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Show Ashton & Jenkins Close Deal for Thirty Acres Close to Liberty Park. WITH ADJACENT TEN ACRES TO BE PLATTED AT ONCE Promoters Are Planning to Offer Of-fer Special Inducements to Home Builders. Ashton & Jenkins closed a deal for thirty acres of land east of Llborty park and a few rods south of Tenth South street, which, with tho adjoining tract of ten acres, will bo platted Immediately nnd placed on tho market as a new subdivision. sub-division. This addition will be Improved with cement sidewalks, curbs and gutters, gut-ters, and tho streets will be graded within with-in a few weeks. The improvements In this addition, according to tho new owners, own-ers, will bo as fine, as have been made In any of the additions in the southeastern southeast-ern part of the city. The tract of thirty acres was bought from Lorenzo Price. Jr.. at a price between be-tween $10,000 and 50,000, and the adjoining adjoin-ing tract was bought last summer from James F. Green for $l.ri,ono. This property prop-erty Is east and almost adjacent to Valley View addition, which Is now being built up rapidly. Ashton it Jenkins are plnnnlng to make special Inducements to homo builders In tho new tract, seeking purchasers from this class rather than selling the lots on speculation. A new water main lias been authorized by the city council to a point adjoining one of the streets In the now addition, nnd the Utah Gas and Coke company will lay pipes there in the near future. The present street car lines run wllhln two blocks of the tract, and It will bo intersected by tho extension to bo built next year. |