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Show REAL ESTATK NEAVS. A Letter From it Coal Man Who Talks Right to the Point. "The outlook for the realty market," said Mr. J. F. Jack this morning, "was never better in tho whole history of tho city. The street ear lines are pushing out in every direction and bringing the outlying subdivisions within the city. Btfeiiiflss iu every line is good. Six hundred new buildings have gone up in tho past year and the building boom is still growing every day. : We are just on the verge of a very flush time in the mining business in this vicinity aud all these things promise excellently for the real estate business. The little lull in the market just at present was expected. "There is considerable con-siderable inquiry just noAV for acreage for subdivisions just south of the city. There are also many people looking for residence plots in the city. They, however, how-ever, want it well in, and it is hard to get at the prices they aro willing . to pay." FROM THE OUTSIDE. President H. C. Lett, of the Real Estate exchange, . who has just returned from a four weeks' visit to Denver, says that the people in that city and, in fact, in all parts of Colorado are- beginning to see that all earth can't hold Salt Lake down from being a great city. They see that Salt Lake is startiug where Denver did a few years ago, and that the concentration concentra-tion of capital here, the iufiux of peo-plo peo-plo and the many private and public business enterprises are bound to bear fruit in solid prosperity. ; The people ou the outside, Mr. Lett says, now recognizes the fact that Salt Lake offers business opportunities such as no other city on the continent can touch. ON THE EXCHANGE. There werp only half a dov.cn members mem-bers present at tho meeting of the real estate, exchange this morning. There wero neither wants nor offers, and those present spent their timo reading the letters, let-ters, received ih answer to the exchange's advertisements and iu au informal discussion dis-cussion of further advertising schemes. WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT COAL. Amoiig this mornings'" mail was a letter from the superintendent of au Ohio coal company; that went right to the point. It was as follows: Kkai. Estate Exchange, I -. Salt LakkCItv. f. Gkn-i 1.EMKN i notice in the Black Diamond at June l.Mh. your advertisement of the coal and iron prow, t ips of Utah. Will yon kindly give me tho following information with a view to business: W hat is the thickness and character of your ditvereut seams of coal? At what elevation above the railway tracks are they situated or, if below, what depth below be-low the tr.c.k87 . AVI: at is the price of coal lands and how near to railways! Can railway companies be got to build up to mine openings or would mining companies linve to build their own road? Do the coal seams liu horizontal or at an angle; Where are your markets and what are your market p'-ices? Is good labor plentiful? By lurnishtug this iutormation together with all other lniormalion you may think proper, you will oblige. , A IUG DEAL ON FOOT. A big deal is on foot Avhioh will bring into tho city about $125,000 immediately. immediate-ly. .). II. Kirklaud, of Brooklyn,' is negotiating for the purchase of a 'piece of ground in tho southern part of the city and if lie gels it, will at once put up on a part of it fifty houscs. to cost not less thau $2,000 each. The balance of the ground will be platted and sold to parties who will put up residences res-idences that will cost not less than $2000. AVESr OF inE JORDAN. While in Denver, Mr. Lett sold to parties in that city forty acres of land west of the Jordan. Property in that section is beginning to boom now. The new Garfield Beach road is helping this along, as well as the fact that several factories and three bigluraber yardsare looking for locations in that section. : Salt Lake has had another union cigar factory added to its already largo list. It is operated by Chas. J. Heur," formerly form-erly of Chicago. |