The age-herald., 1901-02-18
REAL ESTATE IN
 ACTIVE DEMAND Much Property Is Changing Hands at Good Values
 Healthy Condition

The real estate business in Birmingham is in healthy. active condition, and prices range from 25 to 60 per cent high CT than they were three years ago. Cen tral business property Is not much high CT now, perhaps than it was in boom times, but the difference between the in- fated period and today Is that sales were paid for largely in paper during tho boom. whereas now sales can be made for cash. And owners of mercantile prop erty in First and Second avenues gre holding. It is almost impossible to buy real estate in First or Second avenues be- tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets.
 The greatest imitation In the boom days was In outlying acreage property. A cer- tain small farm that sold some years ago for $500 an acre In exchange for notes, was sold the other day for $50 an acre. The real estate business in the city Is basis. A lot that sells for s10oo today will bring more money five years hence. w. N. Malone & Co.,, Eborn 6 Jones, the Birmingham Realty Co. K. P. Lacy. Smith stillman, NJ. P. Messer 6 Co.,, w. B. Leedy 6 Co.,, Yancey, Chiches- ter & Orr, s, D. Thompson & Co.,. w. E.. Sorsby, R. Mcconnell & Co.,, John G.. Smith & Co. Bailey & Howard. R. 1T. Thomns, Whatley & Co.,, Bethea & Co, and other real estate firms report sales at satisfactory prices.
 Eborn & Jones say that their business never was as nourishing ns 1t Is now, They are overwhelmed with inquiries, and their sales foot up large figures every week, In addition to their city business they make a speciality of suburban real estate. truck farms and mineral and tim Der lands. They have In their hands for sale 18,000,0o0 acres of timber lands. scat tered through several southern states. They have 115,0o0 acres of bodied coal lands in Walker County. Speaking of truck farming, Mir Jones said to an Age Herald reporter Saturday that the trucking interests were steadily growing Jefferson county Is coming to the front with it's truck farms, and the business like small farmer In this section is mak- ing money. Truck farms within few miles of Birmingham can be bought for prices ranging from $60 to sl00 per acre. A first-class trucker, with little capital clears something like $500 per acre on his land. Eborn & Jones have sold five truck farms since the first of January.
 Within the past few days the Birming- ham Realty Company has sold the fol- lowing city property:
 To Miss Loureese Johnston and Mrs. F. S Davis, lots s. and 10, in block SAT. situated on Sycamore street, South High lands, for $60Oo
 To Solon Jacobs, lot g. in block S96, South Highlands, for Sl9S25o
 To Brett R. Brown. lots 13 and IA, in block 10Th. Morris avenue and Twenty third street. for s5000
 To S. H. Matthews, lot, 56Ax2o0 feet In block TIA, on Avenue H, for s12Oo.
 To Al1ce Baxter, house and lot, 371ax 24o feet. in block 3. Eighth avenue. near Twenty-third street, north, for $500.
 To s. D. Weakley, lot ', block 65. Sev- enth avenue, north, for s1250
 To w. s. and J. P Mudd, lots 17 and IS, $500.
 To F. G. Macke, lot on Rose avenue, South Highlands, for slS00
 To Henry Body, colored. lots 3 and 1, block 259. near SmithAeld, for sl0o0
 The Realty Company is pushing it's im- provements on Fifteenth avenue south.
 The contractor will have 75 or 100 teams at work next week. grading, macadamiz- ing, curbing and guttering and construct ing sanitary and storm sewers. This section will be one of the most attractive on the South Highlands,