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Show road is progressing nicely. The contract con-tract for the superstructure will be let the last of this week. Real Estate Notes and Personals. Real estate transfers yesterday amounted to $30,7:28. The contract for the new two-story business block which Cue Holmes and C. E. Aiken will erect at the corner of First South and First West streets will bo let Saturday. The Governor mino has been 6old to John Heck for $00,000. The property has been worked SO feet and shows a vein two to four feet wide. Board of directors of the Utah Sugar company elected yesterday afternoon: George Q. Cannon, John Reek, Moses Thatcher, R. J. Taylor, A. E. Hyde, Ilyrum S. Young, James T. Little, I. I). Haines, James Chipman, A. O. Smool, Thomas R. Cutler, Elias Morris Mor-ris and Arthur Stayner. I i REAL "ESTATE NEWS. Tie Drench of the Dawn Has Put a Sort of Damper on the Day's Operations. . THE COST OF GAS AS A FUEL. Tha Business Prospects are Good Contractors Con-tractors Hustling to Get Roofs up Before Snow Comes. There wero about 20 members present at the call meeting this morning. The Millard Investment company offered 501x115 f eot corner Fourth and 15 streets, facing east and north, with an old house. Beck, Kennedy & Co., wanted two housos of about 5 or 0 rooms each, between Brigham and Third South; will go as far east as Eleventh Elev-enth East. . The market presents nothing ,new. Tho wot weather of the past two days has sort of put a damper on operations but the prospects still continue bright. The daily transfers, however, loom up in good stylo and all real estate men seem content. The Cost cf Gat. The city council committee on improvements im-provements assembled in tho council chamber last evening aud considered tho petition of tho Salt Lake Improvement Improve-ment company. Tho petitioners ask the privilege of opening up the streets, roadways and alleys of Salt Lake city that pipos may be laid for tho distribution distribu-tion of natural or manufactured gas for heating and power purposes. T he cost of the gas for domestic use shall not exceed 50 cents per month for each cooking stove, $1 per month for each range, $1.00 per month for each heater in private residences, and tho same for each horse power of stationary engine. It is stated that the oponing of the highways high-ways will be done in good shape and that the city shall not be responsible for any accidouts occurring while tho work is in progress. The pipes shall bo miu m wunciies iirutt ieoi oeiow tno surface of tho street and shall bo of the host wrought iron. Tho work shall begin within sixty days from the granting grant-ing of the franchise. A Great Canal Scheme. William Babcock, jr., is in the city with a gigantic enterprise on hand. He wauls to dam tho Snake river and operate a system cf irrigating ditches that will reclaim half a million acres of Idaho laud. It is claimed a dam 37 foet high and 600 foot long will hold enough water to irrigate 100,000 acres of land, and a hydraulic engineer says if tho dam is made 53 feet high it will water 500,000 acres. Tho estimated cost of the latter structura is $020,000, and Mr. Babcock will soon go east to secure the money for tho work. The Contractors Hustling. Tho contractors are just now worried. wor-ried. They are rushing tilings to the utmost limit to get their buildings under roof before suow flies aud at tho same timo another lumber famine is staring them in tho face. They have plonty of stono aud brick but it is hard to got lumber. Thoro will, however, bo no "let up" on tho work until everything is stored away safely under shingles. Work will continue ou most of the buildings on Sunday as usual. The Raybould Terrace. George V. Costersan, architect, has about coinphitod tho work on the Raybould Ray-bould terraco on Sixth South street. Tho work on the basement and foundation foun-dation of tho Harris building on State |