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Show WAR.! DAYS ALSO BUSY ONES HERE No Cessation of Activity In Real Estate Circles In Summer. COST OF BUILDING STAYS AT LOW MARK Farther Street Car Extensions Exten-sions Planned Help Districts Served. Though July and August are aup-fr aup-fr posed t0 he dull months in the real estate es-tate business, leading dealers of Salt 1 Lake City declare that their aalea are holding up wonderfully well. This is l true etpeeislly in Tiew of the large I number of people who are now oat Of I the city. One of the leading dealers mi it" Th 1 1 m orarn gr ''Our btiainese continues excellent-better, excellent-better, I "think, than it has .been for several years at thi aeaaoa. A large number of people are now out of the city, but they will begin to return in the next two or three weeks and then we look for a big increase ia tha volume vol-ume of bnaineaa. "Bv this I do not mean a boom, fcelt Lake City does aot waat any more booms. It has had enough. What we want and, need is to have buaineae gw along as it has for th last few months, just a steady, solid growth, on that means the city is building up to stay - built up." "We couldat kick said another, "if we wanted to. Wa are too busy attending to customers. This week w have mads a number of sales, ons for a ten-acre plot soutbssat of tha city. This will be cut up into sers lots and sold at low price on long term payments. pay-ments. This land includes a good water right to -each let, so that with proper attention a man could make a fairly good living off an acre-of land is this section of the city. ' "At present the land is about s twelve-snouts walk from is street ear line, but before the end of the year this will be cut dowa by tbe building of a new line into that 'section of ths city." Of building condition aa officer offi-cer of on of th leading building Iras said: Now Is Tim to Build. "I think that it would be a good idea for THE TELEGRAM to repeat its advice of a few month ago 'Now is the time to build.' "There has never been a better time for borne building ia Salt Lake City than right now and thi condition has prevailed for the last four or five months and will be for some time to come, though it is impossible to tell 1 bow long it will laet. Baildiag alsts- rial is cheaper aow than it ha been ia rears, and there ia plenty of labor. From our own experience I would aay, build ow if you intend to build." As as indication of the fhpid aad stesdy growth of Salt Lake City may be taken the fact that though the Hotel Ho-tel Utah has been completed and . opened to the publie less tbaa two months, the owners find that it is not large enough to accommodate the wante of the traveling publie. and plana are being prepared for an addition to the north of the hotel which will contain between 110 and 125 rooms. Work on this addition will commence just aa soon an the transfer of the property csn be made, which will likely be rsrly next week. Street Oar Zrtansloaa. With th application of the Utah Light and Railway company for franchises fran-chises for the extension of'two of its lines property in two sections of the city have taken on a small sixad boom. Ons of the applications is for a line to run from Ninth Booth and Eleventh bast esst to Michigan avenue, tbea in s southeast direction to Fifteenth East and then south to Twelfth South. This lias will serve th sew eeat aid high school as well as Douglas park and one or two additiosa which lie to the south of that park. Th application for this franchise bat bees held back, as th owners of Douglas Dou-glas Park agreed to do the grading through tbe nark if th street car com-nany com-nany would build the track. The grading grad-ing is flushed, snd as soon as the franchise fran-chise i granted th work of track laying will commence. It U th intention in-tention of the eomnasw to aava this lie finished and is operation by the end of th present veer. Tkia lies is is addition to the one which th company will build from Eleventh Eaet and Fifth South to Rev. eatk South, then oast to Thirteenth F.sst aad then south to Ninth South. Th erork of grading for thi line is sow being pushed with s steam shovel sad a larg fore of men aad team. Th grading will require th removal of JO.OrtO eubie yards of earth. Th tin wiU Mas th Judge Mercy boapi-tal boapi-tal a well aa the weet side ef the high school sit. This lis will likely be completed and in operatios within ths aext throe months. On Capitol Hlli. Th other liae for which the com pany baa applied for s franehts will be kaows a th eapltol hill line. It will run north from the intersection of State aad North Tempi street to Weet Capitol avenue and northwest along it to Fourth' North. It is th intention nf the company to commence work on this line just as seen aa possible after th fraorhis is granted. From tk expreeeion of various real stat men. the proposition of the board of park commissioner to have the owner of each of the subdivisions . to th city t a Dart a plot of ground for a publie park Is meeting with fs-ror. fs-ror. Th idea is to have tk owners dedicst land which shall be a park, fllled with tree,, flower sad laws. Would Eby Sell lerta. Rom of th owner are not slow to see the advantage of inch a plan. Ther ear that it will mean that it will be easier to sell lot ia that property if ' the buyer knows that there will be a nark eloee at hand where he aad hi family can go to spend a few hours whenever they ae St wi thent being nut to th expeaa of street car fare 1 visit a park in s distant part of the gitv. . Leading dealers any that there eoa-tlnnes eoa-tlnnes to b a demand for business . nroperts-. bet aao we eseswaS ast the high price at which it 1 held by th prrscat ream vary little ia changing hand. At tbe present time the pnari-pal pnari-pal demean ia for building Iota, smalt borne or eloa ia faming property. |