The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-13
SPENDING 100000
ON HIGHLAND PARK
KimbalI & Richards Have Big
Force of Men on Old
CriSm0n Farm.

One hundred thousand dollars by
June is what Kimball & Richards
promise to spend on Highland Park,
the new residence section opening up
in the territory recently added to Salt
Lake. And to judge by the activity
opened about the first of this month,
they are making good this pledge.
1t costs money, and lots of it, to turn
a 3OO-acre ranch into d beautiful resi-
dence section. But the growth OF Salt
Lake demanded that the Crismon
ranch must go, and Kimball & Rich
ards saw their opportunity in that de-
mand.
Their experience is only an example
of what dozens of real estate firms in
Salt Lake City with property along
the beautiful bench lands, with their
gradual slope up to the foothills of the
Wasatch mountains, have TO face. IT
is on a little larger scale than most
of their competitors, but what they are
doing in converting the Crismon ranch
into Highland Park addition, is being
done IN almost every quarter of the
city-and mere particularly to the east
and south. As "a typical example of
what the march of progress means 20
Salt Lake City. in a real estate way.
then, a visit to Highland Park addition
may be found we'll worth while.
The first thing the owners of the
property did, when the decision had
been made to create Highland Park al
dition, was to level the ground from
its comparatively rough condition as a
farm to the smoothness of an ordinary
city lot. Then a start was made on the
grading of the streets.
The coming of winter interfered with
the work. but since the frost came out
of the ground in spring fully twenty
five teams have been kept busily en-
gagged in this work, and the force is
being increased as rapidly as possible.
Many loads of gravel and sand are re-
quired, for there viii be in all twenty
miles of sidewalk, most of it five feet
wide. The curbing will be equally as
long 1t was found 1t would be inn
possible to haul so much material from
the gravel pits in the short time be-
tween the opening of spring and the
date set by the owners for the work of
laying the walks TO start. so that teams
were kept busy all winter drawing
the material. This was dumped In
huge piles on the ground, and now it is
being distributed to convenient sta
tions over the addition.
Already it is possible for the visitor
to the ground to see where the streets
will run. In a few months, if he re-
turns, he will find those streets graded
and curbed and sidewalks on each side
of them.
Contract has already been made for
the purchase of 1000 shade trees to be
placed along those streets. The COM
pany also has secured competitive de-
signs for California monuments, four
of which will be placed at each street
intersection.
The Sugar House car line already
runs to within a short distance of the
tract Negotiations with the street car
company are under way looking to the
extension of this line TO the Highland
Park tract. and then along the street
dividing the tracts in two almost equal
parts 10 the foothills. Electric lighting
service is also to be installed. Water
for irrigation purposes can already be
secured on the tract. and it is stated
that city water mains will be brought
into the addition in the very near flu
ture, inasmuch as the park is now
within the city limits.
Arrangements will be made later by
the firm to assist the purchased of lots
in building homes, or to build houses
to be sold.
Such in outline is the story of the
Transformation of one suburb. so-called,
although it is within the city limits.
There are many such along the north
and east benches. There are more this
year than ever before, and they started
only three or four years ago. Thou
sands of acres have been added to the
city in these suburban districts. They
have grown in popularity from the
start, and are still in heavy demand.
The fact not only proves the desirabili-
ty of the bench lands as sites for
homes. 1t tells a wonderful story of
the growth of Salt Lake City.