The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. DECEMBER %. 1907

View From the Heights.
1t is MONDAY ON the Heights. The
graders have stopped work for their
lunch, and as they sit around the big
broad curbing that surrounds Conner
park you drop in among them and turn
from listing to the troubles of their
mornings work to view the valley.
The mist that has Overhung the broad
expanse stretching out to the west be-
low you is slowly rising and revealed
beneath is Zion. The sun breaks through
the tumbling little white clouds above
the spires of the Temple come glisten-
ing into view and with mist and haze
dispelled the City of Homes lies Sc
renely beautiful along the purple hued
foothills of the Wasatch mountains to
the south and thence out across the bos-
ON OF the valley until the Jordan marks
the first scattering of the city's homes
carries your eyes northWard along the
river and back over town to the north
ern bench where the homes of your
neighbors and friends have crept grad
ually up and up till circling around to
the eastward they have come to the
very edge of the Heights. Your vision
clears with the sun blazing forth with
the energy the clouds have stored all
morning and you see the broad level
yards of the railroads on the west side
and beyond the fats where some day
the city, bursting its present confines,
will spread across the Jordan and take
shape in Greater Salt Lake. Glorious
ly golden in the AFTERNOON light lays
the lake. it's heavy surface swelling
slowly and majestically as it washes
the foothills and base of the Oquirrh
range. Saltair sends back a cleaning
welcome from respondent dome and
white buildings. Away to the south
| stretches the valley until the Narrows
| shuts the view.
| The graders are back at work while
| you are lost in the beauty, splendor and
| panoramic wonder of the valley scene.
Stroll back among them as the after
noon draws to its close and one sees
| the sun sinking away behind the purple
| faced mountains, the western sky from
| the Narrows northward as far as the
| eye reaches one great golden glow be-
hind the peaks, the purple of the east
ern face of the rocks a deeper hue,
| while the great arm of the disappear
| ing sun as it slowly drops from sight
| cleayes the leaden bosom of the lake
as a giant flaming sword would cut
| its way through a molten surface.
High above the dying glow beyond the
snowy peaks gives its splendid Prom
/ Use for the morrow.
I
| CITY. and one by one the arc lights be-
low give forth their glimmering mes
sage of Evening. The dusk grows deep
er. Brigham street rolls away into the
| dark a streak of white light, while
! from the windows of a thousand homes
/ comes twinkling in quick succession the
final warning that the day is done
There is no more impressive SIGHT
than Salt Lake from Federal Heights in
/ nf q l.
lv visible city dotting the valley for
| miles north and south and away up onto
the foothills to the north and east
Such a picture 265 days in the year.
| wear in and year out, is Salt Lake, the
city of beauty, activity and spiendor
! from Federal Heights. For the nome
| that will be built on the lowest lot of
the Heights to the great homes that
have been planned for the brow OF the
| hill, with the front yard of Fort Doug
less and the beautiful Wasatch range
behind them the valley lends it beauty
| impartially. Brigham street, from
Main, runs eastward on a gradual rise
until when one reaches the end of the
| car line at the foot of Federal Heights
and walks eastward into the Heights,
he is sure of an unobstructed view OF
the valley There is not lot on Fed
| eral Heights where a home can be
built that will not have an uninter-
rupted view of the city and valley
The men who designed and laid off the
Heights had before them the universal
| demand that has come from Salt Lake
home builders the past few years
give US an uninterrupted view of or
valley, and accordingly the lots the
so situated that wherever one builds
he is high enough to obtain an dnstr-
passed view.
Salt Lake has responded nobly
| splendidly to Ehe call of Federal
Heights, and already there have been
a large number of transfers made in
the tract The price at which these
lots have been put on the market has
had as much, if not more than any
thing else, to do with the demand that
has arisen for Federal Heights proper
ty The lots range from S25 to S94 a
foot in price, and this includes all i'm
provements, paving, sewer, water
mains, trees, grading, curbing and gut
tiers, cement sidewalks and ten feet OF
parking between the curb line and the
sidewalk, with four feet inside the
sidewalk. TO say nothing of the trees
that have been set out. The lots can
be purchased on cash or deferred pay
ments. When it is taken into consid-
Grafton that within the past fouI
months property between Thirteenth
East and Tenth East streets, on Brig
ham, have sold at $40 a front foot and
more, with the purchased obliged to
pay extra for sidewalks and paving
water and sewer, it may be seen that
a lot in Federal Heights, but block
or so further out Brigham, continu-
alton of Brigham, indeed, which may
be purchased for Is and 20 per cent
less money, with all improvements in
Guided, is little less than a bargain
This. however. is the case-lots on
Brigham street at point that would
correspond to about Fifteenth East,
but which is located in the vicinity OF
beautiful Conner park, in Federal
Heights Cn which, by the way, the pro-
posed statue to General Conner might
well be located, and which is on higher
ground, giving a view of the valley
that is not obtained on Brigham, a
| block or two below the Heights, can
be purchased cheaper than the lots
around Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth
| East, on Brigham, and with the Fed
eral Heights property goes all the inn
/ provements noted above. 1t is no Won
i der that Salt Lake has jumped for lots
in the Heights under such conditions.
Further than this the title of all
the property in Federal Heights is I'M
improbable. Only two transfers have
ever been made of it, one from the
government to LIE Grande Young, and
the second from Mr.. Young to the Tel
hurdle Realty COMPANY