The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Federal Heights---a Beauty Spot
of the Greater Salt Lake

ment. all other cement curbing and
gGttering work completed. 200 trees set
out and the streets prepared for paw
ing, the work that remains Is slight
compared to what has been already
accomplished. With fairly good Wea-
Their, the Heights will be completed
early this spring, according to the es-
Inmates Mr.. Wrench received this week
from his contractors.
1t has cost a little over $4,000 TO do
what has been done on the Heights so
far 1t will cost $4,000 or $4,000 to
finish the work. The original purchase
price paid by Mr.. Wrench and his as
sociates for the property was approx
mateIy $50, 600. This money was put
up in cash, as has been every cent of
the 500, 900 that has been spent on i'm
proving the Sact.
Business men about town are begin
ming to realize that the statements is
sued by the officers of the Telluride
company last summer to the effect that
the Heights was to be the most preten-
tious thing ever attempted in improved
subdivisions here, have been fulfilled
TO an extent that was scarcely deemed
possible with the acres of sand hills,
rubbish heaps and rough, uneven hill
side which comprised the original site
of the Heights. Federal Heights is un-
questionabiy the biggest realty propo-
sition ever put on the market in the
intermOuntain country. 1t is the prop
Osition of forty-three acres of hillside
taken six months ago in the worst pos
sible condition and converted into
as beautiful a tract of residence
property as may be found between
Denver and the Pacific coast. 1t is so
far removed in point of elaborateneSs
and magnifioence from anything at
tempted in Salt Lake to date along
similar lines that the city has been
slow to accept as possible the repre-
sensations that have been made for
the Heights. 1t has taken the expendi-
ture of $4,000 in cash to bring the city
to full realization of what has been
done with the east end of fashionable
Brigham street, but the realization has
come forcibly enough at last and the
officers of the Telluride company report
demand for the sale of lots entirely
unlocked for with the money situation
as it has been for two months past.
The fact that there is d 81 900 build
ing restriction on the lots in the tract
has had the effect it was inserted in the
contracts fOr-inquiry for lots has been
restricted to the more desirable class of
people. A big clique of wealthy Nevada
mining men, whose families live in Salt
Lake, have interested themselves in the
choice lots on the Heights and within
| the past ten days several transfers have
been made that from the size of the
lots purchased and the price paid for
them insure several more beautiful
homes on the property in 1908 in addition
to the residences for which plans have
already been completed and upon which
work will be started this spring.
Brigham street. the avenue of Salt
Lakes wealthy, extends through Fed
eral Heights to the Fort Douglas res
ervation, cutting the property into equal
halves, practically. The Brigham
street cars go just TO the foot of the
Heights, to University street, then with
a gentle rise the eighty-foot avenue
goes straight east to Wolcott avenue,
running parallel to the lower line of the
reservation. Half way up Brigham
from University street is Connor park,
egg shaped, and laid out beautifully.
Encircled by a cement curb. il is one of
the finest public parks in the city, and
has been set out with shrubbery and
flower beds. South and east from Con-
nor park runs Federal way, correspond
ing to the famous old nlacadam road
that formerly wound down through the
| Heights from the big white gate en-
| trance to the Fort Douglas reservation
| On the other side of Common park, run
ming north and east, is Sigsbee avenue
| On the south end of the Heights East
| First South street goes up through tC
| WOlCott avenue.
| 1t takes twelve minutes to get aboard
a street car on any line of the four cal
| lines which run TO the foot of the
| Heights and reach the Federal build
/ ing down town. The Brigham street
| cars run to the Heights on East Brig
| ham and stop. The East First South
| ears run out that street until it starts
up through the Heights, and then turr
south on University street. The First
/ avenue cars run to University street
and turn back to town. The cars on the
! Third avenue line stop just $50 feet