The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-08
Tide of Prosperity Flows
Strong In Business
Views Of City.
HER NEW BUILDINGS
OF MASSIVE BUILD
Immense Shoe Factories and
Other Substantial Structures.
Not a Vacant Store in the
City-Great Ac- I.
tivity in Real
Estate.
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I4YNCHBGRCi, VA. April 487--Lynch-5
burg aud ''Lynchburg's way Is what YOU Ia
arc struck with on every hand: .Attend@
to your own business and you siu!ced.''&s&S
everybody busy, with All energetic and
prosperous air, and no time to hear or
mako complaints. Il, # b a
The real estate market is about Oh 4
par with tho lumber market; It Is not
a question of price, but OF obtaining
what you want 1T any price. The real
estate mcn5 all report q good business
for March, with n better outlook for
April. M 55
One is particularly struck with the
massive, substantial appearance OF new
buildings, and Of those under construc-
.tioll in the jobbing district. No expense
is spared to obtain nothing but thoEs
best "a with every latest Improvement
for conducting the Wholesale business at
tho least cost. These buildings being
fitted with every fire extinsuishing ap-
paratus to got the lowest rate Of insur-
ance. have an insurance rate OF twenty
five cents on ono hundred dollars. B.
New Shoe Factories. s
There are four immense new shoe fac-
tories under construction. all to bo min l$
construction, to be equipped with the.
latest and most modern machinery, and
fitted with every fire apparatus to reduce
the chance OF fire to a minimum risk.
Thcso have an insurance rate OF twenty
cents. Geo. u. Witt Shoe Co. Il IS con-
structing one Of these immense shoe ne 81
tories efferson 4. "a tilsa
Streets; Smith, Rtiscoe Y q Co, one on
Jefferson and Twelfth Streets; and Grade
dock, Terry & CO.. tho pioneer firm for
the manufacture Of shoes In Lynch burg
two mammoth fac tories on, Conn
merce and IIorscford Streets, ana theSE
other in the West End. This firm: as
usual, Is making a rev history in9s the
shoe world, having bought, through the
well known real estate firm Of Walker
&. Mosby a four acre tract (about two
city squarcs) of the most beautiful resi-S
dental property In tho West End and
arc now erecting OMIT their enormous
West End factory for the manufacture
of mems fine shoes The building is to-
be so by $50 foot. mill l{constructurc, fouIs
stories and basement. with a capacity
OF 1000 pairs Of mems tlnc shoes per
day. The property is to bo laid or by
n landscape gardener into a. park
for the benefit and pleasure or their
employees as they claim the better they
scryc their employee. tho bottcrA AtheIls@
employees serve them. They arc sparinsS
no expense or labor to get tho very best
results for the least cost in manufactur-#
ing nno shoes lSg9SS5
Not Store Vacant.
..rAfst
ness section. Notwithstanding tho nuns
bcr OF new ones that have been built and
arc going up. Tho only kick you hear
is, there arc not Sufficient stores orr
dwellings to anywhere near fill the de-
1nand. This Is hard to understand when
on every hand YOU SEQ so many new
buildings just being completed or under
construction. When you take tho street,
cars for tho suburbs you find the same
thing there.
AS tho prominent real estate firm Of
Walker & N1osby put It, "Wc arc selling
real estate In transit and when asked ~
how that was. they said they sold lots
now, and before they could deliver thags
deeds the lots were made into houses
and occupied, 515@ 81
Most real estate changing hands Is for
Improvement, and many large deals are
being negotiated, Ono for II largo fat
and compartment house. and another
for n largo nreproof hotel. fs
The following we'll known real estate
firms report these sales as having been
made recently: Ncnablc & Ford four
villa sites IN tho popular Warwick Addi-.G
tion to Rivermont; n new residence ON
College Hill; u home and lot on Bedford q
Avenue, and a residence on Pierce Street
j. G. Woodsom reports brisk demand ~
and mnny sales Mt satisfactory prices In
Rlvcrniont, Want Of tlmn preclules GET
ting detailed reports from tho others
but all are doing tho business OF tholr&
lives, aud have u square deal for every ia