Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-04-01
REAL ESTATE
VALUES GROW
Prominent Dealer Finds Conditions
Most Favorable

going to consist of people who are in
search of real estate investments.
They will range all the way from men
of few thousand dollars to men who
may be said to be wealthy, as the
word is popularity used. The east and
middle west do not offer to them the
opportunities in land investments
that the west does. Real property
the world over is good property, but
the opportunities for profits by invest
ments made are not as great In the
east or anywhere else as 1t is in the
west. The west is in its infancy
just growing. 1t is growing to con-
tinue to grow, and in the next few
years to come its growth in every
way Is going to be phenomenal-be-
yond the dreams of any of US. Just
in the proportion that 1t grows, just
in that proportion are the profits In
real estate investments going to grow.
and just in that proportion will we
be prosperous The eastern people
are shrewd and well enough in
formed to realize this and are anx-
iOus to invest, and large amount of
eastern money is going to be put
into real property from now on. 1t
is the opinion Of real estate men who
have made it their business to look
into the matter that the immigration
to the west is going to be heavier
this year than it has been for years.
Occur d'Alene is growing. She
has leaped from a little village in a
few years to a town of about 1000
people. She has the resources back
Of her and is going to continue to
grow. She offers splendid oppor-
tunities to investors In land-better,
In my judgment, than any other
town anywhere near her size in the
west Occur d'Aiene will get her
share of the real estate business. be-
cause she has the advantages and OPP
portunities to offer. but with a little
effort exerted-a little boosting
spirit exhibited on the part of the
business men as well as the real es-
tate men-she ought to secure a
great deal more than her share. The
city needs a representative in Spo-
kane. She neds a representative, not
only for the purpose of informing the
investors of her land bargains, but
also of her business investments in
other lines. She has none, and the
result is that when investors arrive
in Spokane they are taken in hand
by the real estate men and shown
bargains, and in many instances be-
cause this city has no one there to
act as a representative and advertise
her resources and profitable invest
ments of all kinds, and the investors
locate in Spokane. without even Sc
curing a glimpse of the bargains in
store for him here. This does not, as
| have said. apply to real estate in
vestments alone, but to investments
of every description.
81 have been told that property is
thigh in Occur d'Alene, but do not
regard it so. Real estate invest
ments and other business invest
ments offer greater returns here than
in any other place that have visit
ed. Real estate in the city and sur
rounding country is not only going
to hold its own. but. in my judgment
but win advance to a still higher
price. and that not within year or
so, but during the coming season
II have visited a number of places
but. in my judgment, this city has
brighter future before it than any OF
them. | have great confidence In
Occur d'Alene and feel satisfied
that the time is coming. and is not
far distant. when she viii be the
handsomest, most prosperous and
largest city in the state. and in max
ing that statement I make no excep'
ton in behalf Of any town within the
Idaho borders"