El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-14
New Park Offered
TO THE CITY BY THE OWNERS OF
THE FRANKLIN HEIGHTS
ADDITION.
Here is a Good Chance for the City to
Secure an Adequate Playground at
Moderate Cost

The stockholders of the Ell Paso Real
Estate company. the owners of the
Franklin Heights addition, held their
annual meeting in the Office of A. p.
Coles & Bros, Monday afternoon, and
elected officers and board of directors
for the ensuing year. The old board
was reelected and is composed of the
following stockholders: c. NJ. Williams,
president and treasurer; Charles Thur
low. vice president: A. p. Coles. sec
rotary: w. Fl. Long and r. H. Hutton.
The board found the business done
the past year by A. p. Coles & Bros.
managers of the Franklin Heights adj
dition. 70 be highly satisfactory. they
having sold within the past twelve
months s9S. 900 worth of lots. the prices
ranging from $50 to $500 per lot. 1t
was the intention of the board to raise
the price of the lots at this meeting.
but Mr.. Coles told them that he
thought best that if they wanted to
close out the property at an early date
they should allow the purchasers a
chance to realize something from their
investment as well as the company.
Acting upon Mr.. Coless advice the
board decided to allow him TO go ahead
selling the lots at the same old prices.
The company instructed Mr.. Coles
cadamizing the Boulevard clear
through the addition. which extends
from Ange street to the Cotton addi
ton. They also instructed him to grade
and macadamiZe Wyoming and Mis-
souri, streets from Austin avenue to the
Cotton addition. which will open up a
pretty part of the addition.
Messrs. Long and Coles advised the
company that as the Franklin Heights
addition was fast becoming one of the
best resident portions of the city. it
would be the proper thing to establish
public park in the addition. The
board of directors appointed Messrs.
Long and Cole committee of two to
represent the company and offer to the
city as a donation a block of ground
260X400 feet in dimensions. to be used
as a public park. under the conditions
that the city will agree and bind itself
to plant grass. trees and other vegeta-
ton to beautify the grounds, and to
maintain il in good condition in the
future: the site to be selected by this
committee and one representative of
the city council and to be located
somewhere in the Franklin Heights adj
dition lying east of Lee street.
If the city desires to have a larger
park than the block donated by the
real estate company. the company will
sell the city additional ground around
the donated lot at very low prices on
the conditions that it be treated as the
donated lot. Another condition under
which the donation is to he made is
that the park be called Franklin park.
The company has already set out in
the Franklin Heights addition 1900
trees and will set out many more this
spring and will open up streets to the
park site. Another interesting fact
about the addition is that it is in line
with the FIT. Bliss mesa. from which
it is inevitable that the city will fin
ally secure its water. and being near
the supply the pressure in the addition
will be extra good.
These facts should be inducements to
the city to establish the proposed pub
lie park. Ell Paso has no public park.
except the plaza and Buckler square.
both of which are too small to he wor-
thy the title of public park. The city
has no place to which visitors or citi-
zens desiring rest may go out of the