Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-25
A WIDENING BOOST.
Another Outsider Who Believes in
Improvement Invests in
DIAMOND STREET PROPERTY.
An East End Citizen Talks About His Son
in Troubled Oklahoma.
WATER FOB THIRSTY WILLIAMSBURG

Another piece of Diamond street property
changed hands yesterday, the consideration
being $40, 900, about s., 800 front foot. The
purchaser has no connection with the syndi-
cate which has been making heavy invest
ments on that thoroughfare, butts an outsider,
who believes the street should be improved
and planked down his money in full faith
that his expectations will be realized.
Pipe for the Williamsburg water works is
being put down at the rate of about 1 900
feet per day, and it is expected that the
main end of the line will be completed to
the reservoir by Saturday. From the res
ervoir to the pumping station at Wildwood
is 1000 feet. Pipe laying on this section
will begin next week and be pushed as rap
idly as possible. As before stated, the
Williamsburg people expect a supply of
water by. July 4. The right of way for the
entire line was secured by Mr.. E. D. Win
genroth. in which he was very successful in Sc
curing reasonable terms, thereby saving the
company considerable sum of money they
had appropriated to this purpose.
An East End gentleman, who has son in
Oklahoma hustling for town sites. said yester-
day; II didn't want John to go, but he had the
fever SO badly that nothing could hold him
back. told him of the danger he would run,
but he only laughed at my fears, and said he
could take care of himself. I haven't heard
from him for nearly month, and don't know
whether he is alive or not. 1 shall be in great
suspense until hear from him or of him. AS
for myself, would not endure the strain on
brain and nerve that the boomers have under
gone for the entire territory. Iwould not give
up my little home in the East End for LOCO
acres there with all its attendant dangers and
perplexities Such wonderful scenes were
never before witnessed in any part of the
world. 1 know something about the settle
ment of Kansas and Nebraska. 1t was DONE
gradually But Oklahoma was settled in day.
Its population is already almost large :enough
to entitle it to admission as a State. The
world affords no parallel to this remarkable
movement"
The great industrial development through
out the South continues to show an ever-in-
creasng activity, and the attention of Northern
capitalists is being turned Southwark as never
before. Among other movements on foot for
the betterment of that section is one by New
England capitalists to build a town at Fort
Payne, Ala. The company has a capital of
$4OOO, 900 and there are over 1000 stockholders.
Florence Ala, which seven months ago had
probably not over $500 inhabitants and COM
paratively few industrial enterprises, has, since
the first of last September, been able, by the
energy of its business men, to secure the loca-
ton there of 20 new factories, every one of
which is either at work or else its buildings are
under construction, the aggregate cash capital
of these plants being s., 800 900, and the number
of hands to be employed upward of 5,000
while about 1000 dwellings and business houses
have been commenced since the first of Janu-
ary, and still greater progress is predicted. In
every part of the South this remarkable &C
tivity is seen.
One of the most pleasing features of the
business situation is the splendid condition of
the growing crops, which are fl ON two to four
weeks ahead of last year in the West and
South. and almost as forward in the country
tributary to Pittsburg. According to all re-
ports the condition of the winter wheat could
not be better. This and the ease of money
should exert powerful bullish influence on
all the departments of trade.