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Show I REAL ESTATE NEWS AND THE CITY'S BUILDING OPERATIONS Inquiries for real estate of all kinds during "the last week aro reported bv local dealers, who have been busy with the closing of small deals and on a numbor of large transfers which will bo made within tho next thirty days. Actual sales during tho week have been generally confined to rcsidenco property and vacant lots. This demand has been well scattered over the city. Weather conditions are still holding back 'the spring rush and it is predicted (hat as soon, as building operations can be car-ried car-ried on without interruption, the dc-mand dc-mand for lots will show a remarkable' increase. Kimball & Richards report the sale at twenty residence lots in various addi- Hl tions during the last week and this firm is preparing plans for a largo number of homos to be built next spring. Plats for tho proposed Sugar Houso addition to Salt Lake are being revised in ac-cordancc ac-cordancc with tho wishes of tho city council so as to include all of tho addi-tion addi-tion in one plat. This will probably be presented to tho city council com-mittees com-mittees Thursday oveniu'g of this week and no opposition to tho annexation is anticipated. Meanwhile, a force of twelve men with teams 'is engaged in grading tho new star streets while two 1 surveying parties arc making profiles 1 for the street grades. Tho old S. S. Walker rcsidonce on j Main street, .iust south of the Ncwhouse hotel Bite, hns been razed during the week and tho sito for tho Nowhotise tho-nter tho-nter at Exchange place and State street 1 is also being cleared. Final decision on the plans for the Lillard building nt j the northeast corner of Main and Fourth South streets was also reached Friday and building operations in tho new buai-uess buai-uess district will continue through tho vear. Every effort will bp made to msh the work on tho Ncwhousc thcator building so that the theater can bo in commission by next Octobor. Work on the hotM will also be pushed forward as fast as tho arrival of material will per- L 'it. There will be no hurry on tho of (ice buildings and business blocks to the south and west of the hotel, how-ever, how-ever, as no attempt will be made to complete these structures before the hotel ho-tel is ready for opening. Arrival of more steel for the Utah hotel and tho Kcarns building has resulted re-sulted in continued activity on these sites and tho framework for the first two floors of the hotel is already in place. Plans for a large warehouse for the Crane company have been nearly completed com-pleted and building operations will be started in the near future. The firm of Burt & Carlquist reports tho following sales recently closed, amounting to about $-10,000: eII;,K,i?,ter to A" J- -Nuke, residence on bouth West Temple: Cooperative Investment In-vestment association, building lots on the northeast bench to Mary M. Thomp-son; Thomp-son; niodern homo on Lincoln street, from Mary Howard to Eleanor Brodcr' ?.n; four-room modern residence on Eighth Sooth near West Temple, to Edward Ed-ward fccholz- house on East Second South, Samuel D. Leo to Mary Jcueon: four-room residence to John Hulder-strom; Hulder-strom; a four-room house, modern, on Jilaine avenue, from tho Deseret Mutual Investment company to James Morris: four choice lots east of Liberty park from Elizabeth Webb to Hy rum II. Evans; Ev-ans; fine lot ou Lake street to Soreu X .Tneobscn; Jbuilding lots on Washington avenuo io Henry Loeffler and Julian Larcher; seven rods of good trackage property on Third West street to a local investor; northeast bench lot to Ilonan Worncron, from the Co-operative Investment compnny; four-room modern house on Blair avenuo to Max Sommers, $2450; Deseret Mutual Investment Invest-ment company to Owen S.. Hardy, four-room four-room modem houso, $2050; V. R. Fletch-cr Fletch-cr f-S- T,jl!Alw4S Ji"kcrt; five-room houso on Eighth West street, $2600; Granite Investment company, five-room cottage on McClcllnnd avenuo. $3000 r house &Mm ,J,?ilns.on' Pr00-- house from S. Pitts, $1800; lot from Co-operative Investment In-vestment company, $525; four lots on Lake street, $1800. A. Richtor, who hns been spending a few weeks on a vacation to Mexico is now in Los Angeles, expecting to return to bait Lake this week. |