Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-03-06
THE WEST END AND RIVER VIEW.
Charming Sections That are Being
Rapidly Built Up.

The city is filled with strangers.
The hotels are crowded to their ut
most capacity, and hundreds of thou
sand OF dollars worth of property is
changing hands daily.
Property that five years ago was
assessed at $40 per acre is now bring
ing from $50 to 5000 per front foot,
and million dollars worth of build
ings have been erected within the
last year.
Whatever doubts there may have
been in the past as to Roanoke's flu
ture those have now all been removed
and that we will soon have q city Vf
$4,000 people is assured.
One of the rapidly growing sections
of the town is the West End.
1t is beautifully located.
The land is high and rolling and
easily drained, and the scenery in the
vicinity is such as to tempt the brush
of the artist or the pencil of the poet.
The lofty peaks OF the Blue Ridge
and Allegheny mountains loom up
respectively in the distant east and
west and are bathed morning and
evening in flood of golden light.
In the valley are the busy shops and
factories and furnaces of the town,
and the street car line with its jingling
bells passes through the center of the
property.
The principal boulevard is 100 feet
wide, and all the streets have been
we'll laid off and graded. The section
is reached by the main drive from
Campbell street and Salem avenue,
and already some of the finest build
ings in the city have been erected
there.
1t is charming place for residence,
possessing all the advantages OF loca
ton and scenery and pleasant sur
rounding, and in short time, Will De
crowned with dozens of mansions,
where now there is one.
The lots were placed on the market
only a short time ago and the entire
right of the West End Land company
to the property has been purchased.
Messrs. Scott and Rives, one OF the
Invest real estate firms in the CITY,
with offices at the corner of jefferson
and Campbell streets, control the
greater part of this property at pres
emit, and are busy making sales every
day. The walls and tables of their
rooms are covered with maps, and no
firm in the city is more courteous:
Bordering the picturesque banks OF
the Roanoke river, as it dashes along
over rocks and stones to the sea, is
the "River View land.
This property is also charmlngly
situated. 1t is high and dry and from
the bluff, overlooking the river, the
mingled scene Of running water and
mountain is an exceedingly pretty
one. Wide drives extend through the
property, and it has all been well
lined off and graded.
These two sections present advan-
tages both for residence and specula-
ton unsurpassed by any others in the
city, and with the building OF the
Roanoke and Southern railroad, and
the continued influx of immigration
to the city, thousands of dollars will
be made by those who invest there at
present. Both sections are close to
the business part of the city,. and can
be easily reached by street car lines,
Both sections are high and dry and
easily drained. Both sections afford
beautiful views, and both sections
will soon be built up with fine resi-
/ licences.
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