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Show ONE WAY OF ADVERTISING SALT LAKE. The Salt Lake real estate market is fairly lively in one sense, that many small transfers arc being made. There is no rush, there is no "feverish excitement," ex-citement," and no champagne- is being opened in celebration of notable deals, but realty dealers agree that there is enough doing to more than keep them alive and have no complaints to make over the prospects. The hot fight-in fight-in words only nothing really san- j, guine, made between the Butohers and Grocers' association and the Real Estate association has waned, worn itself out in a smoke of numberless expressions, in which the B's and G's all but accused their realty brethren of canine ancestry, and made the warfare war-fare more than incidental by th. invention in-vention and application of an entirely new and original term of reproach, contumely and scorn. This was the expression, "Gentlemen of the Holy Russian Synod." Secretary Ptrkes A' of the Real Estate association has fairly scratched himself bald in trying to translate this piece of vocal fan fare into "readable English," and in despair passed it up for elucidation to Judge Co'bom who is wearing his sweet young life away in search of a Rosetta stone with which to translate trans-late it. The Real Estate association held "a large and enthusiastic meeting" that is to say, Judge Colborn was large, and Pcrkcs was enthusiastic, and decided by a unanimous vote to raise $10,000, with which to "probe to the bottom" the Butchers and Gro-fcers' Gro-fcers' association methods; and with the ringing slogan of "Let no ?uilty man escape," collected $250 (in promises pro-mises to pay) after several week's strenuous exertions. Where the rest of the $9750 will come from appears about as uncertain as where certain subscriptions for the boulevard disappeared dis-appeared to, and to date of fulfillment of that somewhat ambiguous epoch, "When the cows come home." The Salt Lake Real Estate association associa-tion has been distinguishing itself in other fields of special activity than in planning the overthrow of the ".alls of the Butchers and Grocers' Jericho with the association "Shophar." They have been raising money as well as something more torrid, to "suitably advertise Salt Lake" in the Eastern ', states. In this well-meant policy the realty men have been highly successful; success-ful; in fact, so much so that they are fearful of having done a little of what Josh Billings would call "2 mutch." They have stirred up things all right, just as was intended, east of the Rocky mountains. They have told people that an organized body of Amalckitcs, Jcbusitcs, Hiutcs, Hit'ites and other 'itcs existed in the shape of a Butchers and Grocers' association with that simple and unpretentious un-pretentious child of Mercury, Lorenzo Jensen, at their head, ready to kill and devour the substance of the new comers, with an avidity that would paralyze a railway lunch counter. In addition to telling them of the exalted prices for the necessaries of life, they have told them they could find no I houses, that there was no Rcavis to put roofs over their heads, that in order or-der to live they must build, and Miat where building cost a few years ago I $200 per room, it now costs $800. So the Salt Lake Real Estate association held another large and enthusiastic meeting, and decided that 1000 dwellings dwel-lings should be constructed immediately immedi-ately if not sooner, the plan being adopted by a viva voice vote. But the same difficulty was encountered that the congregation of mice experienced .vlien, after unanimously voting to put a bell of warning around the cat's neck, no one could be found who would venture upon the performance. perform-ance. Who would build the houses? with the Northwestern Lumber trust, as reported by Real Estate fakirs shoving shov-ing prices so high that a telescope was necessary to read them;and with brick and other building material scoring a mighty close second; with labor so high that Jack and the Bean Stalk were commonplace in comparison. compari-son. The resolution remains on the records re-cords of the Salt Lake Real Estate association, a sad parody on that maxim max-im of equity jurisprudence, that " hat ought to be, is, what ought to be done, has in fact been done." However, there is a good deal of building going on, notwithstanding the Real Estate association, though largely in a small way. There are people who must have houses, and they arc building anyhow. So mod-crate mod-crate sized homes arc going up over town increasing local taxable valuations valu-ations and the consumption of .oal. The southeastern part of the citv is being thus populated with the cast and northeast sections not far bihind. Work progresses on the Ncwhouse buildings. The same is true with regard re-gard to the new Union passenger station sta-tion of the Gould roads while the Short Line has been quite expeditious, for its yards are well along, and material ma-terial for the great station will soon be on hand. The street car management is forging forg-ing ahead with valuable improvements; improve-ments; the latest being the "grand Union plan" at Second South and Main streets where rapid work s being be-ing done. The Utah Savings Bank & Trust company has just finished its handsome new seven story Main Street block and tenants arc mrving in. More such buildings are needed, and until they are built avaricious property owners will be talking higher high-er and higher rentals until business men find all their profits are going to the landlords and real estate owners. Soon, however, it may be that property pro-perty owners will admit that tenants have a right to live. It wouldn't take many such raises in rentals as were sprung on Callaway, Calla-way, Hoock & Francis, Will Gray, the People's Forwarding Co., and a number of other local business houses, hous-es, to send some tenants out of the ci'y. The agent of the Brigham Young-Clayton Investment Co. is credited with making the boast that in the four years he had been in the saddle he had increased the ren'als by $50,000. The temptation is very great, when a landlord sees a tenant in a corner, to "sock it to him" for all he can possibly stand; and there are but few landlords who seem able to resist. This is one way the Real Estate association has of "properly advertising Salt Lake City." and by the ultrapoetical, supcracsthetical descriptions des-criptions of this country by Judge Colborn. Politics are no worse here than anywhere, any-where, as vide Denver and San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Politics need not keep people away, of course "The Mormon Problem" Prob-lem" is, by the Tribune, still stuck up as a bogie man, a perennial scarecrow with which to frighten tourists and settlers |
