The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
Sale Of Property in the Balm Subdi-
vision Breaks All Records for
Real Estate Sales.
A SUBDIVISION OF HAPPY HOMES.
Only Sixty of the Nearly Three Hundred
Lots Left to be Sold and Many Houses
Have Already Been Built.

A year ago Friday E. r. Head, the
real estate man, placed the Balm Sub
division on the market, and in one
short year the report of sales Of real
estate in the subdivision shows that
lots valued at over $65,OCO have been
sold besides twelve houses. For many
years this valuable piece of city prop
erty lay dormant, used only as pas
ture or circus grounds, but before
the end of the present summer ii will
be center of happy homes and more
than two hundred and fifty people will
have purchased building sites there.
The rapid sale of the lots in this SUBJ
division speaks we'll for the growth of
the city of Kenosha and the prosperity
Of her people. When Mr.. Head took
possession of the subdivision it was
necessary to build new sidewalks and
cross walks and to grade the streets.
This work costing from three to four
thousand dollars was done without a
cent of expense to the city. The value
OF the property at once appealed to the
people of the city and the splendid
record of go lots sold during the en-
tire year shows how well they have ap-
preciated the offer to secure good
homes at very low rate.
Besides the twelve houses that stood
in the subdivision for many years
twenty-five new houses have already
been erected and seventy-five more
will go up during the coming summer.
The "Bain Pasture lot'' will before the
end of this year be one of the most pop
ular residence centers of the city.
The lots ranged in price from a hun
dred and fifty to four hundred dollars
most of them selling at 5000 and $3.50.
Quite number of people have pur-
chased lots in the subdivision as a
speculation and so large was the de-
mand that many of these people have
already reaped golden profits Since
the subdivision was placed on the mar
ket the value of property in all parts of
the city has been increased but the lots
are still being offered at the same
price as formerly.
There yet remains unso1d some sixty
of the choice lots of the subdivision
and they will be placed on the market
during the coming summer and it is
expected that every lot will be dis.
posed of before the end of Septem Der.
The record of the past year more than
justiies this prediction. The OTIS are
still being offered by Mr.. Head at his
office in the EVENING News building.
One of the greatest inducements to
| people to buy lots in this subdivision
is the fact that the Kenosha Electric
cars run regularly through the subdi-
vision and the people are always in
easy touch with the city and its var
| ious Industrial centers. All of the lots
are in easy walking distance from the
factories, thus furnishing an ideal
home for workmen, being only from
three to five blocks from four of our
largest and best factories, which are
part of the subdivision. Water, sewer
and mains have been extended to the
center of the subdivision, the sewer
being seven feet under ground within
one block Of the extreme west end. Ali
of the subdivision is within the city
! limits.