The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
ON The VERGE.
Most Prosperous Fall Season Is
at Hand.
Unprecedented Activity i'm Real
Estate Anticipated.
CONTRACTORS BUSY.
Have About All the Werk They
Can Do.
ManV Lots ChauUinO Hands and
CONTRACTORS BUSY.
Many Lots Changing Hands and
Prices Advancing.

And still the good work goes on. The
lactivity along the various lines which
are conducive to advancing Topeka to
| her supremacy is evinced on every
hand. We have enjoyed a brisk dull
season and now the turning point is
at hand which will usher inf the
predictions of those who should be in
a position to know can be relied upon
THE most prosperous fall season that
has ever been known in the history of
the city. This summers dull season.
which we have been going through has
been anything but dull. especially in
respect to building. for as has been
previously stated the middle of Aug
Ust saw all previous yearly records
broken in the way of the sum total of
building permits granted, the million
dollar mark having been passed by the
n argin OF upwards of $205, 900. The
! season among the real estate dealers,
generally recognized as it is as the idle
| time OF the year, has proved in every
way a satisfactory one, by far more
deals having been pat through than
during the same period last year.
While during the week just past the
excessive heat has been detrimental
| to business; still there are pronounced
| indications of enhanced activity for
the near future. The inquiries espec-
tally in regard to farm property as well
as city real estate have been particu-
! larly numerous and a number of out
OF town people have been investigating
| properties, Iowans heading the list.
Several desirable farms have changed
hands in the vicinity of Topeka, the
prices being about 10 per cent in ad-
vance of those obtained for the same
grade of land a year ago.
| One of the reasons put forth in pre-
dieting a healthy future business in
adjacent rural districts is the fact that
or account of the StopOVer privileges
which Topeka has failed until the pres
ent time to enjoy, the price of property
in the surrounding country is lower
than that paid for the same class of
land further west, as eastern buyers
Eaves not viewed the landscape DER"
The real estate dealers hailed with joy,
therefore the esta blishment of stopover
privileges in this city. and are firmly
convinced that the system will
sooner or later mean much to Topeka
proximity. AS matter of fact one or
two of the dealers are fairly bubbling
over with rosy prophesies which they
make on account of putting together the
various reasons which they have to
believe that real estate will move, and
move in a brisk fashion.
Motor Car Helps.
The motor car service from Emporia
to Topeka which was established for at
least a month"; and which has proved
SO populac since the initial run was
re ade on Monday is looked upon as an
excellent thing especially in connection
with the business interests of the city,
and the property dispensers believe that
it will indirectly be of benefit to them
An effort is being made also to per-
suade the Missouri Pacific line to run a
motor car from either Osawatomie or
Ottawa into Topeka, stopping en- route
at Lomax, Overlook, Richland, and
other intermediate points. A great deal
of trade would in this way undoubted-
ly come to Topeka which would other
wise go to Kansas City. If the rail-
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erection of electric trolley lines by the
establishment of motor car services
much of their patronage can be retain
&c which otherwise is bound to be lost
to the electrically propelled trolley cars. |
The state wide fair will be a means |
towards helping in the successful ad- |
vertising of the city. as during the |
period from Sept 13 to IS, thousands |
parts of the state. The show will be |
the greatest affair of the kind ever |
held in the state if the dope" can be |
relied upon, and this will be an oppor-
tune time for showing the advantages
which are possessed by the capital
city. The Santa Fe railroad has
agreed to put in four hundred addi-
tional feet of track at the fair
agement to have shipped live stock
exhibits from the Nebraska State fair. |
and has also promised the use or
switch engine during the entire fair
week TO 1dC1IlIdLo tH0
problem. II
Contractors Are Busy. II
The contractors of the city are
rushed to the utmost capacity to
keep up with the demands upon them
in the building line. On the one
block on Kansas avenue between Sew
enth and Eighth streets six new fronts
and two new buildings are now going
in, with at least two other new fronts
in contemplation. While there is not
this amount of building in progress
in all parts of Topeka, yet the sphere
of action in the building way is gen.
eral.
In Irving Place, east of the ceme-
terry $50 lots, in round numbers. have
changed hands. During the
boom days long years ago certain
man invested in 500 lots in
this portion of Topeka and not long
since he decided that he would turn
the property into cash. The result
has been that the Shawnee Agency
has quickly disposed of half of the
land in quick order, and the property
will soon be bristling with neat little
which will serve as homes for
and their families. Many I
have recently gone up on
adjoining properties.
Auburndale is looking up from the
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