Deseret Evening News | 1908-12-05 | Page 1 | Excessive Price May Defeat Plan

ESSIE FREE OE OELand Land Owners Near Federal Build Building ing Would Absorb Whole of Government Appropriation SOME SUBSTITUTE PLANS for Erecting It Over It Is not at that tho Improvements to tho Salt I ake post postoffice office planned to accommodate In business or metropolitan Salt Lake will after all not be made According to the testimony taken In Iho condemnation the government to 40 feet in the rear of the Fed oral building the cost of this land Is what would ratu at In tho very heart of the busiest section At the figures estimated by layman U T II Houston and other real estate men the cost ot tho 10 feet of ground back of would almost completely absorb tho govern government ment appropriation This money amounts to only for the whole Improvement The owners land have put In testimony putting Its value at very close to The case was not taken up In the enil court today but went over until Monday at the close of yesterday after afternoons testimony If tho jury In Its finding estimates its values at the fig figures ures given in the testimony it will make the Idea of expanding by seeking new territory out of tho question PROPERTY SOUGHT From the company the government wants 10 feet Market street with a depth of feet to be cut off feet which this com company pany owns company has put In testimony to show that this would be bean an excellent cafe site for a cafe to serve tho new district At present n cafe nearby does only a slight business However tho property is shown in the testimony to bo worth with a damage of 1000 to property because the CO feet that Is left to the company would not hold a building as feet it now owns total with the Walker property and the Swenson es to satisfy The depth of property docs fully equal the width pt the Federal building Therefore 48 feet is wanted from Walker property just back of the south part of Tho Swen si rip 5 feet lii length packing land to tho governments without any consideration of life Walker property Tho stipulation naturally Is causing ral building ItIs conceded that unless tho jury materially cuts the the Improvement willbo impracticable cable to carry out A substitute en Is being discussed ot adding addinga a story to the building or of arching present roadway and building rooms It