Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-15 | Page 1 | Big Apartment House Will be Erected on Old 18th Ward Square

Big Apartment House Will Be Erected on n nOld Old W Ward Square Former Mayor John S. S Bransford has bas just completed arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments menta with Mrs Edwin F F. Holmes for the sale of th the old Eighteenth I Iward ward square to the Covey brothers of this city The Coveys who i iare are now flow making makin additions to their South Temple street apartment house will er erect t a huge apartment building on the property they purchase from Mrs Holmes The Eighteenth ward square is bounded on the east by A street on on the south by First avenue and on the north by Second avenue It extends west about the length of half a city block The municipality began negotiations with Mrs Holmes three or four years ago ago looking to lo the purchase of the Eighteenth ward I square for park and playgrounds purposes The price fixed by Mrs Holmes for the property was at at- atthe the actual cost to her at the time of its purchase by her she said The Th purchase was M n not t consummated mated by the city however r as as sufficient funds were not then available for that use Mr Bransford leaves Los Angeles Friday w with th the final nal pap papers rs to be J signed here ift G I f i r