The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-16
SALE
OF TOOELE LOTS
IS BIG SUCCESS
Seven Hundred Persons At
tend and Transactions Ag-
gregate Over $4,000.
SITES ARE SECURED
FOR BUSINESS BLOCKS
c. !. KELLY OF BUTTE PAYS
$4,000 FOR FIRST TWO LOTS
UTAH CAPITAL IN EVIDENCE.

Where on earth does Gods sun shine
down upon a more beautiful place for a
home city? Where is there a town with
a more healthful climate with a more
restfuL peaceful, beautiful view? Look
to the north and feast your eyes upon the
beautiful. peaceful placid. blue waters
/ of the lake. Look to the south and the
J east and west and view the majestic.
rugged. towering. suCWclad mountains
that rise i'm their grandeur. protecting the
valley and the town. Where can more
fertile soil than this be found Where
can you live more cCutented, more hap
[ pN- more prosperous than mere what
city has greater. brighter prospect than
/ IOOele, the Anaconda of Utah2'
With the above wrapped up and tucked
into comprehensive. persuasive, con-
vincing statement of what the lnterna-
tiOnal Smelter company in the building
J of its S3010.609 smelter. and the conse-
uuent creation of a payroll would do for
/ TOOele. AuCtiOneer F. T.. Hillman Tester-
[ day afternoon at ]. 30 clock mounted
platform i'm front Of a large plat OF the
/ TOoele Improvement company subdiFi-
sion at IO2ele. addressed an eaEer-faced
crowd Of enthusiastic citizens, explained
3 to them the details of the sale. the terms.
Congratulated them upon and thank
/ ed them for being present. and then
proceeded to sell go town lots for a lit
/ tie more than 10000 al auction i'm just two
| hours and fifty-oue minutes.
Much Enthusiasm.
[ Euthusiastic2 The crowd2 Well yes!
/ Colonel Hillman did not know how enthu-
siastic they were until after he got start
/ ed He spent a Tot of time warming his
auditors up to the subject by describiuS
the scenery, the kind of fruits that could
( be raised i'm back yards. the fact that
people iH the valley died only from old
age land real old age. at tina D.. how fast
/ the lots couldn't help but double in value,
and a lot of information regarding the
I euormity OF the smelteT project. until no
finally tumbled TO the fact that the peo-
pie were moving restlessly about and
: standing first on one foot and then on
I the other for the reason that they were
Z impatient 20 begin bidding the coiQnel
admitted afterwards that he kept the
/ crowd sitting ON the anxious seat longer
I than was necessary. and when the first
/ five or six choicest lots slipped out OF
/ his hands al auction. after the bidding
/ started al the rate OF about a choice a
4 minute, he spent no further time for quite
7 a while i'm WORD painting the beauties or
{ nature IN that particular NlciuhtS. Dul hs4't
I two men busy biue-penCiiing lots on the
\ big plat to show that they had been sold
Big Excursion Crowd.
when the ToOele Improvement company
men made arrangements with Kenneth a.
[ Kerr. district passenger agent for the salt
I Lake Route. to run a special train 20
/ Tooele for Yesterdays auction sale OF
! town lots they entered an agreement
! guaranteeing al least 100 eXcurslOulsts.
/ Yesterday morning at close TO SD @ clock
! the special train left the salt Lake depot
{ for TO0eie with not less than Old persons
Z on board. The train consisted OF eight
/ coaches and combination baggage car.
/ One of these coaches. at the last minute
l almost. was borrowed from the oregon
Short Line because the original number
/ of cars didn't furnish sufficient room for
! the pa sengers, even if some of them had
] been willing to hang onto the steps by
/ their exclusives and be dragged to TOOeie.
/ Besides these cars were two Pulimans
/ which brought the Butte and Anaconda
! eXCursionists down for the big sale
But these $40 persons who Travelled TO
T0oeIe on the special train did not make
up the entire crowd that gathered to at
I tend the auction sale. The regular train
/ from Salt Lake. an hour ahead Of the spe-
ciai. carried $50 more persons to the new
smelter town and it was stated that close
I to 100 of them took the regular train at
Garfield and other intermediate. points.
/ The streets of TOOele were lined with rigs
of ali sorts. showing that many Itahus
I for miles around had Travelled 10 the town
{ with teams. Many came on horseback.
Some walked in. And not few from the
city and other places reached TOOeie by
I automobile.
Big Day for Tooele.
Yesterday was big day for old Tooels
and Tooele citizens. it was ArbOr DAY,
/ Fourth Of July. Pioneers day. Emsnci-
patton day and THANKSGIVING dav all
rolled up together into one big festival
I Happy The children danced. the old
folks waved their hands and their hats.
. and pillow team. unused 10 seeing ''C1OO
. choo' cars steaming up Main street and
right over the spot where the old liberty
pole used 20 stand. kicked mp their heels.
throwing dirt N their drivers eyes.
pricked their ears forward and then tried
% climb "a fence
All Of TOOele and an their near neigh
I bOrs were at the place where the depot
is going TO DE sometime. to greet the eX-
Z cursiOnists And the ToOeIe Commercial
+ club had seen to il that a brass band
I was on hand to furnish the music The
band was composed of an the brass band
and base and snare drum talent OF
GrantsviIe and Toosle and the country ia
I between. and the leader confessed that
they had gathered iu TOOele the night
: before to- practice uD and get in tune for
the grand arrival OF the crowd from Salt
{ Lake.
All OF the regular eating houses had
B prepared for tine invasion. and church
I societies and lodges and private individ-
uals had made an the necessary arrange
ments for looking after the needs of the
inner man On the grounds where the
sale was to be conducted. big tent was
+ erected and plenty of sandwiches and
( coffee and milk were on band Nobody
{ wea- hungry. Nobody felt lonesome No
body was sorry he had gone to Toocle
Z yesterday.
Between Che arrival Of the train and
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