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Show MS HPEiEIE Rich Soil Adjacent to Salt Lake Is Sought by Men Who Have Families. The nows announced last week regarding regard-ing a change in the selling arrangement at Yal Verda, and a further announcement announce-ment of which is made today in the advertising ad-vertising columns of Tho Tribune, has created more interest probably than any other announcement made in real estato circles localh' this season. Val Verda and the idea back of it that a man can make a living from an acre of Utah's rich soil located close enough to the city so that the man can continue with his work in town and at the same time place his acre under intensive in-tensive cultivation has become very popular with Salt Lakers. ; ''A little land and liberty" is the idea on which thousands of men and women in California have in recent years worked out their independence, 'their health and the betterment of tho condition condi-tion of their children. With Val Verda lying but seven miles north of Salt Lake and directly on the Centervillo car line and with the soil of each acre-homesite the richest and most fertile to bo found anywhere in the. state, with more than $20,000 expended by tfie Bettilyon Home Builders company in the construction of a great reservoir and waterworks svs-tem svs-tem and the laying of cement sidewalks side-walks aud grading of the streets, together to-gether with the erection this vear of four new homes and the inauguration of the cultivation of these acres, it is pointed point-ed out that Val Verda so fullv meets the requirements of the man who wants to make an acre raise all he and his family will eat throughout the vear, with some to sell each month in' addition, while he still continues with his work in the city, that this property is being inspected and investigated daily by more people than have ever become interested in a similar project in Utah. The officials of the Bottilvon Home Builders company of Salt Lake, owners of Val Verda, state that the percentage of meu snd women who buy acre-home-sites at Val Verda, out of a total number num-ber who have seen the property, is remarkably re-markably high.' Mr. Bettilyon points out that Val Verda is far from being a "back to the soil" movement in tho ordinary acceptance ac-ceptance of that term. There is nothing in the old idea of farming that pertains at all to Val Arerda. The isolation and loneliness and drudgery and hard work of farm life, as most city folks remember it or pic- I ture it, have no place in the scheme of things at Vol "Verda. In discussing this phase of Val Verda, Mr. Bettilyon" said yesterday: A man anil his wife and children nt Val Verda can hao a new house, with every modern convenience, including in-cluding water pipeil under high pros-sure, pros-sure, telephones, electric lights, deliveries de-liveries of merchandise daily from near-bv stores, schools and churches close bv, regular street cur service into town, plenty of neighbors and, best of nil, an abundance of free, pure air and health-building surroundings. sur-roundings. And, instead of paying out every cent he. makes each month for groceries gro-ceries and butter nnd milk and eggs and the other things he and his fain- -ily eat, bis acre will raise all the vegetables and fruits; his chickens will make money for him, nnd his cow will supply "his table with butter but-ter and milk and cream, in addition to what ho sells for- cash. Living this way, a man can cut down his cash expenditures for his entiro family fam-ily to between $8 and $10 a month, which in turn means that he can save all that he makes in town and in a few years his new homo and his acre at Val Verda are his own, lie will have money in the bank and never again will he be entirely dependent de-pendent on his job. |