The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-22
PREPARING FOR GOOD WORK.
The Plans of the Virginia Real
Estate Exchange.
The First Movement of President Sim
mons to Lay tho Development of vir-
ginia Before tho Interested Public.
Constitution and bylaws Published.

The Virginia Real Estate Exchange,
recently organized i'll Roanoke, is pro-
pairing to become power in tho dcvel-
opment of the resources of Virginia,
and its industrial advancement.
Oneof the first movements of President
Simmons is the taking of steps toward
the collection and publication of infor-
nation concerning the growth and de-
velopment in every section.
The land companies, the real estate
agents and local exchanges will soon be
furnished with blanks and requested to
make weekly reports of tho sales of real
estate, industries projected or secured
and the kind, and the number of hands
employed; land companies organized,
with the aggregate capital; companies
OF all kinds organized during tho week;
the number of business houses com
menced and completcd; tho number OF
residences begun and completed and
general information of interest.
The reports arc to be made weekly to
the State Exchange, and the secretary
Will make up the aggregate report and
furnish it to the press of tho State for
publication. The blank report being
sent out by the exchange are accom-
panied by the following circular letter:
I'm view of the incontrovertible fact
that the eyes of the people of the entire
country arc now earnestly fixed upon
the wonderful development in progress
throughout the Southern States and
particularly in the great State of Vir-
glnla, the management of the Virginia
Real Estate Exchange have decided, in
order to awaken and attract special at
tention and interest in, and to our own
various localities, which are rapidly
springing into meritcd prominence, to
ask the hearty and untiring Corpora
ton of every member of tho Real Es-
tate Exchange in this State, in the
work of collating and furnishing to the
State Exchange such valuable and
reliable information weekly, for news
paper publication, as will enable a fire.
Quent and widespread dissemination of
reports of the manifold activities set on
foot, and of the material progress that
is being accomplished.
TO this end the undersigned request
that you furnish weekly replies to the
inquiries found in the accompanying
blanks.
what the influence and benefit of
this information will be to every com
munity represented will be doubtless
quickly appreciated by every wide
awake and energetic real estate agent.
Tho prospects of the South for the
present year are especially bright, and
the predictions arc many that larger re-
suits will be shown than are contained
upon the records of any of its prcde-
ceSSorS."
President Simmons has laid this plan
before tho press of the State, and asked
its cooperation.
If the plan meets with general favor.
as it certainly will, it will be put into
practical operation about the first of
March.
In an interview yesterday with a rep
resentative of TIE TIMES, President
Simmons said that it was his purpose to
mako the Virginia Real Estate Elk
change bureau of information about
the resources, advantages and dcvclop-
mcnt of the State.
The plan we are now cndeavorinp to
put on foot" said he, sis tho first step.
AS soon as the cooperation Of each To-
cality is secured, the scope of the work
will be enlarged. Information will be
gathered about the farming lands, min
eral resources, timber lands, and all
the advantages of climate and location.
by systematically keeping up with the
rapid development of the State and col
Letting this general information, we
hope to make better showing for Vir-
ginia than has ever been made by any
State.
The Real Estate Exchange proposes
to let the world know what Virginia
has, and what she is doing"
The constitution and bylaws of the
exchange, as adopted by the recent CON
vention in this city, have been printed
in pamphlet form for distribution
among the members of the Exchange.