The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-10
Wilmington Making Trench
dOuS Advancement
DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY
Not a Vacant Store to Be Found
in the City of Wilmington

Looks Like Prediction Made Last Year
That Population of City Will be
Doubled Within Five Years is Going
to be Vcriied-One Real Estate
Agent Received Eight Applications
During the Past Week From Persons
Desiring to Rent stores but he Could
Not Supply One of Them-Much
Real Estate is Changing Hands.
Wilmington real estate is certain
ly booming and every few days some
new place" is advertised. In the
heart of the city there are but very
few vacant lots but there is plenty of
space on the edge of the city and just
beyond the city limits. The only
trouble about developing the suburbs
is hat there is no e of getting
into the city without walking or keep
ing a horse and buggy, and it is not
everyone who is able to keep a horse.
At the present time the city car line
does not touch the city limits in any
direction and on the south and east
it is a long distance from the edge
of the city to the car line. If the car
line was extended all the real estate
men and it is not only those who own
real estate on the outskirts of the city,
predict that the city would spread out
wonderfully, and there are plenty
of citizens who predict the same
thing. Wilmington already has a far
larger population near the limits Of
tthe city than many of the North
Carolina cities that have car lines eX-
tending into the suburbs.
A real estate man said last night
that he had received eight letters
from persons within the last few
days who wanted to rent stores in this
city and he said that he had to write
them that there was not a vacant
store in Wilmington and no prospect
of any being vacant. A number of
new buildings are to be erected and
others are to be built during the COM
ed as soon as the property Wne
makes known his intentions. The pre-
dictiOn made some time ago that Will
mington would double her pOpula-
ton in the next five years certainly
looks like it is going to be verified,
and if the city keeps growing like she
has for the past year there is no
doubt whatever about the matter.
Wilmington at the present time has a
population of something like thirty
five thousand and it is no idle boast
to put her population at this figure.
Swamps are being filled in and houses
erected thereon and beautiful homes
r going up ON the sand hills and
in a few years what was a sand hill
will be a beautiful lawn.
Along with the great growth Of
the city the streets are being greatly
improved, not the roadways to any
special extent, but the sidewalks.
There is a wonderful difference in the
beds of sand that were to be found on
many Of the streets a few months
ago and the granolithic pavements
that are being put down.
In every line Wilmington is going
forward and it is not d boom. Will
mington people are not hat kind, it
is a growth brought about by the
excellent advantages offered by the
city and which not only people of this
city but also of the outside world are
becoming aware of. Scarcely a day
passes that there are not a large num-
Der of deeds recorded in the register of
deeds Office and in many instances
it is persons buying homes. Many
people are buying up small tracts
of land on the edge of the city
days since Mr.. Martin Willard and
others purchased a tract of land OF
the southern edge of the city which
is to be divided into lots. Yesterday
Mr.. Marshall Shrier and Misses Es-
telIe and Hannah Shrier purchased i
number of lots in the southern sec
ton of the city. Messrs. Carter &
Brice have purchased about 200 acres
in the vicinity of the Greenfield pond
which is to be developed. In addi-
ton to this there is Carolina Place.
Winter Park Gardens. Cape Fear
Place and others.
The majority of the lots being sold
at the present time are near the
edge Of the city and consequently the
prices are not high as is the case in
the central portion of the city.
The following deeds were placed On