Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-01
REAL ESTATE AND
 BUILDING LETTER
THE CONDITIONS EXCEEDINGLY STRONG AT THE BEGINNING
 OF OCTOBER.
House Builders Reaping Excellent DiVidends-Prospects for Continued Improvement for These in the Flu. ture Are of 5rientest-Growing Pop uiation.

No cessation has occurred in the
 city in the activity which has been ln
 evidence so strongly in building and
 real estate during the last month. On
 all hands there are evidences of great
 strength and steadily increasing val
 ueS.
 The school report for the month,
 shoWlnS an increase of three hundred
 pupils over the number enrolled in
 September of last year, provides a
 strong form of substantiatiou for the
 declarations that have been made ali
 along that the town was growing rap
 idly. It is hard to arrive at a def
 nlte conclusion as to just how much
 Of an increase in actual population
 three hundred new school children rep
 resents, but it is evident that the nun.
 Der Is a goodly one. With the in-
 flow of people with children Of school
 age adding to the trade of the city
 there comes long procession of mar
 red people with and without children
 Of school age, and many unmarried
 men the latter class being largely
 greater than common in towns of the
 same size as Bisbee, because of the
 wide field of employment for mas
 culine labor afforded by the mines
 Post office, express company and
 railroad business for the month just closed was decidedly in excess of the business done by the same concerns during September of last year The railroad in particular has increase to snow It is stated by officials that never before has there been so heavy a trade in the last two weeks of Sep ] tember- It was largely made up of merchandise, and ID its quantity told | Of increased demands upon stock sup | plies and confidence on the part of . merchants in continuance of the raI-l idly increasing number of people in the town who must be supplied with the needs of existence.
 Building as yet shows no extent that will answer the needs of the increase in population that must be expected during the winter through the em. ployment of probably more than a thousand new miners to take out the greater quantities of ore that it is up to the mines to soon ship for the smelters and to care for the increased development that is going on in the district
 Such houses as are being built. and there are probably fifty under cor struction, at the present time. are of good class, and will bring excellent rents. Twenty dollars is about the least per month for which a house of any immediate convenience to the mines can now be secured, while close n properties TO the mines command from that to $30 per month. People who have invested in houses in prox- 1mity to the mines in the last few months are reaping a harvest. This ss particularly true on the Johnson addition, where the fifty or more houses that have been butt. there Is not one vacant The properties are fast paying back the investments they represent. Likewise renting houses at Lowell proper are paying good did idends. In Bisbee proper there are few if any vacant houses. while the lodging houses are all comfortablyt filled. Tombstone Canyon is look ing up some. Some excellent houses have been built in the Mason Hill vi- cinity recently and command imme- diate renters. Among these are tvo put up by Frank Graf, the stock brok- CT. They are among the best in town. and their erection is a testimon- ial from MT. Graf that he does not consider stocks to have any the better of real estate and houses in Bisbee asl investments. Tn fact the advances in real estate values in Bisbee past. present and future afford an exceed ingly allurIng look. the brightness cf which was never greater than at this time. Those who can get il; and !'uy and build are making a se- rious mistake if they do not avail themselves of the opportunity that now affords. Money is available, snI those who make use of it will soon find it paying excellent returns