The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
Building Permits Show City's Growth. IN THE YEAR OF 1907
 CITY ISSUED 537 PERMITS Much of Suburban Growth Not
 Included. Y Exaet Figures shsw That Value of the puildin<s Erected In 1907 Will Amount to sl,71e,747 Within
 The City.

Building permits to the amount of nearly two million dollars were issued in Montgomery during the year Of 1907.
 No year fin the history of Montgom- cry has approached this record. Per- haps no city in the United States the size of Montgomery beat that record fin 1907. Certainly no record has been made of any other city of MontEom- ery's class doing so we'll.
 The figures are made public by Sec retary c. Grosvenor Dave of the Com mercial Club who got them from the records in the office of City Engineer A. R. Giichrist. The exact figures as shown by the City Engineers books of building permits in 1907 show. that S37 were issued. representing an in- vestment of $1,716,747.
 Notwithstanding this great increase in the business and residence property of Montgomery, Secretary Dave makes the timely and truthful observation that there is now hardly a vacant house in Montgomery. The building permits issued do not embrace a . large number of houses which were constructed in that time just outside the city limits of Montgomery. It is fact well known. that a great part of the residence property built in the last year was built outside the city limits. And this property includes some of the handsomest homes built in recent years.
 Montgomery Is one of the most con- gested cities of the South. It is built more in lump than any other South ern city. It was demonstrated some years ago that the square mile which would take in as it's center the busi- ness portion of Montgomery would contain more people than any other square mile in Alabama, If not in the South. As result of this condition the city has had to grow faster in the suburbs than in any other part. As sequence of this growth suburban property has shown an unparalleled increase in value. Much of the subur- ban property has tripled in value in the past four years.
 The two page illustrated article on the big buildings recently erected in Montgomery attracted widespread att tention. At the same time it opened the eyes of numerous Montgomerians who were not awake to the vast irn- provement now going on in the Capital City. The new Information, dug up in the City Engineers office is another astonishing proof of Montgomery's
 The city was growing some in 1906. for Mfr. Dave found in that year there had been issued SIS building permits and these represented an investment of $7S6,S68. But it remained for the year 1907 to set the high water mark of building achievement.
 No city of the South is built more solidly and substantially than Mont gomery. It's advance for the past ten years has been steady. But steady as the advance has been the city each year grew more rapidly than 1t did the year before. In the language of the street the city had the goods" It is just now beginning to feel the full impetus of the movement which has been growing steadily for the past ten years.
 Tn the advertising slips being sent out by business men at the request of the Commercial Club the population of Montgomery at the close of last year was given at more than 62,0O0. This total was secured from the most relia- bIe sources. It is only another indi- cation of the city's rapid progress.