The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-12
BUSINESS IS INCREASING.
So Say All the Men Who Handle
Capital City Real
Estate.
Architects Busy With Plans for
Handsome Residences in
All Sections.
Some of the Improvements on Both Sides
of Town-Points for Land Own
ers-McCurdy's Visit.

The fine weather of the past week has
had the effect of perceptihly quickening the
real estate market, and number of deals
which have been holding off for months
have, in the past few days, been consum-
mated. All the dealers, without exception,
report more inquiries from prospective pur-
chasers the past four days than in as many
previous weeks. Everybody feels much
encouraged over the situation and confident
tina the season will soon run into its
normal channels and give to real estate
dealers their average amount of business
during the sprin and summer. A good
many inquiries are being received from the
east concerning improved business prop
erty, and the prospects are that unless
holders are too high in their figures, one or
two big deals in this sort of property will
be made in the next thirty days.
The fact that the Missouri River
Power company will commence active
operations within the next sixty days, has
had a very stimulating effect upon the
market. and those who have been
complaining that nothing was being done
to attract big manufacturing enterprises
are ready to join heartily in this movement.
While all the builders and architects pre-
dict that there will be as many buildings
put up and as much money spent on them
as IN any former season in Helena, not a
very great deal of the work has as yet been
commenced. All of the architects are busy
on plans, while the majority of the builders
are finishing up the work commenced last
fall. Just now the probabilities are that
not SO many new residences will be put up
this year by big operators to be thrown on
the market, because while there is not an
over supply of modern built and conven-
iently arranged houses in Helena, still
there is not a scarcity. But there will be a
great many new houses built by private
parties. who this year have succeeded in
clearing oil indebtedness on property bought
a year or two ago and are now IN shape to
build. This class of building will not be
confined to any particular section of the
city, but Will be pretty generally dIstribu-
ted in all the additions. Just as soon rs
the Whine Electric line gets to running
cars over its entire system, and the owners
of suburban property feel assured of rapid
transportation, the building boom will
start In earnest.
Helena is not lone int the quietness which
has reigned in all lines of business for the
past five or six months. Even in booming
Chicago. with the Worlds fair in progress
and it's many other advantages over other
cities, the real estate dealers and builders
have been complaining, though better times
are looked for during the rest of the
year. Coming closer home, a glance at
Denyer's business will convince any one
that the Queen City Of the Rockies has
been worse off than Helena. A table, show
ing the business lone during the first three
months of 1891, and for the same period i'll
1880 in Denver shows that this year the
transfers from January to March 81
amounted to S~12.047,47i, while i'll 1880 for