The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-20
mt. PLEASANT
is BOOMING
EVERY INDUSTRY IN FULL BLAST.
LABOR IN DEMAND AT
HIGH PRICES.
Phosphate In Big Demand And PEG
pie Beginning To Realize The
Vast Wealth OF The
Section.

emit time, over twenty nice residence
are under course of construction
while dozens of smaller tenemen
houses are being erected in Variou
sections of toYn. Every contractor
carpenter, brick-layer and other me
chanies are employed and undoubted
ly the scarcity of labor of this clasI
is interfering very materially witt
the erection of more buildings. Be
sides the large number of dwellings
/ going up in town, very nearly every
phosphate company in the field IL
! making extensive improvements
around the various plants, several big
dryer and washer plants are being
erected, wages for all class of labor
is at The top notch, and building ma
terial is "out of sight" Never-the
less every man that can WELD pick
drive a nail or saw board is at work,
and the lumber firms are away be-
hind with orders.
Notable among the new residences
now being erected are, Mr.. John
Ruhm, Jr., on the corner of Washing
ton Ave. and Pleasant street, waich
will be a two-story concrete building,
fitted with steam heat, hot and cold
water, baths, and all other modern
improvements and one of the hand
soonest homes in the county; Mr.. Cecil
r. Mathis, on Bond street, handsome
brick COTTAGE Mr.. D. w. Shofner, on
the corner of N. Main street and Park
Ave, a handsome two-story brick,
with ALL modern improvements; Mr..
Arch Craig, on N. Main street in the
new Park Place Addition, handsome
seven-room frame, with all modern
conveniences; Mr.. Robt Bullock, on
Main street in the Park Place Add
ton, a seven-room cottage with all
conveniences and Improvements; Mr..
Robt. Cooper, on Walnut street in the
new addition nice eight-room frame
dwelling; Mr.. W. Bethel Long, flve
cottages on Third Ave. in Park Place,
for renters; Mrs. Foster, on Locust
street. one cottage for rent; Mr..
Shady Blue, a dwelling On Bond
street; the Blue Grass Phosphate Co.,
a dozen or more cottages on South
Main street for it's employees. Be-
sides these and others now under con-
struction, contracts are out for at
least fifteen more dwellings, which are
to be built before Christmas.
The Mt Pleasant Land & Improve
ment Co., which four years ago
opened up the new Park Place Add
ton and placed about eighty building
lots on the market, have sold out all
but five of the lots and SO great Is the
demand for more residence sites, Mr.,
w. H. Long, who owns. the property
adjoining the new addition, has de-
cided to open up further addition OF
forty or fifty acres, which will be sub
divided with nice streets, and the
property placed on the market in lots
rom 6Ox200 feet, to an acre or more
in size. The demand for property in
and near Mt. Pleasant was we'll IL
ustrated few weeks ago when a cit
zen sold ten acres over mile from
own for something like 5000 per acre.
And there was no phosphate on 1t,
,ither.t A lot which the Mt. Pleasant
land & Improvement Co. priced three
years ago for $3.50, sold few weeks I
ago for $500, and this is but fair
Illustration of the way values have
increased in the last three years.
Many who have watched the growth
" Mt. Pleasant very closely since the
phosphate discovery, say that the
own has never experienced anything
ike it's present growth, and that II 1t
continues at the present rate, the pop
llation will reach 5000 In less than a
ear from now.
Several of the large driers which
re being erected by, the various phos-
,hote companies are nearly compile
ion and will soon give employment to
hundreds of men, many Of whom Will
ecessarily be skilled white men. The
blue Grass Co. is finishing its washer
nd dryer on the old CRANBERRY place
outh OF town, and has commenced !
mining rock from the noted one hun
red acre field on the Frierson farm, 4
yhich has long been recognized as one
{ the finest pieces Of farming proper !
y in the State. A fine bed of rock, !
( five to eight foot face has been I
ound underlying almost the entire |
cid, and extending back very nearly ,
D the large hills along Bigby creek. {
he dryer of the Jackson Phosphate
o., will be completed and In opera
on within the next thirty days, and
lls company will also erect second