Show FOR AMELIA PALACE snows SHOWS now HOVI CITY VALUES GROW CROW I Property Purchased Fourteen Four teen Years Ago for 50 Worth An offer of of 33 has lIas been refused for fol the the- Amelia palace alic and nd the ground which it o occupies cup s 's at th the southwest corner cornor cor ner nor of State and South Temple streets The rhe offer was was' made f several days ago and was refused b. b by Colonel and Mrs E E. E P. P Holmes I It is said aid that the offer otTer was made in behalf of a syndicate cate which wished to erect a IRr largo large e department store storo on the tho corner with a view viO viOto to holding hoMin business to the north part of tho the business section and to increase the value of surrounding property Th The Tho property was purchased about fourteen years vears a ago o by y and Mrs j Holmes f for r A short time after thc they purchased it thc they refused for the thc property The Tho house houtie was erected in the early seventies b by Brigham Briham Youn Young und and for foz many mans years car was Wa known as liS the tho finest ft residence in Utah After the death of President Young the tho property passed I to the Mormon Jormon church and was used as at tho the official residence of President t John Taj lor for a number of years Durin During th the tho early nineties it was leased and L used for a time as th the Keeley tuto tute In ln 1805 1895 it was niS leased d to Isaac and later to A. A W. W McCune who occupied it until it wa was sold to tc I Colonel and Mrs Holmes |