Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-06-26

pared, ana large CIo"u WIN hO uOuO'
attend
ELMER SHAFER and John Brown were
arrested by Officers Watson and Her
vey, for raising a disturbance IN Boyd's
house of ill-fame, on Tenth street.
Real Estate Investments in and Around
Wheeling.
The ground on which the city OF
Wheeling is built is so contracted by the
hills and the river that nearly every
available lot, yes, nearly every half lot
i'm the city has been built upon, aud the
city has become a compact, industrial
place, which is becoming a smoky city
once more by reason Of the growth OF
manufactures, the diminution OF the
supply of natural gas and the resump-
ton by our mills Of the use of coal; and,
Notwithstanding the fact that Wheeling
Island is occasionally covered by river
floods, the demand for lots there has
been so great that nearly all
of the available ground has
been bought by persons for
homes, and lots that were, few years
ago, thought undesirable, by reason Of
the floods, are now in great demand be-
cause there is nothing else left. When
the lots in theHubbard and Russell addi-
tiob on South Front street and the
streets crossing it were sold out at public
auction several years ago they brought
only a few hundred dollars each for
lots having a frontage of % feet, and
now the same lots will readily sell at
five times the prices for which they
were bought. The same is true ofeUhe
Old Fair Grounds addition. But now
there is practically no ground IN the
city OF Wheeling left to be divided up
into lots and sold out at auction. As a
consequence the people have been
driven to secure homes outside OF the
city, and the improved train service,
caused by the growing demand there
for, is closely linking with the heart OF
our city the available outside building
territory.
Practically the only lines along which
our city can extend or which can be
really suburban to the city are up and
down the river and out the National
Road. Up the river the land is still held
for market gardens, and brings prices
ranging from 81, 900 to 81, 500 per acre.
Out the National Road perhaps there Is
not an acre of level ground within the
first seven miles that can be bought for
less than 81 900, and gaeat deal OF 1t
readily brings from 5000 to $4,000
per acre The slightly knobs and
choice locations have practically
all been picked up. At Pleasant
Valley near abe new residence Of Mr..
Bloch the unimproved ground is held
at over 81, 800 per acre. A considerable
portion of the Woods farm has been
sold at So per acre, and even the
poorer parts of that farm are being sold
out in small lots.
Down the river it is practically one
compact city to and including the town
OF McMechen, at which latter place the
lots, % by 100 feet, bring from $500 to
$500 each.
Just south of McMechen is the MAR
rows" where the hill comes close to the
river for q distance of about two miles,
and Immediately below that, on a beau
tiful broad river bottom, II feet higher
than the high water mark of the flood OF
1884, is the new town of Glendale. That
place is peculiarly adapted for suburban
purposes. The "Narrows" will effectu-
ally separate it from the industrial city,
and the natural beauty of the place COM
bined with It's facilities for quickly
reaching the city, give it special advan-
tageS; and the improvements that are
being made, and the class OF persons
that are building homes there insure its
quickly becoming beautiful suburb.
The persons who laid out Glendale
acted wisely in making very large lots,
they having out of their purchase OF
246 acres obtained only 257 lots, be-
cause nothing is so necessary to beau-
tiful suburb as that every home shall
have spacious grounds.
Beautiful parks have been perma-
nently dedicated to the use OF the
public. The streets have been graded
and trees planted along them. Side
walks have been laid. A very hand
some depot has been erected by the b.
Il o. Company, and the Ohio River
Railway Company is about 10 erect
neat station. Many other improve
ments have been made, and still 9th
ers are soon to follow. The poles and
wires have been delivered for an cleo
trio light line from Moundsville, and
Glendale is soon to be lighted with cleo
tricity by the Moundsvile Electrical
Company.
Glendale is not a boom town. 1t is
simply a division into lots OF suburban
property to meet the demand therefor
occasioned by the fact that all Of the
available property in Wheeling has
been built upon.
The Glendale syndicate claim that
they have the most beautiful and de-
sirable suburban property around
Wheeling and that they are willing to
sell atmuch lower prices than suburban
property usually brings 1t is probable
that the purchase OF lots at their auc
tion sale on next Tuesday will be as
profitable an investment as was the
purchase at the original auction sale of
the Hubbard and Russell" and ''Old
Fair Grounds" additions on Wheeling
Is>%1d.
WANTED, Cook - Must come we'll
recommended, 81 a week paid to the
proper party. A. A. WHEAT,
1881 Market street.
Now is the time to disinfect your
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