Arizona republican., 1910-03-04
ONE MONTHS REALTY
 SALES REACH s100,000
THAT IS THE AGGREGATE OF THE FEBRUARY SALES IN THE OFFICE OF THE DWIGHT B. HEARD OFFICE.
The Arlington Improvement Company Is Organized, With James s. Day as President.

Dwight B. Heard was yesterday
 called upon by a reporter in search of real estate news and asked to give his views as to the real estate situa- ton, especially in reference to it's i'm
 provement during the past month. In
 response. MT. Heard said:
 The real estate situation has i'm proved decidedly during. the past month. and the class of people that are buying is of the very best We have sold Salt River valley lands during that time to people from Maine | to California. which indicated the broadspread interest existing in the
 remarkable development going for
 ward in this valley.
 Our sales during the past thirty I days have aggregated over Sl00.000. i Among some of the more important
 which are typical of the real estate
 situation are the following:
 We have sold a quarter section. q | half mile south of Peoria. belonging | to A. J. Rem. 10 B. r. Carper of | Crowley, La, the price being $20,006.
 MT. Rem has greatly improved this ! quarter in the past few years and |. most of it is in an excellent stand Of alfalfa. At the price paid. MT l Carper can make d very fine income property out Of this ranch. which he proposes to improve at once and on which he will make his home.
 We have also sold for J. A Rig gins. who is prominently identified
 with the dairy interests. a fine eighty i acre tract six miles west of town, the l .baS in, hain wald from Florence. connected with the territorial penitentiary. Mir | Greenwald is buying this property for an investment. having become con vinced that there is no better place | where money can be placed with the surety of a handsome return than in Salt River valley lands.
 "One of our most recent important | sales has been that of 320 acres about | fourteen miles west of town belonging | to George H. Cook and J. W. Doris l This property has been purchased by 1 N. B. Parsons and W. F. Savage. both I of Fort Fairfield Maine. These gen | tlemen come from Aroostook county | Maine. which is famous for raising the finest potatoes in the world. and
 they, with other friends from Maine. | intend tO apply intensive farming methods on the tract purshased and make it one of the show places of i the valley This is an exceptionally | choice piece of soil and the 320 acres which is all in cultivation. was bought 1 for less than s2S.O0O. offering very i fine opportunity for profit in opera 1 ton to the purchasers
 For H w Hamilton, formerly Of
 this city. but now of Eureka, Cal. We | have sold choice eighty-acre tract
 northwest of Glendale. all in cultiva- ! tion. to H. c. Baldwin of Whittier, 1 Cal MT. Baldwin is an expert horti- culturist. having been most success | full in oranges in California. In addi-
 tion to this tract of farming land. we have sold Mir. Baldwin tier of lots l in West Capitol addition. on which he | expects to erect fine' residence. Recently q number of us who have | particular confidence in the future of
 the Arlington country have formed i the Arlington Improvement company
 and have purchased the Theron Hill | ranch in Arlington, which is consid- | cred one of the finest improved propz.
 critics there. and also purchased the ! adlOlnlng 1OO acres or MT. StrlCklanu. making d tract of $40 acres, the larger i portion of which is now in alfalfa. | The purchase price for these proper
 ties was s27,OOO. and extensive inn
 provements will at once be made.
 Among the stockholders in the Ar l lingtOn Improvement company are James $. Day, who has been elected
 president of the new company; George Day of Buckeye, Lauritz Anderson of 1 Tempe. Andreas Anderson of Airing 1 ton, K S. Townsend Of Phoenix and | Prof S C. Mason.
 Tn addition to the above sales of ! country property. l have found an l increasing demand for high grade sub
 urban property, with special activity i in the Los Olives tract In this fine
 tract, immediately adjoining the city on the north we have recently sold
 most desirably located lots to F. F.. | Kirkland, C. G. Dulmage. r.. K. McCan
 and Dr. John LentZ. all of whom will
 shortly commence the construction of attractive homes.
 AS will be seen. the home making ! to which I particularly referred a
 month ago is steadily increasing. and with this increase of actual home
 makers so will the prosperity of the
 valley continue to increase"