The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-21
A Plain Statement.

IN Helena during the year 1890
is TO be found in the work done
in Lenox addition during the past
season.
Beginning last May, with moth
ing but the bare land, the owners
of Lenox, through their agents,
Wallace & Thornburgh, com
menced to carry out scheme of
improvement which has caused
their property to become the
most sought after for residence
of any in this city.
When the Denver and Helena
Investment Company took pos
session of their property, which
includes the greater portion of
Corbin as well as Lenox, there
was not on the entire three hun
dred and twenty acres one foot
of graded street, nor single
water main, nor any indication
that such, or any other OF the
many improvements deemed nee
sary for comfortable living in
city, would soon materialize.
Since then Broadway has been
graded from Montana avenue to
the eastern limit of Lenox; High
land avenue, Jerome place, Whine
avenue and a number of the cross
streets have been graded in
thorough manner, until now there
are in the addition four miles of
streets graded down to the per
manent city grade.
A six-inch water main has been
laid on Broadway with lateral
distributing mains to reach every
part of LenoX as fast as building
operations demand a water sup
ply.
To render Lenox easy of ac-
cess from all parts of Helena its
owners contracted with the Union
Electric Railway to extend their
tracks through the addition, thus
insuring street car transit from
Lenox to Main street, the North
ern Pacific depot, and to that
part of town north Of the railroad,
over the Union Railway Com
pany's lines, and, by transfer at
Main street, the West side can be
reached by either of the lines
running through that portion of
the city.
A contract has also been made
with responsible parties to fur
nish electric lights for the streets
and houses of Lenox at rates as
low as the same are furnished in
other parts of the city.
Eight acres in the heart of the
addition have been set aside for a
Park. The dedication of this
Park has no 'string" attachment
similar to that of a number of So
called Parks within the city lin
its. This eight-acre tract is
dedicated absolutely to the public
use and benefit, the donors cheer
fully contributing the land in the
expectation that the advantages to
the city of having a public green
spot for the use of its citizens
would be sufficiently apparent to
cause the Park to be well kept
and improved by the city
authorities.
To sum the whole matter up,
everything done in and for Lenox
and those who purchase its lots,
has been carried forward on a
most liberal scale. AS one of
the Immediate results of this
liberal policy visitors to that addi-
ton can now see, either COM
pleted or nearing completion,
over twenty of the finest resi-
dences ever put up in Helena.
These houses have been built for
some of the best known and most
respected citizens, people who
have in many instances felt them
selves crowded out Of their old
neighborhood by the ever in
creasing demands of business for
more room near the present heart
OF our city. That many will follow
in their footsteps none can ques-
ton who will seriously weigh the
matter in his own mind and view
with an unprecedented eye the
superior advantages for resi-
dence now held out by Lenox.
The season of 1890 is hardly
past, yet already dozen sites
have been selected, on which fine
residences will be erected this
coming season. Remember, not
a promise has been made regard
ing improvements in Lenox that
has not been fulfilled. Not one will