The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

With the close of the present week in
the local real estate market has come
the announcement that within the next
sixty days Federal Heights. the city's
new residence subdivision at the east
end of Brigham street, viii be opened
up for building purposes.
1.-The announcement was made yester-
DAY. by A. Nj. Wrench. president and
general manager of the Telluride Real
~ company, owners of the Heights,
and is of considerable Importance to
local architects and men here who have
purchased lots on the big bench over
looking the valley which comprises the
new addition. With the vast amount
or Improvement work that has had to
be done on the Heights in the way of
putting IN sidewalks, paving, sewer,
water mains. curbing. parking and
trees, considerable anxiety has been
felt by those who have spent sew
erai thousand dollars the past few
months getting the lots they wished,
over the ability of the Telluride COM
pany through their contractors TO get
the Heights in a condition that would
permit the inauguration of building op-
erations early next spring. A half
dozen wealthy Salt Lake mining men,
who have secured expensive corner
sites for homes on the Heights, have
work far enough along so that they
could get the foundations for their
MONIES in early next spring. The plans
Tor two of these homes are practically
completed, and call for the erection of
houses costing close to $4,000 each.
Orders We're given the architects for
these residences Wednesday that the
plans must be out by the last of jan
uary at the latest, and bids advertised
for early in February
AS the Heights stand TODAY. the grad
ing is practically completed, prepare
lions for paving are well under way.
ana operations are to be started as
soon as the weather will permit The
cement sidewalks are in over the en-
tire tract, with cement street curbs
parking and cutters. Within ten days
the work of putting in nearly 1000
trees will have been completed. Real
estate men interested in other sub
divisions about town have watched
with a good deal of interest the tree
setting that has been done on the
<elghts. Seven hundred trees are in,
and their size has caused considerable
comment and speculation. Instead of
setting out small, new slips of trees,
the owners of the Heights have put in
trees OF several years growth, hardy
and in the best possible condition
They are the largest trees ever set out
in a new subdivision here, and it is the
departure from the usual procedure of
putting out the small trees that has
aroused the interest of the big proper
~ holders about town. All are hard
wood trees. Box elders have been
put in along Wolcott avenue, the big,
broad avenue running across the east
ern end of the Heights. Along Sigsbee
avenue white ash trees have been put
In. Norway maple have been set out
along Virginia and University streets.
and Butler avenue is lined with Hunt
ington elms. Peery avenue is lined
with Bolena poplars, and East First
South street will be set with elms. The
trees have come to the owners of the
Heights, according TO Mr.. Wrench. in
perfect state of health. examined by
expert horticulture inspectors. The
soil of the Heights is of so fertile a
character that a splendid growth is
predicted for the new trees.
The Work Accomplished.
Very few Salt Lakers realize what
has been done on the Heights since last
June, when the purchase of the big
tract of property by the Telluride COM
pany from lie Grand Young was first
announced by Mr.. Wrench, and the
further announcement made that the
property would be laid or IN the most
advantageous manner possible, streets
paved. sewers put in, six public parks
constructed, water mains and side
walks put in and driveways laid out,
the entire bench being graded to a
gentle, undulating SLOPE. from the low
est point of which every foot of the
great valley could be seen.
In the six months that have elapsed
since June %, the owners of the
Heights have completed practically
pine-tenths of the work mapped out
above. With the grading practically
completed sidewalks in, three of the
six parks laid out and curbed with &C.