Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-04-28

They are noW IN the possession Of the police
and thsfl owner or owners may obtain their
properly BY applying at the station house, on
FIont Row.
MEurHIs REAL EsrATE-During the past
ten years practical croskeB-the men IN
whose eyes a five cent piece covers several.
acres Of creation, and who would not give a
check Of ten dollars On the Gayoso Savings
Institute for q mortgage On ten acres Of Para
dise-such men, for ten years, each day, week
and month, have ever asserted that Memphis
properly had gone beyond al reasonable limits
q vaiustion, and we have been accustomed 70
hear then talk about rsesding 60 often, that
long ago we lost all faith in thsir sayings and
p~rsiicdous
Memphis property has coutnued, under all
Circumstances, to advance. uhs hnsncisI re-
vulsion Of last year failed to sEeetit Hard
times" the great murderer Of men and Of their
fortunes, has produced no change. King cot
ton raises and ~straightsns himself, then bows
down before the lords Of Manchester and LF-
srpooi, but nothing besides Fixed facts, The
uusqualed advantages Of our locality and the
vas kNAlAN AAAAaEAN ~ Jul ely EtLALNN JIG
prices Of that broad space between the zenith
and the nadir, which Blackstone tells Us ex-
tends " ab fgrG usgus Gd o~oGIHm,1 and which
We are accustomed to denominste real estate.
With a railway oonnectiRt our city with
Louisville, with the Iron Mouhtsin road con-
ple.e, with our present connections with he
Atlantic ports, and a railroad direct to New
Orsssns, and then with a fee simple title 10 all
Arkansas, which we are acquiring BY means
Of The Lizzie Rock road, Memphis viii con
daus TO advance in wealth and greatness hl a
myriad Of people and untold thousands from
ali parts Of the Unicn have congregsted on the
Chickasaw Bluffs.
There is as rich . country and an area Of
territory necessarily contributing toths wealth
Of Memphis, and as great in extent, as thar
which enrirons s.. Louis or Cincinnati There
is no quession about the ultimate Fesultof this
state Of facts. and the question Of time viii
soon develop Itself. Within ten years one
hundred thousand people will live and grow
uch within three miles Of Court Square, and
then and Bot tan then, should We listen % the
stones which penuriousness dictates, and
which would make men believe that Memphis
had Invested herself Of her sNaddiing clothes,
andWas DOW arrayed in al TIE unnaturai
properties Of psttioOats and erinOlins-
When Memphis les down TO sleep al night,
her head is ducked in Vol river, and shs
draws up her legs 20 keep them Of Of John
overton's tract; snd how often she has kieked
Font Pickering in the short nbs DO nan
knoweth who has not watched the steady
struggles Of Der adolescence. She viii yet be a
giantess among the great cities Of our Repub-
lie, and be who doubts It should walk through
our business t~horoughfares and bsho,d the evil
dsnce and slemeutsof ner grov1h and great
ness
Judging from the past no prediction could b.
made 100 eKtTsvagsnf for belief as to The
future growth Of this city. In 1889, there was
but one business house On Main street. To
dsv for ore nile on either side Of this great
,lweliiBg place Of trssesDsn, immense blocks
Of three, four and i've story buildings rear
Their gorgsous froais. On Saturday last a
gentleman who is n0Wsat the meridian 0f life,
stated that in his 20th year he was eFeTsd
property at three dollars per acre which has
been sold at Eve thousand, and which story is
the more incredible, that Of TIE sldsr lime
twenty-five years sg-or he recorded facts Of
Saturday last?
In our dehberste opinion, Memphis Is yet in
her infancy and men can buy homes now for
what q grave win cost them ten years hence.
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