Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-20 | Page 22 | Midland Trail Will Help City, is Claim

MIDlAND TRAil Will NILl WillI I HE HElP CITY IS ClAIM Hubbard Looks for It to Boost t Real Real Estate Prices Here 1 The arrival of ot the tho Indiana automobile touring party porty over or tho the Midland nd trail l- l Friday and nd tho the splendid prospects of ot this route being selected as the tho first rock surfaced transcontinental highway between Now New York and San Francisco have have- proven most interesting at tho lock That the selection of or tho Midland trail as the tho rock surfaced road to be built by bythe bythe bythe the motor car manufacturers of oC this country countr will win mean a very great t doal deal to I Salt Lake lAko Is apparent apparent- Salt Lake Lako has awakened to the tho possibilities of oC the thc project with a I zest that moans means nothing will bo be left leCt undone In the pai part t Utah must pl play in influencing the thc selection el of ot tho Midland as the route through the th country from coast to const coast Salt I ako Lako real leal estate men have ha been quick to appreciate tho scope cope I of or tho work wort and the tho majority of at tho dealers are working heart and soul toul for tor the adoption of at the trail If Ie the thc Midland route Is chosen to barock berock bo be borock rock surfaced it would not only mean meana mcana a per cent increase In the amount of ot tourist business coming through Silt Salt Silt Lake annually but it would mean menn a OO per cent increase in tho amount of at mone money spent here by tourists each cach year declares TV W E E. Hubbard Hubbaro of at the Hubbard Investment ln company campan controlling controlling control control- ling Douglas Park one of ot tho the finest of ot S Salt lt Lakes Lake's high class residence subdivisions sub sub- divisions dl It is Ie difficult to imagine tho the number of ot cars from every very nook and corner of ot the country county that at will go over the tho rock surfaced surfaced transcontinental route the first year It Is opened and from that time on the volume of ot traffic traffic fic fie will steadily increase Tho The automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile manufacturers of ot the country are arc giving el a certain percentage of at their gross cross receipts annually toward a fund of that is to bo be used In surfacIng surfacing surfacing sur sur- I facing facing whatever trail tran is chosen from coast to coast Th The s volume of ot automobile automobile auto auto- mobile traffic that would pour over such lIuch a 0 course cannot be bo estimated And with tho the trail running through h Salt Lake Lak thousands of automobile tourists would stop here each month These tourists would be mostly of ot the moneyed class and their expenditures would increase the tho amount of ot tourist money now spent hero annually b by hundreds of ot thousands of ot dollars dollus Salt I. I Lake ke in m my opinion cannot boost too hard hud for tho the Midland trail Every branch of the tho city's business will viII willbo bo ho affected I know that I should h look for fol increased values In Improved residence residence resi resi- dence subdivision property Immediately At tho the present moment Salt SaIt Lake Lako r residence resi resi- sl- sl dence property is attracting a n. good man many town out men as an Investment Investment Invest Invest- ment opportunity and under an any condItion condition condition con con- that brought a lar larger el Influx of oC men of ot means to town this situation would show dhow a a. great Teat Improvement Mr Dir Hubbard reports several sales of Douglas Park property the tho past week 1 with a R strong inquiry pre prevailing ailing