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Show i mum mm 1111 Acre-homesite Idea Taking With Many Prospective Buyers. There aro strong inclinations that scores of tlirmjjhU'ul men and women in Salt Lake who, work after week, see butter and o'l.- and the meat and vie- ) tallies on their grocery bills mounting higher and higher in price are beginning to seek a means nt escape from the high living ro-t anl go where they can grow the greater portion of everything they want to eat and at the ?ame time so locate themselves that the man of the house can continue with his regular cm ployment. Despite the fact that there is snow on the ground and it is a season wdien inquiries on property are not as f re- i (Uient as during the summer months, ? the off fie in Is in charge of Val Yerda, tho tract of a-'re-liomeMtes seven miles P north of Salt Lake, on the Centerville "SJr ear line, reported yesterday that during the past two weeks a very large ninn-ber ninn-ber of inquiries have been received relative to the statement of the Bet-tilyon Bet-tilyon JJome Builders company, owners ' of Val " erda, that any man who is j willing to work and move his family , onto an aero of ground at Val Verda 1 can make that portion of the acre not : occupied by his housi produce sufficient. j I vegetables and fruit, together with , chickens and eggs and butter, cream 1 and milk from a cow, for his family i needs. " ( The Bettilyon officials point to tbe f act that tli ere are six families living in new and modern homes today at Val Verda, who are prepared to do exactly this very thing tlie moment spring j breaks. Three or four other new homes are rapidly being completed aud nearlv a ; dozen families will be residing at Val Verda by the first of the year. Each of these families has gone to Val Verda with the idea of making their acre of ground produce, so much in the wav ot j fruit and vegetables, chickens and eggs. i together with a cow, cream, butter and i milk, that their cash expenditures tor ! L living expenses will be cut down to - around $10 a month. The fa(-t that Val Verda is but twenty-five minutes' ride by street car trom Salt Lake enables the men of each iam-ilv iam-ilv to go to and from their work in the city daily. "It has been thorough I v j proven that any man who is willing to I put in a little extra time each day can. i with the help of his familv, take care of an acre of ground. The "fact that at Val Verda there is a fine waterworks system, with water piped into everv home, together with electric lights, telephones, tele-phones, graded streets, cement sidewalks side-walks and good stores near bv that deliver de-liver merchandise free to Val "Verda, all helps. Mr. Bettilyon stated yesterday that the majority of those who have inquired about Val Verda the past week are ; men working on a salary, who day after day see prices increase for food and cloth??, while tl'.cy themselves are nn-ai'le nn-ai'le to earn more than their regular i-ularv each month. A number or sale? of Val Verda acre? have been ma-le dining the j.rut ten tiays. . |