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Show A LIVELY MONDAY. Much Activity Maul rested on the Opening Open-ing of What Promises to be n Kusy Week. TENEMENT HOUSES COMING. Publio Improvements Progressing Eapidly Paving Men will Look Over tho Ground Notes, The opening of this week is not by any moans a "lJlue Monday" as regards sales of real estate and by the time tho sun sinks to rest behind the snow-capped peaks of the wostern range S nio good deals will have been closed. The ofliees were comparatively deserted this morning morn-ing owing to tho fact that tho dealers were all busy showing customers bargains. bar-gains. All the forenoon carriages wero dashing to and fro with proepectivo buy- ers and even at tho hour 'inn Timks goes to press the rush is still being kept up. An eastern syndicate composed mainly main-ly of Chicago and St. Paul parties is looking up a buy on East llrigham w ith a viow of constructing a small village of tenement houses, which w ill bo rented to responsible parties at reasonable rents. A Kansas City lirm has the contract con-tract for erecting tho dwellings, which will consist of n numberof small cottagos and double tenements. Tho sale of the Methodist church property on Third South means a continuation con-tinuation of Commercial street from Second Sec-ond to Third South at an early date. Tho syndicate which has purchased the property prop-erty owns nearly all the proierty on the west nnd north sido of tho block, and is reaching after more. When tho street is opened it will bo paved at once, nnd tho owners believe that they will roalize a handsome profit on thoir investment. Darling &. Weatherby, of the John B. Drake party, which vmited Salt Lnke Saturday and Sunday, are loading hotel men of New York city, boing interested in the Fifth Avenue hotel. Thev looked over tho city yesterday, nnd on thoir departure de-parture by their special train last night announced their intention of roturning and making some investments. A illlNr.l.A u IL.A1M. A plat of rchool land in fit o-ncro plat C will probably bo thrown on tho market mar-ket soon, a party having taken it or attempted at-tempted to do so under the mineral claim act. It is contended that good building clay will be found there. Probably Prob-ably somo opposition will bo made, but the claimants assort that they can hold it. 1'lllLIO 1MPKOVEMESTS aro progressing finely aud tho many sowers in cotirso of construction are being pushed to completion comple-tion as rapidly as possiblo. The Commercial street sower is nearly complete, com-plete, while that on Second Wost is also in an advancod stato. nUIMJINd it brisk, but matters in that lino would be much more livoly were material more plenty. Excavating is going on at a lively rate for tho new business blocks south of the Templo on Main street; the bank building noxt the co-op is nonring completion; tho Crano building noar the Walkor hotel will bo finished in a few dajs, while the new hotels are being advanced as. rapidly as possible. Walker Bro.'s aro erecting n handsome row of modern fiats on First South Wost, whilo the southern part of the city is boing builr, up as rapidly as circumstances will permit. STRKKT RAILWAYS. Ties nnd iron for street railwny extensions exten-sions aro being scntterod along main streot, nnd when tho ground drios out work will at onco be begun. PAVING I'OINTS. It ia undorotood that a representative ot tho Barbor Asphalt company will arrive ar-rive in Salt Lake in a day or two to lo ik over tho situation and see if Utah asphalt as-phalt cannot be put down here at a vory low rate. The stone nnd brick pavement pave-ment men are also working on the quiet and the opposition that will surely do-velop do-velop will a.' sure cheap paving. BHIKP NOTKP. Ono firm in the city employos a lady stenographer. When the proprietors arrived this morning they found that she had just closed a 810,000 sale. Her salary sal-ary will be raised. Nat Goodwin, thonctor,boughtn piece of land here some time ago, which he has authorized his agent to sell at nn advance of fifty per cont Some time ago General Superintendent Superintend-ent Dickenson of the Union Pacific bought a residence in Salt Lake for 5000. Ho has since refusod $25,000. |