The age-herald., 1900-08-05
ENSLEY HIGHLANDS.

The future of Birmingham is no longer an unsolved problem. The great real estate boom of 1886 and 1887, which had It's orig in and foundation in the hope of steel making in Alabama, had it's usual Shock in the panic that succeeded in 1895.
 The great strain on commerce and finance all over the land and the depressed condition of iron industries all conspired to cheek the confident and fearless indus trial advance of Birmingham, the new giant of the new world, and all eyes were turned upon her to watch the effects. upon her of the financial storm that swept many of the great business houses of the land out of existence. @ @sa2
 It was fine exhibition of nerve and en- durance, and the great crop of "sore- heads" and 4'grumblers, with evil prephe- sies and .aimlesss gaze, watched the sturdy young ship as she groaned beneath the wrathful storm tossed waves, and today they stand dumb with astonishment at the triumph of pluck, brain and genius, that wrought out of the destruction and chaos, under the care of a kind Providence, a great industrial center, whose ultimate de- velopment will place its impress of iron and steel on the old and new civilizations of the eastern and western world Y
 The armies of the nations, and the great steel-ribbed ships that go forth to hattie upon the waves, will in the not far distant future carry with confidence its souvenirs
 of Birmingham steel, iron and manpfac- tured products to every port and every
 cline.
 The great boom of 1886 and 1887 was not a "craze," as commonly supposed. It was founded upon a fact, living fact, that
 Birmingham iron could and would be con-
 verted into steel: men of brain, men of
 thought, men of careful and conservative
 judgment had settled 1t prior to 'a8, that steel marketable steel could and would be
 made of Birmingham iron: that fact once
 settled though not accomplished, caused a
 rush to buy Birmingham real estate from
 confident outside capital who knew long
 before many of our people at home even
 dreamed, of the good things in store tor them, and who knew that whenever steel making from Birmingham iron was an ac- complished fact. that the possibilities of Birmingham and the future value of her reaa estate would be hard to comprehend. The panic of 1893 suspended the plan of steel manufacture, and holders of realty were disappointed in expecting the results from their purchases which could only have been realized by the manufacture of steel a. asa The depression that followed was inexit- able, but for no weakness in Birmingham dirt or loss of hope for the future, but was the direct effect Of hope deferred,'' and monetary conditions under which holders could not face the storm.
 The sobering influence of those departed and trying days, the remembrance of monkey farm" and wildcat" schemes, in which there was. barrels in it," were only some of the effervescent surface accnmu- lations that grew out of the solid invest ments of capital which could not foresee the financial squal1 that checked the steel enterprises at the time and rendered their investment at least temporarily a nullity. These conditions can never in the very nature of things arise again In 1856 we bought, hoping and expecting at once the dawn of the steel era. In 1900 we buy now with fulfillment of that hope, a full real ization of which is almost beyond cofnpre- hension f5fGi'1 When you reflect that the great boom of 1886 was brought about by hope of the future, and that at present we are baslsing in the full, blazing , sun light of this hope, and that even in full realization of it our people and outside capital are not going wild, but steadily in- vesting in realty for the income. and homes to hold-we have in this one of the most promising and satisfactory conditions; for every judicious buyer and seller cannot, except through sheer reclSlessness or care lessness, make other than satisfactory and profit table investments ...za Look the whole field over carefully ob- serve what each suburb has to back it, note carefully the proximity of industries and toDography of the home sites offered for sale at Ensley Highlands, together with the price and terms. and to the "doubting Thomases" we would say: Re- member how people who had more tongue than brains criticized our enterprising cit- izen, E. N. Cullom, for trying to coax people out into the wilderness" as some said at the time and see what a transforma- tien he has made on Eleventh avenue and "Cullom Place." and after reflecting thus on what has been done about the same dis tance from the center of Birmingham as Ensley Highlands from the center of Ensley City, and let yonr eyes look down
 upon s9,o00,000 worth of steel, iron and coal industries at Ensley, in about ten min
 utes' walk, and if this does not inspire con-
 fidence, then I am sorry for the fellow who
 still doubts, for he would be compelled to
 butt his brains out against the side of
 ten-story sky-scrapper before be would
 even believe the thing was really there
 Examine the adjacent map of Ensley Highlands carefully; note its envirnnments
 distance from the heart of Ensley City
 Pratt, Thomas, Pikes. lines, etc.; re- member its lovely elevation and promising location, and the price, from $75 per lot up, for large lots 5ex1G5, and the terms. $25 cash and five and ten months; it's splen- did location for homes for the people of Ensley City, who are already clanioring for Highland air Also note the great de- mand for the purchase of homes around Ensley, and the rental demand for houses as fast built on this property, and you will find in these considerations the In- spiration for this article r...
 This property has been often inquired for, but has never been on the market be- fore, and buyers would do well to call and get first choice of lots.
 No trouble to rent every house built on these lots or to sell at a nice profit when houses are built on them, and sold on reas- onable payments. We will be pleased to have you call at our office whether you buy not, but would like to you join the procession and get in the ground foor for they are going to sell
 The owners of this splendid property do not have to beat tin pans pepper you up on barbecued meats to sell it. When it is once understood what is lon tap. at Ensley City, and that we are offering the most available Highland property con- venient to it, the property will then sell itself. ss..
 It costs you nothing to see if.
 B. F. EBORN,
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