The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-26
Dill Summer Season 1T Hand,
but Finds More Activity
Than Usual.
RENTERS MUCH IN EVIDENCE ::,I !. J n j !:
Notes from Uncle SANS Record,
Richmond Built 45r Houses IA
\ .5 Last Year. ssSi

AOO1VS AlbS sOSSlA DAV Wa
year3 than l have ever known i. It has
been surprising. evan to the most optl.
nistic, how we'll business has kept Up
through the month Of June. The date
for the real estate dull season mas boeiiS
n y,1r vi YOU may say' fr0''' 'un' ~
@ aYes."7 remarked another agent, III ID
truo,3as ny friend says. ttlAt the susuAl.
4 dulI season has come, but I am Inclined
8t to think the agents are not sorry Tor
IT, They have had d rushing time ell eg
last September, perhaps the most 'tsfl-
Ing Richmond has ever known, except
Immediately after the war, u when 4 tho
whole city whs being rebuilt. '5i sSS
Rental Agents Very Busy. 4
Tho above remarks indicate thai for
Il O tnontl, or two the real es Ia 10 bust y
ness will be dull, but the rental agents
need not DO looking for m thing ike
rai1 OF tansive holiday The lists Of horses
3pancy nre nearly complete In " oil the
agencies, and while It VI s true that .
building boom has been on for two years.
i the fact remains that tho rental n lists
/ are smaller than they have been II, 1--WE
years. The inquiry for houses Is great
and it Is likely that the lists Will BROW
smaller and smaller every day THIS
condition n shows as no. thing "a else IN 20 =
that tho popul ation$ Of r ichf,ond us De;-as
slnE rapidly increased BY newc omers, men
coming Il In to take posi- tons in VA ousS3
industrial establishments and bringing
their families along with them. 81 .ia3
XII One agent said to d ~ lines. - ispatcn
man yesterday: M N have been struck
with the large number OF strangers lrl-8
3aulrlng for houses, men who nave novel
here within the past we NJ. =
Va ~
Erlled the Joys and conf Forts Of q SUN
,ner JUL ness. n, livery con otor IN the
city Is up to his neck IN work and every
ono OF them fls working und er whip AMI
spur, 60 TO speak, 81 to fill his building
contracts according to the N " aysS n in 4
gdenorninated " III the SaS b,lildln 8. Many
moro buildings are In he course 8of con-
gstruction this June than there were III 81 81
year ago. SS
Auction Sales This eek. Il
NJ TO LAY at q 81. Nj II. Il a, Curd will
sell 1T 4 auction u the XII three to Dry brick
store, z No, 1902 East Main Street
e At 8 O'clock this nfterno onS Augustine g
Royal 4 & CO., OF u Manchester, will h sell
very valuable property n IN n Swansboro.3
Three pieces OF 4 property will be Il p,1 T
under the hammer: First. T hirty-thre
feet front on north side OF Mi lothian
Pike, be tween Toler and River: Streets.
feYet deer Il sotftage, four
I, ,S@nlng !. ti,s
above th large store ore
sS Third. Thirty five feet adj Joining the;
second piece, by II $50 n feet deep, with.
dwelling; four rooms.
M sAt 8 o clock this afternoon j. y omp-i
son Brown & CO.. will sell nine Church
FFIill lots on Thirty bird and 4 8 Streets.
near lakewood sAven ue.
Sf TO morrow, ut 10 o' lock, ]. 4 thompson
Brown s: Co.. will N sell 10 beautiful su ~
sburban homo on Y 6 rove Avenue. corner;
/ Gilmer street. ig7 Immed lately after the
above sale tho same 70 r1nl wi sell three
forty-foo Grove & Avenue lots ad1olnlIlgS
the first named on the west 3
5s4 Thursday fternoon at III d O'cloc k NJ tho
same firm will az sell w three Il Fran. X
lin street building lots. one 2fs sis!
$uated at the corner Of Harrison Street
and FRANKLIN, md the other two con-
tlguous thereto. Il. HI Rs
8 Thursday afternoon at s o'clock, Green
/! e. Iaedd will sci tho tWo-story detached
dwelling on Grace 4 Street. between Al
Slison8 and Addison Streets, Tho same
Arm will also sell on the same q date
4 22O feet Of vacant ground An tho same me
locality In lots to suit purchasers. & i4s9
Last Years Building. l5$5
The Forthcoming report Of the United
states Geological Survey advanced sheets
#of which have been ished The ~ ines
Dispatch !, incidentally show that there
was great building activity al over the
country last year. Tho building permits
issued in forty-seYen leading cities for
THE year were 1si4l0. and the yalue or
tho buildings erected during the year
I Is put down at s64O. $50. Gal. Tho cost Of
tho buildings seected In the same cities
the year previous d904) wns $486, Coz, no,
and the number Of permits granted wa
1870 3T3. 81 The largest expenditure made
last year was, of course, In New Yor
which put up buildings 70 the value OF
Es17s, OS2,6:7 on 10.043 permits, Il IS inter-
ancient rlYnl, erect ted more buildings,
having obtained a third more pormlts----l
or l5053-but spent much less money
& S34, 416 745-ln so doing. It Is significant,
also, that Brooklyn, with 1869 permits
and an expenditure of 81, 017,7os, is secc-
ond on the list. si Il $i lS &
t IN this report r Richmond Is credited
with only 45l permits and the ynluo of
the buildings completed Is placed at SIS
4 sol 900, These figures, 1t Is said. were.
obtained from "city officers III charge OF
building opera lions, y and II Ia very eYl,,
dent that those from Richmond are ms
accurate, for everybody knows that moro
than 451 buildings We're started here IN
1905; and the cost OF those completed
wna very largely IN OK cess OF q million
and a. half dollnrs, II IN also very we'll
known that Richmond has no ''olty Of
{ tlcers In charge Of building operations
In the true meaning OF the language
This ought not to be true. but It is,y
4 Tho above figures show that It ought
to DO different I'll fti3 NJ sl
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