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Show jl POINTERS ON ZlON REAL ESTATE 1 1 Real estate improvements which will I involve the expenditure of nearly -wOr I 000 aro being undertaken by tho Aep-ton-Jcnkins company, which, recently filed a dcod for tho acquisition of n trnct of twelve- and one-half acres, .iust west of tho Country club, below Twelfth South and east of Niath East. The new tract will bo known an tho Country club place. A plat of the land is hcing prepared and will be roady in a few days. Trees will bo planted, sidewalks side-walks built and other improvements mado, which will mnk an unusually attractive at-tractive suburban residence district. An. especinl feature of tho place will bo the large, deep lots which permit the ranking rank-ing of gardens in-tho rear of the homes. It will also be possible to plant orchards orch-ards and arrange pretty country homes of a kind never beforo attomptod here. The trnct is within easy reach of tho city by electric car lines and its development de-velopment is regarded as another indication in-dication of what is being done to ex-lend ex-lend the boundaries of the residence district. b It will be only a short time when the residents on the .north bench in the neighborhood of Ninth avenue will cn.ioy street c.vr service. The surveying survey-ing for the new line has already been started, and it is expected that cars will bo running within a few months. The cars will run up B street to Ninth avenue, thenco east on Ninth avenue to M street. As this is one of the most desirable de-sirable residence districts in tho city, it i. predicted by real estate men that property in this vicinity will double in value within a year. Considerable building build-ing is now being done on this bench. Tho Salt Lake Security and Trust company com-pany is just completing several handsome hand-some bungalows on Tenth avenue, between be-tween C and D, and will build several more just east of D otrcet. Two blocks north on Thirteenth avenue two handsome hand-some houses have been finished recently recent-ly and a number of others are being built. Another instance of tho profit to be made in buying a home on the instnll-mont instnll-mont plan is that of Charles Morgan. who has sold his homo at 1300 Eleventh Elev-enth East stTeet for $2-150. Ho bought the property five years ago for $1000 from tho Salt Lake Security and Trust company, paying 6300 down and monthly month-ly payments tho same as rent. His Interest In-terest and taxos during the time he haa occupied it have amountod to about ono-half of what it would have cost him if he had paid rent for tho property. The result of tho transaction is that ho has doubled tho amount invested by him in the property and has had the use of it for five years. This speaks well for tho solidity of tho building, |