The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
MILLION AND HALF
Building Permits for Year Close
to This Mark.
Activity in Building Small Resi-
denceS Continues.
FEW VACANT HOUSES.
Campaign Started for Increase
of Population.
Advantages of City Set Forth
i'm Circular.
FEW VACANT HOUSES.

half dollar mark, more than $1,4OO,-
600 in permits having been granted to
date for the year. The record for
the first 20 days of the present month
was $56,S45 in permits, an excellent
showing considering the time of year.
I Nearly $4,000 of this amount repre-
sents new dwellings which are being
erected. There are Is of them cost
ing on the average slightly more than
$4,000. 1t is figures that tell the tale.
The substantial growth and general
tendency towards improvements
which the capital city is enjoying is
not simply pipe dream on the part
of those whose interests are locally
centered. The assertion of such a
development can be backed up by ac-
tual proof.
Attorney General Buys a Farm.
In real estate circles a good many
small sales have been made during
| the week. The demand for farms in
the vicinity of Topeka has been es-
| pecialIy brisk and numerous transact
tions have been closed. Attorney Gen
eral Jackson has bought a 800 acre
farm in the vicinity of Maple Hill
which is an excellent piece of improv-
ed property. Mr.. Jackson will make
| it place where he can take his
friends out to visit. number of
| farms have been bought and sold by
residents of Shawnee county as a
| matter of speculation. while others
have been looking over the. lists of
the real estate men.
AS shown above in connection with
the figures in regard to building per-
| mits the contractors of the city are
still doing a lively business
Wilson & Neiswanger had the fol-
lowing to say in regard to recent
transactions and the conditions in the
shop district: Mrs. A. Pratt of Hia-
watha,. who recently purchased
through US the house at No. 1917
Mulvane, has this week purchased an
other building site Immediately south
of this property and in the spring ex-
poets to build a modern house as an
investment. She has made Topeka
her home.
~. c. Stewart of Wyoming has pur-
chased the property at the corner of
Sixth and Lawrence streets for $1,000.
Houses Scarce in Shop District.
"a better condition exists in the
shop district than has existed for two
years This was painfully manifested
to us in our efforts to relocate five of
our tenants in the Santa Fe houses on
Branner street, which must be gotten
out of the way at once prior to the
erection of the big office building"
w. j. R1ckenbacher is planning to
work out scheme for interesting the
| people of the small outlying towns in
| Iopeka and Topeka real estate The
/ IDEA is to send out statesmen to these
| towns who will be provided with 100
views of Topeka. The people of these
! small villages will be entertained in
/ the evening by the projection of these
| views on screen, the object being to
| first interest the villagers in the cant
tai city and later in real estate.
Commercial Club Active.
There are two committees of the
| Commercial club which are working
| with view to increasing the popuIa-
tlon of Topeka, the new census com
m1ttee, and the immigration commit
! tee The latter has been working in
a quiet way and its chairman r. d.
Blaine at his own expense had pub
! llshed 10000 leaflets setting forth
! the advantages of Kansas and To-
/ peka, about 5000 of which have been
| scattered over this and other states
! and nave gone as far as England.
Advantages of Topeka.
| Here are some of the points which
are set forth: The hundreds of new
| homes which have been added to To-
! peka during the past few years to-
buildings with many more in process
| Of construction speak we'll for the
| growth of the city. The educational
facilities are unexcelled and the school
buildings are modernly equipped in
| every respect.
The city is fortunate in being sup
Piled with natural gas for domestic
and other uses. 1t is convenient to
| the coal fields which assures fuel at a
low cost. Shawnee county, in which
| Topeka is located possesses many ex-
cellently improved farms, the products
| from which have ready market in the
] city. Live stock is sold direct to the
! Charles Wolff Packing company. Sey-
mour & Company operate one of the
| largest poultry and egg establishments
| in the west and the Continental
| Creamery company, which is one of
/ the largest firms of the kind in the
world. together with other establish
| ments are ready to take all the dairy
products that are offered. The fruit
| and cold storage establishments of the
| city are able to take care of the fruit
| and vegetable products, and the can
/ ming ia ctories and preserving works
| are prepared to care for all the prod
ucts which are brought to them.
Room for Truck Farmers.
It is in connection with the points
| last named that the committee believes
! that several hundred persons should be
/ induced to move to Topeka and vicin-
| ity. There is room for from 800 to
| 500 truck farmers in the vicinity of
| Topeka said Mr.. Blaine. 1.-THE local
! factories could handle their products,
and at the present time land can be
secured reasonably cheap
i Mr.. Blaine recently had placed in a
4 London paper an advertisement set
ting forth the advantages of which
Toneka "a boast The representative