The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
MEN NOT 50 INDIFFERENT
They Now Appreciate the Neces-
: -sity of Owning Homes.
LARGER DEMAND FOR LOTS
Remarkable Increase in Real Estate
Transfers Made by the Anaconda
Townsite Company the
e. Present Year.

, Men with families and men without
Families but with mighty good inten-
items, who do not already own homes
in this city are beginning to realize the
Importance of owning houses OF their
own. Paying rent is all right in Its
way, but it is not the best way to start
out on the road to fortune. The noat-
ing population of a city doesn't stop
long enough in one place TO give
thought of home, but in later years IN
this city the population IS becoming
more reconciled 10 environments ana
hooking about for suitable homes-prop-
erry to have and TO hold forever.
The dissatisfied and rowing element that
characterized communities in early
Montana days is fast disappearing ana
IS being supplanted by class OF clt-
zens better adapted to conditions ana
requirements of the present age. III
may be well to state here also that the
women are rapidly cultivating de-
sire to become factors in the business
world in so far as the holding of real
estate is concerned. And 1T may also
be suggested that if a woman strug-
Cling against odds and saving her dimes
so as to buy a home can succeed, II GER
tainly is possible for a man TO do as
much. In a city like Anaconda where
men are steadily employed at good
Wages there is no excuse for every one
not to own a home. Especially is this
so because the Townsite company has
on its list very desirable lots for sale
in every portion of the city. The prices
of these lots are not only within the
reach of all, but can also be secured
on easy payments and reasonable time.
SO that purchaser can secure his lot
by paying only a part of the purchase
money down, then build his home, and.
by laying away a part of his earnings
every month-hardly more than he
would have otherwise paid for rent
he can meet. his. payments as they be-
come due until he is soon the owner
OF his own roof-tree, the Slave of rent
exactors no longer.
/ The year 1897 has witnessed a mar
vicious growth of population here, and
the eastern addition, Is months ago
beautiful expanse of grazing land, has
experienced a building boom of great
proportions. Hundreds of lots have been
improved and on them stand the pretty
homes of men whose eyes have been
opened by the possibilities that lay be-
fore them.
/, The shade trees that We're planted in
the Western addition a few years ago
are thriving and will afford n delight
full shade during the long, warm sum
mer days. The Townsite company has
been in charge of the real estate of this
city from its early years and has sold
lots for a few hundred dollars which, in
a few years, could not have been pur-
chased for as many thousands. Dur
ing these years-and the work continues
have been built splendid business
blocks that would be a credit to any
city, and homes and private residences
that for beauty, cheer and comfort are
not excelled elsewhere.
The vast amount of building done in
this city during the season just closed
is hardly equaled by many cities else
where of populations approaching 100.
eco. And yet it is predicted that build
ing here the coming season will exceed
when it is stated that the demand for
comfortable, medium and fair-siZed
houses with modern conyeniences is as
vet far in excess of the supply Nor
will the supply soon reach the demand,
for not only is the city's population in
creasing apace, but ii is a fact that the
proportion of families to the number of
unmarried people is growing greater.
Men steadily receiving good wages are
following the natural instructive desire
for the pleasures of home and the ties
and joys of family life.
! The offices of the Anaconda ToWnsite
company are conveniently located in
pleasant quarters on the corner of Oak
street and Commercial avenue, where
plats and maps of the city and addi-
lions can be seen and had. The man
ager and his assistants are ever ready,
day and evening, to give full informa-
aion, facts and figures to intending in
yestorS