Show REALTY TY BOOMER IS OUSTED FROM DT AH i I BUSINESS PUT ON I LEGITIMATE BASIS Incident of Twenty Years Ago Illustrates Methods of GIVES AWAY HIS LOTS DESERT LAND BRINGS PRICE OF DEED AND NOTARIAL FEES That the real estate business or of Salt Lake Is being conducted on far more le is legitimate lines at the present time than It was twenty or thirty years ears ago is hi shown by the thu tact fact that the boomer has no place In the thu field Years ago there were Just Justas as honest men In the business as aa there are now but the boomer was also here and succeeded by flaring In selling to the eastern sucker lots on ona ona a mountain top or along the alk lna shore of the Great Salt lake DurIng the days of the boomer farm land was too valuable to offer to the pUb pUblic public lic as buildIng lots The subdivisIon man maa manof of the boomer sort took up land on the mountain tops or along aloag the sides of th the mountains and advertised extensIvely that he had choice suburban lots Iota for fot sale It Is true that they were suburban so suburban In fact that It woUld hays hae taken the man of business should he ever evel erect a home there one day to come to his business and one day to return It ItIs Is known that during the boom days onu real estate boomer purchased a tract of oC I Iland land on the mountain side south of oC where Garfield new stands and platting It sold It to the gullible In the east for building sites Many of them still own tile tIe lots all au right but It Is not likely that they will ever want ant to build where those lots are situated Gives Away His Lots Lota A star story Is told In local real estate dr cir cirdes des cles of oC one boomer who certainly takes the cake This man filed on acres of oC land under the desert land act which makes the cost 15 an acre Under the law It Is necessary to get water on arid tracts secured In this way within a limited time from the date of the filing Pursuant to the provisIons of the act whereby lie be secured the land the investor did get on the land but not In any large quantity He literally complied with the law but at t not great expense to him himself himself self No fortune was spent by hIm in digging Irrigation ditches and In trans trains transforming forming the sandy wastes Into fertile gar gardens gardens dens Not much He provided just enough water to comply with the regulations and so was able to prove up on his section and tt it become becam his to have and to hol hold forever But this th man had no Intention of holding the land for within him surged a magnanimous desire to let his fellow fellowmen fellowmen men derive benefits The philanthropy decided upon the philanthropIst Immediately set to work on n the arrangements The tract wa was cut up Into lots feet making fourteen lots to the acre and advertis meats ments were Inserted in III numerous publications These advertisements stated that In order to arouse Interest t In a new ton tona a limited number of lots would be given away absolutely free of oC charge Hundreds read the and were deeply affected by the generosity ot of the noble hearted citizen owner of the tract He ie Invited Investigation of his otter offer and hundreds of persons applied for the gift lots With admiring appreciation they heard the generous citizen say that his hla offer meant just what tt it said that they could have lots In the new town absolute absolutely I ly free Every honest man could have a alot lot for himself and without paying f t It No end of eople decided to accept the gifts of realty they were In informed formed that the deeds to the lots would be turned over to them Immediately I 11 they would but pay the notary fees and the cost of the deed Nets Small Fortune This seemed fair enough A man should b be willing to pay for the Incidental cost COil or of getting title to lan lana U It ne he got the land aana for nothing How much were the tees fees for tor forthe the services and the deed Two dollars for the notary and 20 for the deed So the beneficiaries dug In their jeans for the fees received the deeds for tor their lots and departed happy and thank thankful tul ful The philanthropIst was kept busy gt givIng Ing away lots n tile hIs desert tract and tak takIng lag Ing in from each ench of the recipients recipient He gave the notary a fee ot of 60 cents for every service required of oC him one for each lot given away The philanthropist pe fet formed the work on the deeds himself so 80 that the only cost to him was the print printIng printing Ing Therefore he received U 4 for tor every lot Counting all the lots he gave away he took In for tor himself exclusive of the tha portion about In fees as ashe ashe he sold acres before he stopped The original cost or of the land was about 1000 Advertising and other Incidentals COlt something but even at that It can be readily seen that the man was generously rewarded for his philanthropy The land was there all t enough It had been lawfully secured and was 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