The age-herald., 1901-10-20
THE DEVELOPMENT
 OF BIRMINGHAM Wonderful Work Done on the
 North Highlands NEW. DISTRICT IS OPENED Which Makes Easily Accessible the Most Beautiful and Desirable Resi-
 dental Section of the City.
 The Vast Improvements.
NEW DISTRICT IS OPENED

The talk and wonder of all the people in this valley and upon the encompassing hills is the extraordinary improvements made on the North Highlands.
 The multitude of visitors drawn thith- CT by the published accounts of the vast work done in that high and splendid dis- trict lying between Twenty-fourth street and Thirty-fourth street and Tenth ave-, nue and Thirteenth avenue North High lands, have been amazed by the immense reaches of perfectly graded and macada- mixed streets, under which Is perfect system of scientific drainage, together with watermains and pipes gas pipes and electric light wiresl
 Those long straight streets, cut through one of the most richly and beautifully wooded districts within miles of the city hall-and these streets but few minutes from the heart of the city--cause aston | ishment and delight to all visitors, espe- cially to those who contemplate building homes for themselves on their own land | and everybody sees an added attraction
 in the entire absence of deep cuts for street ways.
 | | slaging plateau, and nowhere Is there
 cut through a hill that Is deep enough | to call for a word of comment or a mo-
 ment's notice; and while nearly all the 1 building sites are comfortably above the | roadways, there are none high up and
 none low down. sufficiently to cause in- convenience to builders and occupiers of
 residences.
 | Everywhere, on every side, In every street and square there is natural drain | age and the open gravelly nature of the l soil makes dampness impossible The ar | tificial and natural drainage will quickly ! take off all water from whatever source | it comes. thereby going far to assure the | perfect healthfulness of the district Indeed as concerns health, this favored | region of the North Highlands is ideally situated in all the essential respects of natural laws and conditions. Tho porous land is high above all the dust and smoke
 of the city in the valley, and 1t is like
 wise above the city's noise; and the en- tire elevated district will receive the full effect of the morning sun, which is so absolutely essential to the dispelling of the miasma and poisonous vapors which are to some extent engendered every where on the earth's surface by the breath of the night; and all day long that
 favored district will be flooded by the llfe-giving sunshine. eYt the altitude will be a safeguard against oppressive | heat In summer; the difference in sum
 mer heat in favor of the heights over the | temperature of the lower city being ten l to fifteen degrees, which means thst q person doing business down town dur
 ing the day can reach his home on the | North Highlands when his days toll is
 done within a quarter of an hour, and l experience as great a change In climate | relatively speaking, as he could obtain by
 a fiye hours Journey on railroad going
 northward.
 This practical health-giving, health-
 conserving consideration should alone in-
 duce all persons contemplating building i their own homes on their own lands to | give their thoughtful attention to the | great work of developing the North High l lands.
 This consideration alone takes the pro- position out of the ordinary run of enter prises and marks the material growth And there is none well-informed who
 would hazard the guess that a thousand dollars invested now in this autumn of | 1901 in the new district of the North | Highlands will not double itself within
 year or two. Money invested there
 is money put out at big compound inter-
 est As the South Highlands have devel- | oped, grown popular, rich and fashiona-
 ble, so also, and with far greater rap-
 idity, will the new district of the North | Highlands develop, grow populous, rich
 and fashionable.
 There need not be any doubt that this
 new district will be the most exclusive | and most desirable residential district of
 ever-growing, great Birmingham, Science
 has joined nature in making the district
 ideal for residential purposes. Enter
 prising and cultured people desirous of
 homes in a refined community will do the
 rest. as the immediate future will demon-
 strate in an eminent degree. The troll | ley line will enter Twelfth avenue at Twenty-fourth street and will extend to | Thirty-fourth street where 1t will turn
 into Vanderbilt road for East Birming- 1 ham. Thus the new district will be as easily accessible any other part of | Birmingham, and Twelfth avenue will be | nearer to the business district of the city than is Highland avenue on the South
 The beautiful building sites were but recently opened for sale. but already many of the best men of Birmingham have invested in lots for the purpose of immediately building residences for their
 own occupation. Amongst these are Mer-