Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28
BUSINESS, REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING

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Some delay WAS caused in getting the
necessary grades and other matters,
from the city engineers Office on ac-3
count of the vast amount of work res
qufred of the city engineer this season.
These matters, however. have all been
attended to-.
During the past week Asst. Engineer
8Duder has had a force of men getting
stakes for grades for both streets and
sidewalks, The contract for grading
was awarded to L. II. Sims. Foreman
William Hamilton began work with Il
few teams on Fourteenth East and
Eleventh South, and the work has grad y
8ually extended to Logan avenue, Bryan
avenue, Kensington avenue. and will
next be talSen5up on Emerson and
Roosevelt avenues. Sufficient teams
viii be put on during the next week
to complete the grading iii time for the
beginning of the laying of the cement
sidewalka. The contract for paving
the sidewalks has been let TO Carl r..
Ruehner. a contractor whose cement
work has heen attracting much fa-5
vorable comment This contract ID
probably the largest let by any pri-i
Satc individual or company. and Will
embrace approximately 10000 square
feet.
Application will then be made for the
extension of the watcrmains in front Of
every lot in the addition. The main is
to be laid In one street at q time as
rapidly as the work can be done.
The owners have also arranged for.
the planting Of hardwood trees
throughout the entire addition. and as
the soil is6of first quality. splendid
showing Will be made during the COM
ing year.
The Pierce Anderson Realty company.
organized at Salt Lake, filed articles OF
incorporation with the county clerk
Friday. Capital is $4,000 in shares Of
$40 each. Pierce Anderson Of Chicago
holding $40 shares OF the stock. is press
dent and treasurer; Mary Louise An
derEon, with $50 of the shares, secre-
tary. and Andrew Howat with ~
shares, makes up the directorate. Ottlcr
are Hugh Anderson 900
shares and Hannah Louise Anderson.
i 200 shares. The new company takes
over propertysin lots and 2, block ga
lot 8. block 8. and lot s. block 90. plat
a. Salt Lake City survey, and in sec
ton Il, township 1 south of range l
west, Salt Lake Meridian.
JUAB DRY. FARMS.
II. S. Anderson of the firm of Ander-
son & Cummings company has Just re-
turned from q tour of the dry farming
district Of Juah county. With him was
A. N. HUMPHREYS, and both report pros
perlty and opportunity In that section.
Years ago." said Mr. Anderson, Brig
ham Yourg put his cane in the
ground near Nephi and said that the
time would come when the whole valley
would be one mass of waving grain.
The word has come true. for what once
was regarded as useless dry land has,
under the scientific methods of dry
farming. become a veritable farmers
paradise. Wheat, barley. oats, and rye
grow in profusion and three crops OF
alfalfa are taken In a season. Lucern
seed Is produced at the rate of Is BUSH
els to the acre, which, when sold at 10
cents a pound amounts to s135 an acre.
Too much cannot be said for the dry
farming lands of Juab."
John Zollinger of Dubuque. Iowa,
has decided to build q store and dwell
ling combined at Eleventh South and
Fourth East streets at a. cost of $500.
The building will be 22x60 and Will be
two stories high The first floor will
be used for grocery and drug stores,
the upper floor being used as a dwell
ling, II will be constructed of. brick,
and the stores have already been prac-
tically leased.
Unusual activity marked the south
east bench this week on the real estate
market according to{Aa9N Humphries,
owner of Idlewild and Sunnyside adj
Editions. Inquiries for the Suburban
land were numerous and a large part
of these inquiries resulted in sales.
The week saw the conclusion Of the
third mile of cement sidewalks in the
addition, The streets are now all
graded, cement sidewalks installed and
other work done for the building which
has already begun. and which will be
started on a larger scale this fall and
next sprinr.
The sales this week are reported as
follows: r. J. Erickson, SAG Princeton
avenue, two lots; G.. L. Adams, No.
Kenwood plar two lots. Rachel A.
Thomas, 124 Thurman avenue, four
lots Charles r. Mccoy, Chicago. three
lots; Il. ]. Klatz 1858 east Fifth South,
two lots: A. B. Gillespie, Topeka, Kan
sas. two lots Wilfred Woodmansee,
Sandy, Utah, two lots; Sarah S. Ind
strom, Forest Dale, two lots: A. Russo,
Fort Douglas, two lots: Lester Owen
664 Third avenue, two lots.
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During the week Edward Parkin-
son, the Los Angeles architect, pur-
chased another piece of real estate in
the southern part of the city, the sale
being made by Ashton & jenkins
through the firm of Little & Little
The property is located at Sixth South
a..' West Temple streets and is II
rods square. The price paid was
SIG, 500, Mr.. Parkinson has now severa
choice pieces of pronertH in that vicin.
ity. which are good evidences of his
faith in the growth of Salt Lake
The walls OF the new warehouse OF
the Standard Furniture company
which is being built at Seventh soutf
with trackage from Third West street
are up, and the roof will shortly be
on. CONSTRUCTION is being pushed SC
as to have the building ready fol-
occupancy when the fall goods come
in. The building is 5ox1pO feet and VII
cost $50.