The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-05-12
BIRTH OF SCHLESVV|G'
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FANCYPRICES ARE PAID.
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Corner Lot Brings 88OO.-Forty Business
Lots Sell for 81 .S4O-A Beautiful
Town Site.
Schleswig was born yesterday. The
beautiful rolling prairie has already
been profaned by the ugly looking
railroad entertainments and within ten
days the first buildings will be erected
and it will blossom forth in all the
ugliness of u new western town. With.
in a year it will have 500 inhabitants
and then it will settle down to its
place in life and become sturdy,
energetic little village growing prettier
and more quiet as the raw edges of its
neWness wears off.
There was good crowd of buyers at
the sale of lots yesterday, and when the
first corner was bid in for $500 peoples
eyes began to open and those who came
to buy cheap lots to speculate on fell
by the wayside. Thus it happens that
nearly every purchaser bought his lots
for a definite purpose and it is probable
that every one of the forty lots pur-
chased will be occupied within the
next six months. The second corner
lot sold for $500. An enormous price
for patch of pasture land 25x130
$500 and $500 were the prices paid for
the remaining corners on what is ex-
pected to become the central part of
the little city. MIR. Whitney of the
Western Town Lot Co., acted as his
own auctioneer, and his persuasive
tones and affidavit face brought the
prices higher and higher. Mr.. Whit
ney is little man but as the sale kept
rolling up we imagined that he grew
about six inches.
- Schleswig is about mile and a half
eeast of Hohenzollern, place which
will soou be but a memory; it is from
ID to Is miles distant from the towns of
DenisOn, Charter Oak, and Ida Grove,
and is in the center OF what is probably
the richest agricultural section of
Iowa. Beautiful farms are on every
side, farms with homes which would do
credit to a city, farms with great barns
like those of Pennsylvania, farms hedg-
ed with willows, stocked with blooded
cattle and titled by the best farmers on
earth.
No residence lots were sold yesterday
but the forty business lots sold brought
$3.50. or an average of $196 per lot. Ii
we remember rightly this is almost
twice as mucn as the LOWnsite of Char
ter Oak brought at Its opening sale.
Nearly all the purchases we're made for
cash, aud we predict that within the
next week at least 70 more business
lots will be sold. The town is laid out
close to the track. Main Street runs
east and west and is lntersected one
block from the depol by Otter Street,
there is some question as to whether or
not Otter Street will not be the main
business street after all and if it is some
their investments SO profitable as they
expect.
The following are the list of pur-
chases;,
Block 2, lots 345s67, Stewart
Lumber Co., con. 1915
Block 4, lots 80, Jurgen Schroe-
del. ......... ........ .......... $40
Block A. lot 4, Henry Krohnke. -. 100
Block A, lot S, Chas. Worth 49,. 80. 100
Block 4, lot 6, F Brandenburg. 49,. 225
& Block 4, lot Z, Niels Koch. ..... $50
Block A. lot 10. Baxter, Reed Il Co. 600
Block 4, lot IL, Baxter, Reed 4 Co. 2lO
Block 4, lot u, j. A. Brickwall. 80. IT'S
Block 4, lot 10 IA, Nellie Drake..... $50
Block, 5, lot 1. Carl Leopold. .... 200
e Block 5, lots Sc, L p Hollander 80. $50
Block 5, lots SO 10, Noble Il DIESEL $50
Block 5, lot IL, A. U. Bohlmann. 80. 400
Block 5, lot IL, j. Christensen. 80. 225
Block s, lot II, DR.. Fuester. ....... l75
Block 5, lot IA, John Reimers. 80. ITS
Block 5, lots . Is l6, Warnock Il
WOrth.... ......... 80. 475
Block 5, lot 2, ID. Week. ......... 200
Block 6, lot /, Broder Petersen. -. $50
Block 6, lots 2 A S, Jurg. Krohnke. 400
Block Z, lots 2, DIR. E. Sneller. 80. $50
Block Z, lot 3, Aug Moeller. ...... 175
Block Z, lot IL, Herm. Book. So. 200
Miss Nellie Drake of Charter Oak
was the only lady to buy lots and she is
fairly entitled TO be called 1.-The First
Lady OF Schleswig." A number of
Denison merchants attended the sale
but only three Denisonites made pur.
chases. Thus was successfully launched
what promises to be thriving and
prosperous little town.
The ladies are planning for grand
May dance ON Monday evening. a.
one of them says it is going to b'
.'swell, Wheeler's Orchestra will furn
ism the muse. The Episcopal gull,