Show Property Owners Want City to th Buy y New w Park Frk Petitions bearing the thc signatures s of more than five h hundred Salt Lake property owners will be presented Inthe in inthe inthe the near future to the mayor and city commission asking that the land between between between be be- tween Ninth and Tenth West Vest streets and fifth and Seventh South streets bo be purchased for park purposes The land in question Is at present unoccupied and can be bought for It is eight acres in extent and andis andis andis is a natural park location The Jordan Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan river flows through the tract It is estimated that two thousand families live within a a. radius of a little littleover littleover littleover over r a mile from the proposed park site Poplar Grove Grove- which Is Just west I of the river at this point claims a a. population population pop pop- popI I of and there are two sch schools near the location The land is pe o by J. J S. S CamJon Camion Cameion of New York an and f Hoffman Hottman Bros Loan I and Trust company The latter laUer conc concern con con- I c cern rn contemplates th the erection of a a I number of houses on the property facing Seventh South street in lit the I event ent that the site Is not approved and purchased by the city Some time ago ago- Riverside park was I established about a mile and a half halt haltnorth north of this site site- and it Is La claimed that the proposed park at Ninth West Vest and Fifth South should have havo been heen established established at that time time- and that it should have been named Riverside because of the location of the tle Riverside school I Inear near there 1 The proposed park parle site alto is in the center of the finest residence section of the west side Many beautiful dwellings s have been built in that lo locality locality locality lo- lo during the past two years Many Man of the houses are owned by workers and these people insist that the thc proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed site is a a. most lo logical location and direct attention to the fact that that ItIs it itis itis is fully a mile and a half from there thereto to any afY other park the nearest ne-arest being Pioneer and anti Riverside parks |