, 1892-01-17
BUSTLIhG SARATOGA.
The Great Changes Which a Year
Has Wrought.
Hot Springs, Highlands, Rochester
Heights Chances to Invest.
Prosperous Business Men Who Are
Growing Up with the Country.
WHAT EVERY wEsTERNER KNOWS.

WHAT EVERY wEsTERNER KNOWS
Every man who has lived any length of
time in the West if he has not made
money in real estate can tell of lost oppor-
t%unities. All over this country men can
be found who will tell how they could
have bought property tor a song In such
and such = town which Is now worth what
the average man would consider q fortune.
These men probably forget that at the
time when they could have bought prop
erty in new towns at what now seems an
Insignificant sum. it was then thought to
be . big price. Fifty dollars tor a lot in
Saratoga half a mile or more from the
business center of town seems like a good
price now, but in a few years the same
old story will have been told BY those
who know but tail to take advantage of
the present opportunities.
A GOOD INVESTMENT.
Others who are buying a few lots and
building thereon are laying the foundation
for a fortune either large or small. accord
ing to the future of the town. I'm
mediately they will begin to receive a
steady income and IN a few years their
property will be worth anywhere from five
times to one hundred times what it is
today. As before stated lots on the
original TOWNSHIP are worth at the very
least five times as much as they were a
year ago. In fact there are lots ir Saratoga
which a year ago could have been bought
for $75 which could not today be bought
for 5 1000. Of course everybody knows
that inside property increases in value
faster than outside property, but the fact
that until very recently there were no
portions of Saratoga especially adapted to
residence purposes will tend to more
rapidly increase the value OF property in
the Highlands and Rochester Heights
additions.
If the first clean up at the Downey
mill in Gold Hill is what appearances now
indicate it must be. Saratoga property will
at once double in value and under any
circumstances will continue 10 increase
very rapidly.
ROCHESTER, HEIGHTS.
Where ten months ago there was moth
ing but bleak prairie today there are neat
cozy cottages and handsome brick resi-
dences and Rochester Heights can boast
OF the most costly buildings. (business
blocks excepted) in the thriving and
growing city of Saratoga. As before
stated the most wonderful growth has
been on the west side of the river. Church
street runs west from the bridge which
spans the Platte in the center of town.
Near the west end of that structure there
were four buildings last February. They
were the Gold Hill house, w. B. Hugus
& Co.'S store. the Lyre Office and one
other. Now there are on Church street
west OF the bridge nineteen different
places OF business and residences. 1t
would not be fair perhaps to say that
there are nineteen buildings for in some
instances two or three are joined together.
The farthest house west on Church street
is the "Canis house" on Rochester
Heights, an elegant brick structure with
plate glass windows and finished in quar-
tered oak, costing So, 500. Just u block
north of this on Main street w. B. HuRus,
the richest man in the valley. is building
a similar residence. MIR. Hugus with his
family is spending the winter with
relatives in California but will return
in the spring TO occupy the residence
although he is no longer in business. hav-
ing sold the large mercantile establish
ment OF which he has been at the head