The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-23
TIME AND MONEY.
The New Deed Adopted by the
Late Legislature.
RUSH AT THERMOMETERS OFFICE
of the County ReeOrder-A Stride in
the Right Direction.

without intending any slang, THE HERAIlD's
real estate reporter caught on He ran across a
nest of activity where the hard lines Of warranty
deeds and the Shylock terms Of crushing mort
CAGES are handled as daintily as if they were
the wings of fairies.
There was no bantering braggadocia, no pull
ing the wool over the old mans eyes; yet there
was more business to the square inch In the
narrow little room than is carried ON in any
place Of the same size in this city.
1t was in the recorders office.
Men piled up to the short counter three
deep, and they were curious set. There was
the abstract clerk, dry and methodical, with
pencil back of his ear; the man Of affairs
elDowing his way through the crowd and
calling out In husky voice, Wnat does IL cost
/ to sign away this mOrtgageT' and illustrating
\ the point by holding up a folded paper with a
/ piece of rather stringy blue ribbon tied IN us
eyelets. Then came the gentlemen OF the bar IN
their black frOck coats, with perfect knowledge
of what they wanted to do and how TO do II.
| Get me j. this or thatln they would direct
with an air of command, and the hustling elerE
was kept on the jump running into the great
iron vault where the big folios are kept,
\ But the air of sweetness was back of this;
further down the long narrow room where the
pretty lady clerks were handling the cruel
mortgages with their lily T5ite hands and writ
ing the nard terms dow with such feminine
grace and genteneSs that softened the scene
and lent q cnarm and innocence TO the On-clad
conditions. Young ladies in their iaunty red
jackets and sailor suits were padding their own
canoe. Some were earning pin-money TO buy
nice things while others, better conditioned,
were saving up for a European trip, and stu
others, perhaps, were busying their nimbt
young fingers TO help poor mother or sick father,
or, may be, to buy medicine for SICK sister.
But enough of this.
MIR. Cannon EMPLOYS twenty-five clerks"
said the deputy recorder. who treated The HER
AIDS prying questions with unusual ciyil1ty FOL
public officer having such rush Of business
on hand.
1--WE file on an average a hundred papers
day, one-half Of them being warranty deeds,
said he.
And what is the price for doing this - asked
the reporter.
| s-The long warranty deeds which contain this
wife'S dover in the body OF the instrument as
well as in the acknowledgment, cost 81 ~, while
the fee for the short ones Is about Sl.5O The
t instruments left for file and with less thar
hundred words cost 80 cents, and 20 cents foi
every additional hundred words"
The re porter figured up so warranty deeds at
ST. 80 and 80 other Instruments at 30 cents to foot
up $40, and intimated that the recorder had a
bonanza.
2 Tine deputy said mat there was q big expense,
+ as they paid twenty five cents page for record.
= ing but intimated that there was more money
d made out of the abstract department.
IL The recorders office in the sleepy old towns
., of the east is given away to some political de
. pendent who writes a fair hand or bestowed on
[ some one armed soldier that he may scratch oul
20 his living with the arm that was spared as well
Z him the office.
# But the long deeds are to be cut short and
much of the fat has been fried out OF the re
u corder's office by the Kimbal bill which wa
lie passed the last legislature.
- Through the kindness of j. I. Strlnger,
~ Davis s. Stringer, THE HERALD reporter wa
IS given the form of the new deed
"a 1.-THE bill prescribes form or conveyance
said Mr.. SIringer, similar to that which ma
Ie been in use in the state Of Indiana for twenty
lie five years. 1t does away with the old common
law redundances and pleOnaSmS that clrcumlocu
IL ton OF Blackstonean lore stretched out AM
Of amplifeda very simple transaction into an u
70 tricate and ambiguous Instrument JnaJ MAJ
- conyenancing lucrative business and require
~ a man to wear q wig on his head TO comprehen
L the verbage of the introduction, grant1n
Is clause, conclusion and general conglomeratio
Id of expanded wisdom.
Fl. F. No. "A, makes the following the propt
form:
THE SHORT DEED.
~ This fndenture witnesseth, that 1900 Of --..
NJ county of 1850 in the 1850 Of 1880 DO -
=. hereby convey and warrant to ------ OF -
al county of - in the ----- of ------ for the SUI
st of - dollars the following described tract
is land in Salt Lake county, territory o. Titan .
ic wit: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 49,
ne Witness the hand OF the said grantor this -
n of 1900 AID. 1Sg--.
er The quit claim deed is eorrespondingly sho
OF and the form of mortgage greatly reduced.
, l This is q great reform and Will save IN TIN
adj and money $1,000 year. more or less, 10 u
e. real estate men OF this city, besides preVentii
sd innumerable errors that creep INTO the mesh'
az of the long common law verbiage.
II IL will reduce the recorders fees half wh
ne they were and will make 1t possible for eve
In man to do his own conveyancing.
The dover clause is done away with and IN