Show DIVIDE THE BLOCKS why should men deliberately refuse a free gift of valuable corner comer lota lots 7 it is Impo impossible salbe to tell why and yet they do thus refuse strangest of all this declination comes from ogden men the tho last per sons in the world whom one would naturally suspect of sleepiness during the past three years an earnest advocacy has been given by certin certain enterprising individuals to the project of dividing the principal business block jn this city the plan has been opposed by property owners t and today to day in the ilia heart of that block where should be four valuable corners comers devoted to business or some magnificent central mercantile structure is nothing but a pestilential dumping damping ground land at the broom hotel comer or at jeeninga Jen ninga corner is worth from to fo per foot front there might be two more comers quite as valuable as both of these made on slain main street near the centre frontage of the block midway between the broom and the jennings corners on fourth fifth and young there might be six more comer comers cut out of this block tho the land in the heart of ill this is block is a today to day worth comparatively nothing A space of feet square lies there useless it should be worth at the present valuation of available land in that locality without counting improvements to bring it to such a figure it is only necessary to divide the present block into four equal squares by means of streets tannin running g north and south and east cast and west now the block has his four corners by the th division it would have sixteen are the other twelve corners worth taking as a gift if 11 so the property owners in block 25 should make division at once |