The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-10
What They
Say Of It,
How Columbia Is
Viewed By In
vestigatorS.

This advertisement has appeared before,
but is good enough and has been effective
enough to encourage as to depart from our
usual custom and publish it again.
Z. o. GRAVES. President Of the washinston
National Bank,
SAID he had looked into the plan and has
examined the property. He thinks it q
first-class way for people of small means TO
get homes on such payments as they Will
hardly feel, and the class of Improvements
he thinks are extremely good for the cost,
at far as they have gone.
iigson Saw nss Bank, and gentleman VINO
makes frequent loans on houses Of similar char.
s actef,
Says: ri believe you are building as
good houses for the money as have ever
been erected in the city, and, in fact, your
500 houses will compare favorabiy with
the ordinary 81, 600 structure"
1T. RONALD, ESQ. Of the Prominent Law
Attorney for tue County.
Says: You have the best plan that
have ever Investigated for one to become
his own landlord. l can certainly advise
anyone to get himself lot or home in
Columbia, as think it bids fair to be Sc
attle's most progressive and homeiike
suburb"
MESSRS. SMITH SIEBRAND, Arcnl-
tecrs, in the burke Building, who make spec
ialty ofdrawing pIsns for dwellings,
Say: Your plan speaks for itself. Any
thinking man can recognize its many lib
eral and superior advantages. As regards
your houses, we can say that it would be
house for 500 than the several designs
that the different contractors are now
building in Columbia"
EyERET9 SMITH, Attorney At Law. In the
Burke building.
Says: IT have watched your PROPOSE
ton since the first lumber was put on the
ground, and think your push and success
are phenomenal, and certainly think you
deserve the unmistakable success which
you have earned. The houses are better
than have ever been able to build for the
money. am much pleased with it, and
think the only wonder is that you can
give q man so much and so many adyan-
tages for the small payments asked"
f.. La ROCHE. Proprietor Of the Rainier
Thinks that the growth of Columbia is
wonderful He has been taking picture
of it once each week, and refers to the sew
eral views taken to bear out his opinions.
saying: .You know photographers lens
can't lic."
GEORGE +. MEACHAM. Of carraher 4
Mescham. Investment Brokers'
Says: "You are starting out IN the
proper way to make an attractive suburb
to Seattle. The push and energy evinced,
coupled with liberal amount of money,
which you are evidently spending, will
build city of homes before your most
sanguine supporters realize the TACT. Your
PARK, your church sites, your college re-
serve, and many other attractions which
you are !. adding yin make Coluinbia the
At this point Mr.. NJ. NJ. Carraher came
in, and said: "Your scheme is deserving
of unlimited credit and praise. Consider
ing the apparently close times, nothing
but a proposition as liberal as yours could
have met with the universal favor that
Columbia has"
o. A. sCHADE. of schade 4 Woodruff, whole
sale and Retail Queensware Dealers.
Is extremely enthusiastic regarding the
house now being built for him in Column
bia. He says: MY wife and l can
hardly stay away from our prospective
home. We are more than satisfied that
we will be greatly benefited by the invest
ment. 1t is pleasant to think that will
be my own landlord, and that. too, when
my payments will not be 40 much a. am
now paying out for house rent"
y. NJ. WOODRUFF, Of the same Firm,
Said: You have struck the keynote.
You have made il possible for any mer-
chant to own his own home without hay
ing to take any cash out of his business.
have never seen such a liberal and gen.
erous proposition offered. You put man
without capital on an equal footing with
the one with bank account. | am
watching it grow with great deal of salts
faction"
C. n. MOVES, Real Estate Agent,
Says: II have built or bought some
half dozen different houses in and around
Seattle. have never seen as good house
built Tor the money as the one have
bought of the Washington Cooperative
Home Co.. and don't believe man can
get as good house anywhere else in this
Sound country as you are building for
500. | am more than satisfied that have
made the best investment of my life.''
II. v. BURNER. T. f. A.. Union Pacific Rail-
road
Says: "My sl,4Oo house is an ideal
home. Don't think it would be possible
for me to improve upon It for the money
anywhere. In fact, wherever l have
shown the plans, the invariabie guess on
the cost of the building has been from
$3.50 TO s., 200. am an enthusiast, and
think Will take many OF my friends with
me to live in Columbia
j. b. RICHARDSON, Who Go: House No l,
Says: II think I have made a pretty
good deal. The seven-room 800 house
] bought from the company for $40 cash
and IS per week, | have rented for one
year at so per month, and reserve one
room for my own use. If any man can get
house any easier than this should like
TO investigate it. | am a Columbia pioneer,
and am glad OF it.
JOHN A. KELSO, of the Union Hardware
Company,
Says: Il am anxious to get into my
house. / am thoroughly satisfied with nv
purchase, and have induced several of my
friends 10 go and do likewise. Ihave been
looking for a home in Seattle for some
time. and feel that it has paid me well
to wait and be pioneer o: Columbia"
A. 4. HELLER, of Hepler Bros, Contractors
and Builders,
Says my four brothers and l have
each bought home in Columbia, and are
going to have quite an Iowa colony in our
neighborhood. Yon have originated the
best plan for the opening out of suburban
residence addition that l have ever seen.
We are helping to pull, and you can count
on us as being fast friends OF Columbia"