The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05
Dealers Convinced That Season
viii Be One of Great
Activity.
|STORMS OF WEEK GIVE
FARM LAND MEN CHANCE
Point Out That Shows Insure
Good Crops; Suburban Prop
erty in Demand.

Showing property in Salt Lake among
t. The realty dealers the past week prac-
. tically was stopped by the heavy snow.
/ Dealers in farm land took advantage
. by showing that the snow insures a
. profitable crop the coming season on
. lands outside the irrigated districts.
Suburban property. SO far as Is being
/ shown to prospective buyers was con-
cerned, has been in the background.
. according to firms pushing this class of
property the week s result Will mean
|redoubled efforts next week. as many
Enquiries have been listed during the
week.
\ There is an upward tendency on the
real estate market both IN the move
Inent of property and the value. While
ISalt Lake real estate has kept away
from huctuating market, there was
enough of reducing of prices to call for
In read djustment at the opening of spring
Ifrade. IT is contendcd by some that
fthe time TO buy Salt Lake real estate
lis now. While eXorbitant prices are
moi looked for. there is general belief
That the year will see material in
Grease in the value of property. \
Ipromse of a prosperous year in all
,othcr lines gives ground for this aSser
>tion. AS a result of this advice 'the
market is expected to begin TO show
Increased activity soon,
i Half Million for Improvements.
"a Within tho reXi three months prob
ably half million dollars will be spent
Yin improving suburban home site prop
Ierties by the different firms making spe.
icialties Of this class Of properties Per
,Raanent and substantial improvements
I'm the way of streets, boucvards, paw
ing, curbing. gathering and parking will
fconsume the greater portion of this
sum AS result OF this activity it is
Irrged that the building trade viii in.
,crease, men will have money to put
INTO vacant lots or to build homes
The year undoubtedly viii be noted
<fer the movement TO complete and
close up many departures of last year
IN the way of building homes and lay
Ilng out additions. 1t is assured that if
all the propositions now under way
'some new, the others carried over from
last year-are completed III 1911, i'll
Iwill be banner year, even if no big
'deals are consummated 4 consider.
able part of this work will be dono in
'the outlying sections where people are
turning for desirable home sites
Along these lines the real estate de
'partment of the Salt Lake Security Il
l.
'rin, has this 10 say.
Prosperous Year Promised
with spring. approaching there is
n noticeable activity in real estate in
ealt Lake. The fact that property did
not move rapidly during the winter
months should not be taken as an un-
favorable symptom of the approaching
:" While most of the prominent real
|cstatc firms reduced the prices Of prop,
'erty throughout the city during the
past few months. these same firms are
now unanimous in declaring that the
original prices will soon be restored
fn fact. within the next few weeks at
.the outside
1t is generally recognized that the
lime has come in this city when the
pnatter of location of residence prop
erty is important. Since the city has
grown to its present size. the erection
of large number of factories and
manufacturing establishments has nat
'urally caused a radical change in the
>residence district. While some few
people will continue to reside in the
II old homestead situated in the down.
town districts, the vast majority are
'already beginning to seek the OUTLYING
Idistricts and endeavoring to locate in
some place where smoke Will be mini.
mum annoyance. One Of the locations
IN favor is that of the north bench dis.
trict It's nearncss TO the business dis
tricts, the excellent car service on the
avenue lines and the available places
nave made this section greatly toI
be desired and done much TO con
;tribute to its popularity, Many beau
5ufnl homes are 10 be erected during
{the spring, not only on the north bench
Ibut also in other outlying sections, and
NJ IS the general prediction that the
spring and summer Will witness a
IIgrowth Of the city and an addition Of
bones which will materially add to the
'reputation Of Salt Lake as city Of
Homes -