The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-09
COUNTRY CLUB
AFTER NEW HOME
Security Company Takes Over Prop
erty in Forest Dale at $4,000.
UP TO MEMBERS TO BUY
NOT UNLIKELY THAT FINE
HOUSE WILL BE ERECTED.

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/ home. one Of its own. That fact ha:
/ been definitely settled and all that
, remains to bring the matter to 4 sue
/ cessful fruition is to grade the lands
/ just acquired and to build thereon a
house worthy of the high standing OF
the members.
Since its inception the club has used
/ the Gilmer property on the east bench
in the vicinity of Ninth East and Ninth
South streets. The location is distant
/ from the street car line by more than
/ half Il mile. is up d steep hill, and to
reach it one has to Go cOnsideTa bic Pc
deStriau exercise for the reason that to
/ maintain a team would involve con-
Sidera BILE expense The property has
never been considered ideal for club
purposes but i'm the absence Of some
thing more desirable the club has had
, to make the best of conditions.
Viewed from the light of golf posi-
| biIity. the land surrounding the club
! house has been ill-suitCd for the pUr-
pose The TUT Is impossible except for
"a smal patch near the house. and the
remainder of the course Is very roc ky,
dusty in dry weather and ankle deep in
mud in wet weather
Present Lease Expiring,
Another factor which had deter
mining effect on the action OF the club
to seek new home was the fact that
the present lease expires this year. and
the owners are said to have announced
their intention to cut the ground into
building lots during the next year OF
two As a matter of fact all the sur
rounding property is being converted
/. into building lots and houses are going
up on every hand. SO that i'm a year or
two the locality viii have lost IS dis
jInctlVeueSS as a country site.
The new home of the club viii be on
tract of sixty acres right on the
Ninth East car line near Twelfth
South street Tt consists of high roll
ing ground. There are no rocks. but
there is SUb-irrIgation which viii mate
rally aid i'm producing "a natural
growth of fine grass over the entire
course.
The property selected is commonly
known dS the Young farm. For four
years the club has been contemplating
its purchase, but nobody took the in
itiative until recently. r r. Wicks
had the land for sale, acting as agent
for the owner. Some Of the club mem
bcrS have been considering the propo-
sition during the past few months and
various plans were suggested to finance
It. The remarkably low price at which
the land could be bought made it al
most n certainty that unless something
was done Immediately some shreWd
real estate SpeCuI8tOr would step in
and acquire the property and the club
would be the loser by the inaCtion-
Security Company Buys 1t.
Ina order To- make it certain that the
club would ultimately secure the prop
cTty. Mr. WickS arranged with the salt
Lake Security q Trust 60. IaSr week
fov the sale Of the land oU condition
that the company would pay over to
him the $4,000 demanded by the owner
the company To hold the title a reason
able length of time ia order to permit
the club to- take over the holdings at
the same figure.
The deal was made none too soon.
While the abstract OF title was being
made. two parties offered jht5~ checks
for the land to the owner. but. as Nj.
WIrks had acted first, for the club,
their offers were rejected The price
mentioned Is "a remarkably low one. as
the tract IS selling NOW for from 5000
to $1,000 per acre for building lots The
area mentioned is within the corporate
limits of Forest Dale. and is the only
large tract of land adjacent 20 the city
which could I'm any way Zoe made avail
able for q golf course
Will Erect Beautiful Club House.
While no plans have as Vet been de-
t,rWiUed on. ID. is the intention Of the
leading spirits of the club 10 urge the
erection of q beautiful club house. such
"a structure as viii be a credit to the
city and To the members.
II Is Intended to make the golf course
entirely Of turf. and when that il ac-
c0mpIiShed il Is believed that Wourel
players VIII enter with more enthuSi-
aSm into the spirit of the invigoratiuE
sport one of the diSag Teea bic fed-
lures Of the present course lies i'm the
fact that the high winds at night blow
the sands of the green's. making con-
Sistent putting an impoSSibiIity. ON
the other hand the new course can be
made considerably longer than the
present one. thus giving the men play
erS AN opportunity FOR braSSy work
and. Furthermore. the new location is
tnIera bly, well sheltered from Uufa VoT-
bic winds. Turf green's viii improve
the quality Of the play, and tit the
players for competitions i'm other places
where turf courses and greens are the
rule
As quite a number Of the members
of the club are at present i'm Los An
geles II is not likely that any definite
action viii be taken this week. but on
their return the subject viii be taken
up AT the earliest possible moment II
IL not improbable. therefore. that be
fore the end Of the summer the club
viii be installed IN its new home.