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Show Malty and building A . 1 1 Au luercase In the Number of Transfers Filed on the First Day of the WeeK. TEE EEAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, ' New Houses For Zion of Different Pattern Portable Dwellings Being Rented Notes. The real estate transfers yesterday amounted to nearly $120.000, 'which is a very good showing for the first day of the week whifh Is usually dull. Among the deeds filed were the following: W. C. Smails and wi(p to F. (i. flutes, lot 13. block !M, (ivn-iitre plat A, for a eon-sideraliou eon-sideraliou of $13,400. Thin is a good fin re when the location is considered ond only goes to show that values here are 011 a very even basis. The sale of lot 1. block !H, plat A, by J. T. - Cheney for '$0.0oo, is also on record. W. Bowman is the. purehasi'i's. M. A. Cani)Ijell bought lot (i, block 10, plat B, of W. 11. Starmer for $10,000. The other sales made average about $1000 each. There is a fair demand- for lots by men who wish to. build homes, while inside properly prop-erly is also espeeiully desired. THE HEAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. Secretary John Montgomery of the recently organized estate exchange, is hustling vigorously in behalf of the organization, mid the. membership committee com-mittee are assisting him to the best of their abilily. Good progress is reported ami the. exchange will be. a Micccs. Desirable quartern are somewhat, hard to liud, but the exchange has a location inicw. The real estate men am sanguine san-guine aud all arc eager for the opening day. LUMBEIt YAKt NEEHEH. What Salt Lake City needs most of all at present is a good lumber yard. A leading contractor this morning remarked re-marked that it was very difficult to obtain what material was needed and that but for loss of time it paid to ship from either Omaha or Kansas Kan-sas City. Salt Lake needs a lumber yard of the dimoiistions of either the Chicago Lumber Company's plaut or the Howell LuuiDcr Company syaru. ... , NKW STVLE8 IS BClLOINti. Heretofore the houses o Zion have been built, as a rule, on tho plan of t he primitive dwellings of tho first of the Latter-Day Saints; u few sticks of limber lim-ber and Some adobe. But of late the styles have changed and more modern cottages may lie looked for In place of the sun-dried bricks will bo lapped. siding or good red tiles. This is a needed reform aud tlio credit is due to the men who have recently arrived in tho city. PORTABLE IIOU8B8. The portable house men are making aiTaugements for. tho sending to this city of a lot of houses, and already hav routed several in advance. The claim is set up that by the time the lire-crackers lire-crackers tire fashionable with tho aver-ago aver-ago small boy that people will have something to live in. A WESTEHV ltUSTLEK. W. C. Ross, the - founder of Ross' park and one of the energetic men to whom the people of Spokane are indebted in-debted for tho reputatiou their town has acquired is in tlio city and is at tho Walker House. Mr. Ross Is a genuine hustler and knows a good thing when he sees it. Ho purchased the tract of laud which bears his name in Spokatio some time ago, and in less time than It took mou vho had better locations loca-tions to get theirs in shape, had got his tract into condition aud had made somo money, more in fact than his business rivals expected could be made. He is looking around tho town in his quiet way aud is saying nothing, but something is liablo to drop some day. Mr. NetV, manager, manager of a large insurance company in San Francisco Fran-cisco is also in Zion gazing at things in a manner that betokens something of Importance. |