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Show SALT LAKE ELKS II iVEJlAL PLOT Will Purchase Tract of Ground From Ml. Olivet Ccmetory Association. ARRANGEMENTS PRACTICALLY COMPLETED SATURDAY Plot Will Cost About $20,000, and Will Be One of Finest in flie West. Salt Lnko Elks are to have a. burial plot In ML Olivet cemetery that will cost $20,000, and which, when completed, will bo one of tho finest plots owned by any fraternal organization in tho western country. Arrangements were completed Saturday by represent; stives of Salt Lnko Ixdge Xo. Sf, B. l O. Ji., ami (lie executive board of tho Mt. Olivet Cemetery association asso-ciation for the purehaac of a tract of ground in tho cohiclury, and the transaction transac-tion probably will Iwj completed Thursday. The prJco is to bo $12,000. Tho plot will contain forty-two full-steed burial lots and these later may be subdivided. ' Tho deal has boon hnnplnp lire for somo weeks, but was practically closed Saturday, when off leers o ftho Kilts' lodge had a conference With th executive board of the eomoiery association, of which W. F. Cotton is president; M. 73. Sowlfs, vice-president, nnd Russell L. Tracy, soc-reuiry.. soc-reuiry.. The purchase price was agreed upon and tho proposition undoubtedly will be actuplcd by tho lodge- members at the inoetuur Wednesday night. T.ho Elks intend to make their burial pround ono of the finest In the west. It Is planned to erect within llio next iV-v.- years a shaft to cost not less than $,1000, Tho grounds will bo Improved and beautified and placed at the disposal of tho members of Suit Lnko Lodge No. Sii, IS. I O. 15. As soon as the transaction Is completed, a force of men will be put to work on the contemplated improve-men improve-men ts. |