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Show REAL ESTATE NEWS AND THE CITY'S BUILDING OPERATIONS A. O. Whitmore of the A. O. Whltmorc Automobile company left for Now York Saturday night on business. lie will be gone about three weeks, and while in New York he will attend the national automobile show. II. F. Wller closed a lease Saturday on tho building at 701 East Seventh South street, and wII open a meat -market and grocery Wednesday of tjils week, under the name of the French ileal and Grocery Gro-cery company. H. E. Jones, manager of tho Model Knitting works, left Saturday on a business busi-ness trip to Now -York. A. rtlchfer, a loeaj real estate dealer, loft Saturday at noon to spend a vacation vaca-tion of two or three months in Mexico. Plans for a residence to cost 5000, which will he erected In Eleventh East street, near Third South, by A. D. Teas-del, Teas-del, have been completed by Ware-it Tre-ganxti. Tre-ganxti. S. J. Segll of the Sample Cloak and Suit store left Saturday on a purchasing tour for New York. Thomas R. Culler, general manager of tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company, who returned Saturday from a trip to Washington, Wash-ington, reports thot he received the personal per-sonal assurance of President William II. Tafl. of his friendly attitude toward the beet sugar Industry of the country. Mr, Cutler quotes the president as saying that li hopes the time will come when tho beet sugar Industry will supply the entire en-tire demand of -the United States. The Salt Lake Retail Merchants' association asso-ciation will hold a social meeting next Wednesday night. Rofreshmonls will be served and a musical and literary programme pro-gramme will bo given. The latest firm to leave its old location loca-tion up town and seek quarters In the lower Main street huslpess district" Is the Tellurlde Really company, which has secured offices in the JS'ewhousc huilding. huild-ing. room 1015. and Is extending New Year's greetings to its friends from the new location. Tho offires are well arranged ar-ranged and offer piany conveniences not found In the other place, from which the company moved, and have iu addition tho advantage of being closer to the new commercial district. With the opening of the new year. II .1. Wallace moved into his beautiful now home, which has just been completed, at East First South and University streols. The exterior of the pew structure has been finished for some time and the Interior In-terior finish has been carried on rapidly In spite of the cold weather. The new bulldlngfds one of tho most attractive in 1 the Heights and adds another attraction lo the locality, which Is being rapidly built up. Finishing of the lawns and other outside work will be left until spring or warmer weather. Tho new home of A. V. Callaghan at SIgsbco and Perry avenues will be ready for occupancy by March 1 at the latest. A good deal remains to he done on this structure, especially outside, and this work cannot be completed until warmer weather. This Includes the completion of tho big outside fireplace at tho eastern east-ern corner of tho building and the laying lay-ing out of the grounds about the building. build-ing. Interior work, under the direction of the. general contractor. .1. E, Griggs, Is progressing rapidly, however, and the Interior woodwork is nearly all in place. The lower floor Is being finished" in red birch and the upper floor is finished In white pine. All woodwork will be finished in natural wood. The foundation of tho new home being constructed by John Dorlus. Jr., on Virginia Vir-ginia street. Just north of Perry avenue. Is now completed, but no further work can be done until warmer weather. Plans for the building are eomplotcd and the structure will be ready for occupancy by the late spmg. A number of other property owners are preparing plans for new buildings, and It Is expected that the spring will sec great activity In this locality. lo-cality. The last house In Jefferson place has been sold by Burt & Curlaulst the last week, tills sale making the fourteenth home In this place built and;-sold alnce last October. Jefferson place is between West Temple and First West streels, running between Seventh and Eighth South streets. Prices for these homes have ranged between $2G00 and ?3G00. and every house has been sold before completion, illustrating the copstant demand de-mand In Salt Lake for inertlum-pilced homes and the desire lo avoid the rent-paying rent-paying habit where homer, can bo procured pro-cured on easy payments. This firm erected erect-ed a total of fifty homes the last ver. For tho first week of the new vear. 'Hurt & Carlnulst report t lie following sales: Two houses In Jefferson place, price S2i)00 each, and a good lot on the northeast north-east bench for $1100. and another line lot on Washington street, between First and Second West streets, near Ninth South street, for $525. Kimball & Richards, agents for Jackson Jack-son square, Glenwood. Hollywood and Southgatc Park additions, report the sale Continued on Pake Twenty six. REAL EST ATI') NEWS AND THE CHTS BUILDING OPERATIONS Continued from Page Twenli'-four. of twenty-seven lots the last week to eleven different purchasers. The ICardley-Uall-Cannon association reports the sale of a lot, haIO rods, In Seventh South street, between Main and State stiects, for 5-inso. The lot was owned by James Eardley and tho purchaser pur-chaser was A. Snell of Idaho. This company com-pany also sold a five-room modern cottage cot-tage In Roberta avenue to J. CHft of Heber City for SP.oOO. Although the weather of the last tew weeks has delayed the finishing of the Tuektleld apartment building on Second East street, between Fourth and I'lfth South streets, It was reported by the Salt lake. Real Fslate and Title company Saturday that tha building will be completed com-pleted within the next three weeks. The Capital Real Estate and Investment Invest-ment company reports the sale of a house and lot, 10x20 rods, at S.'l Fourth East street from Dr. Mlllapangh to Mrs. E. Mehc.sy and Mrs. Christine Sorensen for $fi000. Tlie new owners plan the erection of a terrace or apartment building In the near future. Notwithstanding the fact that City Building Inspector l.llrth has not Issued a permit during the past four days, the record of permits issued the past, week Is ?S0!i,000. The permit for -the. Xewhousi' hotel amounted to $800,000. and brought the record up for the week. |