Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-08-15
READING FOR LARORERS.
Which Shows Who Get the Benefit G.
Public Impro vementx.

w men SHOWS VINO eet the Beheut
Public improvements.
A perusal OF the real estate advertise
ments in our newspapers will edify the
laborer as to who are exclusively bene-
fitted by public improvements. Tho
laborer shoulders the entire expense of
these improvements, under our misgov-
eminent. down TO the last penny. Let
him harken to the truth as it Is uttered
by the real estate spectators:
These lots are located right in the line
OF Long Island improvements, and with
in fifteen blocks of the terminus of the
East river and Blackwells Island
bridge, recently authorized by the Leg
islature.
All city Improvements and conve-
niences-Croton, gas, postal service, po-
lice and fire protection, graded avenues.
quick transit, cheap fares, unsurpassed
educational advantages, etc, all COM
bine to render the choice lots offered es-
pecially desirable for investment.
These lots are right in the line Of
Brooklyn's magnificent improvements.
Private enterprise also results in the
enrichment of the land holder Witness
the following:
We give away s. worth of land as
an inducement for people to build and
locate, relying on future advances to re-
alize profits
The old story of tho spider and the
fly.
Healthy location, very high ground,
excellent drainage, graded streets, city
improvements and convenicnces, quick
transit, cheap fares and active building
in the vicinity, all unite to render this
property unusually desirable for invest
ment
Portland, Ore, thriftiest city in the
United States; real estate improve
ments giving large returns; lots are
rapidly advancing in value.
Spokane Falls, the thriftiest and most
progressive city in the West Invest
ments in real estate bring large returns.
Tocoma, the great money making CEN
ter of the Northwest; every foot of land
will rapidly appreciate.
Here is prospect for the laborer OF
the future which is not very encourage
ing:
These lots are as sure to go to a value
OF hundreds of dollars each within q
few years as the sun is sure to shine to-
morrow.
For capitalists-choice offer; cheap in
vestment; block of 100 lots, and 200-aGre
tract in the finest suburb in Chicago.
The alluring profits set out in the fol-
lowing advertisements will be paid ny
the sweat of the laborer's brow:
Water, gas, electric light; macadam-
lied road, schools, churches; five blocks
from depot; the air is simply divine; la
dies find this desirable investment;
money deposited in bank draws only
three per cent. interest; here is ain OPP
portunity to almost double the invest
ment within year.
| / have exclusive control CT some OF
the most desirable property in Duluth,
and can offer investors property paying
from eight to fifteen per cent. in addi'
ton to the rapidly increasing value in
the realty.
Improved city property is the only
paying investment whore you not only
get sure return on your money, but the
security always grows in value. AL
other values, even not speculative, have
an uncertain future.
Here is man who claims pay for ma
ture's bounties:
Only forty pleasant minutes away
Nature did much, and we have done
a quarter million. Go down and see it
The following is refreshingly frank
This, with free land, free stone, and
n location unsurpassed in this country
has been the rich mans opportunity.
All the above quotations are culled
from single issue of metropolitan
newspaper, three pages of which were
filled with closely crowded advertise
ments OF this nature. Curiously enough
in the same issue we find that laborer.
to the number of five hundred ask fol
employment. Their little notices ar,
printed side by side with these allurins
advertisements of land spectators. Tn,
contrast afforded is instructive, If W,
bear in mind the fact that, through
their privilege of holding this globe a
so much private property, the specula
tors at their own pleasure narrow thu
confines of the field in which labor en-
ploys itself, and force labor to go beg
cling.