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Show REAL ESTATE NEWS. - - A Few . Specimen Inquiries Prom Secretary Gillespie's " Mail. i ' ' ' ' - -; LIVELY DAY OS THE EXCHANGE. Walker Eros, Preparing to Eeniodel Their Building at the Corner of Main and Second South. The real estate exchange was lively this morning. About forty members were at the meeting and the wants were largely in excess of iho offers. Tousey & DcKicules wanted a vacant lot near the D. & H. G. depot, aud the same linn also asked for a ten years' lease of a good business site. II. C. Sells & Co. want a farm of 100 acres near some railroad, and C, V. Fohlcn asked for a good dwelling house. C. V. Fohlen offered to loan $3000 at 10 per cent on improved property. Secretary Montgomery's mail is be ginning to lie .rather heavy, and he is kept busy sending out circulars and writing letters to parties who have had their attention turned to Salt Lake and want to know about tho opportunities for investmeut here. ANXIOUS INQUIRERS. Among Secretary Gillespie's mail this morning Was a letter from a man iu Chattanooga, Tenn., who wants to establish a sewer pipe plant iu Salt Lake and who wanted some information about the city.' Another man wrote from Trent, Mich., askiug prices ou lands here and for informatiou regarding taxes, etc. A Philadelphia, Pa., man wanted detailed de-tailed information about tho chauces for a practical railroad builder and mining engineer. A London, Ontario, man asked Mr. (iillespio to socuro him an office for a mercantile business, to be opened up about August 1. , A man in Sault Ste Marie, Mich., also wants to start up iu business here and wanted informatiou - about the chances of soQtiring a good location. A Farmington, III., man wants to trade a hotel and farm for Salt Lake property.. . . Besides these there were a dozen letters let-ters asking for general information ubotit the city, tourists rates, cost of living, etc. This is a fair specimen ot Mr. Gillespie's mail, and it keeps lain busy answering the inquiries. TO BUILD HIGHER. The Walker Bros, are having plans Crepared for the remodeling of their uilding at the corner of Main and Second streets. The building will be almost entirely rebuilt, and will be made live stories high. Their rapidly increasing banking business has made their present quarters entirely too cramped. Tho walls of the present building were very substantially built, aud they- will bear the weight of the additional stories. Real Estate Sales. - . Is. D. Kinney to J. R. McRay, all of lot 1, block VI, Kinney & Oourlayf improved im-proved city plat 803 O .1 Alexander to A J Dixon, northeast quarter section 1 south, range I west 1 J S Brown to Lydia J H Brown, 4xl0rods lot la, Glendale Park 1 Ira Beunlon and wlte to H M Browne, south east 4uarter section 81. township town-ship 1 south, range 1 west 3,100 Saran P Castle to H P Burns, 4xt)'4 rods, lot a. block 14, plat O ,1,500 (Jorge Htephan to P Strati b all of lots 1, 'J aud i and other property, block 14. Chamberlain's addition 1 T Maycock and Wife to B W Maycock, 8 xio rods, lot 7. block lt. plat A .... i l L Kolltz to Annie h'olltz. lots 1,8 aud H. Remington Park addition 300 E W Senior and wire to W W Pitt, all of lots 4 and 6, block 87, plat A, Uar-den Uar-den City 300 W W Pitt to J H Davis, all lots 4 and 5, block S7, plat A. Harden City 300 O H Dttnford et al to J H Davis, all of ' lots II and 18. block 80, plat A, Garden Gar-den City 300 H J Grant to Harriet M Sttingham, all of lots S to l!i, plat A, and other property prop-erty O M Doneison et al. to J S Donelson, all of lot 5. block 44. plat A 3,000 W M Williams to E Richards, all of lots 31 to 33, block 1, Blair & Curtis' subdivision subdi-vision M R Porter et al. to E W Senior, interest inter-est In Park Dale, plat, D 1,000 E W Senior to Mrs M J Senior, two-thirds two-thirds interest in Park Dale, plat D.. 1 J A Johnson aud wife to F J McCarthy, all of lots fi to 13, block I, West Drive subdivision..,. 4,030 F R Woods to J C Shoemaker' all of lots 46 and 47. block 38, El Dorado. ... SCO F R Woods to O Zoehler. all of lots 43 and 41, block 31, El Dorado 800 F R Woods to L Briggs.,all of lots 31 to .19. block 11. El Dorado. ; 700 F R Woods to Mrs M Keenan, all of lots 4(1 to 4'J, block II. El Dorado 300 J F Cobble et al to A M Hansen, all" of lot 8, block !, plat U VJb Rebecca W Riter et al to L G Hardy, all of lot 14, block 14. 5-acre plat A 10,000 WW Riter ctal tp L O Hardv. one-eighth one-eighth of lot 14, block 14, live-acre plat. A.... . i L G Hardy et nl to V W Little, all of lot 14. block 14. flve-acre plat A 11,000 G A Cooke et al to A S Campbell, all of lotto; block HI. five-acre plat A OSOO ROlsentoTFTolhurst, 8x10 rods, lot 4. block 4. plate 550 L H Spitker to U Wprthlngton, one-half one-half of lot 1, block 16, plat B lax) Total.. i W4.538 Real Estate Notes. Henry Georgo and associates aro putting put-ting up a three-story $18,000 brick block on State street just below Second South. W. L. Barret & Co. have just platted forty acres, part of section 20, east of Denver City, which will be known as Beverly. " Tho Pacilie Tea aud Coffee Company, with a capital of $30,000, has made application ap-plication for articles of incorporation to tho County clerk. W. S. Ferris will start a diary farm and open a milk depot in this city, lie expects to import his milehers from Iowa, and will start with 100 cows. Tousey & Du Blcqlo, who have taken the agency for Utah of the American Building, Loan and Investment society of Chicago, with a paid up capital of $0,000,000, report that they have secured se-cured takers for $3000. Will C. Lett was rustling around yesterday yes-terday trying to lind some one who could furnish him 100 acres of West Jordan land, near the John W. Young railroad. It is wanted by au Eastern party for the raising of riuc breed stock. |