The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-10-18
PHOSPHATE CITY
ON A BIG BOOM
PRICES or REAL ESTATE SOAR
skYwARD AND TRADING
VERY BRISK.
PASSING OF SALOONS
Haze Seen a Great Blessing And
DRINKS Are Very
Rare Now.
nx RuFus c. JAcKsoN.

| IL you own real estate In MI. pleasant
and don't want to sell IL you had bet
ter not set a price on it, for II you
do, it is more than likely that you
will be taken up before you can say
Jack Robinson"
There is something doing in the
real estate line here every day, and
it Is more than one man can do to
keen up with the deals as they are
made, even il he devoted all his spare
time in the effort. And the most mo-
ticable point about 1t is that every
thing is selling at an advanced price.
In fact. many say that real estate is
too high for a town the size OF MT.
Pleasant, but nevertheless and not
withstanding, residence and business
lots and houses are changing owners
every day, and buyers can be found
an nearly every turn. And still an
other noticeable point in regard to 1t
is that It is not a matter of specula-
ton. but in very nearly every case,
the lots are bought for their own
use, or for some good tenant which
| has already been secured.
The phosphate town is booming, but
not along the lines of the bonn ex-
perienced here in 1893 and 1900, for
the growth is OF much more steady
and substantial nature. Buildings are
being erected on every street, ned adj
ditions and new streets are being
opened up, and more expensive class
of houses are being erected.
Among the recent deals which have
been made, may be mentioned the
sale by C. C. Ross Of his home on
Hay Long Ave. to Brooks Mahon, who
will move in from the country. Mr..
Ross has in turn purchased the DR..
Kittrell cottage on South Main street,
now occupied by Capt. Craig's family
Walter Griffin has bought A. L. La
niers cottage on HAY Long Ave. Geo.
w. Killebrew recently bought five lots
in Park Place, and cutting them into
much smalled lots, has sold four, on
which will be erected four neat cot
tages by the purchasers at once. Ed
mund Lyon has sold nice lot on
Hay Long Ave. to Mrs. M. G. Frier-
son. who will erect another dwelling
thereon for rent. w. Fl. Long has
laid off another large addition near
Park Place into nice lots, streets and
alleys and will soon offer the lots for
sale.
The Land & improvement Co. has
sold the last lot in it's Park Place
to w. D. Cooper, and arranged to open
Walnut street through to Hay Long
Ave-. which will be quite an improve
ment to that section of town and put
some valuable building lots on the
market. The new street from Park
Place through the property of W. H.
Long leading to the Hampshire road,
at M. v. Wilson's farm, has been
graded and macadamized and will be
thrown open to the public as soon
as the fences along same are com
Melted. This new street is most I'M
portant Improvement, as 1t not only
brings some very desirable resident
on the market, but also very
shortens the distance into
town for those living in the Hamp-
shire direction, and cuts out the big
Anderson hill above Hay Long Col
lege. There has been some little
hitch in regard to raising all the funds
to nay for the work of grading and
the new street, but
with such men as Ed Kindle, DR.. ]. s.
Hill and W. H. Long after 1t, all trou-
BILE will soon be. eliminated.
w. L. Killebrew, who owns consid-
cradle property on Broadway, was
here from st. Louis last week selling
out his property, and as he priced 1t
rather low, considering prices now be-
ing paid for real estate, he had no
trouble, and consequently several va
can't lots will soon have business
houses on them. A brick store house
Is now being erected on Broadway |
near the depot, and loves Amuse- /
nent Hall for colored people and large 4
livery stable, have been completed. !
rhis section of town, including the /;
burnt district near the railroad, has |
,een included in the fire limits, and
no frame buildings will be f,
allowed erected. However, some six {
n eight frame tenement houses were 8
completed In the burnt district before |
he new ordinance went into effect. II
Work on the new residences of
John Ruhm, Jr,, c. r. Mathis, Jas. I
Moody, r. B. Copper, r. M. Bullock. !