Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 38 | Laurelhurst and the Extreme Southwest

Laurelhurst and the Extreme Southwest i ' Within Hie past threo mouths sales of real property in the extreme southeastern south-eastern section of the city have called attention to the tendency of fho population popu-lation to expand in that direction. Although Al-though much of the property is a considerable con-siderable distance beyond the limit of the street railroad, it is known that arrangements ar-rangements arc already under way whereby localities which seem at the present time far away fr8m the center of the city will be reached easily cither by the liues of the Utah Light aud Railway Rail-way company or by the new electric line of Le Grande Young.- It is interesting to note the manner in which realty dealers have anticipated the movement southward of the city, aud have prepared for the growth along the cast beuch in that direction. The most important of these recent purchases, pur-chases, perhaps, is The tract knowu as Laurelhurst. This property includes a tract of 110 acres, lying on the cast bench, just south of Twelfth South and east of Westminster Heights, almost under the foot of the mountains and high up on the slope. Exploitation is already going forward, and within a year or two this locality promises to become one of the most at tractive in the city. Tt commands an attractive view of the Utah vallc3-. as do all of tho tracts on the bench, and in addition, on account of its position so far south, shows also tho city away to tho northward nestling under the hills surrounding Ensign peak. The homes Of Murray arc in plain sight, and across the valley one may obtain slight glimpses of Bingham and the smelters there. The homes in Laurelhurst, for the present, at least, will bo of the modest kind. Ample opportunity is being given in the laying out of building lots to provide for small garden plots, and small orchards will probably form an attractive feature of the homesteads there. Still farther south aud a little to the westward - of Laurelhurst, enterprising enter-prising realty dealers are already planning plan-ning for another addition, and only 'a year or two will bring this locality also within easj'" access of the home-seeker home-seeker who finds his business in Salt Lake. This activity in the extreme southern south-ern portion ot' the citr is said to indicate in-dicate the strongest teudencj' of the city lo expand. The people who are exploiting these sections are not boomers. boom-ers. On the contrar', they represent somo of the strongest and most conservative con-servative real estate concerns in the city. In mau3- instances their operations opera-tions form the advauco guard of realty development, however, and it will be many 3"cars before their expectations are tully realized; but it is evident that if, as has been said, this city is to become ouo of tho four great cities of the United States, there must be room for the people to live. The boundaries aro already fixed on the north and east, nnd the chances aro that the development will extend to the southward. Tho land along tho east bench is limited and it is necessary neces-sary for the expansion to roach even-tua'lly even-tua'lly the slopes of tho great Wasatch range in the vicinit3' of the eutranco to tho great canyons. Parley 's and the Cottonwoods. As in other cities which have become be-come great, plans have been laid far in advance, and the manner in which arrangements areboing made for homes all about the city, and especial- in the southeast, indicates that investors here have confidence in the future of tho city and arc preparing for the inevitable in-evitable development which will follow fol-low the financial expansion of the metropolis.