Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Growth Of Suburban Towns During
Summer Quite Like a Boom.
SOUTH OMAHA is CENTER OF ACTIVITY
Much work Being Done I'm Magic
city in way of Improvement of
Private Property for
Immediate Use.
SOUTH OMAHA is CENTER OF ACTIVITY

Private Property for
Immediate Use.
While Omaha is developing rapidly both
from the points OF population and COM
Inercial industry, its citizens are NOT per-
fnitted to lose sight Of the fact that the
small towns very close to It are enjoying
their fun measure Of prosperity. A ride
on the street car out through one Of these
suburbs discloses TO the Omahan dwellings
being built on all sides The suburban
resident notes the growth in a matter-of-
fact way and says, 20 yes we're growing
right along. Did you think we were let
ting Omaha have all the prosperity" At
q meeting Of the Omaha Real Estate eX-
change recently +. A. Benson volunteered
the information that 80 building permits
had been issued in Benson this year. At
the meeting last week w. L. Selby re-
ported on Dundee. He said twenty
houses had been erected this year at an
average cost OF $4,000, or a total cost Of
$1,000 one and one-half miles Of cement
sidewalk had been laid and $4,000 worth
of grading had been done. Other adjoin-
ing towns report similar conditions.
South Omaha bricklayers and carpenters,
have all the work they can possibly do.
The building movement in dwelling houses
and small business structures does not
seem to abate with the near approach of
winter. One of the bigger Jobs lately
undertaken is the erection of the new bot
Ting works for the letter brewery. An
other one of importance for which the
contract was let some time ago, is the
new city hall. a structure two stories in
height and 6OxS5 feet. Another projected
building announced not long since is one
for the Nebraska and Iowa Stock Food
company. Builders Of dwelling houses are
rushing work TO get as many houses as
possible enclosed before rigorous winter
sets in. When the mercury Is low in the
Thermometer they can work on the in
teriors.
The letter Brewing company will erect a
two-story brick bottling works costing $780,
Co., at the brewery at South Omaha The
contract has been let to X. Fluor and the
work will begin at once.
Otto Siemssen reports the sale Of lot
at the northwest corner Of Twenty-sixth
and o streets, South Omaha, to the Jet
ter Brewing company, which will erect a
brick building on it. The company has
built a number Of brick buildings in that
city in the last year
Florence is experiencing building boom,
as we'll as a boom in the prices Of lots, and
this beautiful suburb is coming to the
front as a leading outlying residence dis
trict OF the neighborhood- Florence is
easily accessible from Omaha because Of
its splendid street railway facilities. Al
though the cars at present are running
hut every fifteen minutes, this is little
inconvenience when one becomes accus-
TONED TO catching the cars on the APP
pointed time. The hillside west and north
of Florence presents one Of the finest
views in Douglas county. The river, slowly
winding its way, can be traced for miles,
while in the distance can be seen Missouri
Valley and the smoke from Omaha and
Council BLUFFS. Some lots have been
bringing good prices, and some sold under
the hammer on the top of the hill sur
/prised the oldest inhabitant with the price
they brought, showing the demand for
slightly lots.
Omaha still grows as a jobbing center
The Rock Island Plow company has in
creased its business since moving from
Council Bluffs to Omaha until it must
now erect large building 1t is negotiat'
ing for a site and in all probability will
build next summer. The company is now
in rented quarters in the building of the
Avery Manufacturing company, across th'
vladuct from the Union depot
The Real Estate exchange has again ap
praised the lot at the southeast corne
OF Sixteenth and Farnam streets, ant
IL IL,
OF $500 a foot on the Farnam street front
age. About year and a half ago tn
same lot was appraised by the exchang
at 5000 a front foot. The lot is &c fee
wide on Farnam street and runs back IL
feet along Sixteenth. At the appraise
ment the lot would be worth $2S1 900, bu
SC Is rumored that the sum of $4,000 ha
been offered for IL. Whether this is tru
or not, 1t is stated on authority that
would take more than $95O,OOO to get Il
In the judgment of the majority of tn
realty men this is the most valuable reta
corner In the city.
Whoever wants to see the giant steaI
shovel and the miniature railway at wor
on the grading of the Northwestern freigr
terminals must go soon. A great hole Ia
been torn out OF the earth between Thii
teenth and Fourteenth streets north
Davenport street and only a small porto
OF the dirt remains yet to be moved tn
operations OF the graders can be seen frol
q Walnut HIN car and it is a sight we
worth watching.
'Have you ever noticed" said a real
dealer the other day TO one OF the lait
''that we dealers and also our customer
are prone TO ask more for property tina
we are ready 70 sell Il for? Well, that
because buyers OF real estate always I,
90 beat US down on our prices We alwa!
have to start In several hundred doIla
high to protect ourselves. When the sell
has boosted the price OF a lot and tn,
knocks or a few hundred he Is more like
20 sell than II he offered It for just VIII
he would take. II buyers were not alwa
trying TO get something for nothing. ii
condition would not exist"
One by one the small and unsubstanti
one-story buildings are disappearing fro