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Show THE LURE OF THE SUBURBS. A great sun dipping gently to its golden bed, its fan-like effulgence pierced by mountain peaks of lovely white, whilst empurpled eventide slips down about the foothills, dispelling the mists of afternoon and leaving a wonderful valley in the first shadows of the night to come; around you and within, the purest of air; below a vista of city and country and long lines of fire-fly lights; queer, faint sounds that float up from the marts beneath and amidst it all, for you a spirit of sweet tranquility "A piece of lawn apart, and when you've finished its the old, old story of the lure of the East bench these spring afternoon as they wan and fall away into dusk a story as old as the bench itself, and yet in the ever changing beauty of the kaleidoscopic picture pic-ture as marvelously new as the wonders of the sunsets which give it life. It has all been written before and so long as the seasons swing the cycle of their courses It will be set to type over and over again this elusive enchantment of the mountain valley from almost any foot of that great stretch of bench land which flanks it high and long on the left. Meanwhile, men are reaching out for more and more of its beautiful slopes and streets and streets of homes are pushing south and east. Despite the stringency of a past ill-omened year, Salt Lake is already in the swing of a season, sea-son, the home owning and home building active ties of which, particulai'ly on the east side, seem quite certain of centering on those East Bonoh subdivisions of more or less pretentiousness, whose owners have braved the rigors of a money-, money-, tight winter and proceeded with their improvement improve-ment planes with all possible dispatch.. No other city in all the intermountain region is blessed, or will ever be, with so great an acreage of natural home sights for the man of average or well-to-do means as Salt Lake. The iBast bench is nature's gift to the metropolis and the awakening there during the past three and a half years is in a very large measure the story of a portion of the town's commercial advancement. advance-ment. Before the summer is over it Is probable a million and a quarter Ojf dollars will be put into improvements on ithe East bench by those realty concerns which have or will in the im-'mediate im-'mediate future develop and put on the market residence tracts. For established propertle; of this nature are being brought to a high state of perfection and no other section or Salt Lake can, at present, show a tenth of the building activity of the Eastern bench land. It is all making for the ultimate beauty of the town, and those who are not actively participating participat-ing are watching. The newest and closest in piece of property to be marketed is Douglas park, theMeeks & McCartney-Hubbard Investment Company tract on Thirteenth East Street, between Eighth and Ninth South, joining on the east the new high school site. The promoters of this property have worked with unusual care in getting It ready for buyers and the lots of the district offer a splendid selection of home sites. The thousand and one hundred lots average in size 25x140 feet and prices range from $325 to $600 a lot. Further back on the bench and situated on one of the most beautiful spots the entire bench boasts, is Highland Park, a great tract of over three thousand lots, owned by Kimball & Richards, Rich-ards, and on which nearly eighty thousand dollars has already been expended in modern improvements. improve-ments. In the year this tract has been on the market over two thousand of its three thousand lots have been sold and a dozen pretty bungalow homes are located on the principal avenues of the subdivision. The owners of the ground expect to spend a quarter of a million dollars in completing improvements already under way in Highland Parle These two big projects, with the dozen others inaugurated the past six months on the bench, are forging steadily ahead and the end is obviously not yet in the possibilities of property development develop-ment on a big scale along the slopes of the "Wasatch "Was-atch foothills. |