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Show ADVANCE IN REAL ESTATE EXPECTED AT EARLY DATE ell-informed Realty Men Say That the Present Conditions in Salt Lake Cannot Maintain Main-tain Much Longer. THAT a general upward movement in Salt Lulie real estate is bound to come at an early date, is the view of the best informed real estate men in this city. Attention litis been repeatedly called to the faet that it is next to impossible to rent a mod- j ern home, a modern apartment, or a modern suite ot oU'iees, such is the demand. de-mand. Of eourse. fhe general prosperity of j the peopie is responsible in part for this condition, but added to it is the fact , that the eitv is rapidly iin rea.-in in I population "and the " facilities for proper houin are inadequate. Several Sev-eral larce apartment houses are now in c- urse of const nut ion and it is said that everv arartnunt has been rented in advance, with many persons on the waiting list. V. A. Bettilyon's Views. l"iscusM:i general conditions, V. A. Bettilyon of the l-iettilyon Home Builders' Build-ers' company, said yesterday: If you want to know something about" th future prowt h uf ait like City. vii try to rent an ot'lice in one ef t';e business bvi iKilut:-. or try to rent a horr.f in a tic.ra le io'-a-tle-n. or an aparme nt. or. tn fa t. trv to locate in San J-aUc c'iiy. ami you wi'.l at one."- conie to tiie conclusion that there Is soim thine ba !ly nee ied. And that is. we ner.l more o:":ico huiH-lni:s, huiH-lni:s, we neei ir.ore business blocks, we neid a iartcor expansion of the business district, we need iTiore apartment apart-ment houses, v.'f need more homes to house the incoming an i increasing population. In consld--mion o' the foresolnc; eomiitlons, and ha vine in mi mi the ii; tu re and when I say the future I mean the i:ti:ininz of our soldier boys from the camps, w'hen peace has been declared what are we coins to do? Cnless th-1 immediate future brines forth additional eonsirii'-tion in business block:-, offices, apartment houses and residences, you will find our population will be compelled to i liu in undeirahle places. Looking to Future. j It poes wit lieu t sayiiiir that the yeans men who ;;re at the fn'nt, when peace is dec!an-d. wdl return home to t heir wives nd families, or thev will return with the intention of marrying the airls they left behind. That means that, aside frum the increase in-crease or" population whir-h is natural, we wdl have these additional families. I additional youm; men who will eneace j in business, who will need office si ace, i to take - are of. So as to the future ue can see nothing 'nut a tremendous a-'tivity in the construction of new buildincs. Tt lias been stated that after the-war the-war is aver the mining industry will not he so active. This may h- true, hut wo will have to consider tha? during dur-ing the war the h.U-h ost of materials ard the ex treru'y hiii price of mm-in.u- pro-it:e:s has brouit hipions of doliars into the country, and other industries not dir-ctlv interested in the war or in fnrrushine the war materials ma-terials have been slow, hut as soon as the war is over tnese conditions will turn, and, while the'v, may be some slowness in the mintne industry, this will be offset many tims by the tremendous tre-mendous business in other lines. Expects Cheap Money. And on -account of the money market, mar-ket, the cheapness of money, which )s sure to come, and the plentifulness of (t will encourage these other activities, activi-ties, which, are at the present time inactive. The sale of laherty bonds of the last issu shows conclusively that a great deal of money invested in these bonds is motley that otherwise would not be in circulation. 1 mean by this that a great many of the poorer class of people, instead of investing- their money, hoard it away in some old shoe box and there it remains out of circulation. These Liberty bonds have eneouraeed them to invest and put their money into circulation, ami for that reason, if for no other, money will be plentiful after the war is over. As I view the situation in this Liberty bond loan, temporardv the banks are called upon to advance a lai'fre per c-uit of this monev. but it means that in only a few months, through other channels, this money wanders back to the banks, and they are in the same condition as before the bonds were issued. Circulation Increased. When you fiirure that this issue of bonds puis into circulation almost double t he amount of capital which otherwise would not be, and that this money is loaned to foreign countries on which we receive a fair rat-1 of interest, the interest alone from these loans will brin in a flood of new money into the country, und whn the principal is paid it will double our circulation. The farmer, I believe, at this time is worthy of men t ion. A few years aeo the farmer was generally " considered con-sidered a poor man. Within three years v- now consider him our rich m;nu The farmer is m;Hine more money fivm his farm by far than the averagv citizen, and he will continue to make money as long; as the war lasts. This means that farms will increase In villus. There Is a movement move-ment mi now which has not been on for years, and that is "ha" U to the farni." It is a movement of differ crt iVehiiK than it was a fe-v ',. rs Farm Movement Popular. It is back to the farm, not only to make rnom-v, bat as a patriotic duty as wa.!l. Kami kinds are bound to increase in v.du.- and will continue after tin' w:tr is over. As I view it this will be caused principally by the reat i rnmiu ::i t ion that is bound to uMiie to this country. , A larue p--r cent of these people are poor and will not have the money to purchase laud, hut thrv will have the stremrth to work on farms. ;un! that is needed ;-s much us capital, and a larce number of them sooner or later will be)mo farm own rs. The thi: for the people in Utah to do is to i r. -p. ire for this gre.it i r. flux and inert ase of population, w Inch is bound to com'1. |