The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-13

firm was for sidewalks in Poplar Grove
5000, and another to Smith Bros
was for sidewalks near and about the
Jefferson school, between State and
Third West streets, $4,000. These
needed Improvements will be begun this
week and will be completed at once.
There have been many purchasers
of lots IN the southeastern portion of
the city in the various additions who
have only been waiting for these I'M
provements to begin building. OF
these twenty flve are~in Douglas Park
addition and all will be good, com
Portable residences. Most Of them will
not be started until spring when all
improvements will be completed. Wa
ter mains are now In there and others
are TO be pushed to completion this
fall.
The contract for the curbing, gut
in Douglas Park will be let on Mon
day night and it is proposed to have
this work done at once
Paving Ninth South.
Before September / petitions will be
hled wdth the city council for the paw
ing of Ninth South street from Ninth
East street TO Twentty-frst East street.
east on Tenth South street to Twenty
third East street to point opposite
the entrance to the proposed new $500
600 home of the Country club. 1t is
believed these petitions will be grant
ed, as the desire for the improvements
is general among the property owners
who will bear almost the entire cost.
only four intersections in the whole
proposed extension falling to the city
to build This will mean great many
bones to be erected on these streets
next spring.
Douglas Park is one of the addi
tions to the city's residence sections
that il is believed will have its in.
nings next year. a large number of
lots have been sold under such restric-
tions as to building that will assure a
good class of residences, Among the
purchasers during the last week are the
following as reported by Mccartney G.
Meeks:
on Ninth South street between Thir.
teentb and Fourteenth East streets i'm
Douglas Park for $2250.
DR.. r. F.. Wight, three lots on Michi.
gan avenue, $500.
DR.. Fl. 2. Lund, two lots on Mchi.
gan avenue, $1,000.
Fl. V. Anderson of Cumberland, Wyo,
two lots on Michigan avenue, $1,000
George Rogers of Idaho. two lots on
Ninth South and Fifteenth East
streets, 5000.
Elizabeth earns, % feet on Fairview
avenue, $1,000.
Charles F. Carlson, two lots on Ninth
South street, 5000,
Lonise Treglown, two lots on Vista
street. 5000.
Professor ]. II Horn of the univer-
sity, three lots on Ninth South street
between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
East streets, facing the club house,
$3.50.
II. B. Williams, two lots on Ninth
South street, 5000.
All the above lots are in the Doug
las Park addition and all the purchases
were for homes which viii be built next
spring.
Market Is Promising.
The market generally is reported by
dealers to he promising. especially for
small homes, 1t would appear that
there will be great activity in home
building next spring,
There are few deals of larger size
pending which should be closed this
week, Some fairly large tracts of land
are included In these
Among the sales of homes reported
during the week by V: A: Bettilyon arc
the following, all of which buildings
are being erected by the Bettilyon
Home Building company;
r. s, MoXley, brick, fiye-room dwell.
ling on Tenth East street, north of
Tenth South street, $4,000.
C, A. Watts: Douglas street, between
Second and Third South streets, seven.
room modern brick dwelling, $4,000,
NJ A. Clegg, s34 Logan avenue, shin
gle bungalow, $500.
The Bettilyou Home Building com
pany is one of the promising young
concerns in its lines. Incorporated only
three months ago with capital of $50.
600. it has already paid dividend OF
per cent and its dividend earnings
have amounted to 22 per cent. it is
extending its operations and has con
siderable building III prospect.
The salt Lake Security and Trust
company reports n fair activity dur
! ING the week. c. N. McGurriu says
that by the first of October there will
be period of activity commensurate
with the growth and development OF
the city His company, he says. has
a. number of applications for building
| loans. due TO materialize during the
! fall home building season, and there
appears to him to be general indi
cation that people have or can gel
money for home building purposes
The following transactions are reported
by the company for the week:
| Mary Peterson, residence at 500 Sev
cnth East street, $4,000 Ada Phii
hover. house and lot Mt 1857 Seventh
| East street; j, G., Penney, store nj
| Midvalc, s35O0; r. B. Ketchum, resi-
dence on street, $3.50,
School Helps Demand.
The proposed erection of the new
twelve, room school house on the norti
bonch has been felt in real estate of
ficrs by an inquiry for properties ~
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