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Show HIGH RENTS 111N. Furnished Eoomi for Rent Are the Recog-uiied Recog-uiied Terror of the Ranter's Bank Account. 400 FURNISHED ROOMS TOR RENT. The Will Fe a Grand Tumble in Prices of Rent and the Time is Very Soon. Where to go to look for furnished rooms for rent at a prico that is not highway robbery is a questiou uppermost upper-most in many minds. Bents are uext to the highest item of expense of living in Salt Lake. First comes the board bill which in itself is a paralyzer. Tho inner man must bo fed aud attended at least three times per day. Appetite is a great thing and blessed is he who can successfully rassol tho lough meat aud stale eggs for which ho is charged at least $7 per w eek. After a man has labored hard all day long and exhausted the stock ou the table, he w ants some place in which to pass tho night comfortably. In a little room occupied by a bed, bureau, wash-stand, wash-stand, stove and trunk, ho tries to imagine imag-ine ho has great comfort aud peace. The apartment may be on tho third or fourth floor anil is possibly an inside room for which he pays not a cent less than I!'.' per mouth. Then, too, he has the privilege of burning his own fuel, making the fire and keepiug it from going out. The present rate of rents is altogether too hign for the average young man of Salt Lake city who works for wages. The salaries paid are fair, but they are not high, and how any landlord or renter has the cheek to ask such outrageous out-rageous prices for his a rooms is a question that is unsolved at this hour of the day. However, tho day of high rents is doomed, and a cry of rejoicing goes up from all parts of the city. Already the change is apparent in various quarters, and where the robbing rate of $18 to $110 per mouth for a fairly furnished room once flourished it will soon bo a thing of the past, Kootu renters will soon be enabled to have their choice of apartments at a figure a great deal lower than they are now paying. The other evening a young man inquired in-quired the price of two rooms, one inside and the other with a window, the two communicating. Forty dollars per month, was the landlord's unhesitating unhesi-tating reply. After a little talking he agreed to drop to $,'!.'). This is but an instance of the condition of affairs all over the city. To be sure, the location has something to do with the price if w ithin a circle of the business part of the city. But then there is no use of being uureasonablo in charges, even if the room be at First or Second South and Main streets. In certain parts of the city signs are already appearing that announce board and room at $5 per week. This is some- thing like a reasonable charge, and the result is the landlord has his house and table full of prompt, payer month in ! and month out. The board is very good, homelike and plenty of it, and the beds are comfartablu and the surroundings sur-roundings conducive to sleep. Within the next sixty days something some-thing like 400 furnished rooms will be ready for occupacy. They being new and nicely appointed, and the house having modern mod-ern conveniences, there will be a grand exodus of lodgers from old quarters into new apartments. Then tho coming summer will witness the construction of a number of tenement houses after the French flat pattern, and thus a great many additional furnished apartments will be ready for occupancy. occu-pancy. The fall of high rents will be mighty and welcome. Tho landlord who 19 wise and wishes to retain his renters would do well to read between these lines the following: Now is the time to hold on to the young men who are occupying oc-cupying the furnished rooms in this house, and I will at once reduce the price of rents and then tho parties will stay. |