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Show what kind of a figure he could cut in financial circles in Salt Lake City. It there is no imforseen obstacle hi the way, tho plant for the new stock yards and packing house will be in place and ready for work inside of ninety days. Surveyors are out surveying the route for the East Side Rapid Transit company's com-pany's new line. The route will be from the southeast corner of Liberty park to Eleventh East, south to the old paper mill, east to tho foothills of . the east bench. AN UPrARDTENDEN(JY. A Bright Outlook in Realty Circles Ecvival of the Speculative Market, HEAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS. A Great Strike Proposed-Inqniries for Deposits of Cement and lire Clay-Minor Clay-Minor Notes. . There is an upward tendency noticeable notice-able in the real estate market. Men who own property, that is at all near in, arc holding on to it. The demand for inside property, however, is becoming becom-ing greater every day. The speculative market bids fair to experience a revival during the next week. There are in the city quite a number of men looking around for investments. in-vestments. They havo plenty of money and want inside property to hold for the increase of value. This is a change from the market of two weeks ago. Then the inquirers for property were for the most part home-seekers. home-seekers. They had come here to stay and wanted ground upon which to erect homes. There is an active movement in the sale of lots in tho outside additions. There are, however, no snaps to be picked up, and the agents are every day putting up the price of real estate. TI10 Mall Touch. The mail received at the real estate exchange this morning was as large as ever. A member of a railroad lumber supply company at Ozark, 111., says that he is coming west to put soino of his surplus capital into real estate and wants a few pointers on Salt Lake City. A man in Eureka, Utah, says he has a lot in Salt Lake City and offers to sell it a moderate advauco of the price paid. A dealer in coal and coke at Topeka, lias., says that he is looking around for a new location for his business, and thinks that Salt Lake is just the place for him. Trade in Topeka is so cut up, he says, that he can make nothing at all. A Asbury Park, N. J., man says that he is coining to Salt Lake city to live, and wants some live data on real estate. es-tate. Requests for general information about the cily and territory come from Kenesaw, Neb.; Bath, Pa.; Toncanoxie, Kans.; and Philadelphia, Pa. The Call Meetinir. There were some forty members present at the call meeting of the real estate exchange this morning. E. F. Jones offered a 10x10 at the corner of intra soutn ana inirteenm f.ast. u. C. Conklin offered 205 acres beyond the Jordan. The interest in the real estate exchange ex-change grows every day. As business becomes better, the attendance at the daily meetings grows larger. Few transfers are actually consummated on the floor of the exchange, but the offeis and wants there result in many deals of no small magnitude. The listing of property at the exchange ex-change is rather slow. Just at present there is very little on the books. Offers aud wants are placed on the boards, but they seldom remain more than a day. This is caused by tho 6teady advance ad-vance iu prices. To Kntertain the Coiumtaslon. A meeting of the transportation bureau bu-reau was held lfist night and arrangements arrange-ments made for the entertainment of the interstate' commerce commission, which will arrive here on Monday. A reception committee consisting of Governor Gov-ernor Thomas, Mayor Gcott Acting-President Acting-President Simon of the chamber of commerce, President H. Let t of tho real estate exchange and President Chambers Cham-bers of the stock exchange will meet tho commission some way out and escort es-cort the members to the city. The abovo, together with the members of the transportation bureau, will constitute consti-tute a reception committee during tho stay of the commission and provide entertainment en-tertainment for the members. This is no Joke, The real estate men are goin to strike. This strike, it is probable, will be ordered or-dered tomorrow morning. A number of tho agents this morning put their heads together. Among them were Van Buskirk, Jennings, Cuminings, aud a dozen others. They decided that this wild, mad rush after customers custom-ers must be stopped. They gave each other tho grip; opened their hands; "nothing in it'' and then decided to strike. Hereafter they will not go on the warpath in the presence of the wary buyer of real ostate. Their customers cus-tomers must hunt them up. Must come and ask to see real estate. More power to them. Wants Cement Deposits. Secretary Gillospie of t he chamber of commerce today received a letter from an eastern firm, saying that they would send an agent to Utah to investigate the deposits of cement in this territory, the market and the prospects for a large plant. Mr. Gillespie has for some time been in correspondence with this firm and has furnished them with data on the cement question which have made a very favorable impression. It Is Hardly Probable. A rumor has gotten abroad that a representative of a big New York syndicate syn-dicate is trying to buy up a lot; of valuable val-uable mining properties in this territory. terri-tory. Such men as George II. Bliss, II. K. Thurber and Levi P. Morton are members of the syndicate and it is said to be wealthy enough to buy up all the mines iu the territorv, including the Ontario and Daly. Beds of Fire Clay, Mr. Gillespie also has an inquiry for Bre clay from an Iowa man. He wants to buy large beds of clay, with tho object ob-ject of establishing a fire brick and sewcrpipe plant. He has also an inquiry from parties in New York for fire clay with the same object. Real Estate Notes. A man iu St. Paul has a scheme for organizing a house building companv in this city. . " De Witt Lowe, one of the owners of Central park, has returned from a trip to New York. A Detroit. Mich., man who can command com-mand $300,000 capital, wants to know i |