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Show REAL ESTATE NOTES. What the Contractors Are Doing; The Local Consumption of Lumber. Tho laving of rock was commenced on the Hooper-Caine building yesterday. yester-day. The old Windsor hotel is being demolished de-molished preparatory to tho erection on its site of a four-story business block to cost $30,000 or $40,000. Mr. Donuellan, of the firm of Ingram & Donnellan, leaves for the east tonight to-night to join his family on a four month's tour of Europe. Contracjor Nink says that but for the delay of the quarry companies in furnishing fur-nishing stone, ho could havo the Walker Bros.' terraco finished in two weeks. The city railway company received two more cars yesterday, Nos. 21 and 22 which will be made to run by Friday. The other eighteen cars are expected to arrive daily. The meeting of the real estate exchange, ex-change, called for last night to discuss certain advertising plans, failed to secure se-cure a quorum and action was postponed post-poned until tho next regular meeting, the first Monday in June. By the members mem-bers present it was decided to take a trial column of the New York World, at a cost of $3,000. Frank Hyncs, who has a contract for driving two wells, each 250 feet deep with an 8-inch pipe, for the city, is now down 70 feet with one well and has a flow of about 100 gallons per minute. The great number of boulders struck is just now causing him some trouble. The wells are being driven near the southeast corner of Liberty park. Plans have been completed for a new engine house on the city lot east of tho firemen's hall. Tho building is to bo of sandstone and pressed brick, 30x38 feet. On tho ground lloor are arrauged the stalls for the horses and No. 1 steamer and hose carriage. A heater is placed near the steamer and an office on the west side of tho house. Up stairs is a commodous library, an apartment apart-ment for tho chief, a largo and well-ventilated well-ventilated bunk room. The truck and chemical engine companies are to occupy oc-cupy tho firemen's hall. The local consumption of lumber for 188!) was I ii round numbers 3000 carloads, whereas in 18U0 it was only 5000 carloads. car-loads. The number of buildings put last year was about 1500, the number this year will be more than double that. There is plenty of lumber in the city now for all demands, and could the brick and stone men keep up their lick tho building would bo simply astonishing. astonish-ing. Tho Truckee supply is exhausted for tho next sixty days, but plenty is coming in from Oregon. There is, however, considerable complaint on account ac-count of tho delay caused by the transshipment trans-shipment at Pocatello and Ogden. Real Estate Transfers. LB Shaffer to F C Fink, all of lot 9, block . Capitol heights 100 L B Shaffer to F C Fink, all of lots 80 and 81, block 10, West Salt Lake 800 W Draper et al to Mary A V Tempest, all of lots 1 and 4, bloek 9, Hermann city plat 8 T W Ellerbenk and wife to B Ferguson, 3x10 rods, lot I, block 4j)lat 1 3000 J P Mortensen et al to NJ Nielsou, 8x 10 rods, lot 8, block 8. plat B 11DU J H Bacon and wife to O Oberg, all of lotH 81 and W, block 85, plat A, West-lake West-lake 50 W A Byers et al to N C t'hristiansBn.all of lot 1, block 6,Kinuey & Oourlay's plat 200 A It Derge et al to B W Driggs, jr, all of . lots 18 and 19. block 83. plat .T 2000 Lulu M Derge to B W Driggs, ir, all of lots 5, and 7, block '2i, plat. J 3000 L Noble and wife to Elizabeth Livingston, Living-ston, southeast quarter of section 88, township 9 south, range least 100 M 8 Irving et al to Elizabeth Livingston, Living-ston, southeast quarter of section 88, township 8 south, range I east 4800 Eliza J Jones to Catherine M Jones, 40 Houare rods, lot 6. block 3. plat B 1 D H Wells, mayor, to Alice Strong, 3x80 rods, lot 3, block 41, plat B 1 Alice Strong to A E Strong, 8x9 rods, lot 3. block 41, plat B 1 J D Spencer et ai to D M Schroll, 8x10 rodK. lot 8. block 83. plat (! 3500 W (! Sorcnson and wife to Sarah R 8or- , enson, 4x7 rods, lot . block t), plat H.. 1 A McSponan to D Biggins et al, one-third one-third of Blaine & Enterprise mines. . . 60 J (1 McPhersou to D Higgins et al, one-third one-third of Blaine & Enterprise mines... 80 L 11 Kinney to T M Arnold, all of lot 18, block 50, Kluuey & Oourley's plat. .... 3 L D Kinney to T M Arnold, all of lots 3 and 0, block 38, Kinney & Gourley's plat 300 E A Kessler et al. to R C Woodruff et al., lUxlO rods, lot 8, block 3, plat A, also other property 4,000 Laura C Pitts to W Fuller, all of lots 10 and 13, block 5, live-acre plat C L D Kinney to C W Nunn, all of lots and 11, block 50. Kinney & Oourley's plat 800 F L Arnold to L D Kinney, all of lot 11, block 50. Kinney & (Jmr!ey's plat S C B Arnold et al. to L D Kinney, all of lot 3, block 81. Kluuey & Uourlcy's plat S Total 82,783 |