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Show I Beautiful Residence Districts of Salt Lake City. North and East Benches, and the West Side ' lf I - . . ( liO EC" 1 i Aruch of llic development of llio rcsi-.lciu'0 rcsi-.lciu'0 district of Salt. Lake (Jity bo-, bo-, b-ngs fo the cxpnnsion of the past ihrcc or four years. Eeal ostata men , report that much of the best rcsidenco , property lies near in to what they 1 term the business district, a section hounded by South Templo on the north, 1 Third or "Fourth West on the west. Sixth South on the south, and Second 1 East on the cast. They tell, of tho , great bargains in properties lying just , outside of those limits, and point to the astonishing increase in values there within the past few years. Hioy call attention to the many handsome apart-inent apart-inent houses which have been erected ; there within the- past year and coiu- ' inent on the Plow encroachment ot the , business district on the locality. ) The idea exemplified, however, by 1 the reservation of a site for the state .apitol on the high ground at the north of the city, oust at the head of ain and State streets, and which was later carried out by the laying out of ; the north bench and tho rapid devel- I , opment of that section as a purely Tes- - idenco districr. has been carried out ' still further bv the planning of a number of attractive additions on tho outskirts of the city, and iucludiug practically all of tho country lying im-mediately im-mediately under the Wasatch range, along what is known as the east , bench. I which -will eventually includo all the 1 property on the high ground, from the east border of City Creek canyon and l extending from "First avenue to a point just above what will' be Eleventh Elev-enth avenue or "Highliuc boulovard.'.! along tho north bench to the cntranco j to Dry canyon, thenco turning south and including Federal Heights, pass- iug around tho military reservation of I Fort Douglas as far south as what will 1 be Sixteenth South, and extending from I Thirteenth East to the foot of the mountains, full' two miles cast of that street. Undoubted!, this localit' includes much of tho most attractive property in the city for residence purposes. Its location, several hundred toct above (lie level of the valley, insures its i freedom from the somewhat disagrco- i able smoke and other vapors which are the inevitable accompaniment of a I large commercial center. The almost j uuequaled view of the wonderful Utah valley, the beautiful mountain ranges 1 far to tho westward and the unob- J atructcd view of tho canyons to the I eastward, furnish values to the owners of tho property which cannot bo fur-pished fur-pished with property lower down, or in any other portion of the valley. Great Asset for City. Tt has been said that natural beauty of surroundings is one of the greatest i assets which a city can have, and comment has been made many times upon the wonderful natural" advantages advan-tages which have boon provided this city in (ho benches which surround it. 1 It is a fact, however, that this locality has only rcccntl' been taken into account ac-count hy investors, and that a period of iwo years will prnctieally include ever' attempt of any size to utilize what will be the most attractive of residence portions, not only of this city, but a locality which can be duplicated du-plicated in almost "no other city of the mtormountain west. It is a truism, perhaps, in the history his-tory of real est a to development, that residence localities spread out in proportion pro-portion to the case of access provided to those sections. This has been shown in Snlt Lake City. The section of i country lying along the north bench oxpandod easterly along tho upper boundary of South Temple and extended northward over the bench only slowly or in proportion to the difference in values of that properly and that lying nearer to the car lines of South Temple Tem-ple and First avenue. With tho completion of car lines on the avenues farther to the north, however, how-ever, the development became more rapid, until at the present time, although al-though there are still many vacancies all over the district, tho locality is fairly well settled, and it is only a question of lime until tho entire area will bo completely occupied. For some time tho locality "immediately eastward of the City Creek canyon, and including includ-ing tho area around Capitol hill, has been neglected, principally on account of tho lack of facilities for reaching the place. Tower neigiiis. Although this proporty comprises some of the best in the city for residence resi-dence purposes, much of it still remains re-mains unoccupied, with only a few houses scattered hero and there. Real estate people comment on the fact that the ultimate development of this property prop-erty is uot far distant, however, and call attention to the fact Hint the building build-ing of car lines through the district will bo followed by a rapid building up and a corresponding increase in the valuo of property there. Tho situation "applies to the land on both sides of tho canyon and includes not only Capitol hill, but tho locality known as Tower Heights, just to the eastward of it. Tho advantages of this latter property have been recognized for some timo. from tho days when the erection of the famous ''Anderson tower" was considered a means of attracting at-tracting pcoplo there and exploiting the property. It is prcty generally conceded, however, how-ever, that the changes there will be much slower than those in localities further south and nearer the direct line of development. This is the advantage ad-vantage possessed by the east bench property over almost anv other in tho city, and is shown by the manner in which large tracts have been purchased by real estate concerns and exploited. The first of these, perhaps, partly bp-cause bp-cause of the traditions connected ;nth its first settlement and partly because of the association with the name of one of (he city's foremost business men. Samuel Newhouse. has at traced more at- I tention than anv of the other new ad- I ditions. although it is bv no means the I first undertaking of its kind. j |