Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15
EIS7 BENCH TAKES
on A GREAT 4: 4 Squirt.
activities Very Marked--
Bniiai'' ,,ir Deals Follow Sclcc-
,,ou Of High school Site.

bavo bemoaned an aPPafene
~ raj estate market; every
nas noted that prices h'iNe
,"a,ned normal; but trip ~ 'n' 80
i .n is all that is necessary 10 eoii.
ptne" ,bn, n tremendous amount
!, Improvement is going on mere 'ha.
heretofore escaped anythihs ~
ha' ,,i 1l,tlcu II Is 40 eAas Is elti =.
.asu' ,n,t III the district i.hhlealuesiy
coy az the university ana ilot.n -,
4 ~ new nigh scnoo! si.s, -, ,,r
hoeses ,,Snlns. lii.c grown or me
w :. ,,rno,, Is astonishing ior aiHlost
he isn ,a,, rods along tie i.c%lys phNou
z eNe'' r.,n.,,l streets houses. either just
anu e,,sI ar III course VI cunstfuc-
.o'ufn IN s,eil, most OF them pelllS
uon m tne iieignEorhooa OF s1'oVV
each. Ia now ono long
,,,,,uI paved lnoroughinre; ana 50
. pu,,ruc,4d is the Wow that tho new
uuooss = no Grantlo depot on Fourth
,Was, street can be plainly seen IRON
ronth East--a sight impossip!e III ING
dsws of poles and mud. People aioHs
So;h sides or the street from S.a.o w.
Tcnth East nre parking tis s,uS ,,rat
n,auing Third South one or me pref
i i,.n. ar,vea In all Salt Lake city.
ugsl 10 snId that Thirteenth East
,r,lI soon be paved from f1rst
, tus. ~ Nlnth South along the new
' Ioa," ~ way. as petitions nave been
aga n1sd with the city officials with that
md in view Ill,
"" Tho Ninth East street pavement VIII
(. Hntshed To Twelfth South this AFTER
, We wan, and the view Of the brilliant new
i ..horourhfare from First and Second
snnth streets Is well worth seeing.
IN fact salt Lake City begins 10 snow
.treet after street OF beauutul Pdrk
work and excellent paving.
CAR LINE PROPOSED.
:, was limited by prominent busi-
.ass man Friday who is In position
~ Innw that the Tenth East street
w line will soon be taken south past
~ Winars, home, to Seventh South,
NJ, "a thirteenth East and south on
Th,r,aenfh East to the penitentiary. It
!. IL unosn that the Utah Light & Rail-
M,v company has plans already pre-
nsrad and that work may commence
at any time. A..
people have Just begun to reailze the
eject OF the new high school site, SIT
mated between Twelfth and Thirteenth
East and Eighth and Ninth south
streets. The view Is superb ana a..
ready homes are about 10 oe puil.
near the school. Test holes ~ ieee
deen we're made on the site the past
week and when examined Friday prov
cd tho soil to he of the finest quality
for building purposes The ground for
nearly three feet down Is black loan;
helow this Is 10 feet of hard pan ana
below this rich gravel and clay COM
bined with boulders and small rocks.
The test holes showed no water save
the little that had streamed In during
the last rain
BIG DEAL CLOSED.
Now that the high school site has
been determined one of the largest real
estate transactions In recent months
has been closed and active prepara-
tions made for the spending of 100000
in improvements. Twenty-Five years
ago the Douglas Heights Land Inn
provement Investment company OF
Denver. Colo. purchased the 100 acres
which lie Just east OF the new high
school site, with the belief that some
day the tract would resemble Capitol
hill In Denver.
Local real estuteS men have. for some
time, realized that the tract had huge /,
advantages and negotiations for the
sale Of the property and the plating OF
1t into building lots wero therefore be-
gun These negotiations have result
ed in the placing of the entire tract
in the hands Of tho Hubbard Invest
ment company and Meeks and McCart-
rey as exclusive agents.
Douglas Park comprises 100 acres.
100 lots, strip ono mile long enst and
west and one and a half blocks wide,
extending directly eastward from the
east line of the new high school site.
When seen yesterday the tract was
busy with men who were engaged
grading the avenues and surveying tho
lots. One hundred thousand dollars
In improvements will be spent within
the next year." said Mr.. Hubbard.
PARKS PROPOSED.
Cutting through Douglas Park are two
parks. AS a result Ninth South street
and Michigan avenue; which run
directly through the tract east and
west, are curved and in fact made
10 conform with the, creek bottoms
other avenues and streets are placed at
an angle from Le Grande avenue, along
which runs the Emigration canyon
road; and tho sight OF the city along
these ceverly devised drives is truly
beautiful.
Two lakes will be made in the old
creek bottoms and the landscape beau
tlned. Already Mr.. Lie Grande Young
has made arrangements for the running
OF bis road down Twcnty-ftth East to
halliday and electric lights. telephones
ana other modern conveniences are now
on the ground. III $.a5a
flVe-foot cement walks, curbed gut
.ers, graded streets and shade trees
are Included within the list of contem-
pla1ed improvements. A 12-lnch CITY
ma,er main already runs along tho
property on the east.
CARS TO HIGH SCHOOL.
!, new street cur service to tho High
r S.n WI, DO n matter OF months,
,,aele'g, anu the extension of 1t to the
AL WI Follow as q matter of course
az Aaready several prominent Salt Lake
IN =, puue people have purchased lots
MANI Nv rev addition and made arrange
tv.S s,s Tor inc building Of homes. Thir-
s W. lies unloaded along the I,e Grnnde
,h uuNs road on Douglas Park, showing
nat Already some hayes made ara ,,pc,
Msnls Tor the building Of llomes
IhHong the Butte people who have MIR.
n.asea lots and made deals to huiId
IT, samuel Binder, Patrick McCarthew
r,, v' 'naIi piestel, Henry Kipp and An
nan. s.cMasters. These are all promi-
ina wholesale men Of Butte and ar
Car. u Messrs, kipp. Binder and Mo-
Lake City. us''''ss ~ SUIT