Show I AND STILL THE BOOM I I The Real Estate Firms Still Multiplying ECHOES OP A BUSTLING VEER Strangers Crowding Innigh Prices A Hotel nantad A Hushed Recorder utes Take a glance through the columns of your SUNDAY HERALD and decide whether the tendency of the boom is up or down The newspaper is the true barometer of public feeling when its columns bristle with advertisements be sure the business public is in excellent humor The business public is just now in a wild exhilaration of spirits and the columns of its favorite newspaper are laid under a heavy press to meet the demands made upon them for space TUB SUNDAY HERALD today besides the usual mercantile announcements will be found to contain new real estate names and new LISTS OV PROPERTIES It is unquestionable that THE HERALD more than any other local newspaper goes to the greatest number of people who have property to sell in this community and that it is also consulted as extensively as any other by parties who wish to buy it or this reason its columns are m strong demand de-mand not only by both sellers and buyers among real estate firms but by parties who wish to do usinesa with eachgOther direct Many sales that could be quoted have been made through tile agency of a small Wanted or For bale ad in Tun HERALD Property property Property This is the one cry that fills the air Up and down the streets in > the restaurant restau-rant over the ribboncounters in tne sanctity of home one theme is uppermost everyontd minolto the exclusion ex-clusion of every otner Real Estate Every one seems to be dabbling in it From a dozen to twenty firms have started up during the week and on i Main and Second South Streets carpenters car-penters are kept busy putting office partitions in tile front of various business busi-ness houses to form offices which are rented in advance for from 75 to 100 a month Merchants are neglecting their business to roam out in search of real estate bargains One man a wellknown gun and ammunition dealer says 1 csnt stay ill my store This real estate spirit draws me out on the street likes a like-s ell Its as imectious as cholera or smallpox Till COUNTY RECORDER has his office as crowded as if it were a bank with a run on it From the old force of himself and a clerk his help I now amounts to twelve hands six or eight of whoiu are kept working till I midnight every evening With all this there is still an unavoidable delay in getia ont abstracts and ona firm sug gest that matters would bo expedited if he recorder were to dvertise that his records would only be open for the inspection of the public say from I to 3 that he should close his office at the latter hour and then keep bs foicu at work the rest of the day with closed doors By this means the loss of a great deal of time occasioned by the searching of records would be saved TUB INFLUX OF STRANGK3S continues to be more decided than ever Stories of the opening of the boom in Salt Lake are beginning to reach other towns in the west anu all the busses up from all the trains are crammed to the roof Friday was II reported as a particularly heavy day In these days to be 11 Hotel Keeper I topraphrase an ancient sayiing is almost as great as to bo a King In I thisconnection tue editorial in yesterdays yester-days HERALD calling for information as to where we should herd the stranger within our gates this spring and summer sum-mer calls for the warmest commendation com-mendation That there should be no scheme afloat for the erection I of a firstclass hotel is aa strange as any strange feature of the boom There is rumor in te air of a great building syndicate and talk I of the Continental corner of the Market Mar-ket Row corner and of tha corner adjoining f ad-joining the old skatihfc rinkbut so far nt is all and only talk Already the r question of accommodations is becoming becom-ing a serious one Every real estate firm visited yesterdey saul they could not satisfy the demand for houses Rents are advancing everywhere from 30 to 50 per cent DOOM ECHOES Watson Bros say they would not be surprised if brick were to advance from G 50 and 7 to 10 Qr JLL this season in tace of the provable demand Three hundred dollars a foot front is the going price on Second South and the adjacent side streets one block west of Main The demand for First South Street 1 business property continues Two hundred hun-dred and fifty dollars a foot has been offerod and declined for the vacant twenty feet belonging to the HERALD Company west of its building George E Blair and George W Thatcher Jr will soon enter the real estate ranks Taylor Brothers ill Olive will remove to more commodious quarters in Hyde ik Griffiths building Among thnew firms of big calibre to start up this week is that of Col I bourn Skinner Co It is an eastern combination with a strong bank fund at its back B 8 Young who opened out as a real estate dealer with the opening of the boom has grown with it to such an extent that ho has had to migrate to an office ct his own at 34 East Second South He has formed a copartnor ship with Mr Charles D St George a Denver capitalist and real estate man Carter Stantons next Denver ex cnrsion of investors is expected hereabout here-about the 16th Major Stanton fears people have put their prices out of reach and that the Coloradoans will not lay out much on this trip The torthcoming number of the Colorado Graphic which will contain handsome illustrations of such Salt Lake buildings as Z C M J Mr MoCornicka residence the Theatre the Garb Hi use etc will do a good I deal towards advertising Salt Lake in the east The publisher has met with a L < < f generous response from our businessmen business-men Col T G Webber will locate in the Eighteenth Ward He bought out Hyrum Barton on Second Street adjoining ad-joining Bishop O F Whitneys for J 3700 and yesterday paid the latter V gentleman 1000 for a rod of ground to annex to his property Col Webber expects to build at onco Mr McCornicks papatia mansion I I has btjomsd to the shies all vacant property pro-perty within a block of it in either direction The news of the boom is just beginning begin-ning to penetrate to the fatmerg throughout this county who rely on the semiweekly and weekly editions of the papers for their information There was an immense influx of their number I to town yesterday who came to gee and wonder Prices on First Street continue W boom W H Rowe offered te > M rs Evt > Davis 1500 a rod for ave rods but the offer was not accepted It is not generally known that the Capitol grounds presented by the city to the Territory lie at the head of the State Road First East Street back of Dr Parks residence This will still further boom the adjacent portion of the generally Incky Eighteenth Ward Mr George W Thatcher of Logan the other day PaidDr Park 500 a rod for two lots facing on Canyon Road The next day tho committee located the Capitol grounds just above Dr Parks property and Mr Thatcher is as tickled as an Ogden Legislator over the Reform School In the fall of 1833 the owners of property pro-perty on Canyon Road and Second and Third Streets were selling as fast as they could at75 and 100 per rod Their property is now in demand at from 500 to 800 per rod The 24000 sale of Mr H P Richards Rich-ards property on est Temple was like many othersan option sale But as he received a forfeit of 1COO down and the option only runs sixty days there is little doubt but that tho bargain bar-gain will be consummated In the face of our dandy spring snowstorm snow-storm yesterday some people are saying say-ing keep the stranger back awLiie till the weather settles Let tham come say we We can show them some of the finest coasting to be icundm the world |