The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-15
AUTOMOBILES HELP
CITIES TO EXPAND
Home Purchasers no Longer
Eager to be Close to Street
Car Lines.
SEEK PRETTY LOCATIONS
BUILDERS OF DWELLINGS Sc
LECT SPOTS THEY FANCY.

The present tendency of home seek
ers to consider beauty of location in
choosing site IN the city, rather than
ease OF access suggests the idea that
the automobiles. which is no longer the
exclusive appurtenance OF unsIlionaires.
Is the cause of people locating in the
pest place obtainabIe, without having
10 consider whether car lines NAV be
built to the section. Within the mast
year or two huge tracts of ground w.
ing Tar away from the city along the
side Of the mountains and in the en-
frances 10 the canyons have been pur-
chased and viii be utilized for new
homes
Nonheim Park, LaureIhurst and other
inons a mile or more beyond street
car facilities have been entirely sold
out. Attention is called by real estate
uealers 10 the fact that not long ago
WheH Westminster Heights was nut on
the market. although T. was situated
al the end of the Sugar House car
me the owners had difficulty in sell
ing thelr building lots, because it was
canned they were too far away from
me city. Recently building lots living
several blocks from any car line ana
Where there is small prospect of a car
Hne being constructed in the near I'm
ture are sold and the new owners pre-
pare to erect homes right away.
EVEN II car lines are constructed on
thirteenth East street within a wear
or two. many Of the residences in addf-
mons along the bench will be situated
Two or three blocks from the transit
facilities and the owners must depend
upon other means of transit for reach
ing their homes. The eagerness of peo-
pie to purchase the Guiding lots in
these tracts cannot be entirely due to
a desire to invest money in the hone of
seIllnS at large advance at some fu-
ture date Neither can 1t be the in
tention of the people to compel the
street car company to construct a line
10 the locality in the near future, since
IL IS known that in many cases this
can scarcely be done, and If it is done
at all. will not be accomplished in all
probability for many months and per-
haps years.
the main means of access 70 these
outlying localities. therefore, must of
necessity be the automobile. and il is
even now being understood by realty
dealers that through the use OF ma
chimes there has taken place a widen
ing of the limits of city population and
that building sites which would have
passed unnoticed only year or two
ago because they were not on the line
of car service are now purchased be-
cause they possess a fine view of the
and valley or furnish health
ful surroundings.
This tendency is not confined 20 Salt
Lake alone In other cities. ii is said, /
there is general movement away
from the cOngeSted sections and /
towards the higher lands. This is true I
of Seattle Los Angeles and other cities 1
and in all these places there seems to 1
be no disposition to follow the car lines I
as used to be the case.
1t is true, of course, that wherever /
the population of new section be |
comes great enough to warrant the |
construction of a new car line, this is 1
i
of new home sites in outlying sections I
and the erection of homes followed 1
more or less closely the construction /
of the car lines. At the present time |
this does not seem to be true and the |
new sections are opened first, the own |
ers obtain access to their property by /
means Of automobiles and the car serv- !
Ice follows.