Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-22

Tho real estate situation In the city
remains unchanged, as far as the sur
face Indications give shadows. There
have been few interchanGcs of realty
and a few changes of dollars for prop
erty. But In so far as there has been
any interchange OF money OF any
thing which means deals of moment
there have been none, A careful can
yass OF the real estate offices reVcais
nothing but Il preparation with put u
few deals which, totnlzeds reveal noth-
Ing more than $4,000, and most oI thal
for speculative purposes.
During the week there was talk oil Il
5000 900 deal" which, sfted To the bone,
meant nothing less than 4 l0-year rent
nj of the Kenyon hotel corner and au-
jacent properties at an annual TAX OIL
over $4,000 year This with the III
legged improvements, OF something nhc
$4,000, would bring the total TO the
Quoted figure Both of these are denied
by the men interested, and the $ooo'-
000' deal does not amount 10 the paper
which il was written upon.
The fact OF the matter is that inc
United Cigar Stores company has never
invested any money In buildings
throughout the United states They
hold leases and conduct great DUST
ncsscs throughout the country on INC
fine business corners which they op-
tain. There Is not a United Cigar
Stores building from New York TO san
Francisco, according to local reai cs-
tate owner. at least. OF any dimensions
Their entire operations have peeh 10
obtain long leases and acquire favored
corners and leave others to do the i'm
proyements. unless 1t is required III
Their contracts.
The HaIloran- Judge Loan & Trust
company has had quiet Week. out
have several deals on hand when may
be brought to Il climax at any tlhe'
One OF these Is for property on fnse
South near state which Is rated at slo'-
500 The other is on state near Sev-
cnth, costing something ike T,o'Vvy, T,,,
Both of the deals arc In mana anu WIZ
b. completed within low days.
The Pirrell-ShIpp Realty company Is
getting ready for the spring campaign.
They are refurnishing their ofhces on
16 Exchange place and have empIoyeu
an additional force of clerks Il J.
Merritt is at Green River. where II ~
expected there will be much doing Win
farm lands during the spring during
tho week the firm has made residence
f1leS oil dAiAodiN''ic ~
$4,000 This was on the northeast ana
southeast benches and on Hamilton
place A house Is being built by TINS
firm for Carl Molerup. leader OF the
Mission theater orchestra, at Ienth
East and Sixth South street, at a cost
of $4,000.
Little & Little are getting ready
for the big spring and summer ous'-
ness F. w. Little has Just returned
from Denver and reported everything
dead" n the Centennial city. de says
that there are all sorts of houses 10
rent In contradistInction to this, he
Iaments the want of homes In Salt
Lake which can be had by seekers The
firm is building eight houses. modern
bricks, on a new street leading from
III east and Seventh South, averaging
SO 900 each.
Kimball G. Richards are planning
big residence property campaign In tho
southeastern part of the city lhey
haze a large holding there which they
are plating into something over 900
lots and which they will improve and
put on the market as soon as the
weather opens Ashton G. jenkins are
also in the game with fine big propo-
sItion on the northeast bench which VIII
be plated and finished up to the
Queens taste when the spring zephyrs
begin to blow.
The Newhouse interests are quiesccnt
pending the return of Samuel Newhousc
from abroad. There are number OF
tentative deals In the neighborhood OF
the Newhouse properties but they VIII
not matcrialize for some time to come.
hof 1,, Of these VIII
be cannot be said at the present time,
but it Is known that there has been
halt called in the proposed erection of
the big theater building on State street
near Exchange place. which MT. New
house was to have erected for the Nor
rls Theatrical syndicate
The betterment of weather conditions
has brought about a general resumption
of work on all Of the big buildings
which are in course Of construction.
Mechanics who have been laid OFF dur
Ing the cold weather have again donned
their ovcralls and all is merrily hum
ming. AT the Hotel Utah the situation
has cleared by the receipt of steel
columns, the want of which caused the
operations to be suspended entirely
Manager Jones of the Jones Construc-
ton company said that there would be
no reason for delay hcnceforth and
that unless the weather grew too bad
each day would see an addition to the
steel skeleton of the great hotel.
There seems to be little progress on
the other large buildings which are In
course of construction. The weather is
to blame for the qulescence. On the
Mcintyre building but few men are at
work and operations on the foundation
of the Kearns building have been suS-
pended for some time. At the Now
house hotel there IS a do<rth of steel
and q desire to await better weather
In order to put in some necessary con-
crete work.
K f. Morgan and II. L. Bushnell OF
Chicago have bought the Model Laun-
dry plant on Orpheum place for $6oOot
from George Williams and Louis
Marks. with Mr.. Bushnell in immediate
and general charge and S w White
OF Los Angeles as local manager.
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