Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-31
MORE HOME-sEEKERs
THAN SINCE YEARS
What n Prominent Salem Real Es-
tate Firm, Who Advertise In
This Paper, Has To Say.

The results OF the boosting being
every mail enqpiries as TO land. and
a remarkable degree by the real es-
tate firms, all of whom claim to-
have had more Eastern home-seek'
ers. principally from Kansas, at
their Offices during rhe past week
than ever before.
]. w. Wilson, OF the firm OF Der
by & Wilson, gave out the following
mighty encouraging statement to a
Journal" representative this morn
ing:
THE number of Fasteners In this
town at the present Is remarkable.
There are five strangers with money
to buy farms here every day now
where there was only one every two
or three days last year. This is
doubly astounding considering the
present financial dlstresses In the
East and through the United States
generally. when money for buying
land is very scarce.
II have done more hnslness with
people coming from other states
during the past two or three weeks
than have ever done before in
four times that period during the
seven years | have been In this city.
AS the result OF the good boosting
being put forth by Salem at the
present time. | am receiving by
every NAL enquiries ms To- land, and
this morning | received two letters,
one from Missouri and the other
from Kansas, asking for specific de-
scrIptions OF property for sale, one
OF the enquIrers having $4,000 he de-
sires to invest here. and the other
about $4,000. am working idst
as hard as l can every day of the
week and would never have thought
the boosting could have brought the
stupendous results Il has. 70 now
enclose Salem circulars with every
letter | send out. whether It be per-
sonal or business.
Practically the rame story was
told the Journal" reporter In all
, the real estate Offices. Ellis g.
Wood report they have had more
business with strangers during the
past few days than in any three
weeks before. While Mr.. Ellis was
discussing the remarkable influx of
easterners with The Journal re-
porter. J. l.. .Freeland, a furniture
dealer. broke into the conversation
that he, too, had had more Eastern
Reople IN his store getting ready TO
outfit their homes as soon as they
could buy land than he had ever
had before. Just this morning"
he stated, there were two people in
there within an hour after | opened
up and stated they were from Kan
sas and were going 20 make their
home here" Up in the real estate
ofhce of II, w, Radcliff there were
two men from oklahoma, W, ]. Can
yon and +, A, Shelbley who had got
ten a bunch OF Salem literature and
had packed up and come here i'm
mediately
Hundreds of letters are being re-
eeiyed daily by the hoard OF trade
from interested Fasteners, and
many replies such as the following
are rec oeiyed in answer 10 the litera-
iture sent out by that body;
New York City. March "a. 1905.
Dear sir;-l thank YOU much for the
literature. leave for Salem soon;
viii let YOU know the exact date
Hoping 60 see YOU In salem soon,
remain, etc. L. Mallert"
This kind OF letter means much TO
Salem; this particular man brings
with him several thousand dollars
To invest In property here. Every
day letters OF this kind are received
by the board OF trade.