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Show BEST BUILDING SPRING IN HISTORY Of CITY; fIBNY NEW HOUSES marred the beauty of lower Main street for a long time. The Utah Light and Railway company com-pany will extend its track improvements improve-ments on South Main street beyond the Salt Palace and will put in service their new cars. In a short time this end of the busiest busi-est street in the city will be sought by capitalists who will take up the large traet of unimproved ground that lies directly south, subdivide it on the Los Angeles system and make it one of the most attractive home sections in the city. . , . The spring buyers broke into the local lo-cal real estate market during the week, and the long-expected sale of small properties for homes commenced. Although Al-though the market .waa not orerly strong, It was steady and even, and Indicates that the spring buying In Utah will he greater than ever before. Within the next few days there will be a greater amount of building done than last spring. The greater amount of transactions in real estate during the week were for smaller properties for the building of homes. There was far more inquiry for home property durinsr the week than there has been before this spring. There was no particular section of the city designated and the demand was general. Week a Fine One. ' A number of business properties changed hands during the week. In all, the week was as good as has been had by real estate dealers in a long time. "It has been the best market thus far thisear," said a real estate dealer yesterday. "Indications are that one of the heaviest building seasons ever known in Salt Lake will commence this spring. I have Just returned from a trip over the northeast bench, and it was a surprise to me to see the number num-ber of houses that are being erected in that part of the city. "Just as an indicator of what is going go-ing on all over the city: Work is in progress in one wav or another at Third and M streets, Third and K streets, and on K between Second and Third, and other places in the neighborhood. neigh-borhood. More than half a dozen houses are being erected there, and that vary - f com a small cottago to p. home worth $12,000. "The property in that vicinity seems to be selling better the farther north you go. There is scarcely a piece of Froperty in that vicinity that is now or sale. The values have gone up at a great rate in the past year. "Just to show how property has increased in-creased in value, I can show yon a lot on the northwest bench that was purchased pur-chased a little over a year ago that has brought nearly three times Its original purchase price. "Some time ago an agent came to me with property for sale. He wanted $800 for a lot, as he said the owner was in a hurry to leave town. I went out to look the property .over, and returned re-turned a few hours later to learn that the agent himself had purchased the froperty for $550, and sold it for $800. offered $900 for the property, and before be-fore night I had sold it for $1000. The Ferson who purchased the property rom me lay it off in four lots, and I resold it for him for $1400. The property is far above that figure now." Buys of the Week. . Among the transactions of the week are: Mrs. Boss A. Wilson has purchased pur-chased from Mrs. F. E. Spencer the property at 163 South Fifth East street for $5000. Mrs. Wilson intends to erect a $30,000 apartment-house on the property. Another transaction was that Quayle Cannon has purchased from C. ET Taylor Tay-lor a strip 63 by 16 feet on Third South and First West streets for $12,000 as an investment. - Jacob Moritz has purchased an undivided undi-vided half interest in the property at the northeast conrner of State and Fourth South streets. The property was purchased of Ada G. Gray, and the consideration was $37,125 cash. The property is directly across the street from the joint city and county building. It has a frontage of ten rods on State street and nine rods on Fourth South street. It is at present occupied by a saloon, restaurant, a cottage, several barns and a blacksmith black-smith shop. As soon as the leases expire ex-pire on these, work will be commenced for a large six-story building. South Main Proposition. The question tbat now concerns Salt Lake investors is how far south on Main street will the' present building-activity building-activity continue. The completion of the Newhouse skyscrapers sky-scrapers will make that immediate vi-einity vi-einity a busy center and will justify the building of business houses to Fifth South. There has been a great demand for building lots as far south as Sixth South street. Many deals have been closed for lots on whreh large and up-to-date apartment-houses will be constructed con-structed to take the place of the present pres-ent one-storj dwellings that lays, i - . |