The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-24
GOOD GROWTH ON
SOUTHEAST BENCH
Many New Residences Rapid,
Going Up in Westminster
Heights.
MAY EXTEND RAILWAY
On THIRTEENTH EAST
Direct Water supply May Be
Given to South and S0utl.
eastern Part Of CITY.

Reports Of real estate conditions a.,
the southeast beach show activity tbo,
augurs continued growth of the citv
and the intention "i investors and
homcsrcI,crs tp get in carly and socu,o
good locations before the properly i
all sold ENpIoitors of Two section.
in th" southeastern part Of the civ
reported Saturday that every lot in thei,
additions is sold out and that they have
secured new tracts farther north
The erection Of eight new house. IN
Westminster Heights district during tbe
past three months has increased tbs
number Of handsome residences in tb,,
locality 10 sixteen. all erected within
the past year Every building LOT in
College View addition. Just north OF rho
heights. has been sold out, and the Same
condition exists I'm Emerson Heiqbts
During the past week. one OF the hia
real estate concerns secured from Mrs
Marian Cannon, through George NJ. Can.
non & CO.. a tract of twenty-five acres
Immediately north of College View. Tb;s
tract viii be known at UNIVERSITY
Heights and viii he placed on the mar.
kct rs soon as plating is completed.
Rush for Property.
Tho north line of this tract lies about
| 400 feet south of Tenth South, and ths
entire tract borders Fifteenth Fast AN
the east. Already, thirty lots have been
reserved by eager purchasers. before Il
| is possible TO grant deeds, or the plais
! have been laid out. There has bccr.
2 sharp advance in prices for all of
| this property, also. aud in MANY cases
- per cent viii not cover that prices
/ which can be obtained for choice loca.
tious IN these sections. 1t is pointed
out that tho bench property is choice
! property and there has apparently bs,n
n rush for locations here for the pasl
week
Evidently, however. there is no real
discrimination in favor of this district.
| for owners Of property lower down on
the bench report great activity. 4
number of additions placed on the
market have been entirely sold ON.
and investors are Offering To purchase
The property at greatly increased g.
ures \ tract of about forty acres Ilsi
southeast of Sugar House was placed
on the market only a few weeks ago
and lots there can not now be obtained
at any price.
The above condition indicates, il il
said. the confidence of people in con.
tlnucd prosperity under the present
regime and the intention 10 stiffea
prices with little fear of weakening the
market. Attention is being called 10
the necessity of extending the street
railroad along Thirteenth cast as far
south as Twelfth South. II is also
pointed out that a promise has been OBJ
tanned from The street railroad company
to make this extension as soon as thcre
are fifty new houses there, TO Justify
the traffic. AS about twenty new resi-
dcnces near the proposed line have beez
completed for homes and viii be occu-
pied within the next few weeks, it is
pointed out that there can be little de-
lay In this important piece of work.
New Water Conduit.
A movement is already under way fcl
duit in the vicinity of Eleventh Soull
TO join the Big Cottonwood conduit q
East Twcnty-third street and suppl
the southeast district, and tho southerr
portion of the city as well, directF
from the main supply, without making
| the roundabout route used at the pres
cnt time.
The undertaking Of both OF tbeH
projects. it is pointed out. must be dous
in the near future to care for the eol: /
stantly increasing population of 10.
southern section and the antlclpStei
building up of the east bench alnDg
the lower end of Thirteenth east and
the Territory Immediately adjacent, O.
tween there and Fifteenth East ana
Just east of there extending as far
the mountains.