Show LOOKS LIKE 4 BLUFF Why Was Jennings and Caines Offer Refused Ground Worth 30000 Offered to lllllor hillier If They Would Erect a Opera House Thereon Jennings and Caine agents a few days ago offered to Miller Miller a site for the new theatre being agitated by those gentlemen in the rear of the Continental hotel property ninety by one hundred and sixtylive feet In addition they offered SI drive way from South Tomplo street ten feet wide and a main entrance to the theatre thea-tre on West Temple street twenty feet wide The offer computing the value of i the ground at a very conservative figure is equal to 30000 cash I Yesterday the firm received an answer from Miller Miller that they could not accept the offer as it was now too late in the season to start to build and that the Now York manager who had agreed to take the lease of the theater bad gone back on his bargain because they could not complete the theatre for him on time As the matter stands now it seems that a great big bluff has been gotten in by somebody The ground offered to Miller Miller by Jennings and Caine agents is by tho least calculation easily worth three times the value of the ground in the rear of the Realty building which Miller Miller asked for and any contractor in the city will say that the season is not too far advanced to begin building Before the refusal of the offer of Jennings and Caine a letter was written east placing it before tho capitalists said to be anxious to invest In the enterprise And while the offer of Jennings and Caine was characterized as a fairly good one for private pri-vate persons the people of Salt Lake were 1 roasted and turned and roasted for their lack of enterprise in securing now investments invest-ments and particnlarly so for their refusal to encourage this special investment of eastern capital |