The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-26
DILWORTH FAIRLY STARTED.
twenty-five Building Contracts Already
Let In the Young City.
ACTIVE MOVEMENT In REAL ESTATE.
The sagacity OF the Four Cs Fully Proven
Another Sale in the Fail-yarious Items
from Charlotte and Vicinity.

CHARrorrn, N. g.. May 25.-[Special. J. |
Twenty-Five contracts for dwellings have been
made for houses 10 be built on the lots sold
in Dilworth last week. and the embryo
suburban city is fairly started on its march.
Both buyer and seller are well pleased with
the transaction, and in many instances adj
yanced have been offered already on the price
paid One party who bought number of lots
on bids of IS and go was horror-struck when
he found that instead of bidding that
much for lot he was buying 1t
at that price per foot He was then anxious
to withdraw his bids and was allowed to do
SO. but there was no loss. as there were others
willing and anxious TO take the bargain on
his hands who were able to pay tor them.
The Charlotte Consolidated Construction
Company have now advanced tnelr lols 70
twenty-five per cent over the sales prices:
Without exception. every one | have talked
with has the utmost confidence IN the enter
prise and the splendid growth of Charlotte
ACTIVE MOVEMENT IN REAL ESTATE.
/ find to-day that there are five building
associations in Charlotte county doing an
active business. and that they are proving
material factor in the advance movement.
find also in talking around that there has
been a large movement In real estate III
Charlotte proper. and that some large invest
ments in very valuable property have recently
been made by outside capitalists. so far
property in Charlotte county, by comparison
with the other towns has not reached
n high figure. but it is rapidly on
the up grade with very little for
sale. Charlotte is compact city,
vet not a.crowded one. All the residences are
back from the street with spreading yards,
and all churches and public buildings as a
rule have ample ground still there are few
vacant places and little unused ground.
The people who have been here are talking
mn Charlotte wherever they 90, and the after
math promises TO be better than the trst
crop.
THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
Several real estate men were here at the
late sale who came from the Northwest and
they drew many favorable comparisons be-
tween this fair land and the bllzzard-r1dden
country they hail from. They also confessed
that the methods adopted III the conduct of
the Dilworth enterprise was the only
land scheme they had ever seen
where no criticism on fairness could
be made and while taking their views from a
Western standpoint they though: that the
construction company ought to have reaped
larger immediate returns when they had theop-
portunity. they admitted that their conserya-,
tive plans would be to the greater good OF all
concerned later on. and rebound 10 the credit
of the men who managed 1t as well as Increase
the solid growth of Charlotte.
MODEL ENTEBPEIsE.
lam glad to have been connected with an
enterprise that in the midst of the tendencies
of the times TO adopt exaggerated and doubt
full means of exciting the love of gain aud
speculation among land investors, stemmed
| the tide of adverse criticism and firmly liked
the idea that truth and honesty has lost
none Of its power Tor good, ana tnat
land sales may be made profitable by far
| and square dealing. The men have not
only won over all opposition that
| existed in the beginning, but the good they
| have done will work on for time 10 come.
| Dilworth is already spoken of AS model en-
| terprise and | hear of other places that think
| of prohting by its methods. II will be a grand
| day for the South when the transplanted
| Western ways of lottery schemes by bidding
| and like methods for selling lots are 1wept
away These may have been necessary IN the
| inhOspitabe wild West, but the gentlemen
! of the Charlotte Consolidated CONSTRUCTION
Company have shown that natural merit ana
| business principles conducted on the highest
| basis of fairness and honesty Is the plan
| which will best succeed in the South. They
| have started reform worthy of noble men,
and given a check to methods that do no
| credit TO Southern reputation.
FAITH IN THE QUEEN CITY.
The good that has been done here cannot
| be oyerestimated. People who looked upon
all land sales as so many schemes or via
| speculation TO defraud. and had little hope
| for the future of their town. are now the
! strongest advocates of the -Four Us ana the
| strongest believers in the greatness yet TO
come to the Queen City. do not think too
much emphasis can be put upon the square
and open manner in which the affairs OF TINS
| company have been conducted and Its re-
| suits, although but just commenced, nave be,
come an object lesson to all who are tempted
10 adopt any but honest methods.
ANOTHER SALE.
Dilworth will have another sale next fall,
and then will be fully proven what the con-
| fdence established by fair dealing IS worth IN
such a case. The same buyers Will come
again. | have heard some say they would,
! and doubt not that the second sale Will be
| larger than the first.
TIE ELECTRIC CARS.
The electric cars are a grand success, and
although the great crowds of visitors VINO
were here last week have vanished there IS no
lack of passengers. Beautiful Latta Park IS
lust coming into full appreciation since beng
made so accessible, and load after load OF
| pleasure seekers resort there every evening
| The Charlotte street-car line radlates from
independence Square in four directions, ana
the patronage seems TO be paying one IN each.
CHURCHES on SUNDAY.
The churches were all thronged yesterday
as is always the case in Charlotte on Sunday
Rev. Jesse H. Page. of Statesyllle, filled the
pulpit of Rev. Jonas Poole. d. d., pastor OF
the Tryon-street Methodist church. who IS
absent. and sustained high reputation as a
logician in a powerful discourse on the unity
Of God and the analogy between his word
and his works. In an illustration he used u
fact that so strongly demonstrates the great
wealth of advantages that the South has over
less favored sections that l give 1t here III
| that connection.
THIRTY-NINE SEPARATE VARIETIES.
In a grove covering three acres OF ground.
belonging TO Captain White, at Lewisburg. IN
this State, there grows thlrty-nine separate
and distinct species of valuable native trees
by actual count. No one can doubt the
authority from which this comes, and II he
were inclined TO do so a look at the varied
elegant trees that fill some OF the lawns mere
would cause him to doubt no longer.
Y. u. c. A. OF CHARLOTTE.
The Young Mems Christian Association OF
this city has been for months without gen.
era secretary but they have finally been sue sue,
cessful in securing the service or n f. III
dreth. of Omaha, Neb. Mr. Hildreth mas
been engaged in association work and mas
given general satisfaction in his abors he IS
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