The wea kest saint upon his snee2e.