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Show MORE ABOUT PIERCE. A Few Pointed Comments On His Apology for His Salt Lake View Scheme. EEAL " ESTATE AND BUSINESS A Business Block to Occupy the Site of the Grand Opera iAuse The Day , On the Exchange. The expose of the Salt Lake View addition ad-dition fake by tlie chamber of commerce lias stirred up Mr. J. K. Tierce, the owner of the addition, and he is out in a card in which ho makes a weak defense de-fense of his scheme. In this card ho says that there must have been some real estate influence brought to bear on the chamber of commerce com-merce to induce them to go to so much trouble. Iu regard to this Secretary Gillespie says: "This insinuation is only worthy of such a schemer as Mr. Pierce. What induced me to make the investigation investi-gation was the inquiries of a newspaper that wanted to protect its patrons from scalawag advertisements. "Mr. Pierce was iu to seo me on Thursday last and acknowledged that ho had been connected with a similar scheme in Denver and that he had been compelled to abandon that place as a field for the operation of his scheme because of the publicity given it, by the newspapers. It was not love for Salt Lake City that brought him here but he saw that she was attracting a great deal of attention aud thought that he could work on her prestago and hero develop his scheme undisturbed. "In regard to his covert threats that he will retaliate if his business is injured in-jured by the letter authorized by the chamber of commerce, I cau only say that it would be a difficult matter to injure in-jure his business or 'else Mr. Pierce is not sticking altogether to fact's. When he was in to seo me, he said that he Lad spent $2500 on advertising; had $2500 A 1. - I - J . . 1 . worm oi stamps on nana and nail also spent about $2000 for tho property aud for making surveys etc., and up to that time had only sold three lots. "It seems very much as though Mr. Pierce was not only something on tho fake order but that he also gets away from facts. On Thursday ho told me that he had received about 20,000 answers an-swers to his advertisement.' In yesterday's yester-day's paper he puts tho number at 75,-000. 75,-000. His mail must havo Increased wonderfully in two days' time." |