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Show PROPERTY OWNERS ARE LOTH TO PART WITH HOLDINGS Business Men Raise Prices to Keep Others From Buvine'.1 With at least three big deals about to be closed, two of which are for suburban property and the other for a buelneas site, leading real estate dealers feel that ths end of two months of partial inactivity Is at hand. . In addition to this the dealers say Jhat the summer vacation Is practically at an end. and that within the next two or three weeks the market will open up and a number of deale thai have been held lln abeyance for several weeke will One of the big suburban deal, wh Ich will he closed wlibln a day or two will mean the adding of over forty acres or nrsi cla.s land'to the city. H la the '"entlon to divide thla tract Inlo half a re kit. and sell II on long lime pa menu. The land has first water rlghta and though It Is a lew bloc ks from a present cr line It I. underwood thel a line will be built within the next year to within two blocke of the tract. . The other tract la a southeast one and If the present plsns go through It will e open for sale wlihin a few deye. "The truth of th matter i thai the city la growing so feat Ibat th avarag resident does not know whet te going on aid one or the leading real estate n.er, this morning. "People who visited Fell I . Cltv five or ten jeers ago do not recognise' the illy now and they wonder why w have grown so mud Ir they would stop to think they would know the r.-son Thl Is ihe center of over KX) miles of rich country In every direction. It Is aa the late E H. Harrtman said, -una Ar Ihe great clliee of the Cnlled eUalee. There is nothing that I know of that i.n prevent Ih growth of Salt I-ke Clly. and Ihie ta one or lb reaaun that buelneas buel-neas men of the city, the men who believe be-lieve In the city, rofuse to sell their business busi-ness nropettv. They know thst the longer ti.ey hold on to It Ihe higher the prlr will go. because there Is nothing that csn kA?cordln to this dealer th price of residence properly all! rlee at leest : per rent before next fell, and It will ke-p on rising at least 10 per cent for a number "VhsVa dee" Is on for a large piece of business properly was admitted b one dealer thle morning. H refueed to give the namea or the interested partlee or to sav where Ihs property wss located. He staled that th men who wanted to purchase pur-chase the properly were not l lah men, but that they have fslth in ihe future or Belt Lake Clly and are willing lo Invasl their money here "The only question la. wtlt th present owner of Hie property Insist In-sist on a price that Ih eastern men will not pay? " said he. That the ownere of business property In Sell l-ak Cllv do not care to part with Ihelr holdings Is becoming more evident every day. ! ie stated unfiod authority that prop, arty that waa off-red for IJoOO per front foot six months ago cannot be purchased today at an advance of 30 per cent, and that a majority of Ihe owners of business property do not care to place a price on their holdings, and It they do offer It It ia so high that they do nut expecl It to be-accepted. |